Basel has often been the site of peace negotiations and other international meetings. The Treaty of Basel (1499) ended the Swabian War. Two years later Basel joined the Swiss Confederation. The Peace of Basel in 1795 between the French Republic and Prussia and Spain ended the First Coalition against France during the French Revolutionary Wars. In more recent times, the World Zionist Organization held its first congress in Basel from 29 August through 31 August 1897.
The Clemens party took rooms at the Esplanade Hotel, also known as Watson’s Hotel. (January 18, 1896). They made trips to Baroda and January 31 and Poona on January 29. They departed Bombay February 3 for Allahabad.
Mark Twain lectured at the Bijou Theatre in Melbourne five (5) times, Friday, September 27, 1895, Saturday, September 28, Monday, September 30, Tuesday, October 1, and Wednesday, October 2. He returned to Melbourne in late October and lectured once at the Athenaeum Hall on Saturday, October 26, 1895.
Geneva (/dʒəˈniːvə/ jə-NEE-və; French: Genève [ʒənɛv] is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous of the French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, and a centre for international diplomacy. Geneva hosts the highest number of international organizations in the world.
Sam and companions traveled by train from Alexandria and arrived in Cairo the evening of October 4, 1867. From here they visited the Sphinx and the Pyramids at Giza. They returned to Alexandria October 7th. Mark Twain Project: Quaker City Itinerary
Alexandria was too much like a European city to be novel, and we soon tired of it. So, they take a train to Cairo October 4.
Clemens and his party arrived in Jerusalem at noon on 23 September after departing the village of Lubban at 2:30 that morning. Riding ahead of their tents and equipment, they took rooms at the Mediterranean Hotel, “a large and commodious house, well situated near the British Consulate, and not far from the Damascus gate,” according to a contemporary guidebook.
The city of Tacoma and surrounding areas were inhabited for thousands of years by Native Americans, predominantly the Puyallup people, who lived in settlements on the delta. In 1852, a Swede named Nicolas Delin constructed a sawmill powered by water on a creek near the head of Commencement Bay, but the small settlement that grew up around it was abandoned during the Indian War of 1855–56.
May 2, 1878
From Bædeker's Northern Germany (1873) Route 8 page 79
9. Cassel and Environs.
Hotels.
*KŒNiG VON PREUSSEN, next to the post-office;
*HÔTEL SCHIRMER, both in the Königs-Platz, which is remarkable for its sixfold echo;
PRINZ FRIEDRICH WILHELM;
VICTORIA HÔTEL;
HÖTEL DU NORD;
DEUTSCHER KAISER, Bahnhofs-Str.
Amsterdam was founded at the Amstel, that was dammed to control flooding; the city's name derives from the Amstel dam. Originating as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became one of the most important ports in the world during the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, and became the leading centre for the finance and trade sectors. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the city expanded and many new neighborhoods and suburbs were planned and built.
During the 19th century, the population of Brussels grew considerably; from about 80,000 to more than 625,000 people for the city and its surroundings. The Senne had become a serious health hazard, and from 1867 to 1871, under the tenure of the city's then-mayor, Jules Anspach, its entire course through the urban area was completely covered over. This allowed urban renewal and the construction of modern buildings of Haussmann-esque style along grand central boulevards, characteristic of downtown Brussels today.
Sam's view of New York City, 1853:
December 29, 1884 Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Unable to find location.
Interviewed: "Mark Twain Gets Shaved", Pittsburgh Penny Press, 29 December 1884, p4 In "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" (#27)
Monongahela House "Talk with Twain" Pittsburgh Chronicle, 29 December 1884, p1. (#28) Mentions that the location of the church is on Sixth avenue.
Twain often visited Boston. The Lyceum lecture bureau of James Redpath; his publisher James R, Osgood; and his friend W.D. Howells, his friend and editor of the Atlantic Monthly were all there. Rasmussen remarks that Twain selected Hartford, Connecticut in 1871 for a home because it was midway between New York and Boston, with easy train connections to both. "Over the next 35 years he spoke frequently in Boston and met most of New England's leading literary figures there."
Dan Haneckow has written a fine vignette, February 26, 2012, on Mark Twain's visit to Portland: Mark Twain in Portland
Mr. Pearce of the Portland Oregonian and Clemens. Portland, Oregon. August 9
Mark Twain Archive, Elmira College courtesy of Kevin Mac Donnell, Austin, Texas.
The opening of the canal at Sault Ste. Marie, in 1855 and the contemporaneous announcement of the railroads' coming had made Duluth the only port with access to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Soon the lumber industry, railroads and mining were all growing so quickly that the influx of workers could hardly keep up with demand and storefronts popped up almost overnight. By 1868 business in Duluth was really booming. "The Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas".
"I have elsewhere spoken of the endless Winter of Mono, California, and but this moment of the eternal Spring of San Francisco. Now if we travel a hundred miles in a straight line, we come to the eternal Summer of Sacramento. One never sees Summer-clothing or mosquitoes in San Francisco—but they can be found in Sacramento. Not always and unvaryingly, but about one hundred and forty-three months out of twelve years, perhaps.
Mark Twain visited Africa on two separate journeys. This, his first visit, he writes about in "The Innocents Abroad". He actually visits the continent twice on this trip. At its furthest point he visits Egypt. Of course, in the world of fiction Tom, Huck and Jim take a balloon ride over the Sahara in "Tom Sawyer Abroad". Many years later Mark Twain visits South Africa, as written about in "Following the Equator".