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Quoth Johny Walker: Mark Twain(2) was born (1835) when Halley’s Comet(1) came closest to earth and died when it happened again(1910).
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May 22nd, 2009 at 10:10 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1243030246 )
Mark Twain coming and going with the Hailey’s Comet
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:25 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1243031112 )
Mark Twain who considered Halley\’s comet as a bad luck and was born on a day in which comet appeared and died the previous dayt he comet has appeared
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1243032083 )
Is it the thing about Mark Twain being born and then dying on subsequent visits of the Haley’s Comet?
Who’s Arthur, then?
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1243032134 )
From Wiki:
American satirist and writer Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, exactly two weeks after the comet’s perihelion. In his biography, he said, “I came in with Halley’s comet in 1835. It’s coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’ ” Twain died on April 21, 1910, the day following the comet’s subsequent perihelion.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:11 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243037496 )
Easy. Mark Twain was born and died in years of sighting of Halley’s comet. Coincidentally, I was born in a Halley year as well :P
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:17 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243037874 )
Mark Twain was born (1835) when Halley’s Comet came closest to earth and died when it happened again(1910).
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243041295 )
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243041377 )
HALLEYS COMET
Edmond Halley
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:29 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243042146 )
correction the guy is samuel langhorne clemens and he said
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’
May 23rd, 2009 at 3:25 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243049117 )
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: “Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.”
- Mark Twain, a Biography
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243055422 )
‘He came with Halley(1) and he went with Halley’
He=Mark Twain
:D
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:11 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243055511 )
“I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: “Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.”
and Twain sort of did.
May 23rd, 2009 at 6:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243058567 )
mark twain born and died duringthe year of the halley’s comet
May 23rd, 2009 at 6:49 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243061362 )
“I came in with Halley’s comet in 1835. It’s coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’ ” Twain died on April 21, 1910, the day following the comet’s subsequent perihelion.
Freaky…
May 23rd, 2009 at 6:58 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243061901 )
Hailey’s comet and Mark Twain. Twain was born exactly two weeks after the comet’s perihilion. His wish was to leave this world with its next visit..which was fulfilled as he did after a day after its subsequent perihilion.
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:51 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243065083 )
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) : 1835 – 1910, 76 years (also the orbital cycle of Halley’s comet)
Born two weeks after the closest approach to Earth of Halley’s Comet & said in 1910 that he would want to go out with it. He did.
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:51 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243065086 )
Perhelion, birth, perhelion, death.
Halley’s comet and Twain.
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:51 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243065093 )
Mark Twain was born when Haley’s comet was passing, predicted his death the next time it was passing, and did indeed die when it came again. Title is a reference to his book “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.”
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243071099 )
Mark Twain and Halley\’s Comet
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May 23rd, 2009 at 9:32 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243071139 )
Mark Twain and Halley’s Comet
“I came in 1835 with Halley’s Comet . . . and I expect to go out with it. It’ll be the great disappointment of my life if I don’t. The Almighty has said, no doubt, ‘Now here are two indefinable freaks. They came in together. They must go out together.’ Oh, I am looking forward to that.”
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:43 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243075410 )
Mark Twain had Birth and death dates which were very close to the Halley’s comet approach.
Nice post-title :)
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:44 am, GMT +0000 ( 1243075462 )
Mark Twain was born and died the same yrs the Hailey\\\\\\\’s commet appeared after a gap of 76 yrs
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:27 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1243106851 )
Mark Twain, who came and went with Halley’s comet.