After a live album recorded in Germany and a split EP with Bundini Brown ( of Tortoise and Gastr Del Sol ), the band assembled a huge team of collaborators for 2004's Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain on Polyvinyl Records.

Twain then disparages each of the detectives ( and effectively the authors who created them ) for the way in which the plots in their adventures have been handled, including: introducing crucial characters at the last minute for the traditional " twist in the tale " ( something the assembled detectives had been doing a few minutes earlier ) and withholding clues and information that made it impossible for the reader to find out who had done it.

A major theme of the book, insofar as a book assembled and revised from the newspaper columns Twain sent back to America as the journey progressed can have a theme, is that of the conflict between history and the modern world ; the narrator continually encounters petty profiteering and trivializations of the past as he journeys, as well as the strange emphasis placed on particular events in the past, and is either outraged, puzzled, or bored by the encounter.

While writing the third segment, Selman listened to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective on tape to " get some of the lingo " that Mark Twain used in his books.

She read everything else she could get her hands on, including an article ( she thinks it was in the Atlantic Monthly ) by Mark Twain on `` White Slavery ''.

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 ):

Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education.

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 ).

Most recently, Twain has her own TV series, Why Not?

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.

Twain wrote her first songs at the age of ten, Is Love a Rose and Just Like the Storybooks which were fairy tales in rhyme.

In the early 1980s, Twain spent some time working with her father's reforestation business in northern Ontario, a business that employed some 75 Ojibwe and Cree workers.

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

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

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.

In the fall of 1986 Twain continued to express her desire to be a pop or rock singer rather than country, which led to her falling out with Mary Bailey for two years.

As a result Twain moved back to Timmins to take care of her younger siblings and then took them all to Huntsville, Ontario.

Lange and Twain either wrote or co-wrote the songs that would form her second studio album, The Woman in Me.

In 1997, Twain released her follow-up album, Come On Over.

In 1998, Twain launched her first major concert tour, aided by her manager Jon Landau, a veteran of many large-scale tours with Bruce Springsteen.

Twain returned to American Idol as a guest mentor for a week where the top 6 contestants showcased her songs.

During the Super Bowl XXXVII halftime show Twain performed two songs, " Man!

The project is a benefit for the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum and includes Clint Eastwood as Mark Twain, Garrison Keillor as the narrator and songs by Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow, Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, and others.

They performed a wide range of songs including Tracey Chapman, Pearl Jam, Shania Twain, Alanis Morissette, 80's rock and more and Wood recorded original songs with the band.

Also referenced by Mark Twain and popular American songs of the period, John Chinaman represented, in western society, a typical persona of China.

The former occurred when CHMT-FM / Timmins, ON played songs by Timmins native Shania Twain before changing from country to adult hits in March 2006 ; the latter occurred when WHLD / Niagara Falls, NY transitioned from brokered programming to adult standards by playing Frank Sinatra songs exclusively in August 2010.

It consisted of two halves-songs produced by Robert John " Mutt " Lange, responsible for Def Leppard, Shania Twain and other rock albums in the 1980s and 1990s, and songs produced by John Parr.

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.

After an earlier marriage which was unsuccessful ( her father and family friend Mark Twain labeled her first husband a " scalawag "), on June 4, 1900, Mai Huttleston Rogers married William Robertson Coe, a 30 year-old insurance company manager.

In 1870 a former Union officer named James Sanderson was appointed general manager and the hotel developed an extensive American clientele, which included Mark Twain and the miserly multi-millionairess, Hetty Green.

Mark Twain set his story, " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ", in the county.

* On October 28, 2003, Shania Twain set the arena's single-night concert attendance record of 20, 554.

The second substantial version Twain attempted to write is known as Schoolhouse Hill, which involves the familiar characters of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer and their adventures with Satan, referred to in this version as " No. 44, New Series 864962 ", and is set in America.

A scoundrel claiming to be the long-lost but rightful Duke of Bridgewater appears in the 1885 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, which is set before the American Civil War.

Encompassing American humor from Mark Twain to The Onion, the book was set to be released on October 13, 2011.

A chance meeting with Mark Twain changed Pratt's life and inspired the young man to set to work on his first successful book, Solitary Knight of the High Plains, which introduced the dashing hero, Nicodemus Legend.

* Four Seascapes ( 2004 ) the words of Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Thorton Wilder set to music

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.

Executive producer Doug Berman said in 2012, " The guys are culturally right up there with Mark Twain and the Marx Brothers.

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.

Bailey had seen Twain perform in Sudbury, Ontario, saying " I saw this little girl up on stage with a guitar and it absolutely blew me away.

One reviewer, comparing Babbitt to the writing of more “ graceful ” satirists like Dickens and Twain, argued that Lewis ’ s “ gift is almost entirely for making people nasty ;” consequently, his characters wind up unbelievable.

Twain describes him: " If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he is bet you how long it would take him to get to — to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road.

* Lexicon from Wordie, Words rounded up while reading The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

A real Beriah Sellers then also turned up, causing Twain to use the name Mulberry Sellers in The American Claimant.

In response to DeQuille's letter, Twain responded with a 19-page letter enthusiastically providing advice and an invitation for DeQuille to gather up all the material he might need and join him in Hartford where they could each work on their respective projects in close proximity and mutual support.

From the 1880s onwards, a few white Southern authors, such as George Washington Cable and Mark Twain ( often considered a Southerner because he grew up in the slave state of Missouri and wrote about the South ) dismissed this nostalgia by pointing out the blatant racism and exploitation of blacks at that time, and ridiculing the notion of Southern " chivalry ".

The game was known prior to 1859, where it was referred to as " seven up " in the Mark Twain story River Intelligence.

The house fills up with gas and ignites when Mark Twain throws a cigar in the doorway.

The state of Missouri has put up a stone picture of Twain on the Missouri side of the bridge.