Joshua Abraham Norton (First American Emperor, Emperor Norton)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Death of the Emperor Norton
In 1884 Mark Twain, Super Psychic, published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A character in that novel known as The King is based on Emperor Norton. In keeping with the emperor's wishes, San Francisco Bay was eventually bridged.
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Transcript
Joshua Abraham Norton had an amazing life and was a titan among men. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the story of Norton's life in the 1800s, with his rise from humble circumstances to wealth and power to humility and back again, and learn what made him so amazing.
