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.

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

Twain also expressed grave doubts about the authorship of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, showing through content analysis that the quality of the writing was much better than any of Eddy's previous or subsequent work ( for example her autobiography and her later writings in the Christian Science Journal ):

The Woman in Me won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album as well as the Academy of Country Music award for Album of the Year ; the latter group also awarded Twain as Best New Female Vocalist.

He was also a generous philanthropist, providing many public works for his hometown of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and financially assisting helping such notables as Mark Twain, Helen Keller, and Dr. Booker T. Washington.

The headquarters of the Mark Twain National Forest, the only United States National Forest in Missouri, is also located in Rolla.

* See also Stephen Gottschalk, Rolling Away the Stone, Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge to Materialism, ( ISBN 0-253-34673-8 ) for a new account of her founding the church and relations to critics such as Mark Twain.

He was also a generous philanthropist, providing many public works for his hometown of Fairhaven, Massachusetts and financially assisting helping such notables as Mark Twain, Helen Keller, and Booker T. Washington.

There is also Mark Twain Intermediate School in New York.

There are also other structures, such as the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge.

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

In his essay " In the End, a Beginning: The Montreal Story Tellers ", critic Keith Garebian writes: " Raymond Fraser's booming Maritime vigour and directness seem, with subtle undertows of psychological configuration, like a roaring tide battering the literary shore ... Fraser's narrative ancestors are not only the old salts of every Maritime tavern or watering-hole, but also the more commemorated figures of Mark Twain and Hugh Garner.

Mark Twain, E. Lynn Harris, Zane Grey, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Anaïs Nin also self-published some or all of their works.

He has also claimed to be influenced by " Bryson, Barry, Twain, Elton, Wodehouse, Adams, Vonnegut, John Irving, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack Handey, Al Franken, that sort of thing.

Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans many years before the War.

In addition to documents from Mormon history, Hofmann also forged and sold signatures of many famous non-Mormons, including George Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Boone, John Brown, Andrew Jackson, Mark Twain, Nathan Hale, John Hancock, Francis Scott Key, Abraham Lincoln, John Milton, Paul Revere, Myles Standish, and Button Gwinnett, whose signature was the rarest, and therefore the most valuable, of any signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Alain has also written the play Le Journal d ' Adam et Eve, based on two short stories by Mark Twain.

He became the most prominent member of the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom — whose membership included Mark Twain and Julia Ward Howe — and also helped found Free Russia, the first English-language journal to oppose Tsarist Russia.

Shainblum was also a finalist in the 2001 international Mark Twain Writing Competition and recently published a story in Claude Lalumière's anthology Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic from Vehicule Press.

In 2005, Clark County renamed a section of Industrial Road ( south of Twain Avenue ) as Dean Martin Drive, also as a tribute to the famous Rat Pack singer, actor, and frequent Las Vegas entertainer.

The secretary of the territory was Orion Clemens, ( older brother of Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain ), who more or less served as governor in Nye's constant absence.

She also contributed to An All Star Tribute To Cher with “ Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves ,” and to An All Star Tribute To Shania Twain with “ Don ’ t Be Stupid ,” both of which were released in 2005.

He also produced two volumes of memoirs, as well as two volumes of recollections of his friendships and personal encounters with many of the leading figures of his time, including: Pablo Casals, Charlie Chaplin, Eugene Debs, John Dewey, Isadora Duncan, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Hemingway, H. L. Mencken, John Reed, Paul Robeson, Bertrand Russell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Santayana, E. W. Scripps, George Bernard Shaw, Carlo Tresca, Leon Trotsky, Mark Twain and H. G. Wells.

While there is evidence that suggests that, after Livy's death in 1904, Twain began wearing white suits on the lecture circuit, modern representations suggesting that he wore them throughout his life are unfounded.

Pop-influenced country music began growing in popularity, particularly after Twain and Hill rose in popularity in the latter half of the 1990s.

Kaplan left publishing for writing in 1959 and began work on his first biography, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, a study of the famous author that was published in 1966.

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.

" in greeting the abbot, Robin Hood making a crack about how the Sheriff of Rottingham avoided participating in the Crusades by having his father get him into the National Guard, a Life Savers candy used to save the life of the Sheriff of Rottingham, Ahchoo taking a " time out " while being attacked to pump his sneakers, Robin's merry men practicing jousting on dummies with Campbell's Tomato Soup, and V8 among other food products as the dummies heads, Prince John saying that Robin in his disguise " looks like Mark Twain!

During the writing process, however, Twain realized that secondary characters such as Pudd ' nhead Wilson, Roxy, and Tom Driscoll were taking a more central role in the story than he had envisioned.

In Timmins, Twain started singing at bars at the age of eight to try to make ends meet, often earning twenty dollars between midnight and one in the morning performing for remaining customers after the bar had finished serving.

Although she expressed a dislike for singing in those bars, Twain believes that this was her own kind of performing arts school on the road.

In 1873, Mark Twain, whose father had owned slaves, found Fisk singing to be " in the genuine old way " he remembered from childhood.

The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven ; his accidental misplacement ; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp ( generated by his preconceptions of heaven ); and the obsession of souls with the " celebrities " of heaven, like Adam and Moses, who according to Twain become as distant to most people in heaven as living celebrities are on Earth.

He played the voice of Nightscream in Beast Machines, he was also the voice of Julian in Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper, a Barbie movie based on the Mark Twain story " The Prince and the Pauper ", in which he also performed his own singing ; he also voiced the merman prince Nalu in Barbie: Fairytopia and Barbie: Mermaidia, and most recently did both the speaking and singing role of Prince Antonio in Barbie as the Island Princess.

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

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.

Those works actually featuring Satan as a heroic character are fewer in number, but do exist ; George Bernard Shaw, and Mark Twain ( Letters from the Earth ) included such characterizations in their works long before religious Satanists took up the pen.

After graduating from Timmins High in June 1983, Twain was eager to expand her musical horizons.

Bailey acquired the contract from Stan Campbell and Twain moved into Bailey's home on Lake Kenogami where she practiced her music every day for hours.

Her performance received little acclaim, but it convinced Bell, who hated pop music, that Twain should stay well away from it and concentrate on country music.

Twain had further hits from the album, including the title track which peaked at No. 14 and three additional No. 1 hits: "( If You're Not in it for Love ) I'm Outta Here!

In 2002 an entire special show was dedicated to her on sister show TOTP2, in which Twain herself introduced some past performances of her greatest hits and new singles from Up!

On November 12, 2008 Twain made her first television appearance since her split from ex-husband Robert " Mutt " Lange, where she appeared as a surprise presenter at the 42nd CMA Awards.

The change was spearheaded by Twain scholar Alan Gribben in the hope of " countering the ' pre-emptive censorship '" that results from the book's being removed from school curricula over language concerns.

The film for Leone was to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as — Edgar Lee Masters ( Spoon River Anthology ), Ambrose Bierce (" An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "), Mark Twain (" A military campaign that failed "), Stephen Crane ( The red badge of Courage ), and Margaret Mitchell ( Gone with the Wind ), of whose novel he had wanted to film a remake.

Columbia takes its street names from famous works of art and literature: for example, the neighborhood of Hobbit's Glen takes its street names from the work of J. R. R. Tolkien ; Running Brook, from the poetry of Robert Frost ; and Clemens Crossing, from the work of Mark Twain.

Twain accused Harte of borrowing money from his friends with no intent to repay and of financially abandoning his wife and children.

Hapgood audiotaped and transcribed a number of Babbitt's " trance lectures " which purported to come from Jesus, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and the Hindu god Vishnu, using the material to publish his final three books: Voices of Spirit, Through the Psychic Experience of Elwood Babbitt ( 1975 ), Talks with Christ and His Teachers Through the Psychic Gift of Elwood Babbitt ( 1981 ), and The God Within: a Testament of Vishnu, a Handbook for the Spiritual Renaissance ( 1982 ).

The racial makeup of Twain was 75 ( 91. 5 %) White, 0 ( 0. 0 %) African American, 2 ( 2. 4 %) Native American, 0 ( 0. 0 %) Asian, 0 ( 0. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 2 ( 2. 4 %) from other races, and 3 ( 3. 7 %) from two or more races.

Its name is derived from the last names of two famous authors who lived in California, Mark Twain and Bret Harte.

Summers are warm during the day and the nights are generally mild ; making Twain Harte a pleasant escape from the long, hot summers of the California Central Valley.

The racial makeup of Twain Harte was 2, 026 ( 91. 0 %) White, 5 ( 0. 2 %) African American, 34 ( 1. 5 %) Native American, 31 ( 1. 4 %) Asian, 4 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 46 ( 2. 1 %) from other races, and 80 ( 3. 6 %) from two or more races.