Calaveras, CA– A record-breaking 126 students from schools across Calaveras County participated in the 6th Annual Battle of ...

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Serbian-American inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943, blurred at centre) performs an electrical experiment for ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

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TWAIN: We can never resist a story about the author and humorist Mark Twain — Samuel Clemens by birth. Stories say he may have been the American writer most crazy about cats. (Although we find Ernest ...

So, Tom got out a sheet of paper that he had wrote the oath on, and read it. It swore every boy to stick to the band, and ...

“James,” new book about Twain’s writings may spark your interest in Twain ... And nobody that didn’t belong to the band could use that mark, and if he did he must be sued; and if he done it again he ...

From books for history lovers to romance novels ... Percival Everett’s James retells Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved Jim. It begins in 1861, when Jim ...

Why am I reading Mark Twain again? It has been more than 70 years Since ... he thought.. “James,” new book about Twain’s writings may spark your interest in Twain’s books. If so, the following ...

The Night Garden by Michael Chabon Chabon’s first novel for adults since 2016, inspired by a short story by Nathaniel ...

Conan O’Brien has been selected by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to receive the 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The prize, which is named to honor one of the world ...