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:

• Karl von Frisch (1886-1982), Austrian ethologist/zoologist and Nobel laureate, studied communication mechanisms of bees
• Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), American astronomer noted for discovery of galaxies beyond the Milky Way
• Alexandra Danilova (1903-1997), Russian-born prima ballerina
• Emilio Pucci (1914-1992), Italian fashion designer known for his use of bright colors and bold patterns
• Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), U.S. politician: Attorney General, Senator from New York, assassinated during his campaign for Democratic presidential nomination
• Don DeLillo (b. 1936), American author, considered by critics a central figure of literary postmodernism