* 1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.

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

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

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.

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

In 1917 he starred in one of his first major roles as " Pip " in the adaptation of Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations, as well as the title role in Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.

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

* February 18-Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time

* In Mark Twain's first historical fiction ( 1882 ), the novel The Prince and the Pauper, Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII of England, and his pauper look-alike, Tom Canty, trade places.

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

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.

Twain's first book, it collected 27 stories that were previously published in magazines and newspapers.

The short-story collection The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches, Twain's first book, contains twenty-seven short stories and sketches.

The first edition of the Autobiography was published by Twain's personal friend and literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine, and consisted of twenty-two fragments presented in the order Twain composed them, including the first four months ( January-April 1906 ) of the Autobiographical Dictations.

The plot is taken from Twain's real first major story, " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ".

Twain's " The War Prayer " was finally published — and probably none too soon — some six years after his death, in the November 1916 issue of what was then called Harper's Monthly.

A couple of years passed and Twain's siblings got older and moved out on their own.

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 commercial ventures outside the music industry included a series of cosmetic ads in 1999 based on " Man!

Twain's star on Canada's Walk of Fame

Before his emigration in autumn 1934, Adorno began work on a Singspiel based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer entitled The Treasure of Indian Joe, which he would, however, never complete ; by the time he fled Hitler's Germany Adorno had already written over a hundred opera or concert reviews and an additional fifty critiques of music composition.

Another remedy similar to Twain's is reported from Northern Ireland, where water from a specific well on Rathlin Island is credited with the power to cure warts.

Mark Twain's memoir Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), notable mainly for its account of the author's time on the river, also recounts parts of his later life, and includes tall tales and stories allegedly told to him.

Twain's novel Pudd ' nhead Wilson, published in 1893, includes a courtroom drama that turns on fingerprint identification.

Author K. Martin Gardner expounds on this literary history, and Twain's friendship with renowned scientist of the time, Nikola Tesla, in his novel of the town's name. Copperopolis

Music videos for " Survivor " by Destiny's Child, " If It's Lovin ' That You Want " by Rihanna, " Sunshine " by Lil Flip, " Natural " by S Club 7, " Feel It Boy " by Beenie Man featuring Janet Jackson, and many others were filmed on Westward Beach such as Shania Twain's " You're Still the One ".

The musical films Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, both based on Mark Twain's novels were shot partially on location here.

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

Twain's legacy lives on today as his namesakes continue to multiply.

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.

He went on to reprise the role in a 1996 BBC adaptation of Mark Twain's 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper.

He used a network of anywhere from 300 ( Stewart estimate ) to 1, 000 ( as quoted in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi ) to 2, 500 ( as some newspaper reports claimed ) fellow bandits collectively known as the Mystic Clan to pull off his escapades.

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.

On November 1, 1987, Twain's mother and stepfather died in a car accident approximately 50 kilometres north of Wawa, Ontario.

Twain's friends encourage him to go find a man called Jim Blaine when Blaine is properly drunk, and get Blaine to tell " the stirring story about his grandfather's old ram " ( Chapter 53 ).

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 ).

It is believed that the rumors began when Twain's cousin had become ill.

Perhaps the most famous pantry incident in literature was when Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer had to do penance for his getting into his Aunt Polly's jam in her pantry: as punishment, he had to white-wash her fence.

Upper Dublin High School was the subject of controversy when in July 1996, then superintendent Dr. Claire Brown Jr. announced that Mark Twain's book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn would be removed from the school's required reading list.

Bell recognized Twain's ability as well as her looks and the two began secretly dating.

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 ).

Mark Twain's humorous short story " Nevada Funeral " similarly has a character saying a series of euphemisms for death.

The album failed to sell significant copies initially, although Twain's future success generated enough interest for the album to be certified platinum six years later by the RIAA, denoting sales of over a million.

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 ".

On May 15, 2008, a spokesperson for Mercury Nashville announced that Twain and Lange were separating after Lange allegedly had an affair with Twain's best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud.

Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has long been the subject of controversy for its racial content, including its use of the word " nigger " as applied to the escaped slave character Jim.

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

The library gained national recognition in 1906 after it banned Mark Twain's short story " Eve's Diary " for its illustrations of Eve in " summer costume.

On December 4, 1985, the United States Postal Service issued a stamped envelope for " Mark Twain and Halley's Comet ," noting the connection with Twain's birth, his death, and the comet.

* Mark Twain's novel The Prince and the Pauper ( see " Literature ," above ) has been the basis for many film and stage adaptations, the earliest film version being in 1920.

Not all of these well-known authors were successful in their ventures ; Mark Twain's publishing business, for example, went bankrupt.

Almost four years later, broke and in danger of having his house repossessed, he wrote and directed an adaptation of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huck Finn for Walt Disney Pictures, as well as Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

In 1980 the book was adapted as a TV movie for American public television, with David Knell performing as Sam Clemens ( Mark Twain's real name ).

Kingdom of the Sun was to have been a tale of a greedy, selfish emperor ( voiced by Spade ) who finds a peasant ( voiced by Owen Wilson ) who looks just like him ; the emperor swaps places with the peasant for fun, much as in author Mark Twain's archetypal novel The Prince and the Pauper.

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.

* Another source for the full text of Mark Twain's 1601

Albert Bigelow Paine, who had sole possession of Twain's unfinished work after Twain's death and kept them private, searched through Twain's manuscripts and found the proper intended ending for The Mysterious Stranger.