• Following the Equator (sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad) is a non-fiction social commentary in the form of a travelogue published by Mark Twain in...
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    Africa. His three months in India became the centerpiece of his 712-page book Following the Equator. In the second half of July 1896, Twain sailed back...
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    rubs the tip of one's nose against another person's face. In Inuit culture, the gesture is known as a kunik, and consists of pressing or rubbing the tip...
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    (1877), travel A Tramp Abroad (1880), travel Life on the Mississippi (1883), travel Following the Equator (sometimes titled "More Tramps Abroad") (1897), travel...
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    the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the...
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    at each vertex. It has 10 faces on the polar axis with 10 faces following the equator. Merkel-Raute Rhombus of Michaelis, in human anatomy Rhomboid, either...
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    constellation of the southern sky that is centred on four bright stars in a cross-shaped asterism commonly known as the Southern Cross. It lies on the southern...
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  • Look up Equator, equator, or ecuatorial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An equator is the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular...
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    who wrote about the city's crows he saw outside his balcony in Following the Equator. It was also the first place in India to screen the Lumière Brothers'...
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    Jean Clemens (category Deaths by drowning in the United States)
    Jane Lampton "Jean" Clemens (July 26, 1880 – December 24, 1909) was the daughter of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known by his pen name Mark Twain)...
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  • The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in some English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. The tradition...
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    of the racial slur "nigger". In St. Petersburg, Missouri, during the 1830s–1840s, Huckleberry Finn has received a considerable sum of money following The...
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    replaced by the Central Criminal Intelligence Department (CID). In Following the Equator, Mark Twain wrote about an 1839 government report by William Henry...
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    The Equator Principles is a risk management framework adopted by financial institutions, for determining, assessing and managing environmental and social...
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    Olivia Langdon Clemens (November 27, 1845 – June 5, 1904) was the wife of the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name...
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    spent the year 1895–96 traveling so that he could lecture and earn the money to pay off their debts. He recounted the trip in Following the Equator (1897)...
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  • to the basic concept was made by Mark Twain in Following the Equator in 1897: Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economise it. The precise...
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    The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United...
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    "...the Black Hole of Calcutta on a small scale." Later, in chapter 54 of his Following the Equator (1897), he visits Calcutta and describes the history...
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    Gabrilowitsch; June 8, 1874 – November 19, 1962), was an American concert singer, and the daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote as Mark Twain. She managed his estate...
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    The Excelsior Diamond is a gem-quality diamond, and was the largest known diamond in the world from the time of its discovery in 1893 until 1905, when...
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  • printed the clippings in full, one following the other; then he said: By happy luck we get all these glad tidings on Christmas Eve—just the time to enable...
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    Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in...
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    "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national...
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  • "Concerning the Jews" is an 1899 short essay by Mark Twain. Twain had lived in Austria during 1896, and opined that the Habsburg empire used Jews as scapegoats...
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  • The Mysterious Stranger is a novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it intermittently from 1897 through 1908. Twain wrote multiple...
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    public life. The novel gave the era its nickname: the period of U.S. history from the 1870s to about 1900 is now referred to as the Gilded Age. The novel concerns...
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    Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (category 1998 establishments in the United States)
    the people who've followed them." Kennedy Center Honors, during which the following comedians, comic actors, and humorists have been honored: Bob Hope,...
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    story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. It is a sequel, set in the time following the title story of the Tom Sawyer series....
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    older adults. Following Weis's work, and especially after the 1978 publication of the UCLA Loneliness Scale, scientific interest in the topic has broadened...
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