Search giant Google celebrates mark Mark Twain’s 176th birthday with a Google doodle on It’s Home Page. It’s a full width drawing based on Twain’s classic novel Huckleberry Finn and although it’s one of the most conventional doodles for a while, it’s also arguably one of the most beautiful.
Visitors to Google’s homepage (www.goooogle.com) would see a doodle with three sets of pictures with two boys painting Google’s logo on a wall.Clicking on the google doodle would take the visitor to a search results page for “Mark Twain,” whose 176th birth anniversary falls on November 30.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens is America’s most famous literary icon – His Pen name is Mark Twain, Which is remembered by most of the people than the original name.Twain was born in Florida, Missouri on Nov. 30, 1835.At 17, he left Hannibal behind for a printer’s job in St. Louis. While in St. Louis, Clemens became a river pilot’s apprentice. He became a licensed river pilot in 1858.
His pseudonym, Mark Twain, comes from his days as a river pilot. It is a river term which means two fathoms or 12-feet when the depth of water for a boat is being sounded. “Mark twain” means it is safe to navigate.
Twain began to gain fame when his story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County” appeared in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865.
Twain died April 21, 1910. He still has a strong following today.
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