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.

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

Chrétien names his treatments of Ovid in the introduction to Cligès, where he also mentions his work about King Mark and Iseult.

As to the big-budget 2010 movie Robin Hood directed by Ridley Scott, actor Mark Strong mentions in promotional interviews that his character, Sir Godfrey, is based upon Guy of Gisbourne.

Among the Synoptic gospels, only Mark mentions baptism in this passage ; thus the interests of the author of Secret Mark parallel those of the author of Mark, which also parallel the teachings of Paul.

The letter, addressed to one Theodore, discusses a Secret Gospel of Mark and quotes two excerpts from this gospel, one of which mentions " the mystery of the kingdom of God.

The Innocents Abroad, a novel by Mark Twain, also mentions in chapter 37 a " Baker's Boy / Famine Breeder " who eats soap and oakum, but prefers oakum.

Mark Norman mentions that " when food was touched against the spread webs, an arm shot out of the shell in a sweeping action, grabbing the prey ".

The Ron Rosenbaum & Mark O ' Connell show section on KSTP's website mentions Ryan as a friend of the show.

According to the antiquary Anthony Wood, Tresham was educated in Oxford at either St John's College or Gloucester Hall or both, although biographer Mark Nicholls mentions that there appears to be no other evidence to corroborate the claim.

The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss, mentions on the DVD commentary for the First Series, that during the scene where Benjamin phones Barbara to arrange an exit from Royston Vasey, two workmen who have been abducted by Tubs and Edward escape, covered in tar, was inspired by a scene during which Vincent Broadhead is covered in " Synthetic Food " from one of the storage tanks.

The gospels of Luke and Mark include brief mentions of the Ascension, but the main references to it are elsewhere in the New Testament.

The passage, and Volusenus's documented loyalty to Caesar, was thus interpreted to mean that he was a supporter of Mark Antony, but two other manuscripts indicate that the proper noun is in fact a verb ( voluissent ) and neither Cicero nor any other source mentions Volusenus among Antony's followers.

Ex-Special Forces soldier Andy McNab mentions in several of his novels how his fictional character Nick Stone relies on a G-Shock watch and according to Mark Bowden's book Blackhawk Down, the DELTA Operators wore G-Shock watches during the combat events of 3rd & 4th October 1993.

The drummer was replaced with Brian Scoggin and his red locks of hair, an irony Mark mentions on tour.

Another director named Mark Lowell overhears them and mentions the troubles he has in finding good stuntmen.

Mark mentions that Jesus was " put to the test " but goes into no details about what those tests were.

As she calls Giles, Ethan mentions the " Mark of Eyghon ".

* The Dominion War is briefly mentioned when the EMH Mark II mentions to the Doctor that " the Romulans haven't gotten involved in their fight with the Dominion.

Schweizer notes that, unlike Mark, Matthew immediately mentions that Peter is an alternate name for Simon.

* At the end of the Dick Van Dyke Show episode entitled " The Cat Burglar " Rob Petrie asks a detective what code the police use to signify the solving of a case, and he mentions " Mark VII ".

In desperation, Mark turns to Poppy again, who now mentions a friend ( Eileen Brandon ) who resigned from a research organisation called CRC ( Customers ' Reactions Classified ) that seems to be connected with the Pale Horse.