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<p>[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 1320393, member: 11521"]Bills have been introduced in both Congress and the Senate to honor Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) with a pair of commemorative coins. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/lawmakers-seek-to-honor-mark-twain-.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/lawmakers-seek-to-honor-mark-twain-.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Lawmakers seek to honor Mark Twain</b></a></p><p><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/lawmakers-seek-to-honor-mark-twain-.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/lawmakers-seek-to-honor-mark-twain-.html" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/lawmakers-seek-to-honor-mark-twain-.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/lawmakers-seek-to-honor-mark-twain-.html" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The article does not mention what year the proposed commemorative coins would be issued. I don't see any Mark Twain anniversaries coming up any time soon. The centennial of his death was last year. The bicentennial of his birth is 24 years away. The sesquicentennial (150-year anniversary) of the release of Tom Sawyer is still 15 years away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 1320393, member: 11521"]Bills have been introduced in both Congress and the Senate to honor Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) with a pair of commemorative coins. [URL="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/lawmakers-seek-to-honor-mark-twain-.html"][B]Lawmakers seek to honor Mark Twain[/B] [/URL] The article does not mention what year the proposed commemorative coins would be issued. I don't see any Mark Twain anniversaries coming up any time soon. The centennial of his death was last year. The bicentennial of his birth is 24 years away. The sesquicentennial (150-year anniversary) of the release of Tom Sawyer is still 15 years away.[/QUOTE]
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