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2006-11-18T18:43:02Z

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'''labor unions''' 
43; 50; Western Federation of Miners, 92; 98;

'''La Foam, Happy Jack''' 
477; local pharmicist in Wall o' Death; 485;

'''Lafrisée, Pléiade''' 
537; ''sphinxe Khnopffiene'' in Kursaal in Ostend; with Woevre, 560; Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (1858-1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter. A sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human (or bird) and the body of a cat; A ''sphinxe Khnopffiene'' would then be someone cat-like in the style of Khnopff [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Khnopff Wikipedia entry];

[[image:khnopff.jpg|center|thumb|500px|''The Caress'', Khnopff's most famous painting]]

'''Lambert, Joe''' 
283; shot by Hair-Trigger Bob

'''Laplacian''' 
239; bar in Cambridge;

'''Lard Scandal of the '80s, the great''' 
406; there actually ''was'' a lard scandal during the Taft Administration, in 1912;

'''lateener''' 
250; a ship rigged with a lateen which is a triangular sail, suspended by a long yard at an angle of 45° to the mast.

'''Latewood, Cyprian''' 
489; "embryo Apostlet", a sod (short for "sodomite", i.e., gay man) at Cambridge

'''"laying on tells"''' 
218; God, in poker game; "tells" are gestures or words by a player that give away the value of his/her hand;

'''Lee, Tom''' 
339; his "tong, the On Leong"

'''Leghorn strawhats''' 
42;

'''Leonard and Lyle''' 
441; "oil prospectors" in Sandman Saloon

'''Leopold''' 
528; King of the Belgians; 543;

'''Levi''' 
473; Hope Kindred's husband

'''Levi, Eliphaz (1810-1875)''' 
232; or Eliphas; pseudonym of French occultist and magician Alphonse Louis Constant. Levi incorporated the Tarot cards into his magical system, and as a result the Tarot has been an important part of the paraphernalia of Western magicians. He had a deep impact on the magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later Aleister Crowley (who believed himself to be the reincarnation of Levi), and it was largely through this impact that Lévi is remembered as one of the key founders of the twentieth century revival of magic; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abb%C3%A9_Constant Wikipedia entry]

'''Lieutenants of Industry Scholarship Program''' 
100;

'''light''' 
59; "corner light" 61; 62; electric v. gas in London, 232; 431; 437-38; and film, 451; its future, in California, 456;

'''lightning''' 
72; sentient ball lightning, 72;

'''lines of force''' 
55; 122;

'''Little Egypt''' 
26; at the Chicago World's Fair; 29; Little Egypt was the stage name for two popular exotic dancers, Ashea Wabe who danced at the Seeley banquet at the 1893 World's Fair and Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, also performing under the stage name Fatima, appeared at the "Street in Cairo" exhibition on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Egypt_(dancer) Wikipedia entry]; [[Little_Egypt|And then there was that song by The Coasters...]]

'''Little Hellkite''' 
76; mine in Colorado

'''''Little Nemo''''' 
352; Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934) that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905—April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911—1913; respectively; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo Wikipedia entry]

'''Loafsley, "Plug"''' 
397; "street-Arab" who delivers note to Chums of Chance

'''Lobatchevskian''' 
453; function worked up by Vectorists and Quaternionists; named for the Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский) (December 1, 1792–February 24, 1856 (N.S.); November 20, 1792–February 12, 1856 (O.S.)) who developed non-Euclidean geometry; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ivanovich_Lobachevsky]

'''Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940)''' 
58; Born at Penkhull near Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Adams' Grammar School, Sir Oliver Lodge was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph; 228; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lodge Wikipedia entry]

'''Lois''' 
468; little girl in Mayva's ice-cream parlor, Cone Amor

'''Lollipop Lounge''' 
398; personal headquarters of Plug - a "child bordello"

'''Lombroso, Dr. Cesare (1835-1909)''' 
172; Born in Verona, Italy, Dr. Lombroso, using concepts drawn from Physiognomy, early Eugenics, Psychiatry and Social Darwinism, devised the theory that criminality was inherited, and that the born criminal could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic; 252; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso Wikipedia entry]

'''Longfellow''' 
536;

'''Lorelei''' 
493; blond at Cambridge

'''Lost City''' 
435;

'''Louis XV''' 
544;

'''Lowry, Nellie''' 
60; Blinky Morgan's "lady friend"

'''Lübeck''' 
520; in German

'''Lucia''' 
246; waitress in Osteria in San Polo;

'''Luigi''' 
446;

'''Lupita's''' 
286; in Telluride, "where the menudo can't be beat"

'''Lutine''' 
122;

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2006-11-18T18:42:02Z

Amichod:

'''labor unions''' 
43; 50; Western Federation of Miners, 92; 98;

'''La Foam, Happy Jack''' 
477; local pharmicist in Wall o' Death; 485;

'''Lafrisée, Pléiade''' 
537; ''sphinxe Khnopffiene'' in Kursaal in Ostend; with Woevre, 560; Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (1858-1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter. A sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human (or bird) and the body of a cat; A ''sphinxe Khnopffiene'' would then be someone cat-like in the style of Khnopff [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Khnopff Wikipedia entry];

[[image:khnopff.jpg|center|thumb|500px|''The Caress'', Khnopff's most famous painting]]

'''Lambert, Joe''' 
283; shot by Hair-Trigger Bob

'''Laplacian''' 
239; bar in Cambridge;

'''Lard Scandal of the '80s, the great''' 
406; there actually ''was'' a lard scandal during the Taft Administration, in 1912;

'''lateener''' 
250; a ship rigged with a lateen which is a triangular sail, suspended by a long yard at an angle of 45° to the mast.

'''Latewood, Cyprian''' 
489; "embryo Apostlet", a sod (short for "sodomite", i.e., gay man) at Cambridge

'''"laying on tells"''' 
218; God, in poker game; "tells" are gestures or words by a player that give away the value of his/her hand;

'''Lee, Tom''' 
339; his "tong, the On Leong"

'''Leghorn strawhats''' 
42;

'''Leonard and Lyle''' 
441; "oil prospectors" in Sandman Saloon

'''Leopold''' 
528; King of the Belgians; 543;

'''Levi''' 
473; Hope Kindred's husband

'''Levi, Eliphaz (1810-1875)''' 
232; or Eliphas; pseudonym of French occultist and magician Alphonse Louis Constant. Levi incorporated the Tarot cards into his magical system, and as a result the Tarot has been an important part of the paraphernalia of Western magicians. He had a deep impact on the magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later Aleister Crowley (who believed himself to be the reincarnation of Levi), and it was largely through this impact that Lévi is remembered as one of the key founders of the twentieth century revival of magic; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abb%C3%A9_Constant Wikipedia entry]

'''Lieutenants of Industry Scholarship Program''' 
100;

'''light''' 
59; "corner light" 61; 62; electric v. gas in London, 232; 431; 437-38; and film, 451; its future, in California, 456;

'''lightning''' 
72; sentient ball lightning, 72;

'''lines of force''' 
55; 122;

'''Little Egypt''' 
26; at the Chicago World's Fair; 29; Little Egypt was the stage name for two popular exotic dancers, Ashea Wabe who danced at the Seeley banquet at the 1893 World's Fair and Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, also performing under the stage name Fatima, appeared at the "Street in Cairo" exhibition on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Egypt_(dancer) Wikipedia entry]; [[Little_Egypt|And then there was that song by The Coasters...]]

'''Little Hellkite''' 
76; mine in Colorado

'''''Little Nemo''''' 
352; Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934) that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905—April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911—1913; respectively; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo Wikipedia entry]

'''Loafsley, "Plug"''' 
397; "street-Arab" who delivers note to Chums of Chance

'''Lobatchevskian''' 
453; function worked up by Vectorists and Quaternionists; named for the Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский) (December 1, 1792–February 24, 1856 (N.S.); November 20, 1792–February 12, 1856 (O.S.)) was a Russian mathematician; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ivanovich_Lobachevsky]

'''Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940)''' 
58; Born at Penkhull near Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Adams' Grammar School, Sir Oliver Lodge was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph; 228; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lodge Wikipedia entry]

'''Lois''' 
468; little girl in Mayva's ice-cream parlor, Cone Amor

'''Lollipop Lounge''' 
398; personal headquarters of Plug - a "child bordello"

'''Lombroso, Dr. Cesare (1835-1909)''' 
172; Born in Verona, Italy, Dr. Lombroso, using concepts drawn from Physiognomy, early Eugenics, Psychiatry and Social Darwinism, devised the theory that criminality was inherited, and that the born criminal could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic; 252; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso Wikipedia entry]

'''Longfellow''' 
536;

'''Lorelei''' 
493; blond at Cambridge

'''Lost City''' 
435;

'''Louis XV''' 
544;

'''Lowry, Nellie''' 
60; Blinky Morgan's "lady friend"

'''Lübeck''' 
520; in German

'''Lucia''' 
246; waitress in Osteria in San Polo;

'''Luigi''' 
446;

'''Lupita's''' 
286; in Telluride, "where the menudo can't be beat"

'''Lutine''' 
122;

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2006-11-17T15:56:45Z

Amichod:

'''Kabbalists''' 
227; the "Tree of Life" tattoo-ed on Eskimoff; 318;

'''Kaffirs''' 
169; "Kaffir" was used in English and Dutch, from the 16th century to the early 20th century as a blanket term for several different peoples of southern Africa. Outside this limited historical context, the word is used today only as a derogatory and offensive term of abuse; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffir_%28Historical_usage_in_southern_Africa%29 Wikipedia entry]

'''Kailash, Mt.''' 
437; a mountain located in far western Tibet that over 22,000 feet. It is the world's most venerated holy place but also the least visited. The sacred site of four religions, fewer than a thousand people make pilgrimage to Kalish every year--the only way to get there is by all-terrain vehicle, and the journey takes weeks, as no planes, trains or buses travel in the region. Mythologically, Kalish is the Axis Mundi, the center and birth place of the world.

'''Kaiser Wilhelm''' 
367; hair pomade;

'''Katie''' 
337; waitress in Yew York City restaurant, Schultz's Vegetarian Brauhaus, from Chillicothe, Ohio; aspiring actress, 338;

'''Katie bar the door''' 
8; The phrase "Katie bar the door!" (also as "Katie bar the gate!"; sometimes written as Katy) is a very American exclamation, more common in the South than elsewhere, meaning that disaster impends—“watch out”, “get ready for trouble” or “a desperate situation is at hand”. [http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-kat1.htm From WorldWideWords.org]

'''Keeley Cure''' 
Devised by Leslie Keeley, this was a proprietary system of treatment for the alcohol and opium habits. The Keeley Cure was a forerunner of certain measures adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous. Relying heavily on injections of Bichloride of Gold (a chemical impossibility), it was so well-known in its day that several popular songs, such as an Irish comic song, entitled "The Keeley Cure," parodied it unmercifully. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Keeley More on Wikipedia]

'''Kellner''' 
525;

'''Kepler''' 
115;

'''Khan, Jenghiz''' 
439; in Nuovo Rialto

'''Khartoum''' 
29;

'''Khäutsch, Max''' 
47; a captain in the Trabants, and field chief of K&K Special Security, who had "proven himself useful at home as an assassin"

'''Kieselguhr Kid''' 
171; "notorious dynamiter of the San Juans"; Dynamite, a blasting explosive, was invented in 1867 by Alfred P. Nobel by mixing nitroglycerin with '''kieselguhr''', a porous silica-containing earth, in proportions that left an essentially dry and granular material, producing a solid that was resistant to shock but readily explodable by heat or sudden impact; Webb Traverse?, 214; 361; 370; Frank Traverse, 382;

'''Kimura, Mr. Shunkichi''' 
29; 318; translated Tsurigane into English, 532;

'''Kindred, Deuce''' 
193; hired by mine owners to kill Webb Traverse; 261; and Lake Traverse, 260; on the move with Lake, 472;

'''Kindred, Hope''' 
473; Deuce's sister;

'''Kipling, Rudyard (1895-1936)''' 
227; "The Great Game"; a British author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, his poems, and his many short stories; "The Great Game," a term usually attributed to Arthur Conolly, was used to describe the rivalry and strategic conflict between the British Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. Kipling popularized the term in his novel ''Kim''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling Wikipedia entry]

'''Kipperville''' 
348; "Saturday night in..."

'''Klein, Felix''' 
324;

'''Klu Klux Klan ("KKK")''' 
7; the name of a number of past and present fraternal organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, and nativism; 178; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klu_Klux_Klan Wikipedia entry]

'''Knott, Professor''' 
531; from the Imperial University of Japan

'''Kovalevskaia, Sofia 
500; Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (also known as Sonia Kovalevsky) (1850-1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician and a student of Karl Weierstrass in Berlin. In 1884, she was appointed professor at Stockholm University, the third woman in Europe to become a professor; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya Wikipedia entry]

'''Krakatoa''' 
506; Indonesian island group where a volcano erupted in 1883, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa Wikipedia entry]

'''Kropotkin''' 
373;

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