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

In Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), Mark Twain, on the other hand, satirized the impact of Scott's writings, declaring ( with humorous hyperbole ) that Scott " had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the

Among these stories are: a tale of boiled missionaries ; of a lady who borrows a false eye, a peg leg, and the wig of a coffin-salesman's wife ; and a final tale of a man who gets caught in machinery at a carpet factory and whose " widder bought the piece of carpet that had his remains wove in ..." As Blaine tells the story of the carpet man's funeral, he begins to fall asleep, and Twain, looking around, sees his friends " suffocating with suppressed laughter.

Sharon married Jerry Twain, an Ojibwa, and they had a son together, Mark.

Eilleen Twain had a hard childhood in Timmins.

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.

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.

In late summer 1986 Mary Bailey arranged for Twain to meet John Kim Bell, a half Mohawk, half American conductor who had close contacts with the directors of the Canadian Country Music Association.

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.

As writer Mark Twain said, " It took a brave man before the Civil War to confess he had read the Age of Reason ... I read it first when I was a cub pilot, read it with fear and hesitation, but marveling at its fearlessness and wonderful power.

* June 24 – First published review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, in a British magazine ; the book's first edition had appeared earlier in June in England.

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.

In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm's most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated.

Howard is reported to have had an affair with Tallulah Bankhead when they appeared on stage ( in the UK ) in Her Cardboard Lover ( 1927 ); Merle Oberon, while filming The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ) and Conchita Montenegro, with whom he had appeared in the film Never the Twain Shall Meet ( 1931 ).

Introduced to each other in 1902 by their mutual friend Mark Twain, Tarbell who had become an investigative journalist and Rogers, who knew of her work, shared meetings and information over a two year period which led to her epoch work, The History of the Standard Oil Company, published in 1904, which many historians feel helped fuel public sentiment against the giant company and helped lead to the court-ordered break-up of it in 1911.

The 2010 United States Census reported that Twain had a population of 82.

The 2010 United States Census reported that Twain Harte had a population of 2, 226.

Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ) made his last public appearance on June 9, 1909, at the commencement ceremony of St. Timothy's School for Girls in Catonsville, to fulfill a promise he made to a young girl he had met on the steamer Minnehaha in 1907.

Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain had connections to Fredonia, via relatives.

Mila Kunis received the 2011 Fun, Fearless Female of the Year honor, a title that had been previously awarded to Anna Faris ( 2010 ), Ali Larter ( 2009 ), Katherine Heigl ( 2008 ), Eva Mendes ( 2007 ), Beyoncé ( 2006 ), Ashlee Simpson ( 2005 ), Alicia Silverstone ( 2004 ), Sandra Bullock ( 2003 ), Britney Spears ( 2002 ), Debra Messing ( 2001 ), Jennifer Love Hewitt ( 2000 ), Shania Twain ( 1999 ) and Ashley Judd ( 1998 )

By 1874, Mark Twain had included White Bear Lake as the resort in his " Life on the Mississippi.

Twain created a reverent portrayal of Joan of Arc, a subject over which he had obsessed for forty years, studied for a dozen years and spent two years writing.

The family home he had built in Hartford, Connecticut, where he and his wife raised their three daughters, is preserved and open to visitors as the Mark Twain House.

Her status as one of the music industry's biggest pop divas was further solidified when she was asked to perform on VH1's Divas Live special in 1998, with superstars Aretha Franklin, Gloria Estefan, Shania Twain and Mariah Carey.

Subsequent writers have tended to examine further the issues this raises, usually drawing the historical setting more realistically than Twain.

Twain developed the idea further, and Bret Harte published this version in The Californian on December 16 ; this time titled " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ", and the man named Smiley was changed to Greeley.

" Gilding a lily, which is already beautiful and not in need of further adornment, is excessive and wasteful, characteristics of the age Twain and Warner wrote about in their novel.

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!

Twain sang her hits " Man!

Cochrane closed the show by performing a medley of his hits and was joined onstage by host Shania Twain for the final song, " Life Is A Highway ".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.