humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 4, 9:58 am, Art Neuendorffer
wrote:
> I've been on a family reunion & ski week at Lake Tahoe, California.
> .
> On our return from Lake Tahoe, on Sunday,
> we visited the Mark Twain museum in Virginia City, Nevada.
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> <<[S]amuel [L]anghorne *CLEMENS* (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910)
> and his brother traveled for more than two weeks on a stagecoach
> across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, visiting the MORMAN
> community in Salt Lake City along the way. These experiences became
> the basis of the book _Roughing It_ , and provided material for _The
> Celebrated Jumping Frog of *CALaVERas* County_.
> CLEMENS's journey ended in the silver-mining town of Virginia City,
> Nevada,
> where he became a miner.Twain failed as a miner and found work at a
> Virginia City newspaper, the Territorial Enterprise. On February 3,
> 1863,
> he signed a humorous travel account "LETTER FROM CARSON - re:
> Joe Goodman; party at Gov. Johnson's; music" with "Mark Twain."
> .
> Twain was born exactly two weeks after Halley's comet's perihelion.
> In his biography, he said, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835.
> It's
> coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The
> Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable
> freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' " Twain
> died on April 21, 1910, the day following the comet's subsequent
> perihelion.>>
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> <<[L]ewis [S]wift (February 29, 1820 - January 5, 1913) was an
> American astronomer [who] discovered or co-discovered a number of
> comets, including periodic comets 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR, 64P/Swift-
> Gehrels, and 109P/Swift-Tuttle (parent body of the Perseids meteor
> shower). Swift discovered his last comet at the age of 79. He was
> one of the few people to see Comet Halley at two of its appearances,
> 76 years apart. Apart from comets, he also discovered hundreds of
> nebulae. In 1878 he believed he had observed two Vulcan-type planets
> (planets within the orbit of Mercury), but he was mistaken.>>
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> . England dragged back to Catholicism
> . by Mary & PHILIP II St.ANDREWs Day, 1554
> .
> . (namesake) STELLA's PHILIP Sidney born St. ANDREWs Day, 1554
> _________________ +113
> . -----------------------
> . STELLA's Jonathan [S]wift born St. ANDREWs Day, 1667
> .
> . one 8 year Venus/Vanessa cycle later:
> .
> . Catholic CECIL *CAL-VERt* dies St. ANDREWs Day, 1675
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> *ANDREW-TIDE* : November 30 is the 334th day of the year.
> "Three weeks & three days before Christmas begins."
> .
> ___*DEAD WINTER*
> ___ {anagram}
> ___*ANDREW-TIDE*
> ....................................................
> According to Nigel Pennick (The Pagan Book of Days, 1992),
> Andrew is a version of the divinity *ANDROS* , the Man,
> personification of virility, seen as an aspect of Dionysus.
> ....................................................
> . Mithraism The Followers of MITHRAS
> . http://www.farvardyn.com/mithras1.htm
> .
> <> *ANDROS* shows how military service led to Mithras initiation.
> During the occupation of this island, when troops were being
> transported to the East for Septimius Serverus' expedition about
> A.D. 200, M. Aurelius Rufinus dedicated a cave to Mithras. >>
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> . _Home on the Range_ by Brewster Higley
> .
> [H]ome, home on the range,
> [W]here the deer and the antelope play;
> Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
> And the skies are not cloudy all day.
> .http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/kssights/higley.htm
> .
> <> A romantic, gifted man, He was a skillful physician with a love of
> music
> and the soul of a poet. After his third wife Catherine Livingston,
> mother of *ESTELLA* & Arthur Herman died from an injury in
> 1864 he married a Mrs. Mercy Ann McPherson, a widow, on
> *the eve of Feb. 29, 1866* . This marriage was the one reported
> to have caused the doctor to take to drink and come to Smith County,
> Kansas in 1871. The fourth marriage was dissolved Feb. 9, 1875
> by default, after three letters publication in an Indiana paper.
> Almost a month later he married a *Sarah CLEMENS* .>>
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> Art Neuendorffer

You were missed!
Nicole