about 10 years after grant died mark twain was asked in mark. twain had met everyone in the world i said reporter said who's most impressive person you've ever met. and twain answered i think above woman. i would put general grant. his was a grand figure and his was a noble nature. it was so simple and yet so beautiful. standing face to face with him. you looked at a man with a mighty record and yet it was not the knowledge of the fact, but the man's latent power that was so impressive with him. it was the perseverance of the man that distinguished him above others and then around the same time he said in a lecture ulysses s. grant was the greatest man. i have ever had the privilege of knowing personally. and i have not known a man with the kinder nature or a pure character. he was called the silent man the sphinx and he was that in public but not in private. there he was affluent and able-talker with a large sense of humor and most rare gift of compacting meaty things into phrases of stunning felicity along with his other great gifts. he had tha

mark twain -- well, mark twain, everybody learns about as the author of tom sawyer and huckleberry finnen we go to school, we don't learn about mark twain as the vice president of the anti-imperialist league. we aren't told that mark twain denounced theodore roosevelt for approving this massacre in the philippines. we want to give young people ideal figures like helen keller. and i remember learning about helen keller. everybody learns about helen keller, you know, a disabled person who overcame her handicaps and became famous. but people don't learn in school and young people don't learn in school what we want them to learn what we do books like "a young people's history of united states," that helen keller was a socialist. she was a labor organizer. she refused to cross a picket line that was picketing a theater showing a play about her. and so there are these alternate heroes in american history. there's fannie lou hamer and bob moses. there are the heroes of the civil rights movement. there are a lot of people who are obscure, who are not known. we have it in this "young people's hi

i enjoy the writing of mark twain and bill bryson and some of the other writers i have mentioned. i am always a mage -- amazed by great writers, how economical their sentences are. i am never more aware of that than when i am writing a book and i run on and on. aspirational is my writing style. >> do you sit outside or do you have a desk? >> i travel a lot for my work as an actor and maturing -- touring. i have the ability to write in a cabin overlooking a lake in minnesota with a breeze. that's probably 3% of my writing has been there. usually, i am in an airplane on my way to south africa or in a hotel room. anywhere. i'm glad that i'm able to write on the road because i'm usually on the road. >> you played the character ron swanson on parks and recreation for several years create weedeater, woodworker, libertarian. how much of that is in you? >> the base values are strongly similar. we both don't suffer food -- full glad. -- we don't suffer fools gladly. ron is an ideal libertarian. people who attempt libertarianism in this country soon learned that on paper, it sounds great. i

and his real name is samel klemms, i hold mark twain's book cut brothers. story called the famous caloverus jumping frog. and what do you think it was recognized as the best humorous stories in america printed up to this year. read this story. he is in this book and i think that you will be surprised, but in this book there really is a lot of fun , interesting and funny mark twain cut, brothers. cut stories. i want to talk about this book all the time. ah, ah, how interesting. oh such a beauty. oh, how wonderfully the heroic stories of the conquest of the arctic were published. who was the first at the north pole on an airship to the arctic, saving the chelyuskinites from papanin, how the book of sannikov was looking for the land of interest and at the same time very well designed, and one landing of a water drunk what is it worth? well, that is, don’t land on ice, it can be said that landing a plane there is very, very difficult, and vodopyanov, by the way, in order to slow down a plane at the north pole on ice, for the first time used a parachute for this

there is mark twain there is gyo-go e and so on., there are a huge number of excellent writers, but the fact is that dostoevsky is the main world writer. this is the world's leading writer in terms of aggregate indicators, that is, in terms of circulation of dissertations by translation and, in fact, the influence to world literature. he is unprecedented. there is not a single literary figure writer of any era of any child that is comparable in the world. with dostoevsky dostoevsky is the main world writer of all times and peoples it is absolutely amazing chekhov anton pavlovich is still, if you fix productions in all world theaters and take playwrights into classical playwrights. chekhov is still among the top three playwrights. in whose plays are most often staged along with ips? well , there's a couple more couples, another couple of playwrights, anyway less. chekhov does not lose these positions lost these positions our earth to which only it was said that it was maxim gorky, aka alexei maksimovich peshkov and during the first h

record, where you learn something that is astonishingly interesting and unlikely and plausible, as mark twain said, to paraphrase him. fiction is required to be plausible. truth needn't be. if you find a truth that if you made it up nobody would believe it, follow the line of fact as far as you can. what i'm interested in is the stories where you cannot know everything. because if you could, if jarrett had been able to tell his own story and if we knew all about him from his own point of view, would be for a narrative historian, devon mcculloch, but we do not know. it is in those voids i think you take your imaginative empathy to work. and when the line of fact phrase becomes too faint to follow, that is when i allow myself to think, maybe it went like this. so to try to hear the unheard, the people who did not tell their story. >> my guess is you had trouble with the historical research on the black grooms and horsemen. ms. brooks: that was a challenge, because enslaved people, generally speaking, were not allowed to become literate. so they did not leave an account of their own lives. you c

. >> mark twain said whiskey's for drinking. that water is for fighting over. so i guess we have a we have a fight on our hands here. >> well, the final vote or approval is expected next month. coming up next to the kron, 4 morning news workers and now celebrities are urging governor newsom decide deal. >> 2, 1, 8, 3 into law. we're going to have a tell wallace with the details after the break. >> time is running out for governor newsom to make a decision on a bill farm workers say will give them more union right? it comes as the governor has stated, he has concerns with the legislation. capital correspondent wallace explains now a celebrity in favor of the bill is getting involved, hoping his voice is going to help make a difference. >> and even with the rain, they're still here and their message to the governor remains the same. >> sign the bill, ronald reagan law. what union men and women that about it said. >> united farm workers, labor union getting some star power from activist and guitar, singer-songwriter tom morello of the rock band rage against the ma

. >> portraying notable an eccentric characters including literary luminaries mark twain and bret hart as well as the self-proclaimed emperor of the united states. morton. >> skills as a artists were soon found out by the owner, janet johnson. and she said you are so good at drying things. could you do something for the palace? and that's what he did. he painted another painting that we have in our prominent for her to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the original hotel. >> so the mayor went on to gain notoriety and was invited to serve as san francisco arts commissioner in the 1940's and 50's. it's just a tribute to if you work hard, you have the right attitude. great things can happen for many years. another sizable piece of his which he is said to have described as the most challenging project of his career was housed on treasure island. the terra cotta sculpture 50 feet wide titled the fountain of the pacific created for the golden gate international exhibition. world's fair in 1939. but the fountain symbolizing unity across the pacific ocean was broken up into smaller parts and

dnieper river turned into the mississippi itself in huckleberry finn and next to the heroes of mark twain'siliar faces. there are artists that i see on tv every day. spurred supported all the way. come on hand. come on, until the age of 9 , roma grew up like an ordinary soviet schoolboy family, he lived in dedovsk near moscow, he and his older brother, parents grandparents. there was nowhere to turn around in the kopeck piece, and the boys were drawn to the street, rushing through the courtyards of the buildings, fighting , inventing entertainment and a hairbrush. paper is lying around, a smokebox is somewhere, smoke is on the porch. yes, yes, shukher is everything, who is madyanova? well well mother said from here. let's take this gang, take this randomly thrown words to work somewhere and determined his fate, his father worked as a film director and once he took the boys with him that day they shot scenes of a film about school father asked the dressers to give the boys uniforms. let them run into extras at recess where roma got caught. what kind of aunt does the boy have leaks? i say, th

was the same mark twain just on the events that we are talking about about the civil war, while in russia is power in truth. whoever has the truth is stronger. seryozha bodrov became some kind of his own person for so many people. that's uh, really brother. let's do something quickly. i am russian with you. come on, don't quit. in general, i have a strange relationship with him, it’s not like, and it’s easier with something more mature, like a river, the sky is blue. this is all my own. he was not a low optician, not a fatalist. he lived, he enjoyed life, he was an easy person, he was bright, educated, charming, there are few such men and what kind of yours does not offend. here the elbrus region troops came to see sergei the man who was followed by a generation. here it is the culture, here it is the person. firewood on friday and saturday on the first 867 , the american writer mark twain, who had not yet taken a pseudonym, then he visited yalta with his voice, along with the rest of such tourists there, and they decided to write a collective note emperor alexander ii, a note of thanks,

i was 12 years old, i read a book by mark twain a yankee under the king-porch of king arthur from then for myself before going to bed. i thought, and how could i help king arthur with today's task, well, a person from modern times and how i could surprise or get around. well, let him be such a naive scientist, but still a scientist in those days of merlin. that's what i know and can do. can i do not know to make heating in the castle. can i figure out how to make a sewer to get electricity or something else this is very good for me a good game that can be useful to everyone, but because it immediately becomes it is clear that each of us is deftly pressing buttons on everyone. uh, tablets. these tasks are practically impossible to perform. that is, we do not fully know more than one technology. and this is strange. this is what i want to think about. it was we who hung out with your rivals so that you have a good, well, i think, yes, let's probably shoot fencing was, but shooting no is a technical skill for sure. let's check if such an answer on the scoreboard goes to the team of kalini

he himself, in finn's gelbury, next to the heroes of mark twain's novel with such familiar faces, therehe artists that i see every day on tv spurred themselves on romik let's laugh, when until the age of 9 roma grew up like an ordinary soviet schoolboy family, he and his older brother lived in dedovsk near moscow, parents grandparents. there was nowhere to turn around in the kopeck piece, and the boys were drawn to the street, rushing through the courtyards of the buildings, fighting, inventing entertainment for the comb, lying in paper. somewhere a chimney smoked up the floor of the entrance. yes, yes shukher is everything, who is who madyan. well, my mother told my father. let's take this gang, take it to work somewhere these accidentally thrown words determined his fate, his father worked as a film director and once he took the boys with him that day they were filming scenes of a film about the school, his father asked the dressers to give the boys a uniform. let them run into extras at recess where roma got caught. what kind of aunt does the boy have leaks? i say, there is e with a

he was as well-known and widely read is in the american writer since mark twain yet steinbeck was hardly revered or appreciated by the arbiters of the literary. during his lifetime critic dismissed his work is overly sentimental and not stylistically intimated. his literary reputation developed a parallel just popular acclaim. americans read a steinbeck because he articulated the daily striving more effectively and authentically than any writer of his generation. i'm drawn to his advocacy for families and the depression years who journeyed for my adoptive state of oklahoma and the rest of the southern plains to california. i appreciate the understanding for struggles or food, shelter, health, dignity of those who labor with their hands. perhaps my own back story explains my affinity. i grew up in working-class government housing in london. there is a single small bookcase with a paperback edition of mice and men was among its contents. that little book spoke to me with the directness thomas dickinson thomas hardy could not match steinbeck's advocate was him cursive nonetheless it was hea

we left only the plinth, it will be good. ah, there's a capitalist, she-wolf, book geography 100 mark twaind that four austrias five germanys or spains six frances and a dozen british isles would fit in its pool. museum 400 fell 1.200. vladimir has a headquarters in ivanovo on the day of light textile industry workers 9 june 1987 among the exhibits of products of 122 enterprises of the ivanovo region. science and scientists 300 recently on the british isle of wight, scientists have described two of their new species of hunter on the river bank and a crocodile-faced hell heron. dinosaurs dinosaurs the scientific names given to the newly discovered species paul science scientists 200 in his old age, the carlins loved to reread the scientific works of this author and were very enthusiastic about them, perhaps carl linnaeus was right. science taking into account the record for its calculation set last year in the swiss canton of graubundon amounted to almost 63 trillion decimal places. the number pi is apparently a museum for 500 charles the third ordered the construction of a building for the

with mark twain serving as a publisher who saw no need to edit grants pros. even as he fought through his pain to complete his memoirs grant thought of his family. one day he composed the letter to the president of the united states requesting an appointment for his grandson. then approaching his fourth birthday. to the united states military academy at west point a request that william mckinley would honor in 1898 thus allowing. ulyssia grant did's father to become. an army officer in june 1885 the grants left, new york city from mount mcgregor new york near saratoga springs with a general put the finishing touches on a manuscript that still stands today as a standard for american autobiography. the endeavor succeeded in providing for grants family beyond his wildest dreams. he could not stay to be a living witness to that final triumph. however passing away on the morning of july 23rd 1885 for days there was quite a discussion is where the general would be laid to rest. once more love for family triumph julia explained that among the considerations in choos

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and mark twain, his friend, says, how much are you getting paid for these articles? and he says 500 dollars. and he says, you are the best general we've had, you need to start writing your memoir, i will publish it, you are much better than those prices. -- >> only edited a few pages. he starts writing his memoir. he gets throat cancer, to the point where he can barely swallow. and they are spraying cocaine missed in the back of his throat. he swallows it and lives. he is under blankets. -- he finishes his memoir and a few days later he dies. when he sells it, it's the best selling book of the time. makes roughly 300,000 dollars, which equates to 14 million in today's terms. >> amazing. again, when you think of grant, as a general, i always thought of him as this big imposing figure of a man. but actually he was small in stature, wasn't he? >> he was very small, he was 5'7''and 130 pounds wet. why did they had the wet part? >> [laughs] >> -- he was 5'7''or 5'8", no offense. he was really small, so as a soldier, he never really wanted to be a soldier, he's that forced

presidency and has to start writing articles for a magazine about his time in the civil war and mark twain is his friend. he says how much do you get paid for these articles and he says $500. twain is really upset so he says you are much better than that. you are the president of best general we have ever had. you need to start a memoir and i will publish it and it was so well-written a lot of people thought twain wrote it but he didn't. he said he only edited a few pages. he starts writing his memoir and this this is the civil war part and he gets throat cancer to the point where he can barely swallow and they are spraying cocaine mist into the back of his throat so he can swallow and lives. he's huddled in blankets and writing in longhand because he wants to finish so that he can provide money for his wife, julia. he finishes his memoir and a few days later he dies. twain sells it and it's the best-selling book of the time and he makes roughly $3000 which equates to about $14 million in today's terms. thereby he takes care of his family. >> amazing. again when you think of grant as a gen

so -- to steal a line from a mark twain, he had the calm confidence of the christian four aces. 2 million u.s. troops fought in europe. it is swiftly transform the four-year sales make into a decisive military victory for the allies. also, the united states had made huge -- to the allies, and they needed more money to recover. the united states as one of the few countries that spin in the world with any money left at the end of this war. wilson, like most americans actually, assume the allies would bow to uncle sam's wishes in order to get on uncle sam's dollars. finally, ordinary people around the world were thrilled by wilson's vision for a lasting peace, by his idea that global parties required a global league. the photographs of people reading wilson, who made a tour of europe, and there are millions of people coming out to see him. in italy their war very operatic about it. you know, there were people and soldiers crawling up to kiss him and his trousers. streets were -- and italy were named for him. i was skeptical when i first read this. that the whole world love somebody. when doe

portraying notable an eccentric characters including literary luminaries, mark twain and bret hart asunited states. morton. >> skills as a artists were soon found out by the owner, janet johnson and she said you are so good at drawing things. could you do something for the palace? and that's what he did. he painted another painting that we have in our prominent for her to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the original hotel. >> so the mayor went on to gain notoriety and was invited to serve as san francisco arts commissioner in the 1940's and 50's. it's just a tribute to if you work hard, you have the right attitude. great things can happen for many years. another sizable piece of his which he is said to have described as the most challenging project of his career was housed on treasure island. the terra cotta sculpture 50 feet wide titled the fountain of the pacific created for the golden gate international exhibition. world's fair in 1939. but the fountain symbolizing unity across the pacific ocean was broken up into smaller parts and he's been tucked away out of sight for decades

. >> portraying notable an eccentric characters including literary luminaries mark twain and bret hart as well as the self-proclaimed emperor of the united states. morton. >> skills as a artists were soon found out by the owner, janet johnson and she said you are so good at drawing things. could you do something for the palace? and that's what he did. he painted another painting that we have in our prominent for her to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the original hotel. >> so the mayor went on to gain notoriety and was invited to serve as san francisco arts commissioner in the 1940's and 50's. it's just a tribute to if you work hard, you have the right attitude. great things can happen for many years. another sizable piece of his, which he is said to have described as the most challenging project of his career was housed on treasure island. the terra cotta sculpture 50 feet wide titled the fountain of the pacific created for the golden gate international exhibition. world's fair in 1939. but the fountain symbolizing unity across the pacific ocean was broken up into smaller parts an

absolutely, no mark twain about going to ohio. >> other things? what about cities? any city named jumping out? what do you notice? >> a lot of the core cities like boston in new york, philly, they are all connected by the highway. but also new cities like chicago and new orleans, they are also connected. >> yeah, excellent. we had these colonial cities being connected to one another in a more concrete way through road and rail transport. we also have the emergence of new western cities, excellent. jordan? >> off that point, now there's an ability for cities to pop up in the middle of the country, no long along seaport. they are able to travel a lot easier than through the water. >> great, great, excellent. >> the economic transformations as we have seen drastically alter their relation of to western lands and spurred the growth of these new cities today.. americans were lured west by transportation and communication. between 1790 and 1840, a period of just 50 years about 4. 5 million people crossed over the appalachian martin's to settle in new western areas. people

. >> mark twain said whiskey's for drinking. that water is for fighting over. so i guess we have a we have a fight on our hands here. >> some residents also raised concerns that the ordinance could lead to job losses. yet many spoke out in favor of the ban saying the bottles litter the lake, the final vote for approval is expected next month. the pandemic's impact on the food service industry in san francisco was obvious, but newly released data shows just how stark it was according to data from the u.s. census, bureau's american community survey, the city lost more than half of its restaurant jobs kron four's taylor. the sacking has the story. >> well, we laid off most unfortunately, the almost everybody. we had 100 employees and we were down to 8 at one time partner and director of operations at wayfair tavern or so. >> he's not surprised to learn that san francisco most 55% of its food service jobs between 2019 2021, according to new data from the u.s. census bureau, the city reported nearly 32,000 food service workers in 2019 compared to just about 14,000 i

. >> mark twain said whiskey's for drinking. that water is for fighting over. so i guess we have a we have a fight on our hands here. >> some residents also raise concerns of the ordinance could lead to job losses. yet many spoke out in favor of the ban saying the bottles litter the lake. the final vote is expected. for approval next month. we'll let you know what happens. still ahead this hour on kron 4 news, president biden. choosing a treatment for your chronic migraine - 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more - can be overwhelming. so, ask your doctor about botox®. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine before they even start. it's the #1 prescribed branded chronic migraine treatment. so far, more than 5 million botox® treatments have been given to over eight hundred and fifty thousand chronic migraine patients. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness can be sig

the great line in tom sawyer, we earn evangelist is coming to town and mark twain writes, the evangelist was so good that even hawk finn we saved until tuesday. this is who we are. but you get up every morning and you do it. and i think the country missed this, a huge part of the country -- i know i did. i missed this from 2017, from 2021. and i think that the more we can remind ourselves that we have overcome a virulent division in the past, we have come through war, we have come through depression, we have come through strife. and that is not a guarantee. that we are going to do it again. but the portraits in that house on pennsylvania avenue are purchase of flawed people, who send a lot more often than they did saintly things. but they kept this experiment going. and i think that is what we all have to be focused on, hour to hour. >> john, it's always a pleasure. thank you sir, appreciate. it >> thank you. >> -- the former president barack obama getting back on the campaign trail as well. the white house celebrates his legacy. >> portraits are going to hang on the walls in the sacred

portraying notable an eccentric characters including literary luminaries, mark twain and bret hart ased states. morton. >> skills as a artists were soon found out by the owner, janet johnson and she said you are so good at drawing things. could you do something for the palace? and that's what he did. he painted another painting that we have in our prominent for her to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the original hotel. >> so the mayor went on to gain notoriety and was invited to serve as san francisco arts commissioner in the 1940's and 50's. it's just a tribute to if you work hard, you have the right attitude. great things can happen for many years. another sizable piece of his which he is said to have described as the most challenging project of his career was housed on treasure island. the terra cotta sculpture 50 feet wide titled the fountain of the pacific created for the golden gate international exhibition. world's fair in 1939. but the fountain symbolizing unity across the pacific ocean was broken up into smaller parts and he's been tucked away out of sight for decades. tr

constitutional monarchy is a complicate institution to continue, but i think that as an american once said, mark twainnarchy are premature and greatly exaggerated. >> a cultural icon. seven decades during which she ruled. she became an icon of the pop world. warhol glorified her. and just looking at some of the many musicians and artists that have reacted. paul mccartney. there you see it, god bless her, may she rest in peace, long live the king. and elton john who famously sang at princess diana's funeral had a moment where he spoke about the queen last night. and are the days of a monarch becoming a culture rap icon over? >> they aren't, but longevity -- actuarial tables matter here. she became queen in her mid-20s. and now there was obviously a great longevity genes there. unlikely unless there is a real scientific breakthrough that charles at 73 will reign for 70 years. a safe prediction to make. but the fact that elizabeth was part of the cultural ethos for so long, part of the wallpaper of global life for 70 years through storm and strife, and to expect any successor to have that kind of an impa

. >> mark twain said whiskey's for drinking. that water is for fighting over.ess we have a we have a fight on our hands here. >> who will win? well, we'll see. the final vote is expected next month. >> well, them are in marine mammal center and ocean science laboratories going to be using a new system to try and prevent ships and wales from crashing into each other. the system is called whale safe. it's a first of its kind program. an artificial intelligence program is going to be collecting real-time. well, detection information. they'll use acoustic monitoring. big data models and direct mail sightings to kind of map out where the whales are at any given time. and scientists are hoping this will help. an estimated 80 endangered whales were killed by ship strikes off the west coast each year and last month the healthy humpback whale was killed in a ship strike, making it the 5th one to die that way. this year. >> we'll ship collisions are a top source mortality of death for endangered endangered whales in and the west coast, north america. and for that matter

so it was offer writing high to steal a line from mark twain. he had the calm confidence of a christian with four aces. two million us troops who fought in europe had swiftly transformed of four years stalemate into a decisive military victory for the allies. also, the united states had made huge war loans to the allies and they needed more money to recover united states is one of the few countries in the world with any money left at the end of this war. so wilson, like most americans actually assumed that the allies would bow to uncle sam's wishes in order to get uncle sam's dollars. finally ordinary people around the world were thrilled by wilson's vision for a lasting peace and by his idea that global problems required a global league. the the photographs of people greeting wilson, he made a kind of tour of europe and there are millions of people who come out to see him and in italy there were very kind of operatic about it. you know, there were people wounded soldiers crawling up to him this way to kiss the hem of his trousers and streets we

i think it was one point, mark twain, who said history doesn't rhyme or history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. it's fairly poignant to be able to see that reflected in a historical quote that leads into some material that is going to be introduced to a brand new reader for the first time. it also, to a certain extent, shows the fundamentals of how we do offense, defense and stability in context. somebody famous somewhere once did those things. so therefore, i'm learning them now as i read the doctrine itself, it also, i will admit it breaks up the monotony of reading sometimes, which can be a painfully dense book and introduces historical experiences that are kind of distilled into this memorable turn of phrase. it's it's a nice breakup. it's a nice esthetic to put in a book and selfishly, as an amateur story in military historian, it encourages curiosity. it encourages us to learn more, especially especially at a time in which we see individual males who are coming into their own as tacticians. it encourages us to look at ourselves and to reflect and see if our institution reflects th