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11 hours ago · Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ." [3] Twain's novels include The Adventures of ...
- Mark Twain Bibliography
Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 –...
- Olivia Langdon Clemens
That only leaves me with one option, for her to mend it."...
- Susy Clemens
Olivia Susan Clemens (March 19, 1872 – August 18, 1896) was...
- Mark Twain in Popular Culture
Amusement parks and attractions. An audio-animatronic of...
- Clara Clemens
Clara Langhorne Clemens Samossoud (formerly Gabrilowitsch;...
- Florida, Missouri
Florida is a village in Monroe County, Missouri, United...
- Mark Twain (Disambiguation)
Places. Mark Twain (crater), a crater on Mercury 2362 Mark...
- Twain House
The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut,...
- Jean Clemens
Jane Lampton "Jean" Clemens (July 26, 1880 – December 24,...
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Plot Huckleberry Finn, as depicted by E. W. Kemble in the...
- Mark Twain Bibliography
11 hours ago · Battle of Buena Vista. Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850. Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the ...
11 hours ago · Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was an American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time. Johnson was a Democrat who ran with Abraham Lincoln on the National Union Party ...
11 hours ago · Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). An influential Founding Father, Jefferson envisioned America as a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism. Nannerl Mozart (from Salzburg, Austria) was a musician.
11 hours ago · In Puerto Rico and each of the U.S. Virgin Islands, stationary steam engines survive on their original foundations and stand in testament to the long history of sugar production in the American territories of the Caribbean. In total, six beam engines, seven horizontal engines, one vertical engine, and a compound engine exist on the islands in various states of preservation, many amid the ruins ...
11 hours ago · Aid funding for Latin America increased rapidly as a result, jumping from $157 million in 1960 and $408 million in 1961 to $842 million in 1962. Economic aid in the 1960s to Latin America peaked at $989 million in 1964, which represented 24 percent of all US aid spending worldwide that year. 33.
11 hours ago · The Cherokee language is part of the Iroquoian language group. In the 19th century, James Mooney, an early American ethnographer, recorded one oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian peoples have been based. [11]
