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| Mark Twain | | Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| Mark Twain | | "Against the Assault of Laughter Nothing Can Stand" |
American Humorist / writer
| Mark Twain | | "Laughter is the Greatest Weapon We Have and We, As Humans, Use It the Least" |
American Humorist / writer
| Mark Twain | | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Published 1876
| Mark Twain | | Pestilence |
"If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." - Mark Twain
| Mark Twain | | 1835-1910 |
American writer, author of Tom Sawyer, born Samuel Longhorne Clemens
| Mark Twain | | "All Kings is Mostly Rapscallions" |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
| Mark Twain | | Beelzebub |
| Mark Twain | | Buffalo Bill |
| Mark Twain National Forest | | Missouri |
| Mark Twain | | Huck and the King of Hearts (1993) |
Based on the 1918 book 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
| Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910, Born & Died With Halley’s Comet | | Facts About Mark Twain |
Beloved American Humorist and Writer, raised in Hannibal, Missouri right along the banks of the Mississippi River from which he would find the inspiration for many of his stories. , Only 2 of his 7 Siblings Survived Childhood. He became a steamboat pilot, which rewarded him with about $250 per month – the equivalent of about &155,000 today. When his dream about his brother’s death on one of the Steamboats came true about a month later, Twain joined parapsychology groups, but was guilt-stricken over his brother’s death for life.
| 1910 | | Mark Twain Died |
4/21. Came into this world with Halley's Comet (1835); left the next time it showed up, as he predicted.
| Mark Twain | | "A Classic is Something That Everybody Wants to Have Read and Nobody Wants to Read" |
American humorist and writer
| Mark Twain | | "Cauliflower is Nothing but Cabbage With a College Education" |
American humorist and writer
| Mark Twain | | "Everybody Talks About the Weather, but Nobody Does Anything About It" |
American humorist and writer
| Mark Twain | | "History May Not Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme a Lot" |
American humorist and writer
| Mark Twain | | "I Respect a Man Who Knows How to Spell a Word More Than One Way" |
American humorist and writer
| Mark Twain | | "Name the Greatest of All Inventors. Accident" |
American humorist and writer
| Mark Twain | | "The Rule is Perfect: in All Matters of Opinion Our Adversaries Are Insane" |
American humorist and writer
| Mark Twain | | "There is an Old-time Toast Which is Golden for Its Beauty: "When You Ascend the Hill of Prosperity May You Not Meet a Friend”" |
American humorist and writer
| Mark Twain | | "Truth is the Most Valuable Thing We Have. Let Us Economize It" |
American humorist and writer
| Mark Twain | | "You Can Tell German Wine from Vinegar by the Label" |
American humorist and writer
| Mark Twain | | The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
Samuel Longhorn Clemens, 1835-1910
| Mark Twain | | Aunt Polly |
1876 Tom Sawyer
| Hadleyburg | | Mark Twain |
From the story "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg"
| Jackson's Island | | Mark Twain |
Mississippi River island where Huck meets Jim, the runaway slave, from "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", 1884
| Abblasource | | Mark Twain |
Village about 10 miles south of the Valley of Holiness, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
| Mark Twain | | "Last Week I Stated This Woman Was the Ugliest Woman I Had Ever Seen, I Have Since Been Visited by Her Sister and Now Wish to Withdraw That Statement" |
| Mark Twain | | "Good-bye. If We Meet … " |
Said to his daughter in 1910