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Mark Twain In Popular Culture
Mark Twains legacy includes awards, events, a variety of memorials and namesakes, and numerous works of art, entertainment, and media. Amusement parks and attractions * An audio-animatronic of Mark Twain acts as co-host of a show named " The American Adventure" at Epcot, Walt Disney World * Mark Twain Riverboat in Hannibal, Missouri; a local attraction *Mark Twain Riverboat, an attraction at the Disneyland theme parks in Anaheim, California (on which passengers embark on a scenic, 12-minute journey around the Rivers of America this one had her maiden voyage on July 13, 1955), Disneyland Paris, Tokyo Disneyland, and Walt Disney World Arts and entertainment Artwork * Twain is among the historical figures depicted in '' Our Nation's 200th Birthday, The Telephone's 100th Birthday'' (1976) by Stanley Meltzoff for Bell System. Comics * In ''The Five Fists of Science'' (2006) Twain teams up with Nikola Tesla to defeat the evil plans of Thomas Edison. * Twain appeared in a comic strip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Extravaganza At BV - 2015 - Stierch 07
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JKL Museum Of Telephony
The American Museum of Telephony, known as the JKL Museum of Telephony, is a private telephone and telephone memorabilia museum originally located in Mountain Ranch, California. The museum was destroyed in 2015 in the Butte Fire and is now located near Santa Cruz. It is open only for guided tours by appointment. History The museum was registered in 1999 and takes its name from its founder, John K. La Rue, whose collection originally formed its basis. The museum's collection, drawn from all over the world and dating back to the 1870s, has included switching equipment, military equipment, batteries, prototypes, and telephone memorabilia such as directories, in addition to working handsets of all eras. Founded in Mountain Ranch, in the Sierra foothills, it was destroyed in the Butte Fire on September 10, 2015. The museum has been reestablished in Aptos Aptos (Ohlone for "The People") is an unincorporated town in Santa Cruz County, California. The town is made up of several small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredric March
Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated, versatile stars of the 1930s and 1940s.Obituary ''Variety'', April 16, 1975, page 95. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for '' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1931) and ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' (1946), as well as the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for ''Years Ago'' (1947) and '' Long Day's Journey into Night'' (1956). March is one of only two actors, the other being Helen Hayes, to have won both the Academy Award and the Tony Award twice. Early life March was born in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of Cora Brown Marcher (1863–1936), a schoolteacher from England, and John F. Bickel (1859–1941), a devout Presbyterian Church elder who worked in the wholesale hardware business. March attended the Winslow Elementary School (established in 1855), Racine High School, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Greed
''Battle of Greed'' is a 1937 American Western film directed by Howard Higgin and starring Tom Keene, Gwynne Shipman and James Bush.Pitts p.22 A silver strike in Virginia City leads to cutthroat completion to exploit the discovery. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell. Partial cast * Tom Keene as John Storm * Gwynne Shipman as Linda Avery * James Bush as Mark Twain * Jimmy Butler as Danny Storm * Robert Fiske as Hammond * Carl Stockdale as Sawyer * Ray Bennett as Henchman Bates * William Worthington as Judge William H. Avery * Henry Roquemore as Judge Albion * Foxy Callahan as Jockey Brown * Lloyd Ingraham as Virginny * Budd Buster as Comstock References Bibliography * Pitts, Michael R. ''Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films''. McFarland, 2012. External links * 1937 films 1937 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films Greed Greed (or avarice) is an uncontrolled longing for increas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bush (actor)
James Bush (October 4, 1907 – April 9, 1987) was an American actor from the 1930s until the early 1950s. He appeared in more than 100 television shows and films, more than 80 of them being feature films. Early years The son of an actress, Bush moved to California with his mother and studied in a theatrical school and graduated from Los Angeles High School. Stage Bush first appeared on stage at age four. When he finished high school he began acting with the Morosco stock theater company. He also acted at the Pasadena Playhouse for four seasons, spent one season in St. Louis, and performed with the Henry Duffy Players at the Hollywood Playhouse. Film As a child, Bush appeared in some Paramount films that starred Mary Pickford. While the Internet Movie Database has him appearing as a child actor in 1917's ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', the American Film Institute has his first film role as Bent Weymer in 1932's '' Wild Horse Mesa'', directed by Henry Hathaway, which was a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. The story has also been published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its original title) and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road." ''The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches'' is also the title story of an 1867 collection of short stories by Mark Twain. It was Twain's first book and collected 27 stories that were previ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emperor Norton
Joshua Abraham Norton (February 4, 1818January 8, 1880), known as Emperor Norton, was a resident of San Francisco, California who, in 1859, proclaimed himself "Norton I., Emperor of the United States". In 1863, after Napoleon III invaded Mexico, he took the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico." Norton was born in England but spent most of his early life in South Africa. Leaving Cape Town, probably in late 1845, he arrived in Boston, via Liverpool, in March 1846 and San Francisco in late 1849.John Lumea"How and When Did Joshua Norton Get to San Francisco? The Emperor Norton Trust, February 10, 2017. Nothing is known of his whereabouts or occupations in the intervening three-and-a-half years. For the first few years after arriving in San Francisco, Norton made a successful living as a commodities trader and real estate speculator, becoming one of the city's more prosperous and respected citizens. However, he was financially ruined following a failed bid to corner the rice m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sandman (comic Book)
''The Sandman'' is a American comic book, comic book written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. Its artists include Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel, Bryan Talbot, and Michael Zulli, with lettering by Todd Klein and covers by Dave McKean. The original series ran for 75 issues from January 1989 to March 1996. Beginning with issue No. 47, it was placed under DC's Vertigo Comics, Vertigo Imprint (trade name), imprint, and following Vertigo's retirement in 2020, reprints have been published under DC's DC Black Label, Black Label imprint. The main character of ''The Sandman'' is Dream (character), Dream, also known as Morpheus and other names, who is one of the seven Endless (comics), Endless. The other Endless are Destiny (DC Comics), Destiny, Death (DC Comics), Death, Desire (DC Comics), Desire, Despair (DC Comics), Despair, Delirium (comics), Delirium (formerly Delight), and Destruction (DC Comics), Destruction (also known as 'The Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homestuck
''Homestuck'' is an Internet fiction series created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie in the first half of the 2010s. The fourth and best-known of Hussie's four ''MS Paint Adventures'', it originally ran from April 13, 2009 to April 13, 2016. Though normally described as a webcomic, and partly constituted by a series of single panel pages, ''Homestuck'' also relied heavily on Flash animations and instant message logs to convey its story, along with occasional use of browser games. Its plot centers on a group of teens who unwittingly bring about the end of the world by installing the beta version of an upcoming computer game, Sburb. The teens soon come into contact with a group of Internet trolls who are revealed to be horned aliens, and these trolls work with the kids to create a new universe by completing the game. It has been noted for its complex and nonlinear plot, considerable length at over 8,000 pages and 800,000 words, and intensely devoted fan community. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild West
The American frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few western territories as states in 1912 (except Alaska, which was not admitted into the Union until 1959). This era of massive migration and settlement was particularly encouraged by President Thomas Jefferson following the Louisiana Purchase, giving rise to the expansionist attitude known as " Manifest Destiny" and the historians' " Frontier Thesis". The legends, historical events and folklore of the American frontier have embedded themselves into United States culture so much so that the Old West, and the Western genre of media specifically, has become one of the defining periods of American national identity. The archetypical Old West period is generally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom
''The Phantom'' is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional African country of Bangalla. The character has been adapted for television, film and video games. The series began with a daily newspaper strip on February 17, 1936, followed by a color Sunday strip on May 28, 1939; both are still running as of . In 1966, King Features stated that ''The Phantom'' was being published in 583 newspapers worldwide. At its peak, the strip was read by over 100 million people daily. Falk worked on ''The Phantom'' until his death in 1999; since his death, the comic strip has been written by Tony DePaul. Since 2016, it has been drawn by Mike Manley (Monday–Saturday) and, since 2017, Jeff Weigel (Sunday). Previous artists on the newspaper strip include Ray Moore, Wilson McCoy, Bill Lignante, Sy Barry, George Olesen, Keith Williams, Fred Freder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. He established the first industrial research laboratory. Edison was raised in the American Midwest. Early in his career he worked as a telegraph operator, which inspired some of his earliest inventions. In 1876, he established his first laboratory facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where many of his early inventions were developed. He later established a botanical laboratory in Fort Myers, Florida, in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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