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.

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.

It helped out of course that the Cubs last won the World Series in 1908, which is two years before Mark Twain and Tolstoy died.

Twain left Virginia City in May 1864 and after brief stays in San Francisco and Hawaii he toured as a lecturer, which brought him back for visits to Virginia City and DeQuille in 1866 and 1868.

Concurrently Twain had himself seen a need for such a book and, seeing DeQuille as the one to write it, wrote him a letter to that effect.

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.

DeQuille and Twain believed the book would have wide appeal and sell well.

The style of humor that flourished in the in United States during the latter half of the 19th century was shared by DeQuille, Artemus Ward, Orpheus C. Kerr, Petroleum V. Nasby, Major Jack Downing, and most notably Mark Twain.

The town has become a popular tourist attraction with one of its features being the building which housed the Enterprise and on display therein the desk once used by DeQuille, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and other frontier journalists.

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.

Even after Pendergrass was granted his claim by Congress, he had still received a total of only $ 386. 40, a loss of more than $ 13 from his rightful contract and, according to Twain, nearly $ 300 less than he should have earned from the extended route.

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.

It was especially noted that the birth and death of some notable persons coincided with separate appearances of the comet, such as with writers Mark Twain ( who correctly speculated that he'd " go out with the comet " in 1910 ) and Eudora Welty, to whose life Mary Chapin Carpenter dedicated the song Halley Came to Jackson.

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.

However, according to his biographer, Albert Paine, Twain seemed to take issue more with what he saw as Mary Baker Eddy's cult of personality than with the actual ideas of Christian Science saying:

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 ):

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

* Mark Twain, author ( lived with his brother Orion )

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

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

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.

General Douglas MacArthur, Mark Twain, and Norman Rockwell were perhaps the most famous smokers of this type of pipe, along with the cartoon characters Popeye and Frosty the Snowman.

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.

with Shania Twain, that premiered on the OWN on May 8, 2011.

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.

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 the fall of 1985, Bailey took Twain down to Nashville to stay with a friend, record producer Tony Migliore, who at the time was producing an album for fellow Canadian singer Kelita Haverland and Twain was featured on the backing vocals to the song Too Hot to Handle.

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.

In April 2010, Twain announced plans for her own TV show, titled Why Not?

Twain, in the autobiographic book Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), used the term within quotes, indicating reported usage, but used the term " negro " when speaking in his own narrative persona.

Many of Toronto's wealthiest citizens own large country estates in the area, among them many members of the Eaton Family, Norman Jewison, Shania Twain, Elton John and the inventors of the board game Trivial Pursuit.

Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte, and Twain.

movie ( 1980 ), an Emmy-winning sequence for the Moonlighting TV series ( 1987 ), the opening and closing title sequences for the feature comedy film Brain Donors ( 1992 ), and his own feature-length movie, The Adventures of Mark Twain ( 1985 ).

Opper also illustrated books for Edgar Wilson Nye, Mark Twain and Finley Peter Dunne, and published his own books, including Puck's Opper Book ( 1888 ), The Folks in Funnyville ( 1900 ) and Happy Hooligan Home Again ( 1907 ).

Further popularity of the tale led Twain to use the story to anchor his own first book which appeared in 1867, with a first issue run of only 1, 000 copies.

Twain also made light of his fellow travelers and the natives of the countries and regions he visited, as well as his own expectations and reactions.

At first concerned that his reputation as a humorist will embarrass his daughter Susy ( Jewel Staite ), who is among the graduates, Twain decides to throw all caution to the winds by delivering an inspirational speech in which he recalls his own early days as a Missouri-bred greenhorn on the wild western frontier.

Iconoclastic author George Bernard Shaw, in the preface to his own play, Saint Joan, accuses Twain of being " infatuated " with Joan of Arc.

Twain ’ s daughter, Clara Clemens, also stated, “ Andrew Lang so much admired Father ’ s Joan that he suggested dedicating to him his own biography of the Maid .”

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.