Welcome to #CheckIn for Tuesday, November 30th!

Today marks the birth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better know under his pen name of Mark Twain.
Born this day 186 years ago, 1835 in Florida, Missouri - died on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut, aged 74.

An ardent imperialist, Twain was also an adamant supporter of the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of slaves, he was a strong supporter of labor, who wrote glowingly about unions in the river boating industry in Life on the Mississippi, which was read in union halls decades later.

Twain was opposed to the vivisection practices of his day. His objection was not on a scientific basis but rather an ethical one. He specifically cited the pain caused to the animal as his basis of his opposition.
“I am not interested to know whether Vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't. ... The pains which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity towards it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.”

Though Twain was a Presbyterian, he was critical of organized religion and certain elements of Christianity throughout his later life. For example he wrote, "Faith is believing what you know ain't so", and "If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.”

Reportedly, Mark Twain claimed to be the first author to use the typewriter, and his entire manuscript for Life on the Mississippi was submitted to the publisher in typeface. But, despite his enamor with the “newfangled typing machine,” Twain quickly became frustrated with the typewriter.

He was also somewhat of a Crazy Cat Lady. No small wonder I like him!
“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” -Mark Twain.

Other asides, Pink Floyd's The Wall was released in '79, and it's National Mousse Day.

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