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'Mark Twain' is a pen-name used by writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He worked on the Mississippi River as a steamboat pilot and named himself after the call used when sounding the depth of the river "by the mark twain": meaning that the river was two fathoms deep (6ft) which was a safe depth for the boat to travel.

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