• Albury, Australia

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    Albury /ˈɔːlbəri/[3] is a major regional city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. It is the seat of local government for the council area which also bears the city's name - the City of Albury. Albury has an urban population of 45,627 people.[1]

  • Suva, Fiji Islands

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    On the Following the Equator tour, Twain made port here on Wednesday September 11, 1895. They spent had a dinner on land and visited with "the head of the state" then made sail again.

  • Turin

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    The city was historically a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. Turin is sometimes called "the cradle of Italian liberty" for having been the political and intellectual centre of the Risorgimento that led to the unification of Italy, as well as the birthplace of notable individuals who contributed to it, such as Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour.

  • Giza

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    Giza (/ˈɡiːzə/; sometimes spelled Gizah or Jizah; Coptic: ⲅⲓⲍⲁ Giza; Egyptian Arabic: الجيزة‎‎ el-Gīza), is the third-largest city in Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile, 5 km (3 mi) southwest of central Cairo. Along with Cairo Governorate, Shubra El-Kheima, Helwan, 6th October City and Obour, the five form Greater Cairo metropolis.

  • Antwerp, Belgium

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    The recognition of the independence of the United Provinces by the Treaty of Münster in 1648 stipulated that the Scheldt should be closed to navigation, which destroyed Antwerp's trading activities.

  • Washington D.C.

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    Sam Clemens' first visit was in February of 1854.  He returned again in 1867.

    November 24 & 25, 1884: Twain and Cable stayed in Washington D.C. the nights of the 24th and 25th, leaving for Philadelphia the morning of the 26th. 

    February 28, 1885

  • New Orleans, LA

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    From 1868, elections in Louisiana were marked by violence, as white insurgents tried to suppress black voting and disrupt Republican Party gatherings. The disputed 1872 gubernatorial election resulted in conflicts that ran for years.

  • Cincinnati, Ohio

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    Sam Clemens arrived in Cincinnati from Keokuk, Iowa in October of 1856.  He worked as a printer for T. Wrightson & Co. at 167 Walnut St.  He stayed at a boardinghouse at 76 Walnut St.  He wrote two letters to the Keokuk Post using the name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.  On February 16, 1857, he boarded the Paul Jones and left the city for New Orleans, where he became Bixby's cub.

    He returned to the city as part of the Twain-Cable Tour, January 1885.

  • St. Louis, MO

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    Saint Louis, Missouri was well known to Samuel Clemens.

    According to Rasmussen, while working as a river boat pilot "he landed at St. Louis perhaps 60 times."

    St Louis was Sam's destination when he first left home in Hannibal, arriving May 27, 1853. He was 17 1/2 years old and aiming for New York City.

    Sam returned to St. Louis in 1854.  He contributed a letter to the Muscatine Tri-Weekly Journal, 16 Feb 1855 that remarked on efforts to enlarge the size of St. Louis as well as railroad developments.  

  • Buffalo, NY

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    August 23, 1853 Sam Clemens first passed through Buffalo on his way to New York. 

    August of 1869, he had bought into the Buffalo Express and became a resident of the city. He lived in an East Swan Street boardinghouse near the newspaper, thenm went on a lecture tour.  Returning to Buffalo as a married man, he moved into a furnished house at 472 Delaware Avenue.

  • Trenton, New Jersey

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    "150 years ago, on February 23, 1869, a young Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name “Mark Twain,” came to Trenton. He drew a crowd to the Taylor Opera House on South Broad Street where he gave a speech on the topic of his then-recent trip to Europe and the Holy Land. At age 34, Mark Twain was just beginning to make a name for himself at the start of his great literary career.  "    Mark Twain in Trenton

  • Baltimore, MD

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    November 28 & 29, 1884 Academy of Music  

    February 27, 1885 Oratorio Hall (Unknown location) 

    Twain interviewed 28 November 1884  "Mark Twain's Ideas: A Talk with the Humorist" Baltimore American, 29 November 1884, Included in "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" by Gary Scharnhorst (#23)