My first gimme was SHANIA Twain, because the entry is six letters, so a "Twain of note" can't be Mark, and SHANIA is the only other noted Twain I know.
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Wanna see a WWE superstar steal the spotlight from Shania Twain ... at a Shania Twain concert!?!?!
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Kilmer, however, continues making promotional plans for his movie "Cinema Twain," a filmed version of his one-man play about Mark Twain.
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Mr. Bird stumbled on the manuscript in 2011, when he was searching the Twain archives for food references, for a Mark Twain cookbook.
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Almost Missing His Mark Twain Award to Watch the Cubs Murray was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in D.C. on Sunday.
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Michael Bublé & Shania Twain "White Christmas" Bublé for the holidays is a no-brainer, but Bublé with a side of Shania Twain is a treat.
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Asked if he knew about the Twain-Stars musical romance and if he was able to counter it, he instead responded that he was also inspired by Twain.
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While Mr. Chernow attributed the remark to Mark Twain, there is no evidence that Twain ever said, "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
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Pop stars aren't as grand scaled; country music now takes as givens many of the risks Ms. Twain innovated; and Ms. Twain divorced Mr. Lange following an outlandish tabloid scandal.
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But it was in order to meet Twain—Mark Twain—that Kipling said he made his first trip to the United States, from India, at the age of 23 in 19003.
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The comedic actor received the Mark Twain Prize during a star-studded event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. "The Mark Twain Prize recognizes people who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist best known as Mark Twain," the center's site says.
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And this joke seems more Tom Green than Mark Twain.
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Four presidents visited the resort; Mark Twain even stopped by.
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We saw Shania Twain buy a new rug from Target.
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The Mark Twain House and Museum, 351 Farmington Avenue. marktwainhouse.
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John Travolta is sharing a candlelight dinner with Shania Twain.
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"I was very clever in this one moment," Twain said.
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The Mark Twain House and Museum, 73 Farmington Avenue. marktwainhouse.
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My mom always liked playing Shania Twain in the car.
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Footsteps Heidelberg's only Mark Twain impersonator takes his work seriously.
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Just Post Malone vibing to Shania Twain at The #AMAs.
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Twain was covering the Palestine beat 150 years before me.
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And Mark Twain, because he needs to hear some rap.
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But Twain was certainly not alone in presenting this image.
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Twain had passed through here 20 days before Darío's birth.
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Its last appearance came 17 years ago with Shania Twain.
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Finally, a rediscovered Mark Twain fairy tale is coming soon.
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"It was impossible to save the Great Republic," Twain lamented.
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"Of course, it could have been any gorgeous guy," Twain conceded.
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"I was really surprised by some of the performances," Twain teases.
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Bonus: We're not the only ones ready for a Twain comeback.
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Twain recalls the nude photo scandal in an interview with Billboard.
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"Megyn Kelly makes a really good Shania Twain," one even tweeted.
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Ms Manigault Newman has more access but is no Mark Twain.
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And for country superstar Twain, 53, this marks her acting debut.
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"I am running in the persona of Mark Twain," says Hertzler.
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"Man is the only animal that blushes," Twain wrote in 1897.
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Twain said she has worked hard to overcome the vocal damage.
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He and Oscar Wilde — but Twain is No. 1 to me.
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If you're (literally) Brad Pitt, you won't impress Shania Twain much.
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" And his fourth grade teacher introduced him to Mark Twain. "Mrs.
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Three clear favorites: Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain and Jane Austen.
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Sometimes, when it serves his purposes, Twain describes a fertile landscape.
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Theodore Roosevelt lived there for a while, as did Mark Twain.
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" Also, I laughed out loud at 9D's "Twain who sang 'Man!
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Editorial "Man is the only animal that blushes," Mark Twain said.
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And Twain, asinine or not, has everything to do with it.
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Shania Twain sure knows how to put on an incredible show!
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But Frédéric Thiébaud found out about the affair and told Twain.
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Twain, of course, was an incessant smoker of cigars and pipes.
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What did Mark Twain want with all those barely adolescent girls?
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Mark Twain once said humor is equal to tragedy plus time.
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Shania Twain - Now It's been 15 years since her full length album, Up, and Shania Twain is using her upcoming LP to show people an honest reflection of where she is at this point in her life.
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Dickens destroyed almost all of the letters he received from readers, but Mark Twain didn't, and in Dear Mark Twain: Letters From His Readers, you'll see the baffling goulash of mail people felt compelled to send him.
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Twain, 52, will also perform her new song "Soldier" on the show.
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Twain looks at the stunning outfit, and she remembers something else: pain.
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Shania Twain is pulling back the curtain on her acclaimed Now Tour.
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Mark Twain precisely pegged his death to the return of Halley's Comet.
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Twain assumed command on the record, something that she is proud of.
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While Twain completed her look with a hooded leopard-print coat, E!
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Twain did not show up on Saturday, and maybe she should have.
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After all her fretting over the Twain Prize, Louis-Dreyfus was pleased.
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Shania Twain slept in a homeless shelter with her mother and siblings
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Before going on to win five Grammy awards, Shania Twain was homeless.
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Teddy Roosevelt and Mark Twain rented the Wave Hill estate in Riverdale.
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On Sunday she was awarded the Mark Twain Prize, comedy's highest honor.
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He is a postmodern Mark Twain: grumpy and sentimental, antic and religious.
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We had H.L. Mencken in the newspapers and Mark Twain in books.
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Liberals are more urban, conservatives less so, and the twain seldom meet.
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If Mark Twain had stayed with it, he would be alive today.
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At the time, Twain and Lange had been married for 14 years.
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Mark Twain Riverboat was once considered to be a top-tier attraction.
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Most of these black-white-friendship adventures were foretold by Mark Twain.
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In May, as part of the show, he organized a dinner at the Mark Twain House & Museum, the author's carefully restored home in Hartford, where Twain lived with his wife, Olivia Clemens, after they were married in 1870.
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Although Twain depicted Jim as a true human being, giving this book its "anti-slavery" reputation, subtleties in Huck's and Jim's attitudes make me wonder if Twain "entertained notions of imbalance" even though he didn't openly show it.
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Reports of humanity's imminent extinction have been greatly exaggerated, to paraphrase Mark Twain.
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Twain is one of the best-selling female country artists of all time.
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Also, someone give Brianna Keilar a Mark Twain award for outstanding deadpan humor.
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Gravitational-wave detectors work (see diagram) by splitting a laser beam in twain.
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Mark Twain once observed that the report of his death was an exaggeration.
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Mark Twain had it right: There's no such thing as a new idea.
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Instead, he's calling out an entirely different kind of superstar: singer Shania Twain.
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The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor has been awarded annually since 1998.
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One of the party guests had Minaj gushing more than the others: Twain.
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The pretaped special, David Letterman: The Mark Twain Prize, will air Monday night.
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She also sang along to every Shania Twain song on her karaoke machine.
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Shania Twain produced one of the best-selling country albums of all time.
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Serving carnivores since 1447, including Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, and Mark Twain, too.
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The secret source of humor is not joy, Mark Twain said, but sorrow.
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The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor will be awarded on Oct. 21.
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The press release compares your songwriting and satire with authors like Mark Twain.
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The 2019 American Music Awards ended with a powerful performance from Shania Twain.
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Even if I hadn't grown up in Missouri, I'd still pick Mark Twain.
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Each episode of the series focuses on a different ingredient that Twain loved.
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But much like Mark Twain, the rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated.
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He's said he considers Shania Twain to be one of his biggest influences.
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And yet, after all this time, the twain have met — with sexy results.
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He was the voice of Mark Twain in a 2001 Ken Burns documentary.
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So I'm particularly gratified that the trenchant quote from Mark Twain is present.
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Twain and Thiébaud eventually became a couple and got engaged, marrying in 2011.
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Some observers (Mark Twain, for one) had early doubts about Arthur's political potential.
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" The book is pure Dada, and as Twain writes, "its immortality is secure.
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He was unwavering, however, in his admiration of American writers, Mark Twain especially.
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Mark Twain, purchased, we do know that he paid his bills on time.
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But East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
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It's not clear whether the famously skeptical Twain bought into the lithium-water pitch.
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Shania Twain was Shania Twin, and there was an Eagles tribute called Hotel California.
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This is the second time the Twain has had a concert residency in Vegas.
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Today, Google said it is experimenting with several ways that the twain shall meet.
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I've got your Beyoncé, your Nina Simone, your Nicki Minaj, and your Shania Twain.
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According to his website, Kilmer will continue to tour with Citizen Twain through June.
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Guest judges on the show have included Shania Twain, John Waters and Lady Gaga.
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As Mark Twain once said, Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.
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Country music legend Shania Twain has apologized for saying she would've voted for Trump.
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Shania Twain is an inspiration to us all, including none other than Harry Styles.
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OH, EAST is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
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WATCHING BBC and History Channel biographies — Hemingway, Hitler, Twain and, most recently, Ben Franklin.
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"I was in Rome with my husband and the room was [tiny]," Twain said.
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MARK TWAIN once said that "facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable".
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Each day, it seems, a new person is deleted: Tim Allen, Roseanne, Shania Twain.
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"It all started right here, Mark Twain," says Williams as she approaches the school.
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Twain answers thoughtfully, yet with complete honesty that doesn't trip over her enormous success.
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The likes of RuPaul, Steve Buscemi, and Shania Twain will make Season 4 appearances.
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TV not dead Like Mark Twain, reports of TV's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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He has since resumed his Citizen Twain tour, though he still has difficulty speaking.
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Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, and even Buffalo Bill were all guests in the past.
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Zum Roten Ochsen This 300-year-old German pub displays a photo of Twain.
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TENAFLY Video and lecture on American humorists, including Mark Twain and Gilda Radner. Aug.
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Shania Twain is the greatest pop star we've ever had gifted to us plebians.
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They move in clearly well defined channels so that never the twain shall meet.
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Bill Murray accepts the Mark Twain Prize with a little help from his friends.
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Sometimes Twain does criticize the prophecies of the fall of cities in his book.
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"You know what Mark Twain says: 'Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand."'
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"The foods Twain loved, we took for granted as American classics," Mr. Beahrs said.
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And as Twain himself reported, the meals were indeed curious and the prescriptions harebrained.
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A letter from Mark Twain should be kept in a protective sheath somewhere dark.
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Shania Twain wore a semi-sheer dress with long sleeves and a full skirt.
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But the biggest award of all had to be getting hugged by Shania Twain.
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" (Yes.) "Mark Twain: 'Every man's life is a comedy, a tragedy, and a drama.
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To borrow from Mark Twain, the reports of Sandy's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Twain condemned all efforts by Western nations to carve up the non-Western world.
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The artist's frizzy gray hair and bushy mustache give him a Mark Twain air.
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He also earned four Oscar nominations, a Pulitzer Prize and the Mark Twain Prize.
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Mark Twain, visiting as a newspaper reporter in 1866, marveled at Hawaii's sugar trade.
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THE PURLOINING OF PRINCE OLEOMARGARINE By Mark Twain, with Philip Stead and Erin Stead.
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But while I'm pregnant, I've set it to "split Robin's arrow in twain" mode.
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I have a complete collection of his writing, along with Ron Powers's spectacular biography "Mark Twain: A Life," not to mention Oscar Hijuelos's final novel, "Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise," which explores Mark Twain's relationship with the famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley.
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Shania Twain revealed why after so nearly two decades Brad Pitt doesn't impress her much.
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"For me, just on the entertainment value, it was sass, humor and class," said Twain.
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In other cities, there's the underworld and an establishment and never the twain shall meet.
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After "The Prince and the Pauper," there was a lot more Mark Twain to like.
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"Every shred of my dignity is gone," said Megyn Kelly regarding her Shania Twain costume.
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Shania Twain knows how to make an entrance, even during the most inclement performance conditions.
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"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths," wrote Mark Twain.
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"History never repeats itself but it rhymes," is an observation sometimes attributed to Mark Twain.
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But Filler was 70 miles away visiting the Mark Twain House in neighboring Hartford, Connecticut.
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, could the history of early internet advertising be rhyming in 21?
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Mark Twain is supposed to have said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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The Grand Hotel has hosted notable visitors including Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, and Vladimir Putin.
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Writing "A Tramp Abroad" would frustrate Twain immensely: His writer's block had not yet lifted.
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By the time she moved next to Twain, three of her seven children had died.
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History, Mark Twain is supposed to have said, doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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" Twain tweeted back in kind, cribbing 1995's "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
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There are quotes about truth and justice from George Orwell, Reinhold Niebuhr and Mark Twain.
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The Mississippi River has been a muse for writers like Mark Twain and William Faulkner.
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And yet, Twain played a major role in popularizing the image of desolate, empty Palestine.
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We have our megastars like Celine Dion, Shania Twain, and more peppered throughout the 90s.
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THE WITTina Fey was the youngest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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That included the producer Norman Twain, who originally spearheaded the adaptation but died in 0003.
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It's got great characters: Mark Twain, Wild Bill Hickok and, of course, Buffalo Bill Cody.
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Scholars believe it may be the only written remnant of a children's story from Twain.
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I'm not arguing for rewriting Twain or for consigning "Big River" to the scrap heap.
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Those who oppose the president make very different choices, and never the twain shall meet.
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While Twain was visiting London once, someone started a rumor that he was gravely ill.
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His name, she said, much resembled the one Mark Twain was born with, Samuel Clemens.
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To borrow from Mark Twain, reports of the death of Social Security are greatly exaggerated.
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Mac Donnell, along with another Twain scholar, Alan Gribben, studied the signature and authenticated it.
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, the report of the death of moderate voters is an exaggeration.
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"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain Some wish to believe that Mr. Twain knew exactly what he was doing - that after hundreds of pages of deliberate moral ambiguity, he made the subversive decision not to end with Huck's awakening to escaped slave Jim's humanity.
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Not long afterward, Twain completely lost her voice, which she says was due to Lyme disease.
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"I'm just so ready," Twain says when EW reaches her on the eve of Now's release.
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"I'm very excited to get the tour on the road," Twain, 52, says in the clip.
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The best twist, though, was that Twain herself showed up to greet Kelly on the show.
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But to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of itchy pubes have been greatly exaggerated.
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From Graceland to the home of Mark Twain, old storied mansions are often transformed into museums.
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"I'm keeping you forever and for always," Gates captioned the snaps, quoting the Shania Twain song.
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The city Mark Twain called home once rivaled New York on the population and culture fronts.
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Last season, Luke Bryan, Céline Dion, DJ Khaled, John Legend and Shania Twain served as advisors.
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The Kennedy Center will present the 22017 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to David Letterman.
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" Continued Twain to The Guardian, "I would have voted for a feeling that it was transparent.
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Twain, 20153, is a five-time GRAMMY and has sold more than 22015 million albums worldwide.
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Don't Dismiss Developers Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Twain made the comments in an interview with The Guardian that was published over the weekend.
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Shania Twain is looking back on a challenging time in her life with an optimistic mindset.
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The Library of America usually restricts itself to Melville, Twain, Hawthorne and the other distinguished dead.
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There were fake Mark Twain quotations that gained distribution even in his lifetime and continued onward.
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" The clue should have read "Upstate New York city where Mark Twain was buried" — not "born.
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As Mark Twain is supposed to have observed, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
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But the twain do meet at the island's golf courses, tennis courts, sailing school and beaches.
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" Twain, in "Letters From the Earth," wrote that the Bible contained "upwards of a thousand lies.
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After all, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg famously harbored hideously disorganized workplaces.
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And to lighten the evening, Peter De Vries, the only American novelist wittier than Mark Twain.
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That we'd all fallen into echo chambers, right and left, and nevermore the twain would meet.
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Ms. Twain is set to release "Now," her first album in 15 years, on Sept. 29.
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Twain wanted Early Rose potatoes, a Vermont-bred heirloom, roasted in the ashes of a fire.
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When someone tells you they read Socrates or Shakespeare or Twain, you don't question their authenticity.
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Stevens died a couple of months later, "the bravest old ironclad in the Capitol," Twain wrote.
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Despite health troubles and anxiety about his finances, Twain had a fervent curiosity that never faltered.
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Peart was also Rush's primary lyricist, drawing inspiration from sources like Ayn Rand and Mark Twain.
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A dictionary owned by Mark Twain still had a distinct aroma of tobacco in its pages.
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When she came across the Twain manuscript, with his signature, she thought she had struck gold.
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As Shania Twain said, dance with the one that brought you and you can't go wrong.
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Advertisers popularized the slogan in the early 1900s, according to the Center for Mark Twain Studies.
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The Mark Twain Prize "recognizes individuals who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th-century novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain," the Kennedy Center said in a news release announcing Letterman as its 2017 honoree.
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Everyone you can think of: Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Rebecca Harding Davis, Emily Dickinson—you name it.
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Look out, Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut — there's a new generation of writers revolutionizing the book world.
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"His writing is like music — so conversational and seamlessly constructed," he told the magazine about playing Twain.
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Past winners include the likes of Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, The Dixie Chicks, Carrie Underwood.
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When Mattice's best friend contacted Twain to ask for her help, the singer posted the following tweets.
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" Twain linked to a YouTube video of their performance on Twitter, writing, "An unbelievable woman and voice.
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" Now, using her voice requires lengthy warmups and physical therapy that Twain described as "very, very difficult.
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"I think both music and fashion, [my] main influence was probably Shania Twain," he told Entertainment Tonight.
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Twain created a bridge between pop and country—genres that were, at the time, seemingly worlds apart.
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"IF VOTING made any difference they wouldn't let us do it," quipped Mark Twain, an American writer.
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But like the rumors about Twain, could the words of Macron eventually turn out to be true?
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Al Franken, bandleader of Letterman's former show Paul Schaffer and last year's Twain Prize honoree, Bill Murray.
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" Mark Twain felt the same way: "The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
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Previous recipients of the Mark Twain Prize include David Letterman, Eddie Murphy, Carol Burnett and Tina Fey.
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An archetype, as Mark Twain might have observed, is nothing but a stereotype with a college education.
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Charles M. Blow Reports of Donald Trump's demise are an exaggeration, to paraphrase and repurpose Mark Twain.
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In the afternoon, Twain and his family would gather in the castle park for beer and music.
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Twain never fully recovered from his guilt that he had abandoned her at the brink of poverty.
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"History doesn't repeat, it rhymes," Robb said in an interview, echoing an adage attributed to Mark Twain.
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Fun fact, he'd later produce an album by his then wife Shania Twain in Come on Over.
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The "classic humorists" that I learned the most from were probably Mark Twain and Hans Christian Andersen.
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By standing apart, Ms. Twain may well fit in, though the path hasn't been clear thus far.
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"It's a lot of Shania Twain … We just eat gummy bears and Cheetos, and play beer pong."
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As Twain describes in his journals, his daughters constantly demanded he make up stories on the spot.
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In other scenes, she pays homage to female artists like Carrie Underwood, Shania Twain, and Lady Gaga.
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THE TRUE FLAG Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire By Stephen Kinzer Illustrated.
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He also earned four Oscar nominations, a Pulitzer Prize, the Mark Twain Prize and countless other honors.
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Mildly superstitious Mark Twain was allegedly once invited to be the 13th guest at a dinner party.
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She looked up inspirational quotes from people like Groucho Marx, Mark Twain, Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein.
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The honorees also include Shania Twain, Kesha, Halsey, Andra Day, Meghan Trainor, Maren Morris and Alessia Cara.
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It has been said that you can draw a direct line from Mark Twain to Russell Baker.
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And at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, the town where Porter's career reached its peak, a still life acquired by the museum in 2001 hangs in the same dining room spot where Twain and his wife once hung another Porter painting (its current whereabouts are unknown).
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"I discovered things in my voice that I didn't know were there," Twain has said of recording Now.
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Shania Twain is setting her piss record straight ... telling us she only sprung a leak once mid-concert.
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A Shania Twain fan in upstate New York is in hot water after orchestrating an elaborate kidnapping hoax.
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The controversial comedian will get the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in a ceremony at 8 p.m.
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It's a more convenient definition of patriotism than how Twain defined it — and Trump enthusiastically tweeted years ago.
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My dad would listen to African music and Pavarotti, and mum would play Celine Dion and Shania Twain.
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Raven posted their engagement photos on Instagram with Shania Twain "Forever and For Always" lyrics as a caption.
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To put it into perspective, 20 years later, Twain is still an essential part of pop culture canon.
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Twain recalled thinking, "We see people naked every day" and wondered why it was such a big deal.
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Twain shared the exciting news on Monday, revealing that her second go-round will be called Let's Go!
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Twain is also filming a race car movie with John Travolta that is due for release in 2018.
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Shania Twain managed to pull off head-to-toe leopard print in "That Don't Impress Me Much" (1998).
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Later, in his travel book Roughin' It, Twain recounted his experience seeing the flies for the first time.
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It was the Kennedy Center Honors in 2014, not the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last year.
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I figured since Mr. Twain had abandoned his birthright to Samuel Clemens, I might as well borrow it.
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He was also awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last year, a prestigious honor in comedy.
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THE PURLOINING OF PRINCE OLEOMARGARINE By Mark Twain and Philip Stead Illustrated by Erin Stead152 pp. Doubleday. $24.99.
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The definition of American food, since Twain outlined it, has broadened, while the country's wild ingredients have dwindled.
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Like Twain, he writes about frogs, although it's fair to say his publications don't get as many chuckles.
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In elementary school, she read Dickinson and Mark Twain, and began to think of herself as a writer.
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Now, more than a century after Twain dreamed it up, "Oleomargarine" has taken on a strange new afterlife.
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Taylor Swift and Shania Twain will be hitting the stage as well, performing medleys of their greatest hits.
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As a five time Grammy-winner, it's no surprise that Twain still knows how to rock the house.
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From there, she explored backward through albums by Ms. Swift, Ms. Twain, the Dixie Chicks and Dolly Parton.
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A few find subjects and muses in surprising settings, like Rimbaud in Ethiopia or Mark Twain in Hawaii.
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Mark Twain tried a couple three times to blow fresh life into his, and America's, greatest literary creation.
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" Pill sings karaoke at least once a month, inclining toward Shania Twain, Alanis Morissette, "and other angry Canadians.
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" Twain uses "nation" as a euphemism for "damnation," as when Jim says that someone smells like "de nation.
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Fred Kaplan is the author of biographies of Lincoln, Dickens, Henry James, Thomas Carlyle, Gore Vidal, & Mark Twain.
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From Mark Twain to the Great Blizzard of 1888, above, here's a look at a few colorful episodes.
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Stylistically, the "Observer" examined the American scene with plain phrases that echoed Twain as they skewered the pompous.
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Humor is really important to me, especially at dinner, so I would invite Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde.
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Posters for Hal Holbrook's "Mark Twain Tonight!" were proudly displayed at every single whistle-stop along the way.
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Many of them showed Twain trying to de-emphasize literary aspects of the book, such as his use of alliteration, and make the words more true to Huck's vernacular, Bob Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project, which researches and publishes authoritative editions of Twain's writings, said in an interview.
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"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Mark Twain It still even now feels remarkably contemporary, like rap and hip-hop.
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When asked who she was excited to see at the CMAs, she didn't hold back in mentioning Shania Twain.
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But Twain took pains, during a museum reception in July, to publicly thank her ex-husband in her remarks.
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Chappelle is also set to win the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in October.
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The story, set in the present, recycles characters and incidents from those Mark Twain classics with an unabashed nostalgia.
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Though the looks were Twain-inspired, Cyrus and her team drew from a different music video of the singer's.
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But we were surprised to find that the rumors of critics' demise were greatly exaggerated, to paraphrase Mark Twain.
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Shania Twain is a bonafide country music superstar, with more awards and sales than most people could even imagine.
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I threw on my roommates' heels, busted out my 8th grade graduation dress, and turned up the Shania Twain.
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As Mark Twain suggested — let others dig the gold and stand at the sideline to sell them the shovels.
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The fact remains that now, at this very moment, looking back at that photo, Shania Twain is an icon.
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Stop us if you've heard this one before: A former Klingon actor is running for Congress as Mark Twain.
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The comic legend has won a number of awards, including a Kennedy Center Honor and a Mark Twain Award.
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In Washington, the net neutrality debate divides along two well-entrenched fault lines, whose twain rarely, if ever, meet.
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"One of my favorite authors is Mark Twain, and Seal reminds me of one of his characters," adds Cruise.
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Twain — who told The Guardian she never knew her biological father – claimed the abuse began at a young age.
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"I tell my groups Twain got the idea for the 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' from the Neckar," he said.
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"I would have voted for him because, even though he was offensive, he seemed honest," Twain told The Guardian.
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Twain sometimes envied the financial successes of Harriet Beecher Stowe, his neighbor from 1873 until her death in 1896.
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The Bullshitter line runs from Melville to Twain to Faulkner to Miller, all heavily influenced by colloquial oral discourse.
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" Decades later, Twain would call President Teddy Roosevelt "the Tom Sawyer of the political world of the 20th century.
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It was also the name of the first daily newspaper in California, whose most famous correspondent was Mark Twain.
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"Dave has always had spot-on comedic instincts," said Steve Martin, who won the Mark Twain Prize in 2005.
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Mark Twain, moved from Manhattan to Redding, he found that his newly built villa couldn't accommodate all his books.
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He had no formal education or training; like Twain, his contemporary, he got his start as a printer's apprentice.
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To showcase the ruffles on the neckline of her dress, Twain also wore her hair in a partial updo.
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"Johnny's days of usefulness were over; he was up a stump, & I had to leave him there," Twain wrote.
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Twain made a legendary music comeback in 2017 when she released her first album in 15 years titled NOW.
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A researcher came across the notes for the book in the Twain archives at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Heroes: Aristotle, Theodore Roosevelt ("the nation's zealous uncle"), Mark Twain, early risers, light packers, "stealth-drone parenting," Ben Sasse.
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When Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955, the Mark Twain Riverboat was considered a top-of-the-line attraction.
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When master playwright Neil Simon accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006, he was visibly nervous.
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" In his afterword to the Oxford Mark Twain edition, the critic Albert Stone provides a tantalizing, and somewhat pause-giving, asterisk: Before Howells read the manuscript, Twain wrote and asked him to collaborate with him on a stage version: "I have my eye upon two young girls who can play 'Tom' and 'Huck.
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She also turned down her Mark Twain Prize for American Humor the first time it was offered to her. 15.
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The alternative is to prove Mark Twain right when he said: "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over."
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Twain is one of the few country acts to have such incredible crossover appeal and garner a far broader audience.
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Twain is currently promoting her latest album, Now, which, if you hadn't heard, is her first release in 15 years.
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He says the mystery condition is forcing him to pull the plug on his one-man play version of 'Twain.'
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Kilmer also proudly shared that he's made "three films in the last year," including a new project titled Citizen Twain.
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Muhammad Ali's uncanny, Twain-like perception and inimitable rapid-fire quips are the real stars of When We Were Kings.
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"Regarding rumors of resignation, to paraphrase Mark Twain, 'The reports of my political demise are greatly exaggerated,'" the message read.
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There's a cynical old saying—often falsely attributed to Mark Twain—that if voting changed anything, it would be illegal.
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Heidelberg survived World War II with only minor damage, so visitors today can still experience the romantic charm Twain found.
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I stayed across the river at the Hirschgasse, a former student pub that Twain could see from his hotel window.
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At the Twain house, mahogany panels line a ground-floor guest suite that has been closed for repairs since 2010.
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During one scene, Kutcher's character recounts sliding "balls head first into Miss Shania" and later revealing his "Twain" to her.
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I just want to say that, like, Shania Twain came to my show tonight, you know what I'm saying Nashville?
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Until very recently, these industries were distinct: tech was tech and transportation was transportation and never the twain shall meet.
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Like many writers (Sir Walter Scott, for example, or Mark Twain) I had gone in for owning fancy real estate.
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Mark Twain is said to have loved the stuff and to have referenced it in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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In fact, Mark Twain once referred to it as the "sublimest spectacle" he had ever seen, according to Travel + Leisure.
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To borrow a turn of phrase from Mark Twain, I want to have voted, but I don't want to vote.
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"Nature is built on a stupendous plan in that region," Mark Twain once wrote of the valley leading into Zermatt.
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The other women who have received the Mark Twain Prize are Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Ellen DeGeneres and Carol Burnett.
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"But I said the pen name is pretty well established, with Mark Twain, Rabelais and so many others," Lewis said.
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Many say that after this performance, Twain rose to the cosmos and smiles down on us from time to time.
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" The albums that made Ms. Twain a global pop icon — "The Woman In Me" (1995), "Come On Over" (1997), "Up!
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But you may come away appreciating Mr. Prince's provocative fusion of the twain of the Pictures Generation and Neo-Expressionism.
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Mark Twain at one point wrote for the publication under his given name, Sam Clemens, while he was hiding out.
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With apologies to Mark Twain, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and the utterances of Mahmoud Abbas.
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He said being next to Legend was a "brilliant first seat" and he had "good fun" dancing along with Twain.
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Both agree that rock is rock, literature is literature, never the twain shall meet, let's keep the categories distinct please.
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"I know what it is to be a female artist because of Shania Twain," the 23-year-old artist tells PEOPLE.
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This era of Nicks influenced so many artists, from Lana Del Rey to Jenny Lewis to Destiny's Child to Shania Twain.
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Back with Abbi, Shania Twain can't help but notice the electricity between Abbi and Trey, and she asks what's going on.
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Shania Twain walks in on the couple going at it, and their surprise results in an unfortunate genital injury for Trey.
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Yet it is hard to imagine either man rating the singer above Mark Twain, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce or Anton Chekhov.
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Tomlin has won Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards, and received Kennedy Center Honors and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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"I was 15 years old, and I was so in love with Eddie Van Halen," Twain, 51, says of the experience.
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Franken, a Saturday Night Live alumni, had given a speech in Letterman's honor at the Mark Twain Prize ceremony on Oct.
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But Come On Over and Twain were different; she can be placed in an entirely separate, ascended spot on her own.
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I imagine there are numerous stories like mine from women who have sought comfort in a pop star like Shania Twain.
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The point is that the three estranged friends turn to each other — and Shania Twain sings along — on the open road.
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Sex is good, and music is good, but there are just so many horrible stories of the twain meeting, aren't there.
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Twain recently appeared at an event at Spotify headquarters in New York City when Billboard asked her about the Pitt connection.
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It is a style of American Misery familiar from Mark Twain—the Scotch-Irish-American style, mirthless and Methodist and mercenary.
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He also gained hands-on experience, serving on the board of Mark Twain Bank in St Louis, Missouri, where he taught.
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Al Franken has been cut from the TV broadcast of "David Letterman: The Mark Twain Prize" after allegations of sexual misconduct.
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By tuning his senses to this place, Twain started to clear his mind, and his inspiration began to flow more freely.
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"I remember I had a girlfriend visiting me and it was near Christmas and we were baking cookies," Twain told Billboard.
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Shania Twain is many things to many people: singer, mom, country music maverick icon, and most recently, dog-sledge entrance-maker.
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A bunch of great artists have recently paid homage to the musical genius of the one and only Ms. Shania Twain.
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A gifted speechmaker known as "the Chinese Mark Twain," Chew won over white audiences with his engaging manner and rollicking humor.
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It reminds me of Shania Twain when she did "That Don't Impress Me Much" and "Man I Feel Like a Woman".
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Twain visited in September, when there has usually been no rain for months, and everything is brown and dry and dead.
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I've been doing this a long time, and the Phillips curve has been declared dead far more times than Mark Twain.
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And yet Ms. Twain is not apprehensive about her return, 15 years later, with her fifth album, "Now," on Sept. 29.
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Under the plan, just 19 Christa McAuliffe students would be admitted, while the much larger Mark Twain would get 30 students.
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It's impossible to know why Twain did not finish the tale, or if he ever intended it for a wider audience.
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The singer has racked up countless accolades for her classic albums The Woman in Me, Come on Over and Shania Twain.
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Since then, during connection tests, passages by literary luminaries like Shakespeare, Chekhov and Mark Twain have traveled the trans-Atlantic cables.
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It counted Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling and Winston Churchill among its customers, before evolving into a leading modern package-holiday firm.
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It's also how Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner described the Gilded Age in their 249.95 novel of the same name.
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But after getting off to such a rousing start, Twain put down the manuscript and didn't return to it for years.
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"Democracy in America," by Alexis de Tocqueville, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain, and "The Other America," by Michael Harrington.
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From the moment Bastian Baker met Shania Twain at a one of his concerts, he knew life was about to get good!
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It's honoring Madonna as Woman of the Year, Shania Twain as Icon, Halsey as Rising Star, and Meghan Trainor as Chart Topper.
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" Mark Twain said "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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Twain rose to fame in the '90s, and her chart toppers were mostly about love ("You're Still the One") and female empowerment.
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Haim expertly covered Twain's 1999 hit "Man, I Feel Like A Woman!" at a pop-up show last week, and Twain approved.
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President Obama apparently met up with Murray, who is in Washington to claim his Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday.
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Where once we plucked CDs from Borders' bins based on a cover image of Shania Twain—analytics now drive our Spotify playlists.
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Honor for Dave Chappelle: The stand-up comedian and former TV host was awarded the Mark Twain Prize, considered comedy's top honor.
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KS: No, it's a Mark Twain quote, it was in another New York Times article, another ad for the New York Times.
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The Tennessee songwriter's take on pop country is comfortably reminiscent of early Taylor Swift, but with a very sharp Shania Twain edge.
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In an industry that has historically more or less given performative measures of control to female pop stars, Twain actually took it.
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Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, makes the smartest move of all and just never explains how it happened.
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" This is not unlike Shania Twain saying (to her later regret) that she would have voted for Trump because "he seemed honest.
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" Mark Twain once observed: "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Part Roth, part Swift, part Twain, it is built of satire, farce, and hyperbole, all deployed in the name of moral seriousness.
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The "Veep" star was at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to accept the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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Twain claims that there is no humor in heaven, and it may well be true that most comedians end up in hell.
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"It's the difference between a drunk uncle telling a knock-knock joke about Mexicans at Thanksgiving versus Mark Twain," Mr. Joyce said.
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I believe Mark Twain has rolled over in his grave so much for so long, that this news won't disturb his peace.
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Like Hal Holbrook barnstorming as Mark Twain, the actor Roy Dotrice portrayed Aubrey as a lovable old gossip for some 40 years.
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Who wouldn't want to retreat to "the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean," as Mark Twain described it?
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Mark Twain probably never said, "Whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over," although that quote is commonly ascribed to him.
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The inns where Twain stayed along the Neckar have closed, but some of his favorite castle ruins are now connected with hotels.
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She encouraged Twain to write at a tidy desk that she had set up in a sunny conservatory next to the suite.
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His last book was the fictional Mark Twain's Autobiography 1910 - 2010, which he promoted by doing readings in a Mark Twain costume.
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Mark Twain and Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock and Jim Morrison—even Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen once called the Chelsea Hotel home.
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Located in the Connecticut River Valley, Hartford was once the home to notable historic figures, including Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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There was Tina Fey, herself a recipient of the Mark Twain Prize in 2010, who praised Louis-Dreyfus's performance as Elaine Benes.
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Ulysses S. Grant wrote his memoirs here—and when he was struck by writer's block, Mark Twain moved in to assist him.
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Among her vast collection of awards are the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and 32 Emmys.
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I remember once trying to convince a senior Jewish studies scholar that Twain exaggerated the desolation and emptiness of 19th-century Palestine.
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Twain, who had worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, looked forward to eating sheepshead whenever he got to New Orleans.
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Jim's behavior in these chapters led me to suspect Twain believed slaves were too unintelligent and submissive to stand up to adolescents.
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In the TNG two-parter "Time's Arrow," Samuel Clemens, a k a Mark Twain, comes aboard the Enterprise from 1890s San Francisco.
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Mulroney, a professional stylist and wedding expert, has worked with Shania Twain and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.
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At one point, Twain scribbled down a suggestion that his daughter Susie made, when she asked if the kangaroo was the hostess.
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Some of Thomas' other works include similarly posed imaginations of great Americans like Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin sitting around a campfire.
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A majestically mulleted survivor, he speaks in a florid manner somewhere between professorial and Twain-like, talking circles around gruffer, terser company.
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Shania Twain: I hate even saying this because I don't like the idea of "owning" pets, but it's got to be my dogs.
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Shania Twain announced a Las Vegas residency at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino Monday, her second stint headlining in Sin City.
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" Chernow finished his speech by paraphrasing a line by Mark Twain: "Politicians and diapers must be changed often -- and for the same reason.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Theodore Roosevelt and Rudyard Kipling all split infinitives.
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After revealing Jonas' one celebrity crush (Shania Twain), the couple ended up sharing an intimate detail about how they spend their alone time.
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Kesha, Madonna, Shania Twain, Andra Day and more will be honored at Bilboard's Woman of the Year luncheon Friday in New York City.
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It's a cheeky throwback but ultimately serves as a reminder that Twain is important to pop culture and we should all remember that.
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The comedian, known for his spontaneity and irreverence, handed the award, a bust of Twain, down into the audience to be passed around.
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It took a Russian-born writer to awaken us to what Mark Twain knew: America is not a place; it is a road.
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Shania Twain has apologized for saying if she were American she would have voted for Donald Trump for president, even though he's offensive.
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The body of Raffaella Maria Stroik, 23, was found Wednesday more than 100 miles northwest of St. Louis in the Mark Twain Lake.
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Perennial country star of our hearts, Shania Twain, has backtracked on saying she would've voted for Donald Trump in the 23 U.S. election.
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To make money, Grant had author Mark Twain publish his memoirs, but he died before he could make money from his life story.
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Speaking of Mark Twain, the American author grew up poor after his father died when the novelist-to-be was 11 years old.
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Throughout his career, Twain desired to become rich, and even though he married up on the social ladder, his dream never came true.
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"Mark Twain used to do writing in this building," Zwillinger chirped, and he and Brown slipped out a door to a commercial alley.
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Antiques Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain lived on adjoining properties in Hartford, and they each agonized over decorating choices and related expenses.
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"You can hold them underwater as long as you please—they do not mind it—they are only proud of it," Twain wrote.
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His most recent book, "The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire," has just been published in paperback.
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Now, let's get to the good part, which was our lord and savior Shania Twain, who appeared during the show's half time set.
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Since then, the library's space has quadrupled; its holdings now include more than 50,000 items, and its walls are inscribed with Twain quotes.
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Well, that's exactly what happened on Tuesday night in Canada when Twain pulled Kevin Owens out of the stands and brought him onstage.
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You can see in Molly the American tradition of barbed satirical political commentary mixed with folksy appeal, as in writers like Mark Twain.
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When Ms. Twain was scrupulously avoiding listening to current music, she couldn't avoid hearing the thumping beats coming from behind his bedroom door.
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This is, after all, the region that produced Mark Twain, Walt Disney, Richard Pryor, F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Surrealist painter Dorothea Tanning.
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And then Twain in particular, for all that he wrote so well about children, is not always at his best writing for children.
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What we list is what we love, as with Homer and his ships, or Whitman and his Manhattan trades, or Twain and steamboats.
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In a diary that Twain kept about his daughters, he described how they lost interest in Johnny after the character told a lie.
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"What we ended up with is this wonderful story inspired by Twain's unfinished manuscript, which makes any Twain purist uneasy," Ms. Lovell said.
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He was opposed by the Anti-Imperialist League and Mark Twain, who saw in his imperial designs a betrayal of America's founding principles.
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The town has numerous public parks, museums and historic sites; it is also close to the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford.
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The original first draft allowed scholars to see the extensive revisions that Twain made in his own hand before the book was published.
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The internet has already had a lot of fun with Scaramucci's old tweets, including one where he misattributed a quote to Mark Twain.
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Styles solidified his status as a fashion icon in late 2017 when he told Entertainment Tonight that Shania Twain is his main inspiration.
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He is a fan of Mark Twain, having said that he wanted to see "the picturesque scenery of the Mississippi" after reading his novels.
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Twain has won five Grammys and remains the top-selling female country artist of all time, with more than 90 million albums sold worldwide.
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Another friend wrote about graduating Lindbergh High School together, sing-alongs in the car to Shania Twain, and going on spring break to Mexico.
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"I think both music and fashion, [my] main influence was probably Shania Twain," Styles told ET at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Shanghai.
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Previous Mark Twain Prize honorees include Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lily Tomlin, Neil Simon, Carol Burnett, Jay Leno and Bill Murray, the 2016 winner.
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You know the old Mark Twain quote, you should always be loyal to your country and loyal to the government when it deserves it.
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The Weeknd also made it to the party after headlining night #1 ... and other stars like Shania Twain and Timothee Chalamet were there, too.
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A private plane pilot flying over Mark Twain Lake spotted "what he believed to be a person in the water" around 9:40 a.m.
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Morgan Twain-Peterson, the owner of Bedrock Wine, which produces Weill a Way, said Mr. Weill has suggested increasing margins by raising the price.
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Washington (CNN)David Letterman, the longest-serving host in US late-night television, was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday.
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The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which was first awarded in 1998 to Richard Pryor, highlights social criticism and insightful observation using humor.
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Twain, 52, will release her first studio album in 15 years this week after a long struggle with Lyme disease and a devastating divorce.
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Rooms at both sites are being restored, and the artifacts going on view convey how Stowe and Twain created peaceful hide-outs for writing.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who plays a fictional politician on "Veep," is about to get a very real honor: the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize.
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"We made Twain the inventor of the ship, preparing to meet Halley's comet," Mr. Vinton said in an interview with The Los Angeles Times.
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Owens is a huge Twain fan -- "When" is his favorite song -- and he brought a sign to the show hoping to get Shania's attention.
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Putting Shania Twain, No Doubt, and Sting on one stage is like sitting down for a meal featuring blueberry pancakes with tacos and sushi.
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Despite the difficulties Twain faced on his inaugural ride, the author ended the piece by encouraging readers to buy a two-wheeler for themselves.
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Some had their heads split in twain by axes, others beaten into jelly with clubs, others pierced or cut to pieces with bowie knives.
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Shakespeare bothered to give the hated Jewish moneylender Shylock a point of view; Mark Twain bothered to imagine emotions for the runaway slave Jim.
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"I believe Mark Twain has rolled over in his grave so much for so long, that this news won't disturb his peace," he said.
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Previous Mark Twain Prize honorees include Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lily Tomlin, Neil Simon, Carol Burnett, Jay Leno and Eddie Murphy, the 2015 winner.
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Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman (who also crusaded against slavery) and Mark Twain were among those who came to hear him speak in Brooklyn Heights.
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Commonly attributed to Mark Twain, that quotation instead appears to be a descendant of a line published centuries ago by the satirist Jonathan Swift.
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As Mark Twain saw, the prewar American South grounded its "organic" medievalism in Walter Scott's novels, without a trace of Rousseau infecting the brew.
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In its heyday it counted Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling and Winston Churchill among its customers before evolving into a leading modern package-holiday firm.
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Mark Twain wrote "Huckleberry Finn" after the Civil War and the collapse of Reconstruction, a misunderstood period devoted to trying to enforce civil rights.
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Trending Three new ships launching within one year on the Mississippi River will more than double the market for cruises in Mark Twain territory.
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"My single hope has been that someone would find it during my lifetime," Lovell said in a statement from the Mark Twain Cave Complex.
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"Hannibal became a tourist destination 143 years ago when Twain published 'Tom Sawyer,'" said Gail Bryant, director of tourism for Hannibal, in the statement.
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After a battle with Lyme disease—which, for a time, seriously affected her voice—Twain is back with Now, her first album in 15 years.
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That 21st-century populism should come along at the same time as an agricultural slump is further proof of what Mark Twain knew: history rhymes.
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Abbi, after tiptoeing into Soulstice to get her package, spots Shania Twain — the person she used to lie about training — yakking it up with Trey.
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That includes two Tonys, a Grammy, six Emmys (plus a Daytime Emmy), the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and a Kennedy Center Honor. 2100.
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On the very first installment of the popular VH1 franchise, Franklin was joined by Dion, Carey, Shania Twain, Gloria Estefan and special guest Carole King.
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Shatner posted a message in French, while Twain called it a "special one today" and Amell commemorated the birthday of his buddy, actor Nick Nicotera.
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They asked Twain for autographs, for advice, for aid in publishing their own work; they begged for money; they offered approbation and they offered scorn.
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Mark Twain said "I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened," and you might be able to relate, Scorpio.
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I spin plenty of Carrie Underwood, Shania Twain, Kacey Musgraves, Dixie Chicks, and Miranda Lambert on the 349-mile drive from Nashville to Little Rock.
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The actress is this year's recipient of the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Kipling's line that "East is East, and West is West and never the twain shall meet" may well be a good starting point for policy.
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In the fictions of Mark Twain and CSI and more, the identification of fingerprints is one of the most well-known methods for solving crimes.
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I Feel Like a Woman!" and the romantic "You're Still the One," Twain won four Grammys for her 1997 best-selling album "Come on Over.
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One can only imagine what Mark Twain would make of Twitter and the way the President as well as many other public officials use it.
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Canadian country-pop crosssover Twain, 52, released "Now" after several years away from the studio following a struggle with Lyme disease and a tough divorce.
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With more successful writing and a popular speaking tour, Twain got back to financial security but then lost a $30,000 investment in a protein powder.
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It has had a devoted following for much of its existence, and was said to be favored by Mark Twain, Thomas Edison and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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The building was on a bluff even higher than the castle, so that Twain could stand on his balcony and drink in the entire city.
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Twain never rafted down the river: He traveled the region by boat, foot and train and invented the raft only later as a narrative device.
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CreditCredit There are trends in movies just as there are trends in fashion, and occasionally the twain shall meet — and not just on the runway.
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Later, there was Judy Blume and then other great American authors like Mark Twain and James Baldwin, for whom I seemed to need no translator.
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Last year the Kennedy Center rescinded the Mark Twain Prize it had given to Bill Cosby in 2009 after he was convicted of sexual assault.
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To capture a rhythm that mirrored Twain's natural speaking voice, Mr. Stead read the first and second volume of Twain's autobiography, which Twain had dictated.
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"This was a story that Twain told his daughters, and now he's going to tell it to me, and now I'm going to tell it."
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The two special shows will also feature celebrity guests, like Shania Twain and Christina Aguilera, who will join them to discuss their Las Vegas shows.
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A line often attributed to Mark Twain held that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
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Reading Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Twain, James, and Faulkner in such depth helped Milch create complex television characters whose voices were each marked by singular diction.
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During her chat with PEOPLE, Twain said she wanted to make sure to say hi and catch up with Post Malone, Taylor Swift and Lizzo.
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At that time, Ms. Twain was a cross-genre titan, a country singer who — with her then-husband Mutt Lange, the producer who boosted the sound of AC/DC and Def Leppard — made titanic, eclectic music that infuriated Nashville purists with its flashy embrace of pop theatrics, but still dominated the charts and made Ms. Twain a megastar with a Rolling Stone cover and rotation on MTV.
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He's starring in this December's Jumanji reboot, currently working on a new album, and recently performed "Party for Two" with Shania Twain at Stagecoach music festival.
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In the years between those two albums, Twain took time off to recuperate her voice after being diagnosed with X, which is related to Lyme disease.
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He also saluted the team while accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and shared a childhood photo of him decked out in Cubs gear.
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And not far away, there's the "House of Death" which is home to 22 ghosts including Mark Twain and is a prime spot for paranormal investigators.
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Instead, Twain has partnered with producers Jake Gosling (Ed Sheeran, One Direction), Ron Aniello (Bruce Springsteen), Jacquire King (Kings of Leon), and songwriter-producer Matthew Koma.
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The two later shared a very friendly hug and chat at the event's intimate after party (which Horan's celeb fan Twain also attended) above the venue.
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Twain played the single "Life's About To Get Good" from her forthcoming record Now, announced yesterday via an elaborate Instagram post reveal, on BBC Radio 2.
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The victim, who the Wayne County Medical Examiner identified as Keenan Beard, was shot and killed outside Mark Twain Elementary, police announced at a news conference.
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There's a historical plaque about Mark Twain tucked away in the corner of the park in the community where I live, and it's an Ingress portal.
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It's from the 1998 VH1 Diva's show and, left to right, it features Gloria Estefan, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, Carole King, Shania Twain, and Celine Dion.
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Twain also says she's against discrimination of any kind and hopes it's clear from her public stances that she doesn't share any moral beliefs with Trump.
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" The Blues later posted on Twitter a picture of Twain in a Blues jersey, accompanied by the message "It's not too late, @ShaniaTwain — come on over!
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Many of the major American writers of the Victorian era, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Walt Whitman to Mark Twain, were shaped by the freethought tradition.
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They come in two breeds—pitchers, who throw the ball, and position players, who hit and catch it—and, these days, never the twain shall meet.
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A book of illustrated poems that Twain read to his daughters includes one in which a girl who played with matches came to a tragic end.
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Clara performed in concert to raise money for what would become the Mark Twain House & Museum, and the concert's tickets and programs are still on display.
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Mr. Nichols, whose fondness for high-stakes boys-adventure stories was especially evident in the Mark Twain-inflected "Mud" (2013), plays with various allusions and possibilities.
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Luckily, their new album, Evternity, shows that the twain may be separated by geography, but are thoroughly in sync in terms of skill level of intent.
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" Or, if you prefer your aphorism a bit more down-home, Mark Twain captured the same ethos: "I didn't have time to write a short letter.
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The question I have to ask, in very Mark Twain form, is: Would I want to be a member of any club with these as leaders?
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SYDNEY, Australia — When Mark Twain steamed into Sydney's harbor in September 1895, journalists peppered him with questions before he had even stepped off the S.S. Warrimoo.
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Surely this sounds, even to those of us who revere Twain and admire the Steads, like a less than perfectly promising platform for a satisfying book.
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Like Twain, Chris Richards, a researcher at the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London, came to frogs early, as a first-year graduate student.
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Many, including Mark Twain, marveled at riders' courage and the spectacle of their switching horses every 10 miles or so for a fresh burst of speed.
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Like Mark Twain, David Letterman distinguished himself as a cockeyed, deadpan observer of American behavior and, later in life, for his prodigious and distinctive facial hair.
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But something about this particular tale must have stuck with Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, because he decided to jot down some notes about it.
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He and other scholars believe it may be the only written remnant of a children's fairy tale from Twain, though he told his daughters stories constantly.
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Doubleday, which acquired rights to the story from the Twain House, decided to hire the Steads, who are stars in children's publishing, to finish the story.
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Mr. Slive was known for peppering his annual kickoff addresses at media days with allusions: to Mark Twain and "Star Wars," James Baldwin and Nelson Mandela.
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Its most famous scribe was Mark Twain, who once wrote a few stories — with a hangover, the legend goes — while hiding out here from the law.
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Selena Gomez will showcase new music, Green Day will celebrate the 25th anniversary of "Dookie" and Shania Twain will perform a medley of her greatest hits.
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On Saturday night, a man tried to have a conversation with Twain while she sat atop the mobile bar, telling her it was his 50th birthday.
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This week, the owners of the cave can finally confirm: "Sam Clemens," Twain's real name, is indeed inscribed inside the Mark Twain cave in Hannibal, Missouri.
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"He probably attempted to scratch his name and then used a pencil to write on top," Kevin Mac Donnell, a Twain scholar and collector, told CNN.
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So I guess Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Flannery O&aposConnor, Harper Lee and those other stereotypical writers who will also soon have to be banned as well.
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All the acts will be showcasing cover songs, just so the audience will "be able to have some familiarity with what the artists are performing," Twain explains.
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Following a fan backlash online, Ms. Twain issued a statement: "As a Canadian, I regret answering this unexpected question without giving my response more context," she said.
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There's an element of class struggle in his pronouncement, and throughout the movie; the circus is "low," the opera is "high," and ne'er the twain shall meet.
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PETER ROWEAustralian ambassador to South and North Korea, 2006-09Sydney Road bumps for electric carsMark Twain once observed that the report of his death was an exaggeration.
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Brad was even on hand last week in D.C., where Dave was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and gave a speech on Dave's behalf.
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" In July, Twain also opened up to PEOPLE about her battle with Lyme: "I was very scared for a little while that I wouldn't sing again, ever.
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"As of today, [there is] no discussion about special provisions for Cubs playoffs game watching or monitoring during Mark Twain," a Kennedy Center spokesperson told the Post.
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In order to regain her voice from the damaging effects of dysphonia, which she says was caused by her Lyme disease, Twain, 53, underwent multiple invasive surgeries.
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Country icon Shania Twain may not have been impressed by rocket scientists or Brad Pitt, but it's safe to say that she was impressed by leopard print.
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When Shania Twain's parents died in a car accident in 1987, Twain took a job singing at a resort in Ontario, Canada, to support her younger siblings.
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William Shakespeare, John Donne, Michel de Montaigne, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, William Faulkner and Toni Morrison are just a few of the star players on Team Domesticity.
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Consider William Dean Howells, a mostly forgotten nineteenth-century novelist dwarfed in stature by his contemporaries Henry James and Mark Twain, both of whom were his friends.
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It kicked off widespread reaction and remembrances, with star singers like John Mayer, Shania Twain and Jon Bon Jovi all paying tribute to Mr. Petty on Twitter.
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts," wrote Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad.
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Not unreasonably, he was attacked at the time by anti-imperialists like Mark Twain for hypocritically grabbing foreign lands while trying to sound like a good Christian.
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Country superstar Shania Twain is gonna getcha good with a medley of her career's many hits, her first time back singing on the AMAs in 16 years.
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Twain is on-hand to perform a medley of her greatest hits during the show, which marks her first time returning to the AMAs stage since 2003.
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Mark Twain once described the public library as "the most enduring of memorials," a free center of intellectual and educational power accessible to old and young alike.
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At another town hall-style meeting, in Hannibal, the boyhood home of Mark Twain, Ms. McCaskill bluntly told her constituents how Mr. Trump's policies would hurt them.
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It&aposs interesting because before, you would consider those things so discreet from each other, the social aspect, the buying aspect, ne&aposer the twain shall meet.
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If Mark Twain was right that clothes make the man, then Ms. Button helped define hundreds of characters in Broadway and Off Broadway plays, operas and films.
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Born in 1859 in Russia, Sholem Aleichem was a Yiddish author and playwright known in the United States as the "Yiddish Mark Twain," according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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"The report of my death is greatly exaggerated," Mark Twain wrote to a newspaper when it was inaccurately reported he'd died, before his actual death in 1910.
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The country-pop icon Shania Twain, whose Vegas residency starts next month, closed the night with a little bit of schmaltz and a little bit of bluster.
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Receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center, the national showcase for arts, Letterman, 70, was praised for his imagination, comic daring and heart.
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There's this famous Mark Twain quote, "Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting," that has become something of a running joke among people who cover water.
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There's no better reflection of that idea than the words of Mark Twain — a man who made a living as a humorist and wrote stories about jumping frogs.
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Kilmer, 57, made an appearance at the Irvine Improv in Irvine, California, on Wednesday night to introduce a special film screening of his one-man play, Citizen Twain.
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Wendy turned as she got into an SUV and pulled a Mark Twain on us -- meaning, she essentially said rumors of her show's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
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Bill Cosby has been stripped of two awards: the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which he won in 2009, and the Kennedy Center Honor given in 1998.
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Since her successful 2015 tour, Twain has been at work on an album of new material, her first in 15 years, that is due out sometime this year.
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In a video posted to her social media account, the singer borrowed the words of Mark Twain and explained that the recent claims were merely "greatly exaggerated" rumors.
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And Mark Twain, Buffalo Bill, Florence Nightingale, Claude Monet, Leo Tolstoy and the Wright Brothers were all still living the last time the Chicago Cubs won a championship.
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Writers who have never received the Nobel Prize for Literature include James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Marcel Proust, Henrik Ibsen, Mark Twain, George Orwell and Arthur Miller.
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But in the midst of the ravings, contortions, and weird, animated asides you can also catch glimpses of celebs like Steve Buscemi, Shania Twain, Wanda Sykes, and RuPaul.
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The once-elegantly shabby Chelsea Hotel has been called different things over the years: A hangout (writers like Mark Twain, Tom Wolfe and Jack Kerouac called it home).
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It's not 100 percent clear why Murray was in D.C., but he is set to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center Sunday.
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Shania Twain will be the first female to receive the prestigious "Artist of a Lifetime" award at the 22013 CMT Artists of the Year event, PEOPLE announces exclusively.
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For seven seasons of the late NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, the mustachioed-character Ron Swanson behaved like a Mark Twain character dropped inexplicably into modern-day Indiana.
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"The album is really about a place that I've come to, and I've been for longer than I'd like in a transition period," Twain said in an interview.
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They also collaborated on designs for rooms at the Park Avenue Armory and the White House, where one bedroom had the same wallpaper as the Twain guest suite.
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Drake appearing backstage with Twain is an important moment in Canadian cultural history because it bridges the gap between Drake the Pop Cultural Icon and Drake the Canadian.
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To the Editor: Ron Chernow should reconsider the choice of guests for his literary dinner party: Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen (By the Book, Oct. 29).
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus — the star of one of TV's most successful contemporary comedies — has added a big plume to her cap: comedy's highest honor, the Mark Twain Prize.
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Engineers had to reroute the Disneyland Railroad and shorten the meandering Rivers of America, where an original Frontierland attraction, the Mark Twain Riverboat, sails in a quaint loop.
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While traversing the United States, she read "early, lesser-known adventure stories of Mark Twain," the journals of Lewis and Clark, and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.
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Because Wave Hill is so peaceful, the estate feels like your personal garden, as it was once to both a young Teddy Roosevelt and an aging Mark Twain.
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Mr. Farrell teaches playwriting at N.Y.U. The play is to be directed by Leigh Silverman ("Violet"), with Jeffrey Richards, Deanna Twain and Will Trice as the lead producers.
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For this season's pop cover story, Mr. Caramanica chose the country icon Shania Twain, who will release an album this fall for the first time in 15 years.
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He often found himself arguing with Twain about the changes he wanted to make and found the imagined conversations so compelling that he put them in the book.
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"Ernest Hemingway once famously wrote that 'all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain, called 'Huckleberry Finn,'" Mr. Doyle wrote on the Crime Report website.
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Adapting James Frey's infamously fictionalized memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," the director Sam Taylor-Johnson niftily elides the book's truthiness problem with an introductory quotation from Mark Twain.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the introduction to Bacon's book, and Mark Twain wrote that it convinced him utterly that the so-called Stratford man could not have written Shakespeare.
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Baker met Twain by chance in 2011 when she asked to be introduced to him after seeing him perform at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival, and the rest is history.
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"You know who I really love is Nicki Minaj," Twain told Fuse at a listening party for her album Now at Spotify headquarters in New York City in August.
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" - Mark Twain Captions For Celebrating With Friends "I put my hands up/ They're playin' my song/ You know I'm gonna be okay/ Yeah, it's a party in the USA.
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After a casual adventure that involved Shania Twain and sex with her old flame at Soulstice, Abbi is finally in possession of a package she was trying to retrieve.
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Singles of the record have included "Life's About to Get Good" and "Swingin' with My Eyes Closed" — the later which Twain premiered on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
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The search to find the 24-year-old in the Adirondacks included a huge search party, helicopters, police dogs, and pleas to her favorite childhood pop star, Shania Twain.
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Twain teased the impending release of "Say All You Want for Christmas" on social media Thursday morning, tweeting "The most wonderful time of the year…" and tagging her collaborator.
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"As a Nobel winner I cannot but regret that it was never given to Mark Twain, nor Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen," he told an interviewer.
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" Likewise Twain was a fan who supported the Hartford, Connecticut, baseball club and paid homage to the sport in his 1889 novel "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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Related: Bill Murray holds court with reporters in White House briefing room They're men of the people There are few people that embody American populism more than Mark Twain.
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These days they survive mostly as point-to-point fastenings, sometimes above a zip, often on bras, a development for which women can thank, or remonstrate with, Mark Twain.
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Twain sings about deserving love, about the ups-and-downs of life—expecting pain that will be followed by joy—with a chorus of backup singers to help her.
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For a woman who says she's left the stage behind, Shania Twain sure seemed happy in the spotlight at the taping of the CMT Artists of the Year special.
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Speaking to me on the phone from Los Angeles, I ask Shania Twain how she feels when words like legacy or icon are attributed to her and her career.
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By that point, Shania Twain would have released Come On Over, which turns 20 years old this weekend, crossing over from a country music act into the pop world.
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Then, much later, this 'chip on the shoulder' expression got some real traction in 19th century U.S., when Mark Twain made reference to it in a Tom Sawyer story.
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Along with anonymous faces, Altmejd sculpted the heads of Donald Trump, Mark Twain, and Henrietta Lacks — the unwitting donor of the "immortal" cells that scientists used to cure polio.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus later this year will be honored by the Kennedy Center with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award given to the world's greatest humorists.
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However, with Maren Morris and Kelsea Ballerini gaining ground – and new albums and tours from Faith Hill and Shania Twain – next year's list may be a bit more balanced.
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