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[201] The riverboatman's cry was "mark twain" or, more fully, "by the mark twain", meaning "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]"; that is, "The water is 12 feet (3.7 m) deep and it is safe to pass." Twain said that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In Life on the Mississippi, Twain wrote:
Jean died at Stormfield December 24, 1909, the cause of death believed to be a heart attack during an epileptic seizure while taking a bath. Clemens wrote "The Death of Jean", believed to be the last work he ever completed. [1] Twain was suffering from a heart ailment in the spring of 1910 and sought to recuperate in Bermuda.
Graves of Olivia Langdon Clemens and Mark Twain. But scarcely six months later, on June 5, 1904, Olivia died in Florence from heart failure. She was cremated, and her ashes are interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira. Samuel, who was devastated by her death, died in 1910; he is interred beside her. [5]
During a subsequent keynote address, Jobs joked about the accident by displaying on screen an imprecise quotation of Mark Twain (who was also the recipient of a premature obituary) reading "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated". [249] [250] Jobs actually died of pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011, at the age of 56. Pope John Paul II:
The claim: Mark Twain said, 'I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.' After the death of conservative media personality Rush Limbaugh on Feb. 17, some ...
John Amos’s cause of death has been confirmed, just over a month after he died on August 21 aged 84. The Good Times actor died from congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital, according ...
A children's book, The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy), features excerpts of Susy's biography of her father with smaller journal-style pages inserted between the main pages. [ 16 ] Mark Twain: Words & Music is a double-CD that tells the life story of Samuel Clemens in spoken word and song and features segments about his family.
Tributes from across the music industry are flooding in following the death of The Script’s co-founder and guitarist Mark Sheehan.. The Irish musician died after a brief illness aged 46. “Much ...