The revived Arthurian romance also proved influential in the United States, with such books as Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur ( 1880 ) reaching wide audiences and providing inspiration for Mark Twain's satiric A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 1889 ).

The first major time travel novel was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

" Paine's criticisms of the church, the monarchy, and the aristocracy appear most clearly in Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 1889 ).

* 1889 – Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

One of Mark Twain's novels, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, popularized the word as a nickname for residents of Connecticut.

Thus, his response to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was to write a similar time travel novel ( Lest Darkness Fall ) in which the method of time travel was rationalized and the hero's technical expertise both set at a believable level and constrained by the technological limitations of the age.

In 1979 he portrayed Sir Gawain in Walt Disney's film adaptation of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Unidentified Flying Oddball, directed by Russ Mayberry, and co-starring Dennis Dugan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody and Kenneth More.

Such forms of sportive equipment during the final phase of the joust in 16th-century Germany gave rise to modern misconceptions about the heaviness or clumsiness of " medieval armour ", as notably popularized by Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

* Mark Twain's " A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court " Chapter 31, paragraph 4 "... and my first wife was a Free Will Baptist ..."

In Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Morgan le Fay is an archetypical corrupt and cruel feudal aristocrat, keeping prisoners for decades in her dungeon.

Such forms of sportive equipment during the final phase of the joust in 16th-century Germany gave rise to modern misconceptions about the heaviness or clumsiness of " medieval armour ", as notably popularized by Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Lest Darkness Fall is written along lines similar to those of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

* Full online text of Twain's King Leopold's Soliloquy "

In this memoir, readers can see examples of Twain's rough-hewn humor, which would become a staple of his writing in his later books, such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Beard's frontispiece for Mark Twain | Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

The plot line of a modern individual being transported into the Middle Ages was used as the basis for Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

* Unidentified Flying Oddball, Disney's movie adaptation of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur ’ s Court

The concept of the electric fence was also described in Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, as a defensive weapon.

" The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " was the title story of Mark Twain's first book one year later.

Because of her connection to her stepfather, in the past, people had presumed Twain's ancestry was Ojibwa, but she stated in an interview that her biological father was part Cree.

Twain's self-titled debut album was released in 1993 in North America and garnered her audiences outside Canada.

Twain's popularity in UK was reflected by numerous appearances on the long-running music show Top of the Pops, performing singles from Come on Over from 1999.

Twain's mainstream pop acceptance was further helped by her appearance in the 1998 first edition of the VH1 Divas concert where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan and Aretha Franklin, and also by VH1's 1999 heavily aired Behind the Music, which concentrated on the tragic aspects of her early life as well as her physical attractiveness and Nashville's early resistance to her bare-midriff music videos.

On December 20, 2010, Twain's manager confirmed that Twain was engaged to Swiss Frédéric Thiébaud ( the ex-husband of her former best friend ), an executive at Nestlé.

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1884 ) was consciously written as a picaresque novel

Another influence might be Mark Twain's short story Luck, about an illustrious British general who was actually a blundering fool, but whose mistakes in the Crimean War always ended in success.

The island in front of Commerce was known as Cat Island at least as early as Mark Twain's time ; however, it has been absorbed by Powers Island to the south.

Hannibal was Missouri's third largest city when the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was organized in 1846 in the offices of John M. Clemens ( Mark Twain's father ).

* Many of the characters from Mark Twain's fiction ( primarily The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ) were from the fictional town of St. Petersberg, which was supposed to parallel Hannibal

Image: J M Clemens-Justice of the Peace. jpg | The office of John Clemens, Mark Twain's father, who was the Justice of the Peace.

Little Bessie, a story ridiculing Christianity, was first published in the 1972 collection Mark Twain's Fables of Man.

Mark Twain's frankest views on religion appeared in his final Autobiography, which was published 100 years after his death, in November 2010.

In 1960, Moore was chosen to play the role of the runaway slave Jim in Michael Curtiz's film adaptation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, opposite Eddie Hodges as Huck.

* Van Wyck Brooks publishes The Ordeal of Mark Twain, arguing that Twain's genius was perverted by the conditions and culture of late 19th-century America.

Thus, A Connecticut Yankee ( 1927 ) was based on Mark Twain's novel, and The Boys From Syracuse ( 1938 ) on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.

Favorites were Mark Twain's " Tom Sawyer ," Charles Dickens ’ s “ A Christmas Carol ,” and Oscar Wilde ’ s “ The Canterville Ghost .” For the Artin children, these readings replaced radio entertainment, which was strictly banned from the house.

Emily Grant Hutchings claimed that her 1917 novel Jap Herron: A Novel Written from the Ouija Board was dictated by Mark Twain's spirit through the use of a Ouija board after his death.

" " Traveling to the Heart " wrote a very positive review, stating: " Twain's delivery matter-of-fact and matches the biting tone.

In Missouri ( which we are including in our general Midwest region ) you can glance into Mark Twain's birthplace at Hannibal, see the landmarks of his life and writings and visualize where Huck Finn hatched his boyish mischief.

Twain's first break finally came on February 8, 1987, when Bell staged a fundraiser for the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto where Twain performed with Broadway star Bernadette Peters, jazz guitarist Don Ross, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

However, Twain's biographer, Robin Eggar, writes: " There is a continuing confusion about what ' Shania ' means and if indeed it is an Ojibwe word or phrase at all.

In August 2009, at a conference in Timmins, Ontario, a spokesman for Twain's label said a new record from the singer is still " nowhere in sight ".

* Mark Twain's Mississippi at Northern Illinois University Libraries

In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the book that Tom catches Becky Thatcher looking at, and which she tears a page of, is implied to be Gray's Anatomy.

The book represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction.

He briefly worked for a stock company in New Orleans and then returned to New England where, on Mark Twain's own recommendation, he debuted at the Globe Theater of Boston with Twain's stage-play The Gilded Age, in 1875.

In 1998, Hill's " This Kiss " and Twain's " You're Still the One " both reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, in addition to peaking at No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

The concept of legend tripping is at least as old as Mark Twain's 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which contains several accounts of adolescents visiting allegedly haunted houses and caves said to be the lairs of criminals.

However, beginning with its earlier sinking of the British RMS Lusitania in 1915, with 128 Americans on board, Germany seemed determined to turn the tide of U. S. disinterest in entering the war ; and while the public outrage over the Lusitania's sinking led, at first, to Germany's accession to Wilson's demands that it stop attacks on non-military ships, the " Central Powers " member nation had again stepped-up its aggressive submarine activity by January 1917, just two months after Twain's piece was first published.

According to Twain's biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, their wives challenged Twain and Warner at dinner to write a better novel than what they were used to reading.

The Sellers character was modeled after Twain's maternal cousin, James Lampton, and the land-purchase plot parallels Twain's father's purchase of a Tennessee parcel whose prospective sale, Twain wrote in his autobiography, " kept us hoping and hoping, during 40 years, and forsook us at last ".

Autobiography of Mark Twain or Mark Twain ’ s Autobiography refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark Twain's life and left in typescript and manuscript at his death.

* Recorded at Mutt Lange's and Shania Twain's chateau in La-Tour-de Peilz, Switzerland.

In August 2002, a group of Kamiak High School students performed an adaptation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at the annual International Fringe Festival held in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Tiffany had decorated Mark Twain's home in Hartford, Connecticut, the state rooms at the White House, and several Back Bay homes.

Similar to Tiffany's work at Mark Twain's Hartford, Connectricut home, or his design for the White House's Red Room.

" I Ain't No Quitter " became Twain's lowest peaking single since " God Bless the Child ", which peaked at number 48 in 1997.