Mark Twain made a substantial amount of money throughout his career but lost most of it. He lost the equivalent of $9,000,000 on a typesetting machine investment, his publishing company failed after selling only 200 copies of one of his books, & he was forced to sell his house in Connecticut.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote the very…
Mark Twain wrote the very first novel that was ever written with a typewriter. That novel was Tom Sawyer.
At first a soldier in the German…
At first a soldier in the German revolution of ’48, Carl Schurz busted out his friend from a prison in Berlin, fled on a boat to Edinburg, emigrated to the US, became a Union General in the Civil War, then US Senator, and later secretary of the interior. Mark Twain wrote his obituary.
Mark Twain initially supported American Imperialism…
Mark Twain initially supported American Imperialism, but, after discovering America’s true motives in the Philippine–American War by reading the Treaty of Paris, he changed his position, saying “And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.”
Mark Twain had a near fatal heart attack in…
Mark Twain had a near fatal heart attack in 1898 after watching a belly dancer’s routine.
When Huckleberry Finn was first published, it was banned…
When Huckleberry Finn was first published, it was banned not for being racist as it is many times today, but for NOT being racist. It showed the friendship between a black man and a white boy.
After Mark Twain met Helen Keller at a dinner party he was so impressed…
After Mark Twain met Helen Keller at a dinner party he was so impressed with her that he wrote to the wife Henry H. Rogers, a wealthy oil magnate, pleading her to convince her husband to support Keller’s education. Mr. Rogers agreed and personally paid her entire education.
Many famous Americans, including Helen K …
Many famous Americans, including Helen Keller, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Albert Einstein, were radical socialists. The US public (and government) have downplayed these people’s political views over the years due to the common fear of far leftism in the country.
Mark Twain told an interviewer that he w …
Mark Twain told an interviewer that he was not actually Mark Twain, but Mark Twain’s twin brother, but since his parents couldn’t tell which one drowned in the bath tub when they were babies, the parents decided that the one who lived must have been Mark.
There is only one video of Mark Twain in …
There is only one video of Mark Twain in existence and it was shot by Thomas Edison.