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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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    – 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Mark Twain National Forest (MTNF) is a U.S. National Forest located in the southern half of Missouri, composed of nine disconnected parcels. MTNF was established...
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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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    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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  • 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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    "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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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (category Novels by Mark Twain)
    novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly...
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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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  • Mark Twain's Library of Humor is an 1888 anthology of short humorous works compiled by Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, William Dean...
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