Mark Twain

 

        Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),[2] the latter often called "the Great American Novel".

 

 

Doubting Thomas

 

 

 

        A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Apostle Thomas, who refused to believe that the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles, until he could see and feel the wounds received by Jesus on the cross.

 

 

 

 

 

Colloquialism

 

        A colloquialism is a word, phrase or other form used in informal language.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summons

 

        Legally, a summons (also known in England and Wales as a claim form and in New South Wales as a Court Attendance Notice (CAN)) is a legal document issued by a court (a judicial summons) or by an administrative agency of government (an administrative summons) for various purposes.

 

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