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  2. Tom Sawyer Island - Wikipedia

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    Tom Sawyer Island is an artificial island surrounded by the Rivers of America at Disneyland, Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland.It contains structures and caves with references to Mark Twain characters from the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and provides interactive, climbing, and scenic opportunities.

  3. Sailing Ship Columbia - Wikipedia

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    Passengers wait for the 110-foot-long (34 m) ship, which departs every 25 minutes, inside a sheltered area called Frontier Landing, located in Frontierland. The waiting area for the 84-foot-tall (26 m) Columbia is shared with the Mark Twain Riverboat. Historic United States flags are displayed at the attraction's entrance.

  4. Stormfield - Wikipedia

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    Residents of Redding met Twain and Paine and Paine's daughter Louise at the West Redding train station on June 18, 1908, and accompanied them to the new house. [1] It was the first time that Twain had seen the house in person. [4] Dan Beard was a nearby Redding resident whose illustrations appeared in several Mark Twain books. He helped set off ...

  5. Angels Hotel - Wikipedia

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    The Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, was the hotel where the author Mark Twain heard a story that he would later turn into his short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". [2] The hotel was originally a canvas tent erected by C. C. Lake in 1851, and replaced by a one-story wooden structure. It was rebuilt with stone in ...

  6. Mark Twain - Wikipedia

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    [200] The riverboatman's cry was "mark twain" or, more fully, "by the mark twain", meaning "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]"; that is, "The water is 12 feet (3.7 m) deep and it is safe to pass." Twain said that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In Life on the Mississippi, Twain wrote:

  7. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - Wikipedia

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    The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his decades long cosmic journey to Heaven; his accidental misplacement after racing a comet; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp (generated by his preconceptions of heaven); and the general obsession of souls with the celebrities of Heaven such as Adam, Moses, and Elijah, who according to Twain become as distant to most people ...

  8. A Tramp Abroad - Wikipedia

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    A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880.The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe.

  9. Maryland Hotel - Wikipedia

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    The Maryland Hotel, now known as the Mark Twain Hotel, is a historic hotel in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The hotel was built in 1907 and designed by St. Louis architect Albert B. Groves . The Classical Revival building uses terra cotta decorations extensively; in particular, the second story is covered entirely in terra cotta, and other ...

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