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

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

Of a Government Report made in 1839 by Major Sleeman of the Indian Service, Mark Twain wrote:

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.

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

However, there were international protests particularly in Britain and the United States in 1903-04 spearheaded mainly by Edmund Dene Morel and British diplomat / Irish patriot Roger Casement, whose 1904 report on the Congo condemned the practice, as well as famous writers such as Mark Twain ( who wrote King Leopold's Soliloquy ) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Many signs posted along roads in Chemung County refer to the area as " Mark Twain Country " because of the many years the author lived and wrote in Elmira.

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.

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

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

Authors and writers who have lived in Redding include Mark Twain, who lived on present-day Mark Twain Lane and owned property in town until his death in 1910 ; Joel Barlow, a poet and diplomat, born in town ; Howard Fast ( in the 1980s ); Flannery O ' Connor ( who wrote her novel Wise Blood while a boarder at the home of fellow writer Robert Fitzgerald and family on Seventy Acre Road from 1949 to 1951 ).

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When Harper's refused to publish " Christian Science " in 1903, Twain interpreted the rejection as suppression caused by pressure from Christian Science and wrote, " The situation is not barren of humour.

And, by the same token, Samuel Clemens wrote novels and Mark Twain wrote novels would have to mean the same thing but, again, the two sentences seem to convey different information.

For instance, the name Mark Twain refers to Mark Twain, i. e. Samuel Clemens, the man who lived in the U. S. and wrote satires.

For example, the name " Mark Twain " might just mean: The man who wrote Tom Sawyer, and Samuel Clemens might mean: The eldest son of John and Jane Clemens.

As Mark Twain wrote while working for his brother, the secretary of Nevada, " The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.

Mark Twain wrote a short story, The Siamese Twins, based on the Bunkers.

* In 1870, Mark Twain wrote " A Ghost Story " in which the ghost of the Cardiff Giant appears in the hotel room in Manhattan to demand that he be reburied.

After visiting the Kumbh Mela of 1895, Mark Twain wrote:

Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, and severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor.

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.

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.

Twain assembled a demo tape of her songs and her Huntsville manager set up a showcase for Twain to present her material to record executives.

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's first break finally came on February 8, 1987, when Bell staged a fundraiser for the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto where Twain performed with Broadway star Bernadette Peters, jazz guitarist Don Ross, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

In May 2011, Twain confirmed in an interview with Perez Hilton that she will release her first new single in six years, " Today Is Your Day ", after the finale of Why Not?

Twain previewed the song in the first episode of the series.

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.

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

In September 2010, it was confirmed that Twain was to release her first biography, From This Moment On, on May 3, 2011, and the cover work for the book was released on March 2, 2011.

* She was named the 1999 Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association ; Twain was the first non-US citizen to win the CMA award.

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.

This was the first example of Amis's fondness for symbolically " pairing " characters in his novels, which has been a recurrent feature in his fiction since ( Martin Amis and Martina Twain in Money, Richard Tull and Gwyn Barry in The Information, and Jennifer Rockwell and Mike Hoolihan in Night Train ).

Mark Twain, a resident of the town in his old age, contributed the first books for a public library which was eventually named after him.

In his Nobel Prize Lecture of 1930, Sinclair Lewis said that " Dreiser's great first novel, Sister Carrie, which he dared to publish thirty long years ago and which I read twenty-five years ago, came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman ".

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.

In 1986, Whitmore voiced Mark Twain in the first claymation film The Adventures of Mark Twain.

lang, Shania Twain, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Lisa Loeb, Joan Osborne, and Tori Amos, who found success first in the United Kingdom, then in her home market.

Mark Twain ( the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 – 1910 ) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast – in the border state of Missouri.

1996 winner Shania Twain the first and so far only non-American winner.

Yet clearly the first can convey information in a way that the second cannot ; that Samuel Clemens is Samuel Clemens is just trivial, but that Samuel Clemens is Mark Twain is interesting.

It is speculation that Borges adapted the last name from Twain ; and as Twain did not have a first name for the bandit, Borges used Lazarus, many believe as an allusion to the Bible character of the same first name who was raised from the dead by Jesus, symbolizing a second life ( which, in a purely ironic way, Borges ' Lazarus Morrell provided for the slaves he freed ).