aaward or a prize. actually it s an award, even though they call it a prize, it s an award. usually when there s a prize there s money involved. i feel like i m in a wedding with like a hurricane around me. everything is happening and it s a blur. i tried to wear something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. if you want to see more of that this is the speech that s going to come up, mark your calendars. sunday, march 26th is when cnn is going to exclusively broadcast the 24th version of that, the mark twain prize for american humor, this time honoring adam sandler. it recognizes people who have had an impact on american society, similar to the 19th century novelist sam clemons, best known by his pen name of mark twain. some of the past winners, saturday night live is where a
if it was a safe 12 feet deep, he would shout, mark twain! samuel clemens made that his pen name, of course, but if you wrote about this river today, tom sawyer and huck fin would spend a lot of time walking on the beach because in too many places, the not so mighty mississippi is a fraction of a twain. we re going to look at a few old steamboats. steamboat wrecks. reporter: mark swain era steamboats. and the relentless drought across the heartland is exposing all kinds of memories. it may have caught on fire or sank 50 miles upstream and floated here during the floods. as far as water levels go, this is the worst you ve ever seen? this is about as low as i ve seen it. reporter: from the missouri down to new orleans, accidental archaeologists are finding steamboat graveyards and human remains, civil war ammo and forgotten shipwrecks. one of the more striking
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of dollars without having a real job? in just a few years? well, we have a sense of what happened. it s from all those speeches she loves to give on voter suppression. voter suppression that didn t happen during her election. she reportedly makes 50 to $100,000 a speech. for stacey abrams. 50 to 100 grand, a lot for stacey abrams. abrams has pulled in at least $5 million from selling that lie through speeches and books. maybe her steamy romance novels are more successful than we thought. did you know she is an author? she wrote this book the art of desire. under the pen name selena montgomery, oh. it s about a write his or her meets a mysterious man and discovers a, quote: raging desire between them. very hot. or maybe all the money is from these mysterious fundraising operations she is involved with.
a mountain of toys to fulfill many wishes. must be carried across all roads and all bridges. and when everyone is smiling and having their fun i can turn my sleigh north because my job here is done. it s not magic that makes more holiday deliveries to homes in the us than anyone else, it s the hardworking people of the united states postal service. the world lost a trailblazing feminist thinker last week. gloria gene watkins, better known for her pen name, bell hooks, died on wednesday. the author, po et, scholar and cultural critic was a driving force behind feminist movements of the 1980s and 90s. she was often described as soft spokesman, but the weight of her words reverberated for generations of women, particularly black women.