Samuel Clemens, who was known as Mark Twain, was born in Missouri in 1835 — the year of Haley's Comet, and vowed he would live to see the comet pass over again. Indeed, Twain died in 1910 ...

Mark Twain said that Franklin’s autobiography ... against him in the sense that he was a Protestant in an exclusively Catholic country. Protestants were not even allowed. He was the son of ...

Mark Twain’s autobiography, published by Harper and Brothers, New York, in August 1924, is available at Adams’ Book and Art Shop for $10.00. Dr. Sheridan told the parents at the Hawthorne school party ...

Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...

For 150 years, the Mark Twain House and Museum has stood as a monument to one of America’s greatest authors. Its interim ...

If you want to call Hiaasen the Mark Twain of post-Vietnam America ... I lived in South Florida for a while and taught school at a Catholic high school in West Palm Beach with a famed athletic ...

Since the first show in 1975, 165 comedians and actors have been a part of "SNL." Three new comedians joined for season 50.

Mark Twain (4-0) travels to Hermann at 12:45 p.m today. St. James (4-17) will play St. Clair at Hermann at 2:30 p.m today.

I became a journalist because Mark Twain started that way, the table where the lawyers would have argued, the jury box where the law clerks would be, a pair of modern tapestries, reflection of ...

Mark Twain called it “the saddest and most moving piece of rock ... But this beautiful church is worth going out of your way for too. This 17th-century Jesuit Catholic church is a marvel from the ...

At Saint Louis University, you will encounter courses that span the full experience of works in the English language — from Old Norse to Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein ... with strong holdings in ...

Carol and Joe were married at St. Paul’s Catholic Church on a sunny day in ... that she could support the afterschool program for Mark Twain students. Carol was a hard worker who was never ...