Mark Twain

U.S. 05/17/21, 16:33

A St. John's University professor was fired for reading a line from Mark Twain's anti-slavery novel "Pudd'nhead Wilson" in her "Literature of Satire" class that included an N-word. Hannah Berliner Fischthal, a 20-year adjunct teacher at a Catholic university in Queens, said the N-word once during a remote class on Feb. ...

U.S. 05/06/19, 14:42

Red-legged frogs made famous by Mark Twain are thriving in Yosemite Valley after a decades-long absence.Ecologists this spring found clusters of eggs in meadows and ponds, proof of the first breeding by the frogs in Yosemite since 2017, when adult red-legged frogs were reintroduced after a 50-year absence, Yosemite National ...

U.S. 04/16/19, 18:03

Artifacts recovered from an 1872 time capsule stashed in the cornerstone of a demolished Masonic lodge in Reno include silver dollars minted in Carson City and San Francisco, and a piece of wood from Sutter's Mill where the discovery of gold sparked the California Gold Rush. Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve, leaders ...

U.S. 04/08/19, 12:18

The window of the Bee Naturals bath-and-body shop offers a view out of a Mark Twain novel: The sprawling Mississippi River at one of its widest points lapping against a small-town Missouri waterfront as barges float by and eagles dart in the air above.But with a major flood receding and ...

U.S. 03/19/19, 15:29

Floodwaters driven by a swift current have torn through and spilled over levees at countless locations across the Midwest, swamping hundreds of homes and businesses. The levees are meant to protect people and property from rising water in rivers, creeks, lakes and even drainage ditches. But none of them is ...

Entertainment 09/18/18, 08:42

NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming audiobook about Mark Twain offers food for thought, and some thoughts for food.