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

* 1865 – Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.

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

* Mark Twain Classics – Twain's Speeches, Essays, Stories, and Quotes.

This series publishes Mark Twain's private papers – his letters, notebooks, unpublished literary works, and autobiography.

( For instance, Letter VII, in discussing the ravages of hookworm, refers to the $ 1, 000, 000 gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. to help eradicate the disease – a gift that was announced on October 28, 1909, less than six months before Twain's death.

In the autumn of 1984, Twain's talents were noticed by Toronto DJ Stan Campbell who wrote about her in a Country Music News article: " Eilleen possesses a powerful voice with an impressive range.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Mark Twain Spring in Jamestown, used by Twain's parents circa 1827-1832

Twain's story about his pen name has been questioned by biographer George Williams III, the Territorial Enterprise newspaper, and Purdue University's Paul Fatout.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

Peace is mentioned by name in the Sherlock Holmes short story, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client and in Mark Twain's Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.

In quoting Mark Twain, Finkelstein argued, " Dershowitz cites two paragraphs from Twain as continuous text, just as Peters cites them as continuous text, but in Twain's book the two paragraphs are separated by 87 pages.

Mark Twain's 1876 story " A Literary Nightmare " ( also known as " Punch, Brothers, Punch ") is about a jingle which one can get rid of only by transferring it to another person.

Twain's advocates note that the novel is composed in then-contemporary vernacular usage, not racist stereotype, because Jim, the black man, is a sympathetic character in the nineteenth-century Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The storyline of Trading Places — a member of society trading places with another whose socio-economical status stands in direct contrast to his own — often draws comparisons to Mark Twain's novel The Prince and the Pauper.

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 ).

She also demo-ed songs with Cyril Rawson but the demos were without success, partly due to Twain's wish to become a rock singer, not a country artist.

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.

" She also repeated on-camera Mark Twain's apocryphal saying, " Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Mark Twain's long-suppressed 1601 also falls in this category.

The concept has also been attributed to Mark Twain, though there is no documentation of this origin in Twain's published writings.

There are also significant similarities with Mark Twain's " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ".

The Tudor period has also been shown in other films, including the 1966 film of Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, the 1990s adaptation of Orlando and various versions of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper.

Twain's publisher and other friends also discouraged him from publishing it.

It was also a notable publisher of fiction, presenting three excerpts of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884 and 1885.

Shania Twain's 2003 music video for When You Kiss Me was also shot in Takapuna.

The cast also includes Jill Eikenberry as Twain's wife Livy and Adam Arkin as a " wild-eyed character " named Henry.

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.

He has also charted as a duet partner on Shania Twain's single " Party For Two " and his own non-album single " Tangled Up ", for a total of eleven Top 40 hits.

" The Private History of a Campaign that Failed " is one of Mark Twain's sketches ( 1885 ), a short, highly fictionalized memoir of his two-week stint in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard.