Why did Samual Langhorne Clemen change his name to Mark Twain?
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He needed an alais to write under and he worked on a riverboat as a boy. They always measured the deepness of the river with a knotted rope and each one being a mark. If the river was two knotts deep the riverboat crew would call out "Mark Twain"! So that's where he got his name from historically. (Bows) However I don't think Mark Twain deepness is a good thing! Seems kind of shallow to me. Only good for barges and could be a pun to the deepness of the writer. lol
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Stephen is a very common name!  Trumpbert is so odd that no one will know how to say it, much less care.  \n\nTo change your name you need to hire an attorney that does this.
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Its Shanie Twain but I can't rember the name thou sorry!
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This could be a trick question.  "Mark Twain" is a fictional name.  He never lived or died.  But Samuel Clemens, who was the author writing under the pen name of Mark Twain, died in Redding Connecticut, at his home there, named "Stormfield."  The date was April 21, 1910.  He had predicted that he would go out with the comet (Halley's Comet) which appeared when he was born and which indeed came back in April 1910.
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you know how people have control of peoples possessions after they die ex: record titles and movie credits and everything? in movies and such, if their movie or name or song or w/e is mentioned... they recieve royalties of some sort usually.. so its possible that they didnt have permission to use his name and so they changed it
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Aloys Schicklgruber   ^_^  (then changed to Alois Hitler)
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Actually, it was written to expose racism. Jim is a very honorable character in the book. During the period when Twain wrote this book, people did not view blacks as equal to white people. They were treated like children or stereotyped. Twain wanted to show people that blacks were good and trustworthy people. The n word was commonly used then so Twain used it to show how people spoke.\n\nI hope I didn't do a school assignment for you. You needed to work this out for yourself if it was for a class.
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Not if you also changed your name.\n\nYou can't do it.  Try it.\n\nHolly, we've been telling him this.  I think he is giving Y the old flip-off.
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And who said you were the village idiot?!! Change you name to something more fitting. Good Q!\n\nPS: yes, basically thats how they all start out.
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I like your name. Why change it? Separate it into two parts with a hyphen...Jun-ming.\n\nBut if you insist...Jermaine,  Jimmy,  Justin. \n\nPick something close to your original name or you won't answer to it.\n\nGood Luck! \n\ni still like junming! :)
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It was Kerry.  He later changed his name to Earnhardt.
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Nothing is wrong with your icon or the fact that your old name was (the original, "Jim_Darwin"), or your new name. \n\n Do enjoy the rest of your day, and may God continue to bless you.\n\nPraying for you always.
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I nominate "Mark Twain" as the world's most famous pseudonym.
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No. His original name is better.
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Everyone is saying it's not him, but Yahoo! staff begs to differ. People act like celebrities don't have questions too. Anyways, maybe he was in a hurry or maybe someone else on here is using William's name the way it is supposed to be spelled so he chose the next thing he could come up with. It still is pretty funny though!
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A.\n\nWhy did you change your name, sweetlips?
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Is it so important that you really had to use a second screen name? SERIOUSLY. Direct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi#History