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- 08:37, 27 October 2025 KB talk contribs moved page Anecdotes/Pen Name to Pen Name without leaving a redirect
- 10:20, 24 October 2025 KB talk contribs created page Anecdotes/Pen Name (Created page with "Samuel L. Clemens started using the pen name "Mark Twain" in 1863 (see Rasmussen 774). Its first known appearance was in a letter published in the ''Virginia City Territorial Enterprise'' on 3 Feb. 1863 (see Rasmussen 774). The names' nautical origin (literally meaning "two marks" or 12 feet in measuring the depth of a river) were repeatedly explained to the general public in newspaper reports - sometimes in the form of a short article merely professing to present an in...")
- 15:45, 26 September 2025 KB talk contribs moved page DesignPrinciples to PageDesign without leaving a redirect
- 15:43, 26 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page WorkflowPageImport (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE: Workflow: Creating Article Pages}} Category:Editorial Pages == Importing Images == with Extension:Simple Batch Uploader ==== Preparing image files ==== * file name corresponds to item ID (e.g. “IA-001”) * file extension is “.png” * only one file per item ==== Uploading image files ==== * Special Page “BatchUpload” (https://pressger.twainframe.org/Special:BatchUpload) * description field: <noinclude>Category:Article Image</noinclude>...")
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- 11:15, 22 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Category:Article Image (Created page with "Images of newspaper articles.")
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- 10:18, 22 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Category:Project Image (Created page with "Images for site layout or illustrating project structure and design choices.")
- 10:12, 22 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page ProjectDesign (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:Project Design in Graphics}} File:Mtx-project-design.gif File:MtxWeb-workflow.gif File:Mtx-workflow-skills.gif")
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- 09:22, 22 September 2025 KB talk contribs deleted page PlacesOverview (consolidated on Overview of Topics)
- 09:18, 22 September 2025 KB talk contribs deleted page PeopleOverview (information consolidated on Overview of Topics)
- 10:32, 17 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Category:EmptyLinkList (Created page with "Topic Pages with no current links to Article Pages.")
- 09:43, 15 September 2025 KB talk contribs moved page Hermann Theodor Schmidt to Hermann Theodor Schmid without leaving a redirect
- 09:03, 12 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Woman (Created page with "Mark Twain delivered this speech on 22nd December 1882 at the annual dinner of the ''New England Society of New York''. The text of the speech can be found in ''Mark Twain Speaking'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/KXXAMETC/ Fatout, 173-175]). Coverage of this event in the American English-language press can be found for example in the ''Evening star'' ([https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1882-12-23/ed-1/seq-6/ "A Speech by M...")
- 08:56, 12 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page The Babies (Created page with "Mark Twain's speech on "The Babies" was delivered on 13th November 1879 during a Reunion Banquet of the Army of the Tennessee in Chicago. For the full text see ''Mark Twain Speaking'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/KXXAMETC/ Fatout 131-134]). {{TopicLinkList}} Category:Topic Pages Category:Topic Works Category:Preliminary Information")
- 08:12, 12 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Savage Club Speech (Created page with "On 15th November 1895, Mark Twain held a speech at the Savage Club in Christchurch, New Zealand. A version of the speech can be found in ''Mark Twain Speaking'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/KXXAMETC/ Fatout, 302-304]). {{TopicLinkList}} Category:Topic Pages Category:Topic Works Category:Preliminary Information")
- 07:57, 11 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Grandfather's Ram (Created page with "This speech was based on an episode from ''Roughing It'', in which the character Jim Blaine attempts to tell a story while repeatedly getting off track, never finishing the narrative he started ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/ZU58WNGG ch. 53, 383-390]). {{TopicLinkList}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:His Grandfather's Old Ram}} Category:Topic Pages Category:Topic Works Category:Preliminary Information")
- 10:51, 8 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Introducing General Hawley (Created page with "Mark Twain gave a speech introducing Genral Hawley at the Republican Meeting in Elmira, New York, on 16th October, 1879 ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/KXXAMETC/library Fatout, ''Mark Twain Speaking'', 128]). Different versions of the speech circulated in various newspapers. {{TopicLinkList}} Category:Topic Pages Category:Topic Works Category:Preliminary Information")
- 10:38, 8 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Switzerland Cradle of Liberty (Created page with "A series of six letters Mark Twain wrote for American newspapers ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/BF6Z2ZNX/ Paine 2:923]) and which appeared as “Switzerland, The Cradle of Liberty” in the Twain collection ''What Is Man? And Other Essays'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/JXA6U5MI 1917, 193-208]). The article was published under different titles in several American newspapers, including ''The Pittsburg Dispatch'' which c...")
- 10:29, 8 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Sitting in Darkness (Created page with "Mark Twain’s “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” is a polemical article which appeared in the North American Review in 1901 ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/UD2CVFHG/ 172:531, 161-176]). The first half of it is made up of satirical comments on the recent dealings of England, Germany, Russia, and the United States for their invasion of smaller undeveloped countries. The second half has specific references to the conduct of the United Stat...")
- 10:17, 8 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Letter Treasury (Created page with "On October 3rd 1902, Mark Twain sent a letter to the secretary of the treasury in which Twain requested to be send winter fuel - in the form of treasury bonds, bank notes, etc.. The letter soon started circulating in the press and was subsequently translated in the German-language papers as well. The full text can be found in ''Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/G4BNQ8EC/ Scharnhorst 171]). {{TopicLinkList}} {{...")
- 10:08, 8 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Salutation Speech (Created page with "Mark Twain's text "Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth", a sarcastic and critical welcome to the new millenium, was origianlly published in the ''New York Herald'', 30 Dec. 1900, 7. The text can be found in ''Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/G4BNQ8EC/ Scharnhorst 163]). {{TopicLinkList}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth"}} {{DEFAULTSORT:...")
- 09:55, 8 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Running for Governor (Created page with "The sketch “Running for Governor” was originally published in the ''Buffalo Express'' in November 1870 and in ''The Galaxy'' in December 1870 ([https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924079618660&seq=892 10:6, 878-880]). The Library of America’s ''Story of the Week'' article on the sketch elaborates on the historical context: <blockquote>The 1870 New York gubernatorial election pitted the Democratic incumbent, John T. Hoffman, against the Republican, Stewar...")
- 09:45, 8 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Letter Postal Service (Created page with "Mark Twain’s letter was dated July 22, 1876. A transcribed and annotated version is available from the ''Mark Twain Project'' ([https://www.marktwainproject.org/letters/uccl01350/ UCCL01350]). The text was reprinted by several American daily newspapers under different headings. It can be found in ''Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/G4BNQ8EC Scharnhorst, 98-99]). Some examples for newspaper reprints are: * [...")
- 09:40, 8 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Notice Burglars (Created page with "A report on the burglary was published in the ''New York Times'' ("Burglars Invade Mark Twain Villa," 19 Sept. 1908) and Barbara Schmidt provides a [http://www.twainquotes.com/19080919.html transcript] of the article at ''Twainquotes''. A digital version of Mark Twain's original note is available via the Digital Collections of the New York Public Library as part of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection ("Notice to the next burglars, and Affidavit to the court ident...")
- 09:28, 8 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Million Bank Note (Created page with "Mark Twain’s short story “The £1,000,000 Bank-Note,” was first published in 1893 in the ''Century Magazine'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/QQ3HRZUH/ 45:3, 338-346]). In the same year, the text appeared in the collection ''The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories by Mark Twain'', which was released in different formats by three different publishers: Charles Webster & Co in New York ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdig...")
- 09:07, 8 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page McWilliams Lightning (Created page with "“Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning” (1880) is the second of three McWilliams family stories which appeared between 1875 and 1882. It first appeared in the September 1880 issue of ''The Atlantic Monthly'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/R8AN85X4/ 46:275, 380-384]) and was republished in the collections ''The Stolen White Elephant'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/HB29VSIN/ 1882]) and ''The American Claimant and Other...")
- 09:00, 8 September 2025 KB talk contribs created page Making Fortune (Created page with "This short sketch by Mark Twain appeared in several American daily newspapers beginning in February 1873. Most newspapers printed the sketch under the heading "Making a Fortune"; however, the ''Delaware State Journal'' used "How to Make Fortune" as the title ([https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026836/1873-04-12/ed-1/ ''Delaware State Journal'', 12 Apr. 1873, 1]). A version is reprinted in ''Mark Twain Speaks for Himself'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital...")
