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[201] 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:
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 ...
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: St. Petersburg is Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's hometown in Missouri. It is a fictional town, but it is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain lived. Styles St. Mary, Essex Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Sandbourne, Upper Wessex Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy's Wessex
Mark Twain — The Mysterious Stranger Jules Verne — The Lighthouse at the End of the World , The Golden Volcano , The Thompson Travel Agency , The Chase of the Golden Meteor , The Danube Pilot , The Survivors of the "Jonathan" , The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz , " The Eternal Adam ", The Barsac Mission , Paris in the Twentieth Century ...
"The name is derived from Godzillius, the largest known remipede and the New Latin word "gnomus", meaning a diminutive fabled being". [268] Pleomothra Yager, 1989: Crustacean: Mothra "In keeping with the spirit of the first described godzilliid, the name is derived from the Japanese horror creature Mothra" and the Greek word "pleo", meaning ...
Generally when Satan is depicted in these works, he is represented as a red-skinned man with horns or pointed ears on his head, hooves or bird-legs, a forked tail or one with a stinger, and a pitchfork. When trying to blend in or deceive somebody, often he is represented as a plain human being, and, in some instances, only his voice is heard.
Christian Science (1907), published by Harper & Brothers. Christian Science is a 1907 book by the American writer Mark Twain (1835–1910). The book is a collection of essays Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899.
Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) collated by Bernard DeVoto. [2] [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. [3]