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    of Mark Twain first occurred in Samuel Clemens's writing while in the Nevada Territory which he had journeyed to with his brother. Clemens/Twain lived...
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    Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the...
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    – April 21, 1910),⁣ well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry...
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    The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is an American award presented by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. annually...
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  • Mark Twain Tonight! is a one-man play devised by Hal Holbrook, in which he depicted Mark Twain giving a dramatic recitation selected from several of Twain's...
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    The Autobiography of Mark Twain is a written collection of reminiscences, the majority of which were dictated during the last few years of the life of...
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    Orion Clemens (category Governors of Nevada Territory)
    Secretary of the Nevada Territory. His younger brother Samuel Langhorne Clemens became a famous author under the pen name Mark Twain. Born in Gainesboro, Tennessee...
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  • Adventures of Mark Twain is a 1944 American biographical film directed by Irving Rapper and starring Fredric March as Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Alexis...
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    Mark Twain Cave — originally McDowell's Cave — is a show cave located near Hannibal, Missouri. It was named for author Mark Twain whose real name was...
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    by Mark Twain, written as a satire of literary criticism and as a critique of the writings of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, that appeared in the...
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    audio-animatronic of Mark Twain acts as co-host of a show named "The American Adventure" at Epcot, Walt Disney World Mark Twain Riverboat in Hannibal, Missouri;...
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  • The Adventures of Mark Twain, also known as Comet Quest in the United Kingdom, is a 1985 American independent stop-motion claymation fantasy film directed...
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    The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is located on 206-208 Hill Street, Hannibal, Missouri, on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the United States...
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    The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. The Clemens...
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  • Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a short risqué squib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally...
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    9-24-2011. "Mark Twain Museum at the Territorial Enterprise," Nevada Museums, Travel Nevada Web (http://museums.travelnevada.com/destination/mark-twain...
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    The Mark Twain Tree was a giant sequoia tree located in the Big Stump Forest of Kings Canyon National Park. It was named after the American writer and...
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  • Mark Twain is a documentary film on the life of Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Clemens, produced by Ken Burns in 2001 which aired on Public Broadcasting...
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  • John Marshall Clemens (category County commissioners in Tennessee)
    the father of author Mark Twain and of journalist and politician Orion Clemens, who was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Clemens was...
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    Roughing It (category Books by Mark Twain)
    book of semi-autobiographical travel literature by Mark Twain. It was written in 1870–71 and published in 1872, following his first travel book The Innocents...
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    American concert singer, and the daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote as Mark Twain. She managed his estate and guarded his legacy after his death as his...
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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (category Novels by Mark Twain)
    a novel by Mark Twain published on 9 June 1876 about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of...
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    Langhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name Mark Twain. Olivia Langdon was born in 1845 in Elmira, New York, to Jervis Langdon and Olivia Lewis...
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    Jean Clemens (category Accidental deaths in Connecticut)
    name Mark Twain) and Olivia Langdon Clemens. She founded or worked with a number of societies for the protection of animals. Jean Clemens was born in Elmira...
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    Susy Clemens (category Neurological disease deaths in Connecticut)
    child and eldest daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. She inspired some of her father's...
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    Mark Twain State Park is a public recreation area encompassing 2,775 acres (1,123 ha) on Mark Twain Lake in Monroe County, Missouri. The state park offers...
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    Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (category Mark Twain)
    early Ponzi scheme. The set was published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death in July 1885. Twain was a close personal friend of Grant and used...
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  • Sam Brown (outlaw) (category Deaths by firearm in Nevada)
    unprovoked violence when intoxicated. Mark Twain mentions "Sam Brown" among 11 names of notorious killers in Nevada during the 1860s. For a brief time,...
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  • City, Nevada's leading newspaper, Territorial Enterprise. There, his literary skills were first realized and he first used the pen name Mark Twain. Having...
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    "What Is Man?" is a short story by American writer Mark Twain, published in 1906. It is a dialogue between a Young Man and an Old Man regarding the nature...
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