The Mark Twain House and Museum

The Mark Twain House and Museum was the home of Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Langhorne Clemens) from 1874 to 1891 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Before 1874, Twain had lived in Hannibal, Missouri. The architectural style of the 19-room house is Victorian Gothic. The house is also notable for the major works written during his residency, includingThe Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, A Tramp Abroad, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Poor financial investments caused the Twain family to move to Europe in 1891.When they returned to Connecticut in 1900 he lived in a house built for him in Redding, Connecticut, named Stormfield, where he died on April 21, 1910. His home in Hartford functioned as a school, an apartment building, and a library. In 1962 the building was declared a National Historic Landmark. Since 1974 it has had a multi-million dollar renovation and an expansion dedicated to showcasing his life and work. The house is facing financial troubles stemming in part from an overestimation of the number of visitors it would receive yearly.

Mark Twain House Location(Map,Usa)

Location:	Hartford, Connecticut
Built:	1874
Architect:	Edward Tuckerman Potter
Architectural style:	Victorian Gothic
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	66000884
Significant dates
Added to NRHP:	October 15, 1966
Designated NHL:	December 29, 1962

Mark Twain House Interior

Mark Twain House Interior

 Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Hartford County, CT - Interior, first floor, library, east wall with fireplace and mantle, without scale.

 Mark Twain House --Billiard Room

The Billiards Room where Twain wrote his books.

Entrance hall and main staircase .

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Mark Twain National Forest

Mark Twain National Forest (MTNF) is a U.S. National Forest located in the southern half ofMissouri. MTNF was established on September 11, 1939. It is named for author Mark Twain, a Missouri native. The MTNF covers approximately 1.5 million acres (6,100 km²), 78,000 acres (320 km²) of which are Wilderness, and National Scenic River area. MTNF spans 29 counties and represents 11% of all forested land in Missouri. MTNF is divided into six distinct ranger districts: Ava-Cassville-Willow Springs, Eleven Point, Houston-Rolla-Cedar Creek, Poplar Bluff, Potosi-Fredericktown, and the Salem. The six ranger districts actually comprise nine overall unique tracts of forests. Its headquarters are in Rolla, Missouri.

Some unique features of the Mark Twain include Greer Spring, which is the largest spring on National Forest land, pumping an average of 214 million gallons of water per day.The public can also visit the Glade Top Trail National Scenic Byway, which offers views of over 30 miles (48 km) to the Boston Mountains in Arkansas.

History

In the 1870s, citizens of southern Missouri began an era of extensive logging of the state's native oak, hickory, and pine forests. Lumber mills were commonplace, but by the 1920s they had disappeared, along with much of the state's native forests. Thus, in 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the MTNF into existence. In March 1933, he also created the Emergency Conservation Work Act, better known as theCivilian Conservation Corps (CCC). In the area that would later become Mark Twain National Forest, hundreds of young men at over fifty CCC sites worked at building roads and planting hundreds of acres of pine to preserve and enhance the natural resources of southern Missouri. Many of their contributions can still be visited and enjoyed today.

Wilderness areas

• Bell Mountain Wilderness
• Devils Backbone Wilderness
• Hercules-Glades Wilderness
• Irish Wilderness
• Paddy Creek Wilderness
• Piney Creek Wilderness
• Rockpile Mountain Wilderness

Counties

Although it is far from being the largest National Forest in acreage, Mark Twain National Forest is located in more counties than any other. As of September 30, 2007, its 1,490,862 acres (2,329.47 sq mi, or 6,033.3 km²) were spread over parts of 29 counties in southern and central Missouri.

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Mark Twain Books Images and Details

Mark Twain Book

Mark Twain Books

Ghosts of the 20th Century Simon & Schuster, Winter 1999 ISBN 0-689-82118-2

1. Wilbur & Orville's flying machine, 17 Dec 1903 2. Theodore Roosevelt (and a Teddy Bear) 3. Long Fight to win Women's Suffrage, 19 Aug 1920: finally! 4. The Great Ship Titanic Goes Down, 15 April 1912 5. Henry Ford's Model T 6. American "doughboy" off to the Great War (WWI) Midnight in the Cemetery (illustrated by Robin Brickman) Simon & Schuster, Fall 1999 ISBN 0-689-80873-9 It's midnight in the cemetery. That's the time and place most scary. When graveyard cats are stealthy, stalking. So why are children out there walking, clutching candles, barely talking? A for Angels. B for Bones. C for Cemetery. D for Death. E for Epitaph. F for Funeral. G for Ghosts. H for Haunting...What could be funner? An alphabet book. Kids looking for buried treasure in the wrongest place. A search & find book. Get the picture? (Ms. Brickman did - the pictures, that is, I was consumed with illustrating that rambunctious Teddy Roosevelt.) Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi Simon & Schuster, Fall 1998 (notable book:social studies-cbc) ISBN 0-689-81542-5. Sam supposed that all a pilot had to do was to keep his boat in the wide river. How hard could that be? But he soon found out that beneath the shimmery top of the river lurked all kinds of dangers waiting to bash a boat's brains out: sandbars, dead trees, rocks, and boat wrecks. A pilot had to "read" the face of the water: how it looked told what it was hiding. He had to know the changing shape of the troublesome river upstream and down, every bend, every plantation, town and island by heart so he could steer in inky dark or moonlight and not bump the boat into the bank or the bottom. What fun this book was to study for, to write, to paint - especially the painting part. But how do I balance two books in one? That was the interesting, fun puzzle-question of this book. It's a biography of the complicated, funny-sad man who grew up by the Mississippi River, became a steamboat pilot, and ended up writing Tom Sawyer and the (totally brilliant) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It's a story of the glory days of the steamboats, the big, dangerous wedding-cake like boats that queened over the mighty river. It's both.

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Mark Twain’s 176th Birthday by Google Doodle

Today Google celebrated Mark Twain’s 176th Birthday With a cool Google Doodle in it’s homepage.Mark twain was an American author and humorist.

Google celebrates special days and occasions with a customized homepage dedicated to that person/event. Just some days back on November 18th Google celebrated Louis Daguerre’s 224th birthday Google Doodle and on 14th November Google Celebrated Children’s day India.

Mark Twain Google Doodle

The special thing about this Mark Twain’s 176th Birthday Google Doodle is This was full screen.Google generally shows doodle in replace to it’s logo, But this Google doodle is really awesome.

Here is the Screenshot of Mark Twain Google Doodle home screen:

Mark Twain’s 176th Birthday by Google Doodle

In This Doodle We can see 6 people are painting Google Logo on a wall. IF you closely notice then There only 3 of them doing the job, and rest 3 are acting as boss. One of them are tired of whole day work and can’t paint any more. But one of the rich(lord) boy is telling him you have to do it!!!

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Mark Twain Brainy Quotes

Mark Twain Photo

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. 

Mark Twain 

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. 

Mark Twain 

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

Mark Twain 

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. 

Mark Twain 

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. 

Mark Twain 

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. 

Mark Twain 

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. 

Mark Twain 

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. 

Mark Twain 

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. 

Mark Twain 

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. 

Mark Twain 

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. 

Mark Twain 

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. 

Mark Twain 

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. 

Mark Twain 

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. 

Mark Twain 

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. 

Mark Twain 

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. 

Mark Twain 

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. 

Mark Twain 

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. 

Mark Twain 

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. 

Mark Twain 

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. 

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain Quotes

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Mark Twain

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Mark Twain

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Mark Twain

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Mark Twain

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Mark Twain

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Mark Twain

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Mark Twain

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Mark Twain

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

Mark Twain

Better a broken promise than none at all. 

Mark Twain 

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. 

Mark Twain 

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. 

Mark Twain 

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

Mark Twain 

Buy land, they're not making it anymore. 

Mark Twain 

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. 

Mark Twain 

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. 

Mark Twain 

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. 

Mark Twain 

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. 

Mark Twain 

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. 

Mark Twain 

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