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California Peg
303; sous-maîtresse of the Silver Orchid in Telluride;

camera lucida
141; A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists. It was patented in 1806 by William Hyde Wollaston; Wikipedia entry

Camp, Walter (1859-1925)
159; sports writer and football coach known as the "Father of American Football". Along with John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, and Glenn Scobey Warner, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most significant person in the history of American football. He attended Yale from 1876-1890; Wikipedia entry

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry (1836-1908)
448; British Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister from December 5, 1905 until resigning due to ill health on April 3, 1908. No previous First Lord of the Treasury had been officially called "Prime Minister"; this term only came into official usage after he took office; Wikipedia entry

Canaletto (1697-1768)
576; Giovanni Antonio Canale, better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute of Venice. He was a son of the painter Bernardo Canale, hence his nickname Canaletto. His nephew Bernardo Bellotto was also a landscape painter; he sometimes used the name of Canaletto to further his own career; Wikipedia entry

Candlebrow, Mr. Gideon
406;

Candlebrow University
130, Dr Vormance on sabbatical; 405; "institute of higher learning in the heartland"; 451;

Canon City
261; site of the Colorado State Penitentiary

Cantor, Georg (1845-1918)
250; 593-94; German mathematician who is best known as the creator of set theory. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are "more numerous" than the natural numbers. In fact, Cantor's theorem implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities." He defined the cardinal and ordinal numbers, and their arithmetic. Cantor's work is of great philosophical interest, a fact of which he was well aware. After his father's death in 1863, Cantor shifted his studies to the University of Berlin, attending lectures by Weierstrass, Kummer, and Kronecker, and befriending his fellow student Hermann Schwarz. He spent a summer at the University of Göttingen, then and later a very important center for mathematical research. In 1867, Berlin granted him the Ph.D. for a thesis on number theory, De aequationibus secundi gradus indeterminatis. After teaching one year in a Berlin girls' school, Cantor took up a position at the University of Halle, where he spent his entire career; "the Beast of Halle" 624;

Capitalism
79; and modern chemistry; and the Tsar, 83; 147; collapse of, 415; 419; "If it doesn't work with gold, the next step will be lead" 618; Wikipedia entry

Capsheaf
492; pal of Cyprian Latewood

Capunizer
698; a "caponizer" would be a castrator;

Carnal, Reverend Lube
210; "of the Second Lutheran (Missouri Synod) Church"

carnival theory
184-185;

Cartesian
See Descarte, René

Case Institute
58; in Cleveland

Cassidy, Butch (1866-1908?)
172; a notorious train and bank robber.; 180; Wikipedia entry

Cathedral of the Prefiguration
153;

Celluloid
86; a thermoplastic compound of cellulose nitrate and camphor, originally developed and patented by John Wesley Hyatt as a substitute for ivory in billiard balls. It was later used as the film base for photosensitive emulsion, seminal in the use of photographic plates and especially in motion pictures. Nowadays, it is found principally in ping-pong balls and in some guitar (perhaps also ukelele?) picks and pickguards. Wikipedia entry; 103; 570;

Center of the Earth
41; See also, Gravity.

Chandrasekhar, O.D.
63; from Bombay, India; Perhaps a nod to Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995), an Indian-American physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician, known to the world as Chandra, who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics. He calculated and discovered the Chandrasekhar Limit which is the maximum mass possible for a white dwarf star (one of the end stages of stars that have exhausted their fuel) supported by electron degeneracy pressure, and is approximately 3 × 1030 kg, around 1.44 times the mass of the Sun. The initials O.D.C. refer to the novel "2001: A space odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke, where Chandra is the inventor of the HAL computer system. In ATD p. 63 O.D.Chandrasekhar mentions akasa as the solution for the problems the aetherists have discussing implications of the Michelson-Morley experiment, akasa referring to spacein hindu cosmology ,alas O.D. is proposing space itself here as the medium for light.

charabanc
53; bus: a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; Wikipedia entry

Chase, Ed
176; "boss of the redlight district" in Denver; 465;

Chavalito, Señor
387; what El Ñato calls Frank

Cheesely, Thrapston III
367; Reef Traverse's alter-ego - "East Coast nerve case"

Chess
543; "war in miniature"; 558; 594; 689;

21; held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America; eulogy, 56; 476; 503; Wikipedia entry

Chinchito
350; "jumped-up circus midget" on the Bowery stage, at R. W. Vibe's party;

Chinese Gong Effect
356;

367; "touring English woman" in Denver; 656; levitation during performance of new work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 896;

Chisholm, Grace
490;

chloral hydrate
621; drug of choice at University of Göttingen - Mickifests - chloralomania

Chong
602; Theosophoid at Göttingen

Christianity
"Christian faith," 334; "Christmas-pudding controversy," 406; 453; born-again, 675;

Chthonica, Princess of Plutonia
117; chthonic = "dwelling in or under the earth; also, pertaining to the underworld"; Plutonia? Well, TNT and Plutonia are two "alternate" versions of DooM 2, i.e. they have the same story line as DooM 2, but completely different level designs, and some new music and textures; alternately, there's the Plutonia Dilemma: an eccentric trillionaire gathers 20 people together, and tells them that if one and only one of them sends him a telegram (reverse charges) by noon the next day, that person will receive a billion dollars. If he receives more than one telegram, or none at all, no-one will get any money, and cooperation between players is forbidden. In this situation, the superrational thing to do is to send a telegram with probability 1/20.

Chuck
347; harpist at Smokefoot's

Chums of Chance
3; "celebrated aeronautics club"; 6, 7; 54; observing the impact of Tesla's Colorado experiments from the Indian Ocean, 107; intercepting the Vormance Expedition, 114-149; "agents of extrahuman justice" 215; in Murano, 243; retirement, 254; in the Arsenale battle with Padzy, 254; toppling the Campanile, 257; in New York City, 397; Upper Command (aka Hierarchy), 398, 407; at Candlebrow University, 407; the anti-Chums, 415; infiltrated by Trespassers, 418; their "Tesla machine" 425; under the sand, 434; in Brussels, 548; recalled, in Venice, 575;

Chums of Chance books
Chums of Chance and The Evil Halfwit, 5; Chums of Chance and The Curse of the Great Kahuna, 5; Chums of Chance at Krakatoa, 6; Chums of Chance Search for Atlantis, 6; Chums of Chance in Old Mexico, 7; Chums of Chance and the Bowels of the Earth, 117; The Chums of Chance and the Ice Pirates, 123; The Chums of Chance Nearly Crash into the Kremlin, 123; Chums of Chance at the Ends of the Earth, read by Reef Traverse, 214; Chums of Chance and the Caged Women of Yokahama, 411;

Cinema / Film
"Dreamtime Movy" (theater), 450; 456-57;

City
"mythic cities at the horizon," 394;

Clarabella
249; Dally's doll

Clifford
632; invisible

climber
131; 167;

Coeur d'Alene
333; 362; 463;
History of miners' disputes in: Wikipedia entry

Coffee
235; 394;

Cold Harbor
335;

Coleman Smith, Pamela (1878-1951)
186;225; artist, illustrator, and writer best known for designing the Rider-Waite deck (also known as the Rider-Waite-Smith, Waite-Smith, Waite-Colman Smith or Rider deck) of tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite in 1910. Wikipedia entry

22; William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was an American soldier, buffalo hunter and showman. He was born in the American state of Iowa, near Le Claire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes; Wikipedia entry; 53;

Colonel, the
699; in Leopoldstadt, in the Jewish quarter north of the Prater, in Vienna; solicits Sado-Masochistic sex from Cyprian Latewood; 704; surveilled by the Russians, 711;

Colonialism
527; in the Belgian Congo;

color
"summer uniform of red-and-white striped blazer and trousers of sky-blue," "'White City,'" "green," 3; "yellow," 9; "sepia," 10; "eclipse green," 18; "vivid magenta," 26; "attractive little girl of four or five with flaming red hair" (Dally), 27; "orange phosphate," 47; "flowers in bells and clusters, purple and white or yellow as butter," "red berries," 70; "Red Mountain Pass," 81; "colorless," 109; "pale blue radiance," 115; "green ice," "sheer green walls of ice, the greenness nearest the water," "green and yellow," "gray slatework," 127; "vivid cream," "Payne's gray and Naples yellow," "an unfaded spectrum of tropical colors," 129; "silver-gray," "sky was more neutral-density gray than blue," "shadowless green . . . sea-green sea, the ice-green, glass-green sea," 134; ""various colors and intensities," "strange yellowis green," 141; "levels of gray," "color, not the fashionable shades of daytime but blood reds, morgue yellows, poison greens," "accuracy of colors," 153; "red Zouave-style hats and trousers," "fire-reddened light," 145; "an abstract array of moving multicolored lights against a blue, somehow maritime, darkness," 154; "rust-red and yellowish," 155; "rival school hues," 156; "'crimson' is cognate with 'worm,'" 157; 160; "colors of doubtful taste," "Scarsdale's in gray tones, Edwarda's in mauve. Puce sometimes," 162; "screamin Red threat," "a range of colors," 182; "red liquor," 196; "red adobe towers," 198; "valley fog the same color as the snow," "luminous shades of gray," 200; "country was so red that the sagebrush appeared to float above it as in a stereopticon view, almost colorless, pale as a cloud, luminous day and night," 209; "blue laws," 210; "disturbing colors," "daytime blue," "aquamarine and mauve," 211; "dark, blood-red wall," 214; "mossy greens," "the Order of the Golden Dawn;" 219; "mauve," "pale blue", 226; "silver-streaked," 227; "'pinky,'" 233; "queer purple liquid that Lew could swear was glowing,"," 234; "violet dusk," "luminous green liquids," 235; "purple," "logwood," "vivid, unmistakable turquoise," 236; "red-clay chimneys," "ancient sepia . . . more optimistic red," 243; "'Purple Thanksgiving,'" "white and red vini frizzanti," "'Red blood,'" 247; "pale blue albatross cloth," 266; "Sloat was partial to the color green," "shade of green," "'never could see green, bein a mauve man myself,'" "blood-red dirt," 269; "vivid red," 297; "multicolored flashes of light," 322; "lighter colors," 337; "aquamarine," 340; "suit of acid magenta and saffron" 342; Erlys? 347; "wine-colored plush," "orange Tiffany orchid brooches vivid as flames," 348; "Congo violet" 349; "gray," "Red" (nickname for Dally), "blindingly pomaded gray hair and a gigantic emerald ring on his pinky," 350; "perfect black velvet and multicolored silk brocade," 351; "Sunsets tended to be purple firestorms, with blinding orange streaks running through," 364; "Madame Aubergine," "scarlet", 367; "silver and lapis," 368; "the Red Onion," "the red-light district," 371; "green volcanic islands," 372; "red-brown mountainside," 377; "brown," 380; "silver," 381; "earth tones," 384; "indigo," 386; "red bandannas," 390; "peculiar colors," 392; "whirling colors including magenta, low-brilliancy turquoise, and a peculiarly pale, wriggling violet," 394; "checked in indigo and custard yellow, topped off with pearl-gray bowlers," 399; "bluish electric lights blooming," 401; "violent blue sparks," 402; "color-coded tickets of identification," "patriotically colored Smegmo crock," "dark brown light," 408; "reddish liquid," "magenta-and-green aura," 410; "apricot and aquamarine," 412; "Chinese red and indigo," 418; "sunny verdigris campus," "green mist of budding," "closely maintained white mustache and gold teeth," "red sweatshirts bearing the golden crest of the Academy," 421; "green fields," "moistly violet," 422; "'don't be blue, pal,'" 424; "succession of colors," 434; "red-brown color," 439; "unearthly green," 443; heliotrope, 493; green, white and mauve, 501; Coronation Red, 497; claret and blue, 503; indigoes and aquas, 526; Chinese red, 526; blue, taupe, Chinese red, 532; "analine teal and a bright though sour orange" 533; 537; pale violet, 544; taupe and damaged rose, 551; 568; duck-green, 574; Jesus, 580; 584; 585; orpiment yellow, scarlet vermilion, Nürnberg violet, 586; 608; Foley Walker's suit, 619; 625; green and magenta, 633; 689; 715;

See also, N. Katherine Hayles and Mary B. Eiser's article, "Coloring Gravity's Rainbow," originally published in Pynchon Notes, Vol. 16, available as a free downloadable .pdf file here.

Colorado
83; commenting on its shape;

Columbian Exposition of 1893
3; See Chicago World's Fair; 10; 397;

Commandant of Earthly Days
17; a "potent though invisible" entity that dictates human behavior

"commonwealth of toil that is to be"
361; from the song "The Commonwealth of Toil" written by Ralph Chaplin in 1905 and included in the International Workers of the World Little Red Songbook - The Lyrics... A recording...

Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
567; Carlson Wagonlit is a chain of travel agencies. The company was founded in Belgium in 1876 by Georges Nagelmackers as the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (the International Sleeping-Car Company). Originally, the company deployed sleeping- and dining-cars in Europe. In 1883 the company started with a service to Constantinople, now Istanbul in Turkey, called the Orient Express; Wikipedia entry

Comptes Rendus
532; Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, or simply Comptes rendus, is a French scientific journal which has been published since 1835. It is the proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences. It is currently split into seven sections, published by the Academy and Elsevier: Mathematique, Mecanique, Physique, Geoscience, Palevol, Chimie, and Biologies; Wikipedia entry

Cone Amor
468; Mayva's ice-cream parlor, a quite common name for ice-cream parlors, as it turns out, being a pun on con amor, Spanish for "with love"...

Consuelo
161; bandida in Mischief in Mexico

Control
34; Rational Systems of;

Cooper
202; at Stray's, courting Sage

counter-City
585;

counter-Crusade
437;

Counterfactual 9; 304;

Counterfly, Chick
4; member of the Chums of Chance; 108; now "Dr. Counterfly", 139;

Counterfly, Richard "Dick"
7; father of Chick Counterfly; 17

Courage, Camille
345; "Courage Camille" is a game in which three players are required. Two of the players face each other and lock hands. The third person stiffens and falls backwards into their arms. This should be done several times, with the person falling farther backwards each time (the players locking their hands should lower them each time). Other players can then try.

Also, a line masterfully delivered by Bob Hope as radio personality and craven muckraker Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence in the 1940 horror-comedy The Ghost Breakers.

Cowboy's Christmas
81;

Coxey's Army
79; Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington D.C. in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time. Wikipedia entry

Crack of Doom
12; The phrase at the crack of doom, meaning "at the striking of the fateful hour", is derived from Macbeth by William Shakespeare and has entered common usage. Wikipedia entry

Cracker Jack
24; caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts. Trademarked to describe this kind of popcorn from the 1890's--start of ATD--but the word 'crackerjack' was in use with other meanings since the late 19th Century. Chick Counterfly says 'crackerjack' on page 8. From Merrriam-Webster: The late 19th-century pairing of "crack" and "jack" to form "crackerjack" topped off a long history for those words. "Cracker" is an elongation of "crack," an adjective meaning "expert" or "superior" that dates from 1793. Prior to that, "crack" was a noun meaning "something superior" and a verb meaning "to boast." (The verb use evolved from the expression "to crack a boast," which came from the sense of "crack" meaning "to make a loud sharp sound.") "Jack" has been used for "man" since the mid-1500s, as in "jack-of-all-trades." "Crackerjack" entered English first as a noun referring to "a person or thing of marked excellence," then as an adjective. You may also know "Cracker Jack" as a snack of candied popcorn and peanuts. That trademarked name dates from the 1890s.

Crayke
492; fond of Shetland ponies

Creede
650;

Cripple Creek
82; in Colorado - strike for an 8-hour day;

Crookes, Sir William (1832-1919)
228; English chemist and physicist. Sir William attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy; Wikipedia entry

Crusades
436; counter-Crusades, 437;

Crystal
473; 565;

cubeb
17; the name for the berry and for the oil obtained from the unripe berry of the East Indian climbing shrub P. cubeba. The dried fruits are sometimes used as a condiment or are ground and smoked in cigarette form as a catarrh remedy. The oil is used medicinally and also in soap manufacture. The masticated roots of kava, P. methysticum, widely grown in its native Pacific islands, are made into a beverage called kavakava, which contains soporific alkaloids. It is an integral part of religious and social life there. A preparation of kava for commerce, also called kavakava, is sold widely as an herbal remedy for anxiety and insomnia. -- From The Free Dictionary
And let us not forget, part of the Disgusting English Candy Drill: "turns out to be luscious pepsin–flavored nougat, chock–full of tangy candied cubeb berries, and a chewy camphor–gum center" (GR, 118)

Culpepper, Madge and Mia
60; worked at the Hamilton Street establishment of Nelly Lowry; 66;

Curly
183; Waiter at a Chicago hotel;

Custozza
661; the summer of;

Cyclomite
182-185; combo of cyclopropane plus dynamite, and psychotropic; "reality-modifying explosive" 233; 683;DISCUSSION

Czolgosz, Leon (1873-1901)
372; assassin of President McKinley; Leon Czolgosz As a young man, Leon Czolgosz worked in a wire mill in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a good employee, retaining his job even through an economic depression. In 1898 he suffered a breakdown, and returned to the family farm. He made trips to hear the anarchist leader Emma Goldman speak, and approached several anarchist groups, who rebuffed him. In 1901, Czolgosz moved to Buffalo, New York, site of the Pan American Exposition. There, in a receiving line on September 6, he shot President McKinley two times. Czolgosz — who gave his name to police as Fred Nieman, or Fred Nobody — later stated in reference to his decision to assassinate McKinley, "I didn't believe one man should have so much service, and another man have none." After a brief trial, Czolgosz was convicted. He was executed on October 29, 1901.