She read everything else she could get her hands on, including an article ( she thinks it was in the Atlantic Monthly ) by Mark Twain on `` White Slavery ''.

Mark Twain was a prominent American author of the 19th century.

Carnegie also opposed the annexation of Cuba by the United States and in this, was successful with many other conservatives who founded an anti-imperialist league that included former presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, and literary figures like Mark Twain.

Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ) is also known to have spread the story while lecturing, personalizing it by adding " I have a higher and greater standard of principle.

* 1910 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist ( b. 1835 )

Among his childhood favorites were Dickens, Smollett, Mark Twain, Booth Tarkington, and later, Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman.

Capp has been compared, at various times, to Mark Twain, Dostoevski, Jonathan Swift, Lawrence Sterne and Rabelais.

It was strongly felt in San Francisco, causing major damage, and experienced by Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ).

It was especially noted that the birth and death of some notable persons coincided with separate appearances of the comet, such as with writers Mark Twain ( who correctly speculated that he'd " go out with the comet " in 1910 ) and Eudora Welty, to whose life Mary Chapin Carpenter dedicated the song Halley Came to Jackson.

Ward is also said to have inspired Mark Twain when Ward performed in Virginia City, Nevada.

Legend has it that, following Ward's stage performance, he, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille were taking a drunken rooftop tour of Virginia City until a town constable threatened to blast all three of them with a shotgun loaded with rock salt.

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From the moment Mark Twain published his 1907 attack on Christian Science, the Church, and Mary Baker Eddy, herself, Christian Science has been subject to significant criticism and public controversy.

Executive producer Doug Berman said in 2012, " The guys are culturally right up there with Mark Twain and the Marx Brothers.

The six elementary schools are Bordewich-Bray Elementary School, Empire Elementary School, Fremont Elementary School, Fritsch Elementary School, Mark Twain Elementary School, and Al Seeliger Elementary School.

* Mark Twain, author ( lived with his brother Orion )

Her parents were friendly with the writer Mark Twain, and from this association young Crystal herself became acquainted with Twain.

Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Some of the other famous guests who lived there include: Augustus St. Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Lowell, Horton Foote, Salvador Dalí, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and many others.

* Samuel B. Sternwheeler: Gordie Tapp in a spoof of author Mark Twain giving off some homilies which undoubtedly made little or no sense whatsoever.

Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education.

Keller met every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain.

Category: Novels by Mark Twain

He studied the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain and developed a style emphasizing the use of irony.

In the 2007 regular season, the Diamondbacks enjoyed success with a young team including Brandon Webb, Conor Jackson, Stephen Drew, Carlos Quentin, Chad Tracy, Chris Young, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds ( called up from Double-A in May ) and Justin Upton ( called up from Double-A in August ).

Other regular collaborators include actor Robert Silverman, art director Carol Spier, sound editor Bryan Day, film editor Ronald Sanders, his sister, costume designer Denise Cronenberg, and, from 1979 until 1988, cinematographer Mark Irwin.

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

Elway did not really have a particular receiver who caught the most of his passes during the regular season, but wide receivers Mark Jackson, Vance Johnson, Steve Watson, and tight end Orson Mobley all combined for 136 receptions and 2, 132 yards.

Harding, as a Republican state senator, was a partisan regular and did favors for political bosses Mark Hanna and Harry M. Daugherty.

The winged Lion of St Mark, the symbol of Venice, can be seen at regular intervals adorning the fortifications.

The regular radio announcers are Mark Champion with play-by-play and Rick Mahorn with color commentary.

* Most NHL regular season points by a father / son combo ( with son Mark ): 2, 592

She took a keen interest in the work of young contemporary artists, such as Stanley Spencer, and she was particularly close to Mark Gertler and Dora Carrington, who were regular visitors to Garsington during the war, whilst Gilbert Spencer lived for a while in a house on the Garsington estate.

Unlike Mark Rothko or Barnett Newman who organized their colors in a relatively simple way ( Rothko in the form of nebulous rectangles, Newman in thin lines on vast fields of color ), Still's arrangements are less regular.

David Letterman, then still unknown, was a writer and regular on the show, which also featured Mark Russell, Jeff Altman, and Proctor and Bergman.

Famous phone phreaks such as John " Captain Crunch " Draper, Mark Bernay, and Al Bernay used blue boxes to explore the various ' hidden codes ' that were not dialable from a regular phone line.

Local venues such as the Howard Theatre, The Mark IV and The Room, were known for hosting Soul and Funk bands on the regular.

Novak became a regular panel member of The McLaughlin Group in 1982, starring alongside McLaughlin as well as Novak's personal friends Al Hunt and Mark Shields.

Braxton's regular group in the 1980s and early 1990s was a quartet with Marilyn Crispell ( piano ), Mark Dresser ( double bass ) and Gerry Hemingway ( drums ), " his finest and longest standing band ".< ref >

Each team has a regular team captain – originally Mark Lamarr and Ulrika Jonsson – and two celebrity guests on each team.

Mark is one of the regular fill-ins for Richard Stubbs on 774 ABC Melbourne.

Former regular panelists: Tony Blankley, Lawrence O ' Donnell, Michael Barone, Jack Germond, Robert Novak, Morton Kondracke, Fred Barnes, Chris Matthews, Al Hunt, Mark Shields, Michael Kinsley, Monica Crowley

He was invited to try out for the Green Bay Packers ' training camp in 1994, but was released before the regular season began ; Warner was competing for a spot against Brett Favre, Mark Brunell and former Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer.

Since 2007 Mark Field has been a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4 ’ s Westminster Hour.

Talksport have a selection of regular presenters and commentators, which include: Adrian Durham, Andrew McKenna, Alan Brazil, Andy Goldstein, Andy Gray, Andy Jacobs, Danny Kelly, Georgie Bingham, Graham Beecroft, Ian Danter, Jack Bannister, John Anderson, Jonny Gould, Keith Arthur, Mark Saggers, Mike Bovill, Mike Graham, Nigel Pearson, Paul Hawksbee, Ray Parlour, Richard Keys, Sam Delaney, Sam Matterface, and Stan Collymore.

Trottier is currently 15th all-time in regular season points, having been passed by Jaromír Jágr and Joe Sakic during the 2005 – 06 NHL season and Mark Recchi during the 2008 – 09 NHL season.

He spent most of his first two-and-a-half years as a substitute or in the reserves, missing the 1992 FA Cup Final triumph and only becoming a regular first-team player in the 1993 – 94 season, at the expense of Mark Walters.

Parry stood in for regular presenter Mark Chapman on 6-0-6 on Radio 5 Live on 19 February 2011 and again on 2 April 2011 alongside Robbie Savage.

The InterCity 125 train is made up of two power cars, one at each end of a fixed formation of Mark 3 carriages, and has a top speed of, making it the fastest diesel-powered train in regular service in the world at the time of its introduction and for many years afterwards.