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.

Later, Twain seemed to reverse his stance towards Eddy as Paine quoted Twain as saying: "... Christian Science is humanity's boon.

Richard S. " Kinky " Friedman ( born November 1, 1944 ) is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

Shania Twain, OC (; born Eilleen Regina Edwards ; August 28, 1965 ) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter.

Sometimes referred to as " The Queen of Country Pop ", Twain has sold more than 85 million albums worldwide and is ranked 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era.

Twain is a long-time vegetarian and in 2001, was voted PETA's very first Sexiest Vegetarian Alive.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic Mark Twain novel.

* June 2 – Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he is dead, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying, " The report of my death was an exaggeration.

One famous example of this is Samuel Clemens ' writing under the pen name Mark Twain.

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 ).

A good-sized portion of the county is located in the Mark Twain National Forest.

Some in the north and northwest part of the county is now part of the Mark Twain National Forest, along with several acres in the southeast part of the county being part of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways Park.

The county is home to a number of state parks and historical sites including Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, Elephant Rocks State Park and Fort Davidson State Historic Site as well as of Mark Twain National Forest.

Roaring River State Park is located in the southern part of the county, amid the Mark Twain National Forest.

* Mark Twain is located in Pike, Ralls, Lewis, Monroe, Marion and Eastern Shelby counties.

Copperopolis is famous for the shack on Jack Ass Hill, where Mark Twain is purported to have written one of his most famous works, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

Twain is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Plumas County, California, United States.

Twain is located at ( 40. 018101 ,-121. 048898 ).

In the state legislature Twain is located in the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican Dave Cox, and in the 3rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Rick Keene.

Federally, Twain is located in California's 4th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 11 and is represented by Republican John Doolittle.

In addition to this fact, The Union ’ s early years are also recognized for their famous contributors, who included Mark Twain, Bret Harte and Dan De Quille.

Connecticut repealed the Black Law in 1838, and later recognized Prudence Crandall with an act of the state legislature, prominently supported by Mark Twain, providing her with a $ 400 yearly pension in 1886 ( about $ 9600 in 2010 dollars ).

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.

Though he moved to Richmond shortly before the Civil War, he paid homage to his Southside roots through his music and story-telling, in which he engaged himself professionally in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, sharing a stage on occasion with Mark Twain, and becoming the first known artist to record music with a mixed-race ensemble.

* Mark Twain Zephyr, an early articulated trainset that was similar to the Pioneer Zephyr in style

During the early 1990s, Canadian country singer Shania Twain appeared in low jeans baring her midriff and navel in her music videos and performances.

Capp has credited his inspiration for vividly stylized language to early literary influences like Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Damon Runyon, as well as Old-time radio and the Burlesque stage.

* William Gillette, Voice of: Selections from Sherlock Holmes and The Celebrated Jumping Frog ( 1934 ), addressing Professor F. C. Packard's class at Harvard University, imitates his old friend and neighbor Mark Twain in a reading of the early sentences of The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras County, Harvard Vocarium.

Having lured his guests to his mansion ( the address of which is shown early on as " 22 Lola Lane " and spoken later as " Two-Two Twain ") managed by a blind butler and a deaf-mute cook, Twain announces that it is in fact he who is the greatest detective in the world.

Twain reports that the early explorers De Soto, Marquette and Joliet, and La Salle visited " the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas " in their pioneering journeys.

Twain claimed that the story in its early version was a satire of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward's The Gates Ajar, a very popular novel published in 1868.

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.

Mark Twain has references to this poem throughout his works, from his early newspaper sketches to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and it is mentioned often in biographies of him, making it clear that it was important to him.

Twain was not thorough in his separation of the twins, and there are hints in the final version of their conjoined origin, such as the fact that they were their parents ' " only child ", they sleep together, they play piano together, and they had an early career as sideshow performers.

Although she continued to record for Epic throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, her commercial momentum slowed down, as neotraditionalist artists like Loveless were eclipsed on country radio by flashier, trendier young performers like Shania Twain and Faith Hill ; none of the singles released from her 1997 album Long Stretch of Lonesome or 2000's Strong Heart reached the top ten.

He played the young Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in his early life in the West as a satirical and crusading journalist, in the TV series Bonanza (" Enter Mark Twain ," season 1, episode 5, 1959 ).

The Mark Twain Zephyr was an early articulated trainset that was similar to the Pioneer Zephyr in style.

It was a genuine American cultural export ; Mark Twain commented, “… It is often said on the other side of the water that none of the exhibitions which we send to England are purely and distinctly American.

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

Mark Twain was a prominent American author of the 19th century.

* 1910 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist ( b. 1835 )

During his life Cocteau was commander of the Legion of Honor, Member of the Mallarmé Academy, German Academy ( Berlin ), American Academy, Mark Twain ( U. S. A ) Academy, Honorary President of the Cannes film festival, Honorary President of the France-Hungary Association and President of the Jazz Academy and of the Academy of the Disc.

In 1985, Will Vinton and his team released an ambitious feature film in stop motion called " The Adventures Of Mark Twain " based on the life and works of the famous American author.

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.

During this period, Twain made major television appearances on shows such as two performances on Late Show with David Letterman, Blockbuster Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards and the American Music Awards.

On August 17, 2009, EW announced that Twain would be a guest judge on American Idol in Chicago, for the show's August 30 and 31 episodes.

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

* The 19th century American writer Mark Twain discusses the Thuggee fairly extensively in chapters 9 and 10 of " Following the Equator: Volume II ", 1897, THE ECCO PRESS, ISBN 0-88001-519-5.

* April 21 – Mark Twain, American writer ( b. 1835 )

** Hal Holbrook, American actor ( Mark Twain Tonight )

* November 30 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist ( d. 1910 )

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.

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

American satirist and writer Mark Twain was born on 30 November 1835, exactly two weeks after the comet's perihelion.

Supporters included American writer Mark Twain, who wrote a stinging political satire entitled King Leopold's Soliloquy, in which the King supposedly argues that bringing Christianity to the country outweighs a little starvation.

Mark Twain reflected American outrage against looting and imperialism in his essay, " To the Person Sitting in Darkness ".

When Mark Twain read of this expedition, he wrote a scathing attack on the " Reverend bandits of the American Board.

* William Scott Ament ( born 1851 ), controversial American missionary to China criticized by Mark Twain

North American stand-up comedy has its roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century including vaudeville, English Music Hall, Minstrel shows, humorist monologues by personalities such as Mark Twain and Norman Wilkerson, and circus clown antics.

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.