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Mark Twain

Mark Twain. Also known as Samuel Clemens. Mark Twain was his pen name. Mark Twain’s look alikes. Albert Einstein KFC . Interesting Fact.

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Mark Twain

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  1. Mark Twain Also known as Samuel Clemens. Mark Twain was his pen name.

  2. Mark Twain’s look alikes Albert Einstein KFC

  3. Interesting Fact Twain was born the day Halley’s Comet visited. Some predicted he would leave with it as well. Lo and behold, he passed away the day after the comet came back.

  4. Hannibal, Missouri Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. Some of his favorite memories were spent watching the boats on the Mississippi River. His writing is influenced by those memories.

  5. Olivia Twain married Olivia Langdon. She rejected his first marriage proposal, but they ended up together and were married 34 years.

  6. Susy, Clara, and Jean Olivia and Mark had three daughters.

  7. Paige Compositor Mark Twain invested the modern day equivalent of $5,481,667 in this machine. It was an expensive and inaccurate invention to replace the human typesetter

  8. Despite having to declare bankruptcy, Mark Twain is sometimes referred to as the “Father of American Literature.” • Twain wrote humorous pieces (articles, letters, and stories). He also wrote The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progressafter traveling around the world. • Mark Twain is not his only pen name. He also used the pen name Josh and Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass

  9. Mark Twain may be best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and his subsequent book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • These books are very loosely based on his childhood in Hannibal • The Adventures of Huck Finn was banned from some libraries because of racism • We need to use wisdom whenever we read and understand that the morals in the book may not reflect everything we believe

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