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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910): "There isn’t a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights."[Following the Equator, chapter LXIX, 1897]
Mark Twain (alias Samuel Langhorne Clemens) lebte u.a. in Virginia City (Nevada), wo er als Goldgräber und Reporter tätig war. Im dortigen Delta-Saloon kann man heute noch folgendes "bewundern":