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GeoX: Just noted Fleetwood Vibe in Siberia.

'''vacuum''' 
60;

'''Vaillant''' 
87; Anarchist martyr

'''Vampires''' 
153; Alonzo Meatman and associates "'don't like to cross running water,'" 405; Zoltan, 463; network in Buda-Pesth, 713;

'''Vamplet, Miss Oomie''' 
349; singer at R. W. Vibe's party who played Kate Chase Sprague in ''Roscoe Conkling'';

'''Vanderjuice, Professor Heino''' 
6; old friend of the Chums of Chance, of New Haven, and inventor of the Screw, an aerial-propulsion device for augmenting the cruising speed of the ''Inconvenience''; of Yale University, 29; 52; and Merle Rideout, 58; 355; at First International Conference on Time-Travel, 407; 571;

'''Vaseline''' 
161; Edwarda Vibe's maid

'''Vasquez, Sargeant Amparo''' 
380; at Guanajuanto hoosegow

'''Vector''' 
156; In mathematics, a vector space (or linear space) is a collection of objects (called vectors) that, informally speaking, may be scaled and added. More formally, a vector space is a set on which two operations, called (vector) addition and (scalar) multiplication, are defined and satisfy certain natural axioms. Vector spaces are the basic objects of study in linear algebra, and are used throughout mathematics, science, and engineering. 158; 165; vectorists, 534; and Monotony, 560; "in five dimensions" 675; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space Wikipedia entry]

'''Vectorist''' 
97; [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vectorist Urban Dictionary entry]

'''Veikko''' 
[[ATD-R#veikko|See Rautavaara, Veikko]]

'''veil''' 
140; A caul or veil (Latin: Caput galeatum) is a thin, filmy membrane, the remnants of the amniotic sac, that covers or partly covers the newborn mammal immediately after birth. The Caul were even sold durning Greek and Roman times to statemen, for it was believed to wear one would bring wisdom, honor, truth,and pyschic powers and protection against evil. In Icelandic tradition, the caul is associated with a guardian spirit called a ''fylgja''. This ''fylgja'' can take many forms after birth, including an animal, an inanimate object (such as a cloak), or another human being, and often serves as a kind of warning against potential danger. It is a very old idea that a child born with a caul over its face will be endowed with special powers or gifts.

'''"Velvet" drink''' 
682; "horrible combination of porter and Champagne";

[[image:Venedig-Vienna.jpg|thumb|Venedig in Wien|right]]'''Venedig in Wien''' 
717; In May 1895, the large entertainment park "Venice in Vienna" opened in the Viennese Prater. Entrepreneur Gabor Steiner and architect Oskar Marmorek provided gondolas on artificial channels, cafés, restaurants, Verkaufsbuden and also a Operettenbühne.

'''Verbena''' 
345; friend of Katie's; 347;

'''Veta Madre''' 
306;The "Mother Lode" of Mexico [http://www.mindat.org/loc-7776.html] in Guanajuato

'''Vibe, Colfax''' 
157; son of Scarsdale Vibe, at Yale; 325; minor league pitcher married to a barmaid from Oakland, 789;

'''Vibe, Cragmont''' 
159; son of Scarsdale Vibe

'''Vibe, Dittany''' 
160; niece of Scarsdale Vibe, at Mt. Holyoke;

'''Vibe, Edwarda Beef''' 
160; wife of Scarsdale Vibe

'''Vibe, Fleetwood''' 
130; son of Scarsdale Vibe; Journals, 138-148; 159; to South Africa, 168; in Siberia, 789

'''Vibe, R. Wilshire''' 
161; Scarsdale's younger brother and opera composer; "restless impresario" in New York City, 340; "Shanghai Scampers - "his next project" 340; African Antics, "coon revue" 344; his pad, 348; 505;

'''Vibe, Scarsdale''' 
31; The village of Scarsdale, New York, is one of the wealthiest communities in the United States. Thus, the "Scarsdale vibe" would be an aura of wealth, appropriately; financing Tesla in Colorado Springs, 31; "Wealth", 99; Foley Walker as Scarsdale's Civil War Substitute, resulting in "The Twin Vibes", 100-102; financing the Vormance Expedition, 130; manor on Long Island, 159; coveting his enemies' bloodline, 332; "Smite early and often" 333; in Europe headed for Venice to buy Renaissance art, 657, 669;

'''Vicker, Morty''' 
63; saloon owner in Cleveland

'''Villa, Gaston''' 
"and His Bughouse Bandaleros" 374;

'''''vint''''' 
667; Russian card-game, similar to both bridge and whist and it is sometimes referred to as Russian whist. Vint means a screw in Russian, and the name is given to the game because the four players, each in turn, propose, bid and overbid each other until one, having bid higher than the others care to follow, makes the trump, his vis-d-vis becoming his partner; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint Wikipedia entry]

'''''virtù''''' 
529;

'''"Vitaï Lampada"''' 
236, 813, 893; an 1898 poem by Sir Henry Newbolt; [[Vitai Lampada|text.]]

'''vivid''' 
"vivid magenta," 26; "vivid cream," 129; "vivid, unmistakable turquoise," 236; "vivid red," 297; "orange Tiffany orchid brooches vivid as flames," 348;

'''''voetsak''''' 
564; exclamation: ''go away!''

'''''vol à voile''''' 
14; French: ''gliding'' (as in hang gliders)

'''von Arendtschildt''' 
661; Hannoverian army under...;

'''von Flies''' 
661; at Langensalza

'''von Krafft-Ebing, Baron''' 
544; hat fetishism; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krafft-Ebing Wikipedia entry]

'''von Quassel, Güther''' 
596; "wealthy coffee scion" and Yashmeen's boyfriend; inhabits "his own idiomatic 'frame of reference'" 599; aka "El Atildado" in Mexico, with Frank Traverse, 637; 986;

'''von Schlieffen''' 
543;

'''von Waltershausen, Baron''' 
661; professor at Göttingen;

'''Vormance, Dr. Alden''' 
114; commander of the schooner ''Étienne-Louis Malus'', engaged on an expedition to the Arctic; "on sabbatical from Candlebrow University, where he ordinarily headed the Department of Mineralogy" 130; "The scientists of the Vormance Expedition had continued to believe it was a meteorite they were bringing back, like Peary and other recent heroes of science" 149; "Word was about that Alden Vormance was getting up a party to go north and recover a meteorite" 170;

'''Voznab''' 
707; Russian airship surveillance program, referring to the ''Bol'shaia Igra'', Padzy's airship

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