mark twain
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Apr
According to a typewriter historian Mark Twain was the first author to publish a book written on a typewriter. It was the 1883 "Life on the Mississippi". He hand wrote it and then later typed on a Remington 2.
Twain later...
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Nov
I have always been a fan of Mark Twain. He was a great storyteller and such an interesting character with such a concise look at life. I remember my mother reading "Tom Sawyer" to me when I was 4 or 5. She continued that practice...
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J.N.R Dutton
@jnrdutton (3452)
• United States
2 Apr 24
I read earlier that even Mark Twain once STRUGGLED as a writer. We who enjoy his various work today probably could never fathom him being anything less than successful.
Knowing that even he struggled should give aspiring writers...
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
29 Sep 21
Ooh, did I fall in love with Hannibal, Missouri today!!!
Hannibal is best-known as the boyhood home of one Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a riverboat captain who took the riverboat term for safe water as his pen name: [b]Mark...
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Ptrikha_2
@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
22 Jun 21
This one book was not on my original plan.
However after some initial - oh not so interesting book.... thoughts, I simply chugged along.
Yesterday I finally completed it.
I am talking about a hard cover Unabridged and original...
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Ptrikha_2
@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
17 May 21
Image captured : From own mobile and cropped.
Book : Unabridged hard bind version of Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
This was not on my original reading plan. I had thought of this for my kids.
Yet the kind of language was...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
11 Sep 20
I’m a long time Mark Twain fan. His real name of course Samuel Clemens. He spent time in both Tuolumne County and Calaveras County, we live in Tuolumne Co there’s a cabin he lived in located on Jack Ass hill, yes that’s really...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (97990)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Nov 19
You can be part of the National Tom Sawyer Days held in Hannibal, Missouri the town where the well-known author of a boy named Tom grew up. He was born Samuel Clemens and took the pen name of Mark Twain. He was four years old when...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
9 Oct 19
It’s been peaceful since cutting those who were causing all the drama out of my life. Sad that one of them was the girl I helped to raise, but after she started spewing out hate and had others doing so as well I was done!...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238298)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jul 19
Right now I'm finishing Mark Twain's "Biography," as written by his 14-year-old daughter, Susy Clemens. It's edited by Charles Neider, who is a known Mark Twain scholar, and includes much commentary from Twain himself on what Susy...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
30 Jun 19
Because apparently it’s Log Cabin day, I thought I’d share a picture of Mark Twain’s Cabin locates on Jack Ass hill, heading towards Sonora! I cannot make up the names of these streets!
I hope you like my photo for the day!...
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222314)
• United States
4 Jun 19
"If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything." – Mark Twain
This is so simple. If you tell a lie, you have to remember your story; but if you tell the truth, there's nothing special to remember.
Photo is from...
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222314)
• United States
4 Jun 19
"Never regret anything that made you smile." – Mark Twain
This is the other quote that I wanted to post today. Couldn't decide on one; so I'm posting both. What about if something bad made you smile? lol For the most part,...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238298)
• Walnut Creek, California
23 Aug 18
Several months ago, I wrote and recorded a "blues" about Mark Twain, my favorite author, and his relationship with his daughter, Susy, who died of spinal meningitis at age 24.
It occurred to me that Twain and his daughter would...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238298)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Feb 18
OK, here's the scoop. Mark Twain is my favorite author. We all had to read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as kids, but Twain also wrote several short stories in which he poked fun at religious hypocrisy (Was it Heaven? Or Hell?), fake...
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Ruby Hawk
@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
15 Mar 17
I do like random trivia. Did you know that each year Americans throw away enough plastic wrap to wrap the state of Texas?
Did you know that its illegal to take a picture of a rabbit during the month of June in the state of...
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Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
2 Oct 16
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain
I’ve been listening to the audio version of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” that I have on loan from the library. I listen to it in the car, and it is VERY interesting....
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
25 Aug 16
The narrator of this story relates taking a large room in a huge old building. The upper stories, where his room is, have been unoccupied for years and have long give up to cobwebs, solitude and silence. He feels he’s invading the...
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Jun 16
Helen Keller was born June, 1, 1880 and died in 1968. She was lucky to have known many celebrities such as Charlie Chaplin and Eleanor Roosevelt. She also was lucky enough to have met Mark Twain when she was 14. I am so jealous!!...
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