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==Page 408==

'''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years''' 
Recalls Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.

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'''Asimov Transecular''' 
Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of "picked-over hulks of failed time machines." Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.

to transecular adj "that is made through the centuries" (Portuguese)

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'''"Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?" [...] "Yes, obviously"''' 
According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is "Mu", which is both "No" and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.

'''young Einstein''' 
Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published "[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields]." Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.

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==Page 408==

'''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years''' 
Recalls Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.

==Page 409==

'''Asimov Transecular''' 
Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of "picked-over hulks of failed time machines." Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.

to transecular adj "that is made through the centuries" (Portuguese)

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'''young Einstein''' 
Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published "[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields]." Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.

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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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==Page 246==

Darby's exclamation: "with all the spaghetti-joints in this town to choose from, are you saying those dadblame Russians have come in ''here''?" is reminiscent of a similar line from the film ''Casablanca'': "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she had to walk into mine."

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'''the dirt, the blood-red dirt''' 
This line recalls Homer's "wine-dark sea" first found in The Iliad (Bk VII) in a scene in which Achilles grieves for the death of Patroclus. Given the context here, it might be thought of as "mock-heroic."

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'''Gage, Lyman Judson (1836-1927)''' 
307; "that old Gold Standard hand and bank president"; Gage was president of the First National Bank of Chicago; in 1892, he was chosen president of the board of directors of the World's Columbian Exposition, the successful financing of which was due more to him than to any other man. As Secretary of the Treasury under President Grover Cleveland, Gage was influential in securing passage of the Gold Standard Act of March 14, 1900, which reestablished a currency backed solely by gold; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_J._Gage Wikipedia entry]

'''Galandronome''' 
374; a type of bassoon developed by French instrument maker Galander in the mid-19th century;

'''Galois, Evariste''' 
601;

'''Gallows Frame Saloon''' 
302; in Telluride; the Gallows Frame is the structural frame, usually made of steel or timber, at the top of an underground mine shaft. These frames hold the hoisting equipment which raise and lower equipment and miners into the underground mine.

'''Gamomania''' 
432; "the abnormal desire to be married"

'''Garçons de '71''' 
19;

'''Gas Office''' 
607

'''Gaspereaux, Stilton''' 
436; civilian passenger on ''Saksaul''; in London, 445;

'''Gatlin, Reverend Moss''' 
49; Anarchist preacher; "we are Stripes and Solids on the pool table of earthly existence" 87; The New York Times, commenting on the Haymarket Square riots in Chicago in 1886, offered the following solution to the anarchist threat, “In the early stages of an acute outbreak of anarchy a Gatling gun, or if the case be severe, two, is the sovereign remedy"; in Denver with his "Anarchist Heaven" car, 465;

[[image:Gauss-Weber_Statue.jpg|thumb|Gauss & Weber Statue]]'''Gauss''' 
498; 588; statue of Gauss and Weber, 594;

'''Geheimrat''' 
603; title of the highest officials of a German royal or principal court. It has its roots in 17th century Europe when governmental administration was established. The English language equivalent is Privy Councillor. The title disappeared after the destruction of the German Empire in 1918, when the various royal courts in Germany were replaced by the Weimar Republic.

'''Gentleman Bomber of Headingly''' 
236; cricket-ball bombs; 241; 605; 690; spotted at Fenner's crickett ground, 691;

'''Gerasimoff, Dr.''' 
258; Chick Counterfly's "opposite number"

'''Gerhardt''' 
517; Austrian Chief Stoker aboard ''Stupendica'', ''Herr Hauptheitzer''; in Swiss Alps, drilling, 655;

'''German Sea, The''' 
489; 504;

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

'''Gevaert, Edouard''' 
558; sells Q-98 to Woevre; "unworldly go-between" 559;

[[image:dirhan.jpg|thumb|Afghani dirham|right]]'''Ghaznivid Empire''' 
596; Sunni Muslim state in Khorasan in modern day Afghanistan that existed from 962 to 1187. It was created by Alp Tigin, a former Turkic slave general, with the city Ghazna (Ghazni) as capital, replacing the ruling Samanids; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Wikipedia entry]

'''Ghloix, Dr. Otto''' 
132; "Expedition alienist"; "psychomedical officer" 143; visiting alienist from Switzerland, 686;

'''Giant-Wheel''' 
699; The Giant Wheel in the Prater is an important Viennese landmark, providing a view over the city. The wheel was the brain child of Gabor Steiner (1858-1944) and was built in 1896 by the English engineer Walter B. Basset, who produced similar designs in London and Paris. It was erected in the record time of eight months and was operated for the first time on June 21 1897; [http://www.technologystudent.com/culture1/ferris1.htm More on this website]

'''Gibbs, Professor Willard''' 
29; 158; 318-19; 532-3; 793; Gibbsian, 526; 532; Josiah Willard Gibbs was arguably the greatest American scientist of the 19th century, bringing the power of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to what had been cookbook and rule-of-thumb chemistry. He demonstrated and extended the value of modeling in "phase space," a graph in which each physical state of a system is represented by a point representing pressure, volume, temperature, etc. ("water in all its phases," 368)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Gibbs Wikipedia entry]

'''Gibson Girls''' 
409; The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal as portrayed in the satirical pen and ink illustrated stories created by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson during over 15 years spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; 512; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Girl Wikipedia entry]

'''Gigg, Jack''' 
99; Kit Traverse's sidekick

'''Gilmore, Mr.''' 
187; conductor in New Mexico

'''Ginnungagap''' 
127; "the lightless abyss"; Ginnungagap ("seeming emptiness"), in the cosmology of Norse mythology, is the primordial void separating Niflheim and Muspell, the land of eternal ice and snow and the land of eternal heat and flame; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginnungagap Wikipedia entry]

'''Girtonian''' 
492; 498; Of or pertaining to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girton_College%2C_Cambridge Girton College].

'''Giuseppina''' 
246; waitress at ''Osteria'' in San Polo

'''Glagolitic''' 
252; The Glagolitic alphabet was invented during the 9th century by the missionaries St Cyril (827-869 AD) and St Methodius (826-885 AD) in order to translate the bible and other religious works into the language of the Great Moravia region. They probably modelled Glagolitic on a cursive form of the Greek alphabet, and based their translations on a Slavic dialect of the Thessalonika area, which formed the basis of the literary standard known as Old Church Slavonic; [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/glagolitic.htm More from this website]

'''GOD''' 
87; "God's ledger; 131; rocks as "post-godhead" 209; under God's wing, 211; ''shin'', 237; 534;

'''Gold Standard''' 
89; The "gold standard" is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard Wikipedia entry]

'''Golden Age''' 
561;

'''Gomez, Eusebio''' 
640; "acting as a subagent" in Mexico; aka Wolfe Tone O'Reilly, 641;

'''Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885)''' 
240; known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator. He is remembered for his exploits in China and northern Africa. Gordon was killed in Khartoum while defending it against the uprising led by Mahdi Mohammed Ahmed who decapitated Gordon and displayed his head on a spear; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_George_Gordon Wikipedia entry]

'''Göttingen''' 
226; Werfner at Göttingen; 594; during war with Prussia

'''Gottlob''' 
588; at Göttingen;

'''Grace, Angela''' 
399-400; songstress at Lollypop Lounge who's "ten summers old";

'''Grace, Dr.''' 
577; appeared to Hunter in a dream, "the mass-grave-to-be of Europe";

'''Gradenigo, Doge Pietro''' 
247

'''Grand Cohen''' 
499;A cohen, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen Kohen], is a member of the Jewish priestly class.

'''Grand Hotel de la Nouvelle Digue''' 
526; in Ostend, Belgium; 531;

'''Granitza''' 
326; small town "above Adriatic Coast in the Velebit range"

'''grapnel''' 
13; a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope

'''Grassmann, Hermann (1809-1877)''' 
324; German polymath, renowned in his day as a linguist and now admired as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, neohumanist, all-round scholar, and publisher; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_grassmann Wikipedia entry]; Grassmann's 1862 ''Ausdehnungslehre'' (literally, "Theory of Extension") is one of the great mathematical works of the nineteenth century. In it the foundations of linear and multilinear algebra are laid and much of the superstructure too is constructed. It is regrettable that such a book on such a subject should, from the moment of publication, have been not much read. Indeed, Grassmann's reputation for impenetrability has persisted to this day; 535; [http://www.maths.utas.edu.au/People/dfs/Papers/GrassmannTranslation/node3.html More about ''Ausdehnungslehre'' here]

'''Great Airships of 1896 and '7''' 
454; On November 17, 1896 in Sacramento, California, there appeared, on a rainy night, a bright light. It moved slowly west appearing to be about a thousand feet above the rooftops. Hundreds of people saw the light including George Scott, an assistant to the Secretary of State of California. Scott persuaded some friends to join him on the observation deck above the capitol dome and from there they thought they could see three lights, not one. Above the lights was a dark, oblong shape. In 1897 there were many sightings of great airships from California to
Texas. However the airplane would not be invented for another 6 years,
and neither had large dirigibles or blimps yet been flown. In Aurora,
Texas one such ship crashed into a windmill or tower and exploded. [http://ufocasebook.com/Aurora.html Read more about the 1897 incident] and [http://www.unmuseum.org/airship.htm the Mysterious Airship of 1896]

'''Great Wife Bazaar of the World-Island''' 
432;

'''Gretchen''' 
640; Günther's date at Steve/Ramón's ("the restless Valkyrie")

'''Grimsford, Wes''' 
211; marshal of Jeshimon

'''Griswold, Uncle''' 
497; Cyprian's corrupting sodomite uncle

'''Grossmith, George''' 
494; at Cambridge

'''Groznyi''' 
441;

'''Grundy, Mrs.''' 
400; Mrs Grundy is the personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety (from Thomas Morton's play ''Speed the Plough'', which appeared in 1798), a person who is too much concerned with being proper, modest, or righteous; 427;

'''Guanajuato''' 
376; Frank Traverse and Ewball in;

'''guncotton''' 
27; guncotton is Nitrocellulose (Cellulose nitrate) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose (e.g. through exposure to nitric acid or powerful nitrating agent), used in explosives

'''gutta-percha''' 
603; Gutta-percha (Palaquium) is genus of tropical trees native to southeast Asia and northern Australasia, from Taiwan south to Malaya and east to the Solomon Islands. It is also an inelastic natural latex produced from the sap of these trees, particularly from the species Palaquium gutta. Chemically, gutta-percha is a polyterpene, a polymer of isoprene (trans-1,4-polyisoprene); 611;

'''gynecophobia''' 
501; fear of women

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'''The Number 22''' 
I found it interesting that the significance of the number 22 was first brought up on page 222. might be nothing, really.

==Page 226==

'''Renfrew at Cambridge and Werfner at Göttingen''' 
Note that each Professor's name is the other's spelled backward. Given the importance of railway lines in this and other chapters, it is also interesting to note that Cambridge's rail system was built in 1845 while Gottingen's was built in 1854.

==Page 236==

'''The Gentleman Bomber of Headingly''' 
Reminds me of the Krikkit Robots in Douglas Adams' ''Life, The Universe, and Everything,'' where a bomb is put in place of a Cricket Ball at a match between Britain and Australia.

==Page 237==

'''Hebrew letter Shin- sign''' 
"This person greeted the Cohen by raising his left hand, then spreading the fingers two and two away from the thumb so as to form the Hebrew letter ''shin'', signifying the initial letter of one of the pre-Mosaic (that is, plural) names of God, which may never be spoken.

" 'Basically wishing long life and prosperity,' explained the Choen, answering with the same gesture"
 
compare with the following from M&D 485: 
Dixon discovers "The Rabbi of Prague, headquarters of a Kabbalistick Faith, in Correspondence with the Elect Cohens of Paris, whose private Salute they now greet Dixon with, the Fingers spread two and two, and the Thumb held away from them likewise, said to represent the Hebrew letter ''Shin'' and to signify, 'Live long and prosper.' " 
So is there connection between The Cohen of T.W.I.T., the "Cohens of Paris"? and these backwoods Kabbalists? 
Obvious connects with Star Trek's Vulcan greeting and with Leonard Nimoy's jewish faith.