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Stormfield. Stormfield was the mansion built in Redding, Connecticut for author Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain, who lived there from 1908 until his death in 1910. He derived the property's name from the short story "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven". The building was destroyed in a 1923 fire.
Letters from the Earth. Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) collated by Bernard DeVoto. [ 1] It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life (1904–1909), when he was deeply in debt and had recently lost his wife and one of his daughters. [ 2]
Mark Twain National Forest ( MTNF) is a U.S. National Forest located in the southern half of Missouri, composed of nine disconnected parcels. MTNF was established on September 11, 1939. It is named for author Mark Twain, a Missouri native. The MTNF covers 3,068,800 acres (12,419 km 2) of which 1,506,100 acres (6,095 km 2) is public owned ...
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Dado Ruvic / reuters. More than a million Illinois residents will receive a $397 settlement payment from Facebook this week, thanks to a legal battle over the platform’s since-retired photo ...
e. Chicago Public Schools ( CPS ), officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, [ 5] in Chicago, Illinois, is the fourth-largest [ 6] school district in the United States, after New York, Los Angeles, and Miami-Dade County. For the 2020–21 school year, CPS reported overseeing 638 schools ...
First edition (published by Charles Henry Webb) " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. [ 1] The story has also been published as " Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog " (its original title) and " The Notorious Jumping ...
630. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first published in 1873. It satirizes greed and political corruption in post- Civil War America. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication. Twain and Warner originally had planned ...