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Percival Everett's New Novel Is Destined to Become a Modern Classic
Esquire via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPercival Everett's New Novel Is a Modern ClassicSarah Kim Sarah Kim James centers on a seminal...
Travel in the early footsteps of Mark Twain in Virginia City, Nevada
Victorville Daily Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 1841, Horace Greeley founded the New York Tribune. The publisher was a man of strong will and...
Salem to highlight Twain for history event
The Alliance Review via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMark Twain last visited Salem in 1872, and Salem Historical Society will mark its own 75th birthday with a tribute to the author. A Twain scholar Mark Dawidziak will present a program at Kent ...
Leaping for joy: Mark Twain Elementary hosts annual frog races
The Duncan Banner, Okla. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 18—An annual tradition continued to seal the end of an elementary season with kissing a frog, although this frog didn't turn into Prince Charming in the end, students were beyond excited ...
Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAntiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images...
The brutal 2023 housing market was just like the 1980s—except with a little bit of Global Financial...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 5 months agoMark Twain is famous for the (likely apocryphal) quote that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it...
“That level of success was like nothing we had ever experienced before. It was such a huge record...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRush. It was the biggest album of their career, a multi-million selling masterpiece that elevated...
It’s not just XL bullies – your posh dog needs a muzzle, too
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months ago“The dog is a gentleman,” Mark Twain wrote. “I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.” My dog, I...
Express All Your Lovey-Dovey Feelings With One Of These V-Day Quotes
Women's Health via Yahoo News· 4 months agoValentine’s Day is right around the corner, so you know what that means: it’s time to start planning...
Cities' thirst nearly killed these California lakes. Not so fast, said our epic wet winter
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPG&E crews travel by airboat in June to decommission power poles in a flooded pistachio orchard in...