==Etymology==

Lewis' surname may be connected to [http://en.wikipedia.org/Basalt basalt], whose origin is the Latin ''basaltes'', a variant of the Greek ''basanites'', from the Greek ''basanos'', '[http://en.wikipedia.org/touchstone touchstone]' (indicating Basnight may be a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphic_rock metaphoric] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schist schist], a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellwether bellwether], or a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer barometer]).

[http://en.wikipedia.org/Basalt Basalt] is a dark, fine-grained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_rock volcanic rock] that sometimes displays a columnar structure. It is typically composed largely of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagioclase plagioclase], a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldspar feldspar], with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroxene pyroxene], a prismatic crystal (Pyro- + the Greek ''xenos'', 'stranger') and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivine olivine].

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'''Bagdad Railway Concession''' 
228; In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire planned to construct a Baghdad Railway under German control. It became a source of international tension and played some role in the origins of the First World War; 238; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Railway Wikipedia entry]

'''Baku''' 
441; Located on the Caspian Sea, Baku or Baky (Baki), capital and largest city of Azerbaijan. Since 1873 an oil belt of Baku began to be formed which was known as a Black City. Within a short period of time departments and representations of Swiss, English, French, Belgian, German and American firms were established in Baku, among them were the firms of the Nobels and Rothschilds. By the beginning of the 20th century almost half of the oil reserves in the world had been extracted in Baku; 631; "with skeeters" 639; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku Wikipedia entry] [[Discussion]]

'''Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876)''' 
373; well-known Russian revolutionary, and often considered one of the fathers of modern anarchism; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin Wikipedia entry]

<div id="balaam"></div>'''Balaam's ass''' 
432; From the Bible, Numbers Chapter 22, wherein Balaam, a seer and Gentile, is sent by Balak, King of Moab, to confront the Israelites who, after 40 years in the desert, were camped on the plains of Moab. An angel, invisible to Balaam but visible to the ass, blocks the road and the ass won't proceed. Balaam repeatedly whips the ass until, by divine intervention, the ass is given the power of speech and speaks to Balaam, asking him why he treats him so badly. Balaam is taken aback and then sees the angel with sword drawn and falls to the ground, contrite. But the angel, instead of stopping him from his journey, tells Balaam to proceed on his mission. When Balaam reaches the top of a hill and sees the Israelites camped out below, a blessing unexpectedly issues from his lips. Two things here: 1) it's possible for a non-Hebrew to be a prophet and 2) this is one of only two instances in the Bible where animals speak, the other being the serpent in the Garden of Eden. [http://www.trivia-library.com/a/origins-of-the-term-balaam-ass.htm More from the Trivia Library]

'''Balkin ''komitadji''''' 
557; Komitadji, Comitadji or Komitaji (Turkish: Komitacı, "a rebel, member of a secret revolutionary society") is a member of a guerrilla band in Macedonia or the Balkan countries.

'''Ball in Hand''' 
405; saloon where Dr. Zoot met Meatman; on West Symmes Street, 410;

'''[[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; emergence out of explosion, 221; 496; at Chunxton Crescent "Gus Swallowfield, Senior Underwriter" 611;

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

'''Battle of Puebla''' 
315; The Battle of Puebla took place on May 5, 1862 near the city of Puebla, Mexico, during the French intervention in Mexico. It was a major Mexican victory, and is commemorated every year as Cinco de Mayo; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Puebla Wikipedia entry]

'''Bauer, Grünewald''' 
136;

'''Beaufort Scale''' 
15; a scale to measure wind speed; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale Wikipedia entry]

'''Beaver Saloon''' 
193;

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

'''Becker, Mr.''' 
1076; Jesse Traverse's school teacher, and possibly his future father-in-law; see the [[Traverse Family Tree]]

'''Belgian nihilists''' 
527; "Eugénie, Fatou, Denis, and Policarpe, styling themselves 'Young Congo'"

'''Beppo''' 
576; Dally's alter-ego; Beppo is the subject of the poem "Beppo" by Lord Byron; [[Beppo|Read the poem]]

'''Berlin Conference of 1878''' 
226; The Congress of Berlin was a meeting of the European Great Powers' and the Ottoman Empire's leading statesmen in Berlin in 1878. In the wake of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78, the meeting's aim was to reorganize conditions in the Balkans. Otto von Bismarck, who led the Congress, undertook to balance the distinct interests of Great Britain, Russia and Austria-Hungary. As a consequence, however, differences between Russia and Austria-Hungary intensified, as did the nationality question in the Balkans; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Berlin Wikipedia entry]

'''Bible''' 
86; Second Corinthians, 32; 223; St. Mark, 250; "Let there be light" 354; Judas Iscariot, 377; 413; [[#balaam|Balaam's ass]], 432; Sodom and Gomorrah, 441; 441; 452; Jonah and Agadir, 521; Judas Priest, 525; Lot's wife, 550; Lucifer, 575; Infancy Gospel of Thomas, 579; Pentacost story from Acts of the Apostles (Jesus and the dyes), 579-80;

'''Big Billy's''' 
260;

[[Image:Billy-the-Kid.jpg|thumb|Billy the Kid, painting by Jacques Moitoret|right]]'''Billy the Kid (1859-1881)''' 
263; Henry McCarty, better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and gunmen who was a participant in the Lincoln County War. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_the_Kid Wikipedia entry]

'''bilocation''' 
143; the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist simultaneously in two locations; "there are two distinct versions of 'Asia' out there" 249; Estrella, double of Stray Briggs, 393; Chums of Chance and the Marching Academy Harmonica Band, 418-24; "enough to divide a fellow into two" 464; two Agadirs, 521-22; ''Stupendica'', 514; Dally, 524; doubling, 564; multiple identities, 570; sawed-in-half folks, 571-72; Principessa Spongiatosta, 583; Werfner/Renfrew, 683, 685; Orphic and Pythagorean religionns, 686; Lew Basright, 688, 690; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilocation 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.

'''Bing, Liu''' 
345; "tong warrior's girlfriend"

'''Biometric Institute of Neuropathy''' 
433;

'''Black Gang''' 
517; the stokers; 519;

'''Black Hundreds''' 
595; pogrom

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

'''Blanca, La''' 
287; "local name" for [[ATD-M#meldrum|Bob Meldrum's]] wife;

'''Blaskó, Béla''' 
915; the original name of the Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi (1882-1956) whose most famous role was that of Dracula; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_lugosi Wikipedia entry]

'''Blavatsky, Madame''' (1831-1891) 
219; Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène), better known as Helena Blavatsky (Russian: Елена Блаватская) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society; "working for the Tsarist secret service" aka Third Section, aka Okhrana, 631; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Blavatsky Wikipedia entry]

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

'''Bloggins''' 
446;

'''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; the Book, 251; 417; "temporarily lapsing into English" 427; recognizes the Trespassers, Mr. Ace, 417; "extra-temporal excursions" 443; and Pugnax, 550; "prefiguration of the Holy City" 551;

'''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; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly Wikipedia entry]

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

'''Bodine, O. I. C. (Officer in Charge)''' 
517; American stoker aboard the ''Stupendica''; 519;

'''Bohr, Niels (Henrik David) (1885-1962)''' 
412; Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. Bohr is widely considered one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr Wikipedia entry]

'''Boilster, Eugene''' 
477; sheriff of Wall o' Death;

'''Boilster, Tace''' 
479; Eugene's wife;

'''Boilster, Roy Mickey''' 
480; Tace's brother;

'''Boilster, Chloe''' 
485; Eugene's & Tace's daughter

'''Boll Weevil Lounge''' 
47;

'''''Bol'shaia Igra''''' 
122; Padzhy's ship, at the North Pole; in Venice, 245;

'''Boltzmann, Ludwig''' 
596;

'''Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793)''' 
307; Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer who first described what became known as the Charles Bonnet syndrome (or CBS for short), a term used to describe the situation when people with sight problems start to see things which they know aren't real. Sometimes called visual hallucinations, the things people see can take all kinds of forms from simple patterns of straight lines to detailed -pictures of people or buildings. These can be enjoyable or sometimes upsetting; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonnet Wikipedia entry]

'''Boot Hill''' 
648;

Bopfli 
669; 670;

'''Borrasca''' 
364; Reef's colt;

'''Borowicz, Professor Bogoslaw''' 
343; at McVeety's Theater "Floor Shows"

'''Bosanquet, Bernard James Tindal (1877-1936)''' 
237; "this Middlesex spinner"; an English cricketer, perhaps most renowned as the inventor of the googly (sometimes called the Bosie or, in Australia, the Wrong'un ), born in Bull's Cross, Enfield, Middlesex; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Bosanquet_(cricketer) Wikipedia entry]

'''Bosch''' 
554; the artist

'''Boulanger, General Georges Ernest Jean-Marie (April 29, 1837 – September 30, 1891)''' 
543; anniversary of his suicide and the Chums of Chance; Boulanger was a French general and reactionary politician. Very popular with the military, He rose through the ranks to general, and began his own political movement, an ecclectic one that capitalized on the frustrations of French conservatism, advocating the three principles of ''Revanche'' (Revenge on Germany), ''Révision'' (Revision of the Constitution), ''Restauration'' (the return to monarchy). The common reference to it has become ''Boulangisme'', a term used by its partisans and adversaries alike. A failed coup began his downfall. He was charged with conspiracy and treason and a warrant for his death was issued. He committed suicide by a bullet to the head on the grave of his mistress. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Boulanger Wikipedia entry]

'''Bounce, Roswell''' 
60; photographer; Hypop Apparatus, 425; Scarsdale Vibe trial in Cleveland, 455; Hercules, 455;

'''''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.

'''Boyne''' 
231;

'''brambled guttie''' 
603; gutta-percha ball (a golf ball), a brambled spheroid

'''Breedlove, "Dope"''' 
369; "and his Merry Coons" - houseband at Maman Tant Gras Hall in New Orleans;

'''Breguet''' 
457; the tourbillion

'''Briggs, Estrella (Stray)''' 
200; in Nochecita; Aunt Adelina; at a "small ranch outside Fickle Creek" 462; 920-921;

'''Briggs, Willow''' 
361; Stray's sister; husband Holt, 367;

'''British craving for the dark and shiny''' 
678; Perhaps an [[Dark and Shiny|Orwellian reference?]]

'''Brocken''' 
632;

'''Brownian Movement''' 
587;

'''Brownie''' 
277; Kodak camera introduced in 1900 for one dollar

'''Browning''' 
578; the poet

'''Brueghel''' 
554;

'''Brugere's power''' 
529; Brugere's powder uses '''picric acid''' which, when ignited, burns quietly with a smoky flame and is very difficult to detonate by percussion; its salts, however, are more readily detonated. Part of the picric family, Brugere's powder is a mixture of 54 parts of ammonium picrate and 45 parts of saltpetre; '''Designolle's powder''', composed of potassium picrate, saltpetre and charcoal is also a member of this family of explosives. [[Picric Acid|More on picric acid]]

'''Bruno''' 
101; Scarsdale Vibe's bodyguard

'''buck-and-wing artist''' 
303; "buck-and-wing" is a solo tap dance emphasizing sharp taps

'''Buffalo Bill''' 
[[ATD-C#buffalo|See Cody, Buffalo Bill]]

'''Burchell, Mrs.''' 
228; medium at Stead séance; her "prophetic account of the Serbian outrage" 719;

'''Burgess''' 
a sheriff Reef argues with; Laureen, his wife;

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

'''Busted Flush''' 
313; Jimmy Drop's hangout in Telluride

'''Byng, Admiral''' 
545;

'''Byron's Pool''' 
490; where Yashmeen bathed nude;

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