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Portrait of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain from 1867.

Mark Twain’s “My Platonic Sweetheart”

In an essay published posthumously in 1912, Mark Twain recounts his dreams of a long-lost love

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Little Ice Age Art

Along his tour of Mississippi, writer Jamie Katz took a detour into Tunica's gambling emporia.

Memphis Blues, Mississippi Delta Roots

A random jaunt through the hallowed region that flavors the culture of its urban cousin to the north

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Setting Tax Day to Music

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Snacks for Tax Day

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Rock Out With Hevisaurus

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World War I: 100 Years Later

The Dinosaur Casualties of World War I

On December 6, 1916, two years into “the war to end all wars,” a German naval crew destroyed a set of 75-million-year-old dinosaur skeletons

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