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    MARK TWAIN ON PALESTINE IN 1867

    MAY 28, 2012 2:25AM

    By Shlomo Kreplekh


    Topics: travels abroad, samuel clemens, palestine, mark twain, israel, holy land

    • 1 Ratings
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    Teacher Ratings and Rubric Reverence

    APRIL 27, 2012 11:03AM

    By Diana Senechal


    Topics: education, testing, rubrics, value-added assessment, g. k. chesterton, mark twain, new york state, english language arts, success, teacher preparation programs, new york city public schools, double-entry journals

    • 0 Ratings
    • 203 Views
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    Coming In 2012: The Lamentable Life Of Crab Louie Le Roux V

    APRIL 22, 2012 9:14PM

    By J. E. Marshall


    Topics: crab louie, mark twain, tesla, shakespeare, romeo & juliet

    • 21 Ratings
    • 635 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    The Players Club, Easter Sunday and Burlesque

    APRIL 6, 2012 1:44PM

    By Erica K


    Topics: the players club, gramercy park, actors, edwin booth, mark twain, easter, harvest moon, anything goes, cole porter, memories

    • 0 Ratings
    • 74 Views
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    April 6, 2012: American Satire

    APRIL 6, 2012 10:06AM

    By Ben Railton


    Topics: stuff that's funny and pointed, the daily show, mockumentary, nathanael west, mark twain, washington irving, satire

    • 0 Ratings
    • 165 Views
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    Be Good and You Will Be Lonesome

    MARCH 6, 2012 5:36PM

    By Kim McCully-Mobley


    Topics: books, writers, missouri, livy, mark twain, history, dsi, nwp, owp

    • 16 Ratings
    • 774 Views
    • 41 Comments
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    I Met Mark Twain Again

    FEBRUARY 2, 2012 12:56PM

    By alsoknownas


    Topics: mark twain, hal holbrook, have things really changed?, those times, these times, are we there yet?, where have we been?, where are we going?, be there then, be here now, occupy the place you're in

    • 0 Ratings
    • 160 Views
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    December 13, 2011: Cross-Culture 2: A Striking Voice

    DECEMBER 13, 2011 7:23AM

    By Ben Railton


    Topics: stuff we should better remember, american literature, dialect, african americans, mark twain, huck finn

    • 0 Ratings
    • 550 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    The Eisenhower Left

    OCTOBER 24, 2011 12:14AM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: news, politics, official member of the eisenhower left, whatever’s next, far left enemies list, fox newsmakers, free speech, free ideas, open call, danagram, daniel rigney, 2012, eisenhower democrats, eisenhower republicans, writing tool, bill o’reilly + far left, eisenhower left, confessional disclosure, serious humor, comedy, fun, satire, steven colbert, jon stewart, brooke alvarez, onn, mark twain, thomas nast, tom paine

    • 2 Ratings
    • 703 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Romney Jokes 2012

    OCTOBER 20, 2011 2:51PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: television, mark twain, mad magazine, mort sahl, blogout, opportunist party, sinking conservatarianism, romney + wax figure, creative non-violence, not everyone has servants, log mansion, best government money can buy, best laws money can buy, best democracy money can buy, best election money can buy, who do you want me to be + romney, romney + job destroyer, bain capital + takeover artist + romney, undeserving sick, deserving sick, tea party + coffee party, romney + dog + canada, slick willard, slick willie + willard, rebranded more times than a runaway cow in texas, romney rebranded, romney brand, rimshot the sitdown comic, open call, danagram, daniel rigney, conservatarian + talk radio, romneycare, snl + tina fey, the jimmies, stewart colbert, the onion, brooke alvarez, murdoch empire, rush limbaugh, rush rule, george romney, mitt romney jokes + 2012, willard romney jokes, politics, comedy, romney jokes, wall street willard

    • 1 Ratings
    • 625 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Reading Mark Twain

    AUGUST 16, 2011 12:10PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: american literature, this american life, mark twain, danagram, daniel rigney, war prayer+twain, innocents at home, letter from the earth+twain, samuel clemens, david foster wallace, kurt vonnegut, martin luther king, dorothy parker, walt whitman, emily dickinson, samuel clemens was no mark twain, mark twain was no mark twain, mick jagger was no mick jagger, twain was no shakespeare, american provincialism, cosmoplolitan provincialism, humor, belief/religion, books, certainty is an emotion, william james+will to believe, greetings earthlings, reading project, shakespeare was no shakespeare, staycation, literary stay-cation, comedy, fiction, open+call, poetry

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    Not So Famous Actors

    JULY 17, 2011 7:25PM

    By Mark Van Aken Williams


    Topics: mark twain, g.k. chesterton, one man plays, actors, satire, comedy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 39 Ratings
    • 1695 Views
    • 68 Comments
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    Twain Knew What He Was Doing

    JUNE 12, 2011 9:20PM

    By L in the Southeast


    Topics: american literature, political correctness gone too far, huckleberry finn sanitization, mark twain, the n-word, nigger

    • 52 Ratings
    • 3202 Views
    • 68 Comments
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    Will I Show You Mine if You Show me Yours? Not Likely!

    JUNE 9, 2011 9:55AM

    By Linda Seccaspina


    Topics: healthy living health news, menopause, post menopause, hot flashes, clearasil, mabeline, zombies, mark twain, oil of olay, proactive. death becomes her, bruce willis, meryl steep, goldie hawn, bone density and wrinkles, bone density wrinkles, bone health wrinkles, bones and wrinkles, bones wrinkles, facial wrinkles bone health, facial wrinkles bones, new research, wrinkles osteoperosis, healthy living news, facebook, yahoo, videos, video, youtube, stumbleupon, digg, media blogger, media, social media blogger, open salon, linda seccaspina, blogger, blogging, blog, body image, plastic surgery, women

    • 2 Ratings
    • 169 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    He's No Will Ferrell

    MAY 12, 2011 9:41PM

    By Stephen Guy Hardin


    Topics: will ferrell, th eoffice, nbc, soros, mark twain, ron burgundy, broadway, tv

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2023 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    A Close Approximation of an Almost True Fact

    MAY 5, 2011 8:28AM

    By Kate Geiselman


    Topics: open call, mortifying disclosures, teaching, writing, osama bin laden, social networking, plagiarism, ethics, martin luther king, jr., mark twain, quotations

    • 64 Ratings
    • 1373 Views
    • 87 Comments
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    If You're Going to San Francisco - A Tie-Dye Story

    APRIL 21, 2011 10:02AM

    By Linda Seccaspina


    Topics: right to forget, fashion, protesting, mark twain, linda seccaspina, blogging, blogger, blog, video, youtube, telegraph avenue, lauren pierce, love in, hippie beads, phish, grateful dead, pot smoker, seventeen magazine, army, soldiers, teeenage years, ontreal, viet nam war, berkeley, san franciscio, tree hugging hippies. tie-dye, treehuggers, hippies

    • 1 Ratings
    • 740 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    What I Firmly and Sincerely Believe

    APRIL 18, 2011 3:25PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: open+call, news, environment, belief/religion, blog, blogger, technorati, hashmark twain, hash mark twain, public schools, critical thinking, get its boots on, charles haddon spurgeon, mark twain, firmly and sincerely, trump, huckabee, obama birth certificate, hey matthew and ben!, hell, mark twain, danagram, daniel rigney, climate change, humor, politics, comedy

    • 3 Ratings
    • 647 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    A History of Violence or, Trying To Kill Cancer

    APRIL 12, 2011 5:23PM

    By Sean Murphy


    Topics: upton sinclair, s.e. hinton, mark twain, how the poor die, george orwell, charles dickens, cancer

    • 9 Ratings
    • 367 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Gotta laugh, sometimes

    APRIL 11, 2011 1:02PM

    By Lyn LeJeune


    Topics: david foster wallace, alan moore, jerry seinfeld, g.k. chesterton, rita mae brown, voltaire, comedy, humor, groucho marx, george carlin, kurt vonnegut, mark twain, laughter, laugh

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