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 began taking singing lessons from Toronto-based coach Ian Garrett and would often clean his house in payment for her lessons.

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.

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.

Even young Mark Twain expressed admiration for his historical fiction stories known as " legends ".

Famous writers and composers who have created works about her include: William Shakespeare ( Henry VI, Part 1 ), Voltaire ( The Maid of Orleans ), Friedrich Schiller ( The Maid of Orleans ), Giuseppe Verdi ( Giovanna d ' Arco ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( The Maid of Orleans ), Mark Twain ( Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc ), Arthur Honegger ( Jeanne d ' Arc au bûcher ), Jean Anouilh ( L ' Alouette ), Bertolt Brecht ( Saint Joan of the Stockyards ), George Bernard Shaw ( Saint Joan ), Maxwell Anderson ( Joan of Lorraine ), and Leonard Cohen ( Joan of Arc ).

In the US, the recurrent ( reading curricula ) controversy about the vocabulary of the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1885 ), by Mark Twain — American literature ( usually ) taught in US schools – about the slave South, risks censorship because of 215 ( counted ) occurrences of the word nigger, most refer to Jim, Huckleberry's escaped-slave raft-mate.

In his 2001 undergraduate commencement address, university president William R. Brody said about the name: " In 1888, just 12 years after the university was founded, Mark Twain wrote about this university in a letter to a friend.

* Mark Twain: various works of historical fiction about the American South.

Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ) wrote about his time as a miner in the Esmeralda District in his book Roughing It.

Biopics directed by Rapper include The Adventures of Mark Twain ( 1944 ), Pontius Pilate ( 1962 ) and his last film, the 1978 flop Born Again, about convicted Watergate conspirator and former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson.

Actor Hal Holbrook created a one-man show called Mark Twain Tonight, which he has performed regularly for about years.

about six miles ( 10 km ) northeast of Rolla, Phelps county, Mark Twain Cave ( in Marion county, about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) south of Hannibal ), which has a deep pool containing many eyeless fish ; and various caverns in Miller, Ozark,

Thus, one can know both the names Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens without realizing that they are about the same object, because they present that object in different ways, that is, they have different senses.

Tulare Lake was written about by Mark Twain.

Allen's topical humor is sometimes thought an acquired taste for audiences curious about his generation of radio stars ; Dunning has written that when he " went into topical humor, he may have forfeited his only opportunity to be the Mark Twain of his century.

In all, the library collection includes more than 250, 000 books, about 55, 000 manuscripts ( from Elizabeth I and John Donne to Mark Twain and Walt Whitman ), 250, 000 playbills, and 50, 000 works on paper ( including prints and photographs ).

These included a full week of stories by an American writer, ( Edgar Allan Poe in 1975, Mark Twain in 1976 ); week-long adaptations of classic novels ( The Last Days of Pompeii in 1980, Les Miserables in 1982 ); and original dramas about historical figures ( Nefertiti in 1979, Alexander the Great in 1981 ).

Mark Twain writes about the word in a chapter on New Orleans in Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ).

In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain recounted a story about the construction of the building:

" 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!

Mark Twain wrote about The Innocents Abroad in the nineteenth century, and Algonquin Round Table member Donald Ogden Stewart wrote Mr and Mrs Haddock Abroad in 1924.

A scene about this story also appears in the 1985 claymation film The Adventures of Mark Twain, where Satan gets Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher to construct small clay people to bring to life and live in a small kingdom together before Satan destroys them through fighting, plagues and natural disasters, depicting the futility of mankind.

He graduated from the Culver Academies and Denison University, where an honors project about Mark Twain led him to develop the one-man show for which he is best known, a series of performances called Mark Twain Tonight ( for which he won both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award ).

is a Mark Twain story where two persons talk about mankind, similar to how the two robots talk about it at the end.