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Basnight, Lewis ("Lew")
36-51; a "spotter" from White City Investigations; Upstate-Downstate Beast,37; "a keen sympathy for the invisible" 43; "the side of the day" 44; transfer to Denver, 51; 171; Cryptomite trip, 182;

Basnight, Troth
38; Lew's wife, who leaves him;

Bauer, Grünewald
136;

Beaufort Scale
15; a scale to measure wind speed; Wikipedia entry

"Beavers of the Brain"
183; song by the beings inhabiting Lew Basright's steak

Bible
86; Second Corinthians, 32;

bilocation
143; the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist simultaneously in two locations Wikipedia entry

Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.
18; aeronautical club from Oregon ("A.C." for alternating current?); a bindelstiff is a hobo, especially one who carries a bedroll.

Black, Miss Penelope ("Penny")
18; distaff member of the Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.

Blitz Instruments
53; Blitz is a manufacturer of musical instruments and accessories

Blope, Dr. Templeton
131; of the University of the Outer Hebrides

Blue Ivory
125;

Blundell, Miles
4; Handyman Apprentice aboard the Inconvenience; 107; nonsense speaking, 110-13;

Bly, Nellie (1864-1922)
37; Born May 5, 1864, to Judge Michael Cochran and Mary Jane Kennedy Cochran, part of the large Cochran family of Apollo, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Jane Cochrane revolutionized journalism for women. She is better known by her pen name, "Nellie Bly," which she adapted from the Stephen Foster song, "Nelly Bly." Daring and innovative, she gained world fame when she beat Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg's record for traveling around the world in 80 days by more than a week, departing on November 14, 1889 and returning to New York on January 25, 1890; Wikipedia entry

Bobrikoff, General
83; "evil viceroy" of Russian Tsar

Boll Weevil Lounge
47;

Bol'shaia Igra
122; Padzhy's ship, at the North Pole

Bounce, Roswell
60; photographer

boutonniere
33; A boutonniere, also buttonhole, is a flower or floral decoration pushed or pinned through the button hole of a lapel of a suit.

Bruno
101; Scarsdale Vibe's bodyguard

Buffalo Bill
See Cody, Buffalo Bill

Buri
142; "grandfather of Odin and the first gods"