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Join the club: Passion sustains K Circle, the oldest quizzing group in Hyderabad

K Circle Quizzing group is one of the oldest surviving quizzing groups of Hyderabad. The quizzing group celebrates its golden jubilee by hosting Kaikuu 2023, a quiz festival for the quizzers of India at the Bhaskara Auditorium, Hyderabad in October

The Hindu

Inspirational Quotes: Roy Disney, Mia Hamm And Others

Read inspirational quotes about living your life intentionally, trusting your instincts and sticking to your convictions.

Investors Business Daily

Lori Borgman: Getting a jump-start on summer

We may be alike in that you, too, believed frog jumping contests had gone the way of Mark Twain, steamboats and rotary dial telephones.

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Boomer Esiason weighs in on Corey Dillon’s Bengals Ring of Honor comments

Boomer Esiason has thoughts on Corey Dillon's comments.

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'I sailed the Mississippi River on the largest steamboat ever built - it's no ordinary cruise'

American Queen is the largest steamboat ever built and a cruise on the mighty Mississippi river in the USA is an easy paced voyage of discovery from New Orleans to Memphis taking in music and plantation homes

Daily Mirror

"For a while, it was the worst song on the album…" The story behind Rush's Tom Sawyer

Inspired by old books and new technology, Tom Sawyer was the song that reinvented prog giants Rush – but it almost never made the album

Louder

Selling yourself is a minefield for all of us – not just students. Here’s how to do it in 600 words

The fine art of self-promotion is more vital than ever – and crafting a personal statement is apt training for modern life, says writer and reviewer Katy Guest

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Why are Republicans so bad at lying?

They lie so much, shouldn’t they be better at it?

Salon

Despite glorious voices, mighty ‘Big River’ musical gets conventional staging at Mercury Theater

Director Christopher Chase Carter has delivered a simplistic take on the story, that lacks any sort of irony, satire or self-awareness — an anathema to Mark Twain’s entire oeuvre.

Chicago Sun-Times

Oyster stew, sturgeon soup: historic menus from Lincoln’s inaugural to San Quentin prison

New York exhibition of more than 200 menus traces US history through a century of dining

The Guardian - US

ChatGPT's greatest achievement might just be its ability to trick us into thinking that it's honest

In American writer Mark Twain’s autobiography, he quotes — or perhaps misquotes — former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as saying: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

The Conversation

John Clay: Kentuckians will soon be able to legally wager on sports. Why that’s a good thing.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Mark Twain might or might not have famously said he wanted to be in Kentucky when the world ends. Everything happens 20 years later here.

Tribune News Service

The bank collapses triggered by SVB have uncanny parallels to the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s

“The arithmetic behind it was timeless," George Ball of Sanders Morris Harris told Fortune.

Fortune

Adam Sandler gets Mark Twain Prize salute from loyal friends, co-stars

Billy Madison is all grown up, winning big prizes like the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor — an award previously bestowed on comedians and actors such as Richard Pryor, Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett.

Los Angeles Times

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Adam Sandler awarded Mark Twain Prize for comedy

Actor and comedian Adam Sandler has become the 24th recipient of the Kennedy Centre's Mark Twain Prize for American Humour.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: By George: Even top Republicans now say Santos, the fraud, must go

Mark Twain is right that a lie travels around the world before the truth can put its pants on, but the truth has raced back to bite George Santos in the rear. That became clearer than ever Wednesday as leading New York Republicans demanded the new congressman resign immediately. Among…

The Independent UK

Adam Sandler will be honoured with prestigious award for his work in comedy

Sandler will receive the distinguished award this March

WEKU

Adam Sandler wins the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

The Kennedy Center has announced Adam Sandler as the winner of this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Sandler's credits include SNL, Happy Gilmore, Grown Ups, The Wedding Singer and Hustle.

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Bangkok Post

Bust your worries to boost your creativity

'I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened," noted the American writer Mark Twain. What worries are on your mind right now? These days, many people worry about many things, which is unsurprising given that we're living in a fragile world that, in the…

The Guardian - UK

Music is the food of love, so sing on

Chicago Sun-Times

Queen Elizabeth II played the hand she was dealt

So her ancestors caused mine to die of famine. Nothing she personally could have done about it.

Chicago Sun-Times

Singer Jim Post, Chicago folk music star who hit big with ‘Reach Out of the Darkness,’ dead at 82

Chicago performer Corky Siegel said, “I think he was just the greatest in the Chicago folk scene.” He later reinvented himself, writing and performing in one-man plays about Mark Twain.

Chicago Tribune

Nina Metz: ‘Ferris Bueller 2!’ With every reboot, spinoff or sequel, I think: Make it stop. Hollywood will not stop

There is no such thing as a new idea. Mark Twain made that observation, and who knew he would be anticipating Hollywood’s compulsion to reboot and spinoff and treat any stand-alone story as a launchpad for an entire universe of stories.

The Independent UK

Huckleberry Finn given trigger warning by university over ‘problematic’ content

1884 novel has been placed under increased scrutiny in recent years

Salon

15 facts about "The Miracle Worker"

The 1962 film starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke became the stuff of legend for their bold, combative roles

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