• Like the monarch in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Lafley often makes house calls incognito to find out what's on the minds of his subjects.

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  • Kensal Rise Library, in north-west London, was opened by American author Mark Twain in 1900 on land donated by All Souls College.

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  • In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Connecticut.

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  • Far from the oil patch, Kinder grew up in the land of Mark Twain, paper route and all.

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  • Winters, who was widely admired by comedians in general, was awarded the Mark Twain Prize -- which goes to outstanding humorists -- in 1999.

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  • He also won the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for humour in 1999, a year after Richard Pryor.

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  • He also won the Kennedy Center's second Mark Twain Prize for Humor in 1999, a year after Richard Pryor.

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  • Here is Mark Twain on the Pony Express in 1861 writing in a style that the New Yorker made its own 100 years later, all the way down to using words for numbers.

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  • The Mark Twain Prize honors people who have an impact on society in the tradition of Samuel Clemens, better known as Twain, as a social commentator and satirist.

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  • Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" in 1889 cleverly explains his hero's Camelot journey as a hazy dream.

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  • So for every Picasso, there's a Cezanne, who if you go to Le Musee d'Orsay and you look at all of his greatest works, they're all painted in his 50s and 60s, or for every Melville who writes Moby Dick at 28 or 29, there is a Mark Twain who writes 'Huckleberry Finn' in his late 40s or early 50s.

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  • When Mark Twain was editor of the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, he was known for having wild stories.

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  • After his two losers, Jack (Peter Beard) and Leo (Martin Greenbaum), spend seven years courting the same woman, Vera (each has his own version of her, played by different actresses), she runs off with a third man, and her jilted suitors head for the wilderness in raucous despair to live out a survivalist fantasy that joins Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway to Charlie Chaplin, W. C.

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  • The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Burnett will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Oct. 20 in Washington.

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  • Mark Twain, when he was editor of the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Nevada, was known for his outlandish stories.

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  • Mark Twain, our first post-modernist, even took the time to satirize the experience in Innocents Abroad.

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  • Mark Twain famously described golf as a good walk, spoiled, but if you find no other enjoyment in a round, it can provide a lovely 4-mile walk (more if you spray the ball).

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