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Everybody's Encyclopedia · 1912 · p. 13
Samuel Langhorne, best known by his pen-name Mark TWAIN, an American humorist, born in Florida, Mo., Nov. 30, 1835. After A common-school education, he was in turns compositor, Mi i ippi pilot, Confederate soldier, a Nevada newspaper reporter, gold-miner, and a lecturer. He sprang into celebrity in 1869 with the “innocents Abroad.” Also wrote “A Tramp Abroad,” * Huckleberry Finn,” “ Pudd’nhead Wilson,” etc. As a writer he po e ed a remarkable fund of humor. Died April 20; 1910. Clement VII., Pope, (Giulio de Medici), nephew of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and cousin of Leo X., sucreeded Adrian VI. in 1523. It was during his reign that schism occurred which ultimately resulted in the separation of England from the Romish Church. He died in 1534, and was succeeded by Paul IIT. Clement XI., (Giovanni Francesco Albani), born in Pesaro, 1649, succeeded Innocent XII., 1700. He i ued the famous Uni gen it us bull. Died in 1721, succeeded by Innocent XIII.:
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