Mark Twain guide-history-buffs from Winston Churchill to Nikita

from Winston Churchill to Nikita Khrushchev

As the founder and unchallenged master of an industrial empire with assets of more than a billion dollars

I like to live as big as I can

The case gained further infamy when Ruth Snyder was executed in Sing Sing Prison

Mark Twain guide-history-buffs from Winston Churchill to NikitaMark Twain relaxes in a rocking chair in New Hampshire in 1905. Twain would turn 70 the year this photo was taken, and he had told The New York Times that he had never done a day's work in his life. "No, Sir, not a day's work in all my life," he is quoted in The New York Times in 1905, "What I have done I have done, because it has been play. If it has been work I shouldn't have done it."