Literary Landmarks: Mark Twain House   The Mark Twain House and Museum was the home of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) from 1874 to 1891 in Hartford, Connecticut, The house was built on 3.5 acres of land and designed with seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a carriage house, and plant-filled conservatory. Bay windows extend up to form turrets that were topped with porches, allowing Twain and guests a view of what was a very pastoral area of Hartford. The home is in the style of Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, including the typical steeply-pitched roof and an asymmetrical bay window layout. Legend says the home was designed to look like a riverboat. The house is also notable for the major works written during his residency, including The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, A Tramp Abroad and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. For more information click here: Mark Twain House or here for Books by Mark Twain

Today's Birthdays:

• Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant (1852-1924), noted for work on international arbitration, 1909 Nobel Peace Prize
• Wiley Post (1899-1935), U.S. aviator, first to fly solo around world - 15 July, 1931
• Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999), Spanish composer, wrote in Braille, Concierto de Aranjuez, etc.
• Louis Néel (1904-2000), 1970 Nobel Laureate in Physics
• Billie Jean King (b. 1943), tennis champion, activist for equal pay in professional sports