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    "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently...
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    Dead?" (1893) "The Esquimau Maiden's Romance" (1893) "The Million Pound Bank Note" (1893):β€Š226–238β€Š "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1900) "A Double...
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  • the American military," Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), March 17, 2008., from Internet Archive Twain, Mark (2004). The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg...
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  • reprinted in 1892 in the anthology Merry Tales; the first British publication was in 1900, in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. It is one of...
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  • In the video games Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2, a character known as "The Strange Man" possesses several similarities to the Mysterious...
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    for Colgate toothpaste that aired in the 1970s. Sternhagen won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1974 for the original Broadway production...
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    man. Theodor Leschetizky was training Gabrilowitsch in Vienna in 1899, and he introduced him to Clemens. They were married on October 6, 1909, in the...
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    tells Huck that Pap was the dead man in the floating house. Huck declares he will flee to Indian Territory to escape being adopted by the Phelpses. In...
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  • episodes between 1979 and 1982) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980) - Edward Richards Nurse (1980) - Kelly O'Brien The Gentleman Bandit (1981) - Monsignor...
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  • Clemens), The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Charles Dickens, "A Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick" from The Pickwick...
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  • overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. The problem with the linguistic gender is that it appears to make...
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    pay their bills. The theme of the novel is that the lust for getting rich through land speculation pervades society, illustrated by the Hawkinses as well...
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    poverty and the white man's whiskey"; his conclusion is that "there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less...
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  • Mark The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The man that corrupted Hadleyburg, and other essays and stories, p. 45, Harper, 1900 Williams, Tennessee. "The Glass...
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  • King Leopold's Soliloquy (category Opposition to atrocities in the Congo Free State)
    "every pore", that he had only wanted to convert the people to Christianity, that he had wanted to stop the slave trade. Leopold II says that he did not...
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  • The balloon takes off and the stowaways are soon discovered, but they are surprised to learn that Twain already knows their names. Upon seeing the frog...
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  • nations by their conquerors. The story ends with the man being condemned as a lunatic, "for there was no sense in what he said". "The War Prayer" was written...
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    the book version, Twain changed Greeley back to Smiley. The narrator is sent by a friend to interview an old man, Simon Wheeler, who might know the location...
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    as saying, "I do believe that young filly has broken my heart. That only leaves me with one option, for her to mend it." The engagement was announced...
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    Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (category 1998 establishments in the United States)
    Mark Twain Prize for American Humor". The New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2024. McGarr, Cappy (2021). The Man Who Made Mark Twain Famous. Simon and...
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    Stormfield (category Villas in the United States)
    began in 1907; the project was nearly abandoned later that year due to cost and Twain's misgivings about Redding's relative isolation, but the younger Howells...
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    Tom Sawyer Abroad (category Articles that link to Wikisource)
    some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the story is...
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    home late on a Friday evening and discovers that he has been in a fight, she makes him whitewash her fence the next day as punishment. Tom persuades several...
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    Jean Clemens (category Deaths by drowning in the United States)
    Impromptu No. 2 in A-flat major by Schubert. That night he wrote the final entry in his Autobiography, titling it "The Death of Jean." Twain died four months...
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    Tom Sawyer, Detective (category Articles that link to Wikisource)
    claimed, in an article in the magazine Maaneds, that the plot of the book had been plagiarized from Steen Blicher's story The Vicar of Weilby. Blicher's...
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    experience went, the wise, the good, and the holy were unanimous in the belief that slavery was right, righteous, sacred, the peculiar pet of the Deity, and...
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  • of nearly $300 due him on its enlarged terms."; Moses Pendergrass - ancestry.co.uk[unreliable source?] Article text The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg...
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    funny man. She was embarrassed when Twain performed the ghost story The Golden Arm for an audience at Bryn Mawr. She had begged him not to tell the story...
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    blesseth him that gives and him that takes: / 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes / The throned monarch better than his crown"β€”is part of "The quality...
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  • February 1899 poem The White Man's Burden. The title was "a play upon the idea of western civilization being 'enlightened'". Kipling had used the image when he...
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