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Famous quotes by Mark Twain:

"All generalizations are false, including this one."

"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation"

"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."

"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop"

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

"The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become."

"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."

"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

"Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold."

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

Mark Twain Biography Documentary

Duration: 43:49
Updated: 11 Mar 2014

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Hal Holbrook in "Mark Twain Tonight!" (1967)

Duration: 7:11
Updated: 17 Aug 2013

Hal Holbrook plays Mark Twain, expounding upon Man, "the reasoning animal." Holbrook still performs MTT these days, but requires considerably less makeup. Th...

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Adventures of Mark Twain - O Estranho Misterioso

Duration: 86:06
Updated: 27 Jul 2013

Adventures of Mark Twain - Estranho misterioso

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MarkTwain on Lies and Slavery

Duration: 10:46
Updated: 15 Aug 2013

Mark Twain has a very sharp, yet quaint way of putting the truth.

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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Duration: 274:35
Updated: 17 Aug 2013

LibriVox recording of The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories, by Mark Twain. Read by Ted Delorme. Here's a Mark Twain story that's very unlike those he be...

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Roughing It - FULL Audio Book - Part 1 of 2 - by Mark Twain

Duration: 664:29
Updated: 03 Aug 2013

Roughing It - FULL Audio Book - Part 1 of 2 - by Mark Twain SUBSCRIBE to https://www.youtube.com/user/GreenAudioBooks Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiogr...

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Mark Twain's Voice

Duration: 3:56
Updated: 17 Aug 2013

You've seen his pictures, read his books, enjoyed his sharpened wit and piercing humor. But you've never heard the sound, the cadence or inflections of Mark ...

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Will Ferrell Hilarious Acceptance Speech At The Mark Twain Comedy Award 2011

Duration: 10:26
Updated: 28 Sep 2013

Taped at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on October 23. http://clikhere.co/Cz9AvpRH

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MARK TWAIN: Journal Writings Volume 1 - FULL AudioBook - Greatest Audio Books

Duration: 152:25
Updated: 20 Jul 2013

Mark Twain: Journal Writings Volume 1 - FULL AudioBook - Greatest Audio Books - SUBSCRIBE to Greatest Audio Books: http://www.youtube.com/GreatestAudioBooks ...

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Mark Twain Quotes, Witty Remarks and Words of Wisdom

Duration: 4:43
Updated: 30 Aug 2013

http://lifenotesplus.com We wanted to share some of our favorite Mark Twain quotes, witty remarks and words of wisdom. Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (born November 30, 1835 -- died April 21, 1910). Most of the quotes on the video are short to medium length due to the size limitations of each video segment. Here are some more Mark Twain quotes, witty remarks and words of wisdom. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." "Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself." "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." "The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was." "It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races." "Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." "In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." "Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile." "What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce." "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man." "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." Many of the Mark Twain quotes, witty remarks and words of wisdom are as applicable now as they were when they were written over a century ago. We have a self-improvement goldmine for you to explore. Go to http://lifenotesplus.com for free ebooks and more!

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The Life Of Mark Twain

Duration: 16:06
Updated: 22 Aug 2012

This was a project my daughter Molly did on Mark Twain, very interesting facts...

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The Mark Twain House & Museum

Duration: 4:46
Updated: 18 Jul 2013

We asked and you answered! The Mark Twain House & Museum is a favorite among residents. A piece of American history and Connecticut pride, this beautiful Har...

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Mark Twain - Tajemný Cizinec (Mluvené Slovo CZ)

Duration: 250:29
Updated: 02 Oct 2013

Četba z výborné knihy Marka Twaina - Tajemný Cizinec rozdělená na devět částí. Enjoy 1. část - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v;=XG-DdrJ0qao#t=5 2. část - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v;=XG-DdrJ0qao#t=1701 3. část - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v;=XG-DdrJ0qao#t=3355 4. část - http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=LLHmO_GvotTgOiEHMeDjXYyg&feature;=player_detailpage&v;=XG-DdrJ0qao#t=4988 5. část - http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=LLHmO_GvotTgOiEHMeDjXYyg&feature;=player_detailpage&v;=XG-DdrJ0qao#t=6666 6. část - http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=LLHmO_GvotTgOiEHMeDjXYyg&feature;=player_detailpage&v;=XG-DdrJ0qao#t=8444 7. část - http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=LLHmO_GvotTgOiEHMeDjXYyg&feature;=player_detailpage&v;=XG-DdrJ0qao#t=10100 8. část - http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=LLHmO_GvotTgOiEHMeDjXYyg&feature;=player_detailpage&v;=XG-DdrJ0qao#t=11760 9. část - http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=LLHmO_GvotTgOiEHMeDjXYyg&feature;=player_detailpage&v;=XG-DdrJ0qao#t=13340

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George Carlin - Mark Twain prize for American Humor (part 2 of 10)

Duration: 8:41
Updated: 13 Aug 2013

George Carlin was awarded the the Mark Twain prize for American humor just a few days before his death. Four months later, some of America's foremost comedia...

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Tammy Movie CLIP - Mark Twain (2014) - Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon Comedy HD

Duration: 0:52
Updated: 23 Jun 2014

Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Like us on FACEBOOK:http://goo.gl/dHs73 Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt Tammy Movie CLIP - Mark Twain (2014) - Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon Comedy HD Tammy, who was recently fired from a Toppy Jacks fast food restaurant, returns home only to find her husband enjoying a romantic meal with the neighbor. She quickly packs her necessities, and travels down three houses to her parent's home. Upon denied use of her mom's car to drive to Niagara Falls, she quickly resorts to an "ailing" grandmother, who also lives in the home...Only instead of traveling alone, Grandma Pearl wants in on the road trip. After realizing Grandma Pearl has the funds, they hit the road. Pearl soon proves to be quite the alcoholic despite her diabetes, and Tammy quickly turns into the "baby-sitter." From finding love in a bar to robbing a Toppy Jack's in order to bail Pearl out of jail,the quirky adventure will have you finding yourself riding along for the misadventures of Tammy. tammy "tammy movie" tammy comedy "melissa mccarthy" "kathy bates" "susan sarandon" "allison janney" "dan aykroyd" "ben falcone" "mark duplass" "Sandra Oh" "Gary Cole" "Toni Collette" marriage grandma grandmother jail robbery hilarious funny robber rob "sneak peek" "tammy clip" clip scene "mark twain" vchan

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As Aventuras de Mark Twain - O Estranho Misterioso

Duration: 5:06
Updated: 25 Jul 2013

Cena do Filme "As Aventuras de Mark Twain" (The Adventures of Mark Twain) Direção: Will Vinton Produção: Will Vinton Escrito por: Mark Twain / Susan Shadburn...

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Mark Twain - What is Man? (1906)

Duration: 152:41
Updated: 14 Aug 2013

Best essay ever. Mark Twain. 'Nuff said. *Horatio Alger is here pictured as the "Young Man" and Twain as the "Old Man" to contrast the wise Twain with the mo...

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Drunk History: Mark Twain

Duration: 2:28
Updated: 17 Aug 2013

Mark Twain finds inspiration for his first great book.

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Steve Martin on Tina Fey @ Mark Twain Prize

Duration: 3:47
Updated: 14 Aug 2013

Steve Martins opening speech from when Tina Fey got the Mark Twain Prize.

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Tina Fey's Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech

Duration: 8:56
Updated: 18 Aug 2013

Tina Fey's hilarious acceptance speech. No copyright infringement intended.

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The Adventures of Mark Twain

Duration: 5:16
Updated: 14 Aug 2013

THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN Where dreams become reality! This 25th anniversary year marks the 175th anniversary of Twain's birth, the 125th anniversary of T...

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Mark Twain's "Is Shakespeare Dead?" with Keir Cutler, Ph.D.

Duration: 44:17
Updated: 21 Nov 2013

Mark Twain's hilarious (1909) debunking of the myth that William Shakespeare wrote the works of Shakespeare. Adapted and performed by Keir Cutler, Ph.D. at the 2003 Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Listing the handful of established facts of Shakespeare's life, Twain ridicules the fantasy that an uneducated youth could have wandered into London and, with virtually none of the necessary skills, became the greatest author in English literature. "Is Shakespeare Dead? marshals startling facts into an elegant and often tenacious argument that floats on a current of delicious irony." Montreal Gazette. " a highly entertaining and engrossing 45-minute performance!" EYE Weekly, Toronto. "Magnificently witty performance!" Winnipeg Sun. "Everyone will leave convinced the English-speaking world's greatest playwright is a hoax ... witty and compelling show." Winnipeg Free Press. www.keircutler.com

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The Wisdom of Mark Twain

Duration: 10:01
Updated: 08 Aug 2013

Mark Twain or Samuel Langhorne Clemens (real name) was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, wh...

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Mark Twain Gives an Interview (clip)

Duration: 1:33
Updated: 16 Nov 2012

This is a twist on Hal Holbrook's classic interpretation of Mark Twain. In this portrayal, Holbrook/Twain responds in character to young people's questions. ...

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An Interview With Mark Twain by Rudyard Kipling

Duration: 28:33
Updated: 06 Jun 2013

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018 by Various A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were ...

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Exclusive | Mark Twain: 'Concerning the Interview'

Duration: 7:19
Updated: 01 Feb 2013

Robert Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project, reads a never-before-published essay by the famed American author entitled "Concerning the Interview."

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Cincy Entertainment Interviews Mark Twain

Duration: 13:26
Updated: 20 Feb 2013

We sit down and talk to the legendary Mark Twain portrayed by Mr. Bill Hartnett from his play An Evening with Mark Twain by Samuel Clemens at the Mariemont P...

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Rare Mark Twain interview- Figures First

Duration: 5:35
Updated: 20 Jan 2014

Figures first interviews dead author Mark Twain on Alcohol, Unions, Women, racism, and more.

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HUFFINGTON POST INTERVIEWS MARK TWAIN! - ThisIsMarkTwain@aol.com - Season 2 Ep 2

Duration: 2:40
Updated: 19 Jun 2014

Mark Twain is on a mission to reclaim his fame and an interview with the Huffington Post is probably the way to do it! How will Mark Twain respond to a headline hungry HuffPo blogger? Will he even know what a blog is? SUBSCRIBE TO MANDATORY FOR MORE: http://goo.gl/YIghx5 SUPPORT MARK TWAIN! Click to Tweet! - http://ctt.ec/wK1lm Follow Mark on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/MarkTwainAOL Watch more of Mark's office adventures here -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVdUNk... ThisisMarkTwain@aol.com is a fish out of water workplace comedy that places author and humorist Mark Twain in a modern social media company. Written by: Mike Betette (mikebetette.com) and Bryce Wissel (brycewissel.com) Directed by: Ethan Cushing (ethancushing.com) Production Design by: Morgan Christensen Hair & Makeup by: Sabrina Wilson Camera: Burke Doeren and Grant Babbitt Sound: Nathan Whitcomb Grip: Tristan Noelle PA: Joel Blacker Starring: Bryce Wissel as Mark Twain Courtney Barnett as Reporter ABOUT MANDATORY Women, funny stuff, viral videos, must-read features, and a whole lot of awesome. For more Mark Twain, hot ladies, funny pranks, and other hilarious stuff, check us out at: Mandatory.com Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mandatory oh and we have Facebook too: https://www.facebook.com/MANDATORY

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The Making of Mark Twain's Autobiography

Duration: 13:12
Updated: 09 Nov 2012

Robert Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Papers & Project at UC Berkeley, is interviewed at the National Endowment for the Humanities about the challen...

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Hal Holbrook on Mark Twain Tonight! Part 1

Duration: 13:43
Updated: 03 Aug 2013

In a 1985 news conference and interview, Hal Holbrook talks about the creation of Mark Twain Tonight! and his relationship with the great American humorist.

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MARK TWAIN Tom Teti Interview

Duration: 3:38
Updated: 18 Oct 2012

Actor Tom Teti, who portrays the "man in the white suit" in our current production of MARK TWAIN: SACRED COWS MAKE THE BEST HAMBURGERS, answers our questions...

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Mark Twain Interview

Duration: 3:34
Updated: 21 Nov 2011

An interview with Mark Twain, filmed for an English class project. It's not our ideal movie thanks to time constraints, but it's something.

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Mark Twain Interview for American Lit.

Duration: 6:08
Updated: 28 Jan 2014

Mark Twain interview describing his life, till he published the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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Conversation Portrait | Who Is Mark Twain?| LIVE from the NYPL

Duration: 2:20
Updated: 02 Aug 2013

http://wwww.nypl.org/live Who is Mark Twain? by Mark Twain himself (new, never-before published works, Spring 2009) Chapter 2: "Whenever I am about to publis...

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Mark Twain Interview - English Project

Duration: 7:24
Updated: 27 Mar 2013

Interview with Mark Twain.

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Mark Twain Interview group 1

Duration: 7:24
Updated: 11 Feb 2011

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Why It's OK Print Is Dead -- Mark Twain on Interviews

Duration: 3:55
Updated: 26 Jul 2012

In 1888, Edmond Bok tried to interview Mark Twain, inspiring this letter on the subject of turning talk into print.

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Pamela French Interview Mark Twain School

Duration: 9:52
Updated: 23 Jan 2010

I interviewed Pamela French, one of the owners of the Mark Twain School, for my International Baccalaureate's Business project. Normally, students would writ...

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English Final: Mark Twain Interview

Duration: 8:34
Updated: 14 Jun 2010

english project mark twain interview Josh and Duncan.

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Hal Holbrook on Mark Twain Tonight 2

Duration: 14:44
Updated: 03 Aug 2013

In this 1985 news conference and interview, Hal Holbrook talks about the creation of Mark Twain Tonight! and his relationship to the great American humorist.

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Mark Twain Interview

Duration: 2:31
Updated: 28 May 2014

English Multimedia

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Mark Twain Interview

Duration: 7:31
Updated: 08 Jun 2013

My Movie.

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Mark Twain Prize | Tina Fey Answers Your Questions | PBS

Duration: 2:17
Updated: 01 Aug 2013

(Web exclusive) Tina Fey is being awarded the Mark Twain Prize for Comedy (airing on PBS 11/14). In connection with that broadcast, we asked PBS's Facebook f...

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Mark Twain Indians KZME Interview Promo

Duration: 0:43
Updated: 27 Aug 2010

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In this photo taken Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an interview with the German ARD television in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia. Putin has dismissed Western criticism of his government's raids of non-government organizations, saying they must account for their foreign funds.

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Report: Vladimir Putin’s Plane Lapped MH17, May Have Been Target

The Inquisitr

17 Jul 2014

Early information has suggested one possible and scary cause for the crash of MH17 — intentional interference using anti-aircraft weaponry on the ground in what was almost definitely a case of mistaken identity. The speculation regarding Vladimir Putin’s plane, however, is a newer thread ... “I can say that Putin’s plane and the Malaysian Boeing intersected at the same point and the same echelon ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)

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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: What happened before the plane was shot down

The Australian

18 Jul 2014

AVIATION experts and weapons analysts have shed more light on what happened on-board Flight MH17 before it was shot down. The flight, on a Boeing 777-200, was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Passengers left Amsterdam at 12.15pm (local time) in the afternoon, and were due to touch down in Kuala Lumpur the next day at 6.10am local time. The flight was meant to be a total of 13 hours and 10 minutes ... REVEALED ... WARNINGS IGNORED ... AFP....(size: 6.0Kb)

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Su-25UB and MiG-29 (9-13) of Ukrainian Air Force.

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Russian jet shoots down Ukrainian warplane over Ukraine: Kiev military

Reuters

17 Jul 2014

KIEV (Reuters) - A Russian jet shot down a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter plane that was on military operations over the east of Ukraine, where government forces are fighting to quell a pro-Russian separatist rebellion, a Ukrainian military spokesman said on Thursday ... U.S ... (Additional reporting by Natalya Zinets in Kiev and Tatyana Ustinova in Moscow; Writing by Richard Balmforth, editing by Mark Trevelyan) ....(size: 2.3Kb)

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Jason Mraz and (girl)friend appear at Ellen DeGeneres tribute

The Examiner

19 Jul 2014

... DeGeneres who received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor....(size: 0.3Kb)

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Horrigan: A preview of the fall's least-watchable TV shows

STL Today

19 Jul 2014

If I had to do this, I would jump off a cliff. However, I love reading what the critics write. I love this even though I hardly ever watch any of these shows until they show up on Netflix and usually not then, either ... This is actually something of a relief ... Also it’s full of people who aren’t particularly good looking ... ER ... It’s about the struggles of a small Midwestern town after high schools no longer require kids to read Mark Twain ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)

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Amid old S.F. newspaper wars, real blood was shed

San Francisco Chronicle

19 Jul 2014

California's first two newspapers, the Star and the Californian in San Francisco, closed down in the early days of the Gold Rush as editors and readers alike headed for the diggings in the summer of 1848. For five months, there was no newspaper in the state ... 18, 1848, his reborn paper, the Star and Californian, appeared ... Its pages would be graced by the likes of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, and it would survive for 42 tumultuous years ... ....(size: 6.6Kb)

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Reinventing a turbulent history

Independent online (SA)

19 Jul 2014

Sheree Bega explores whether history should be made compulsory in school. Professor Noor Nieftagodien saw it happen to his own son ... It didn’t matter that his father was a self-confessed history boffin ... He is adamant ... But the DA’s Annette Lovemore, its spokeswoman on basic education, may as well quote Mark Twain, who famously recited that “the very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice” ... ....(size: 10.7Kb)

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Huck Finn Grows Up

CounterPunch

18 Jul 2014

Yes, indeed, a true American novel—in many ways as moving as Mark Twain’s original ... Jim “was not the simpleton Mark Twain made him out to be, nor was he the blank, the zero, the empty slate I sometimes took him for.” As if by osmosis, both absorbed the parlance, the vocabularies, of their times, making it impossible for us to quibble over a word here or there ... Twain was definitely on to something....(size: 4.8Kb)

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All in the Timing: Not Even Monkeys Could Write Stuff This Good

Houston Press

18 Jul 2014

The set-up.. Remember that old philosophy head-scratcher ... The execution. ... Type, type, type, bitch, bitch, bitch ... Known for his sparkling adaptations of Moliere, Feydeau, and Mark Twain (Is He Dead?), and many of Lincoln Center's Encores series of neglected Broadway musicals, his latest play Venus in Fur (2010) has been a sure winner, produced this season at the Alley and seen in almost every other theater in the United States ... Ding ... Ding ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)

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6 Scientific Reasons You Can't Stop Looking At Ruin Porn

Fast Company

18 Jul 2014

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said of pornography, "I know it when I see it," but ruin porn--the name for photos of abandoned buildings and ravaged landscapes--feels tougher to discern ... Consider this the ruin porn of your mind. Whatever your answers, you've had plenty of recent opportunities to consider the questions ... Hedonic Reversal. How it works ... Mark Twain once reduced humor to an equation of "tragedy plus time." ... ....(size: 10.6Kb)

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Weekend fishing report

STL Today

18 Jul 2014

Baldwin. Catfish fair to good using cutbait on the south end; largemouth bass fair using deep-water crankbaits on the south end; bluegill fair using meal worms and nightcrawlers; striped bass fair drifting shad; crappie fair using small white spinnerbaits. Busch Area. Lake 33. Water temperature is 81 degrees, normal and clear ... Lakes 3, 4, 5, 7 and 23. Water temperature is 80 degrees, normal and dingy ... Bull Shoals. East ... West ... Mark Twain ... ....(size: 10.3Kb)

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A Rare Opportunity (University of Dayton)

noodls

17 Jul 2014

Some of the rarest books in the world will be on display at the University of Dayton this fall, from authors like Austen, Chaucer, Copernicus, Marie Curie, Shakespeare and Mark Twain ... Rose began collecting in 1992 with a first-edition Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, followed shortly by books from Mark Twain and Charles Dickens and a Shakespeare First Folio....(size: 6.6Kb)

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Disneyland in Anaheim CA is 59 years young today

The Examiner

17 Jul 2014

It was a hot July day with temperatures soaring to over 100 degrees, when Disneyland opened on July 17 1955 ... Now there are two park attractions, Disneyland and the California Adventure Park, 62 attractions instead of the original 18, most of which are still part of the Park, some of which are - Mark Twain Riverboat, Mr Toad's Wild Ride, Snow White's Adventures, and Pirates of the Caribbean which opened in 1967....(size: 2.2Kb)

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'Top Chef' alum John Tesar bans critic from restaurants after three-star review

The Los Angeles Times

17 Jul 2014

What do you do when a critic doesn't give you the review you were hoping for? If you're "Top Chef" alum John Tesar, chef at two Dallas restaurants, you ban the critic, then go into battle mode on Twitter.  Related. Thats reality. Jacques Pepin gives Gordon Ramsay a whipping Russ Parsons ... ( Russ Parsons ) ... 8 ... "To paraphrase Mark Twain, I prefer not to battle with people who buy their ink by the gallon. But hear this ... 1 ... ....(size: 2.8Kb)

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Celebrate the unexpected at 16th annual Festival of Independent Theatres

The Dallas Morning News

17 Jul 2014

Take a look into the lives of three contemporary women in a coffee shop in Ben Schroth’s Our Breakfast from One Thirty Productions or spin back in time for Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam & Eve, adapted by Susan Sargeant for WingSpan Theatre Company. The shows, each less than 60 minutes long, are presented back to back, with one ticket for each two-play package ... Continues through Aug. 2 at Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E ... On Twitter....(size: 4.6Kb)

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GOP Hopefuls to Swarm Iowa; Obama Assures Hispanics; Disneyland Turns 59

Real Clear Politics

17 Jul 2014

Good morning. It’s Thursday, July 17, 2014, Disneyland’s 59th birthday. In celebration of this milestone, the “mayor” of Main Street will make remarks at the Town Square inside the theme park’s entrance, near the railway station ... Visitors will be asked to join in singing “Happy Birthday,” and I’m confident they’ll oblige ... * * *  ... Mark Twain’s steamboat nearly capsized....(size: 5.5Kb)

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Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte

Top Harry Belafonte, Mark Twain

Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats
They had men called gaugers
And the job of a gauger was to hang off
the side of the boat with one hand
And in the other hand he had a ball of twine
with a hunk a lead on the end of it
He’d wield the lead above his head
And let it fly into the river
Wherever the water marked the twine
He’d call up to the skipper and say
Marking on the twine is four fathoms
‘Cause then and there, year after year
It was getting pretty monotonous
Until in the 18 hundreds a little man
Came along and revolutionized the
Whole gauging industry
Instead of saying marking on the twine
He cut it short and said Mark twain
And in between each marking he’d
Fill it in with a little pattern about himself
And his every day life
Well if you’d been livin’ at that time
Coming up from a distance on the Mississippi
It would have sounded like this
Mark Twain four fathoms off the starboard bow
I got a gal named Cindy-Lou
Feeds me gin and bake beans too
Mark Twain, Mark Twain
Three fathoms off the starboard bow
I got a friend his name is Pete,
sings dirty songs down on Beel street
Mark Twain, Mark Twain
two fathoms off the starboard bow
I’ve been working the river since '92
I get a penny a day and bad liquor too
Mark Twain I won’t save my money
Till the day I die
They gonna bury me all but my good right eye
Mark twain, Mark Twain
No fathoms off the starboard bow
Look out skipper pull it to the side
You gonna bust your bow and split your hide
Oh great God we done run it down
Skipper gonna chase me with a big blood hound

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