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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''California Peg'''<br /><br /> 303; ''sous-ma&icirc;tresse'' of the Silver Orchid in Telluride;<br /> <br /> '''''camera lucida'''''<br /><br /> 141; A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists. It was patented in 1806 by William Hyde Wollaston; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_lucida Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Camp, Walter (1859-1925)'''<br /><br /> 159; sports writer and football coach known as the "Father of American Football". Along with John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, and Glenn Scobey Warner, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most significant person in the history of American football. He attended Yale from 1876-1890; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Camp Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry (1836-1908)'''<br /><br /> 448; British Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister from December 5, 1905 until resigning due to ill health on April 3, 1908. No previous First Lord of the Treasury had been officially called "Prime Minister"; this term only came into official usage after he took office; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Campbell-Bannerman Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Canaletto (1697-1768)'''<br /><br /> 576; Giovanni Antonio Canale, better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or ''vedute'' of Venice. He was a son of the painter Bernardo Canale, hence his nickname Canaletto. His nephew Bernardo Bellotto was also a landscape painter; he sometimes used the name of Canaletto to further his own career; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaletto Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow, Mr. Gideon'''<br /><br /> 406;<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow University'''<br /><br /> 405; "institute of higher learning in the heartland"; 451; <br /> <br /> '''Cantor, Georg (1845-1918)'''<br /><br /> 250; 593-94; German mathematician who is best known as the creator of set theory. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are "more numerous" than the natural numbers. In fact, Cantor's theorem implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities." He defined the cardinal and ordinal numbers, and their arithmetic. Cantor's work is of great philosophical interest, a fact of which he was well aware. After his father's death in 1863, Cantor shifted his studies to the University of Berlin, attending lectures by Weierstrass, Kummer, and Kronecker, and befriending his fellow student Hermann Schwarz. He spent a summer at the University of Göttingen, then and later a very important center for mathematical research. In 1867, Berlin granted him the Ph.D. for a thesis on number theory, De aequationibus secundi gradus indeterminatis. After teaching one year in a Berlin girls' school, Cantor took up a position at the University of Halle, where he spent his entire career; "the ''Beast of Halle''" 624;<br /> <br /> '''Capitalism'''<br /><br /> 79; and modern chemistry; and the Tsar, 83; 147; collapse of, 415; 419; "If it doesn't work with gold, the next step will be lead" 618; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Capsheaf'''<br /><br /> 492; pal of Cyprian Latewood<br /> <br /> '''Capunizer'''<br /><br /> 698; a "caponizer" would be a castrator;<br /> <br /> '''Carnal, Reverend Lube'''<br /><br /> 210; "of the Second Lutheran (Missouri Synod) Church"<br /> '''carnival theory'''<br /><br /> 184-185;<br /> <br /> '''Cartesian'''<br /><br /> [[ATD-D#descarte|See Descarte, Ren&eacute;]]<br /> <br /> '''Case Institute'''<br /><br /> 58; in Cleveland<br /> <br /> '''Cassidy, Butch (1866-1908?)'''<br /><br /> 172; a notorious train and bank robber.; 180; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Cathedral of the Prefiguration'''<br /><br /> 153;<br /> <br /> '''Celluloid'''<br /><br /> 86; a thermoplastic compound of cellulose nitrate and camphor, originally developed and patented by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Hyatt John Wesley Hyatt] as a substitute for ivory in billiard balls. It was later used as the film base for photosensitive emulsion, seminal in the use of photographic plates and especially in motion pictures. Nowadays, it is found principally in ping-pong balls and in some guitar (perhaps also ukelele?) picks and pickguards. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celluloid Wikipedia entry]; 103;<br /> <br /> '''Chandrasekhar, O.D.'''<br /><br /> 63; from Bombay, India; Perhaps a nod to Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995), an Indian-American physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician, known to the world as Chandra, who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics. He calculated and discovered the Chandrasekhar Limit which is the maximum mass possible for a white dwarf star (one of the end stages of stars that have exhausted their fuel) supported by electron degeneracy pressure, and is approximately 3 × 1030 kg, around 1.44 times the mass of the Sun.<br /> <br /> '''charabanc'''<br /><br /> 53; bus: a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charabanc Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Chase, Ed'''<br /><br /> 176; "boss of the redlight district" in Denver; 465;<br /> <br /> '''Chavalito, Se&ntilde;or'''<br /><br /> 387; what El &Ntilde;ato calls Frank<br /> <br /> '''Cheesely, Thrapston III'''<br /><br /> 367; Reef Traverse's alter-ego - "East Coast nerve case"<br /> <br /> '''Chess'''<br /><br /> 543; "war in miniature"; 558; 594; 689;<br /> <br /> <div id="chicagofair"></div>'''Chicago World's Fair'''<br /><br /> 21; held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America; eulogy, 56; 476; 503; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Chinchito'''<br /><br /> 350; "jumped-up circus midget" on the Bowery stage, at R. W. Vibe's party;<br /> <br /> '''Chinese Gong Effect'''<br /><br /> 356;<br /> <br /> '''Chirpingdon-Groin, Ruperta ("Pert")'''<br /><br /> 367; "touring English woman" in Denver; 656; levitation during performance of new work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 896;<br /> <br /> '''Chisholm, Grace'''<br /><br /> 490;<br /> <br /> '''chloral hydrate'''<br /><br /> 621; drug of choice at University of Göttingen - ''Mickifests'' - chloralomania<br /> <br /> '''Chong'''<br /><br /> 602; Theosophoid at Göttingen<br /> <br /> '''Christianity'''<br /><br /> 453; born-again; 675;<br /> <br /> '''Chthonica, Princess of Plutonia'''<br /><br /> 117; chthonic = "dwelling in or under the earth; also, pertaining to the underworld"; <br /> Plutonia? Well, TNT and Plutonia are two "alternate" versions of DooM 2, i.e. they have the same story line as DooM 2, but completely different level designs, and some new music and textures; alternately, there's the Plutonia Dilemma: an eccentric trillionaire gathers 20 people together, and tells them that if one and only one of them sends him a telegram (reverse charges) by noon the next day, that person will receive a billion dollars. If he receives more than one telegram, or none at all, no-one will get any money, and cooperation between players is forbidden. In this situation, the superrational thing to do is to send a telegram with probability 1/20.<br /> <br /> '''Chuck'''<br /><br /> 347; harpist at Smokefoot's<br /> <br /> '''Chums of Chance'''<br /><br /> 3; "celebrated aeronautics club"; 6, 7; 54; 107; "agents of ''extrahuman'' justice" 215; in Murano, 243; retirement, 254; in the Arsenale battle with Padzy, 254; [[Campanile|toppling the Campanile]], 257; in New York City, 397; Upper Command (aka Hierarchy), 398, 407; at Candlebrow University, 407; the anti-Chums, 415; infiltrated by Trespassers, 418; their "Tesla machine" 425; under the sand, 434; in Brussels, 548; recalled, in Venice, 575;<br /> <br /> '''Chums of Chance books'''<br /><br /> ''Chums of Chance and The Evil Halfwit'', 5; ''Chums of Chance and The Curse of the Great Kahuna'', 5; ''Chums of Chance at Krakatoa'', 6; ''Chums of Chance Search for Atlantis'', 6; ''Chums of Chance in Old Mexico'', 7; ''Chums of Chance and the Bowels of the Earth'', 117; ''The Chums of Chance and the Ice Pirates'', 123; ''The Chums of Chance Nearly Crash into the Kremlin'', 123; ''Chums of Chance at the Ends of the Earth'', ready by Reef Traverse, 214; ''Chums of Chance and the Caged Women of Yokahama'', 411;<br /> <br /> '''Cinema / Film'''<br /><br /> "Dreamtime Movy" (theater), 450; 456-57;<br /> <br /> '''Clarabella'''<br /><br /> 249; Dally's doll<br /> <br /> '''Clifford'''<br /><br /> 632; invisible<br /> <br /> '''climber'''<br /><br /> 131; 167;<br /> <br /> '''Coeur d'Alene'''<br /><br /> 333; 362; 463;<br /><br /> History of miners' disputes in:<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeur_d%27Alene_miners%27_dispute Wikipedia entry]<br /><br /> <br /> '''Cold Harbor'''<br /><br /> 335;<br /> <br /> '''Coleman-Smith, Miss'''<br /><br /> 186;<br /> <br /> <div id="buffalo"></div>'''Cody, Buffalo Bill (1845-1917)'''<br /><br /> 22; William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was an American soldier, buffalo hunter and showman. He was born in the American state of Iowa, near Le Claire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill Wikipedia entry]; 53;<br /> <br /> '''Colonel, the'''<br /><br /> 699; in Leopoldstadt, in the Jewish quarter north of the Prater, in Vienna; solicits Sado-Masochistic sex from Cyprian Latewood; 704; surveilled by the Russians, 711;<br /> <br /> '''Colonialism'''<br /><br /> 527; in the Belgian Congo;<br /> <br /> '''color'''<br /><br /> 160; 162; 200; 211; mauve, 226; muffins, 236; green, 269; "suit of acid magenta and saffron" 342; Erlys? 347; "Congo violet" 349; 394; indigo and yellow, 399; magenta and green, 410; apricot and aquamarine, 412; Chinese red and indigo, 418; heliotrope, 493; green, white and mauve, 501; Coronation Red, 497; claret and blue, 503; indigoes and aquas, 526; Chinese red, 526; blue, taupe, Chinese red, 532; "analine teal and a bright though sour orange" 533; 537; pale violet, 544; taupe and damaged rose, 551; 568; duck-green, 574; Jesus, 580; 584; 585; orpiment yellow, scarlet vermilion, N&uuml;rnberg violet, 586; 608; Foley Walker's suit, 619; 625; green and magenta, 633; 689; 715;<br /> <br /> '''Colorado'''<br /><br /> 83; commenting on its shape;<br /> <br /> '''Columbian Exposition of 1893'''<br /><br /> 3; See [[#chicagofair|Chicago World's Fair]]; 10<br /> <br /> '''Commandant of Earthly Days'''<br /><br /> 17; a "potent though invisible" entity that dictates human behavior<br /> <br /> '''"commonwealth of toil that is to be"'''<br /><br /> 361; from the song "The Commonwealth of Toil" written by Ralph Chaplin in 1905 and included in the International Workers of the World Little Red Songbook - [[The Commonwealth of Toil|The Lyrics...]] [http://staff.science.uva.nl/~sgenseme/music/RedPlanet/commonwe.mp3 A recording...]<br /> <br /> '''Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br /><br /> 567; Carlson Wagonlit is a chain of travel agencies. The company was founded in Belgium in 1876 by Georges Nagelmackers as the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (the International Sleeping-Car Company). Originally, the company deployed sleeping- and dining-cars in Europe. In 1883 the company started with a service to Constantinople, now Istanbul in Turkey, called the Orient Express; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_Internationale_des_Wagons-Lits Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''''Comptes Rendus'''''<br /><br /> 532; ''Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences'', or simply ''Comptes rendus'', is a French scientific journal which has been published since 1835. It is the proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences. It is currently split into seven sections, published by the Academy and Elsevier: Mathematique, Mecanique, Physique, Geoscience, Palevol, Chimie, and Biologies; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptes_rendus Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Cone Amor'''<br /><br /> 468; Mayva's ice-cream parlor, a quite common name for ice-cream parlors, as it turns out, being a pun on ''con amor'', Spanish for "with love"...<br /> <br /> '''Consuelo'''<br /><br /> 161; ''bandida'' in ''Mischief in Mexico''<br /> <br /> '''Control'''<br /><br /> 34; Rational Systems of; <br /> <br /> '''Cooper'''<br /><br /> 202; at Stray's, courting Sage<br /> <br /> '''counter-City'''<br /><br /> 585;<br /> <br /> '''Counterfly, Chick'''<br /><br /> 4; member of the Chums of Chance; 108; 139;<br /> <br /> '''Counterfly, Richard "Dick"'''<br /><br /> 7; father of Chick Counterfly; 17<br /> <br /> '''''Courage'', Camille'''<br /><br /> 345; "Courage Camille" is a game in which three players are required. Two of the players face each other and lock hands. The third person stiffens and falls backwards into their arms. This should be done several times, with the person falling farther backwards each time (the players locking their hands should lower them each time). Other players can then try.<br /> <br /> '''Cowboy's Christmas'''<br /><br /> 81; <br /> <br /> '''Coxey's Army'''<br /><br /> 79; Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington D.C. in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxey's_Army Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Crack of Doom'''<br /><br /> 12; The phrase at the crack of doom, meaning "at the striking of the fateful hour", is derived from Macbeth by William Shakespeare and has entered common usage. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_of_Doom Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Cracker Jack'''<br /><br /> 24; caramel-coated popcorn<br /> <br /> '''Crayke'''<br /><br /> 492; fond of Shetland ponies<br /> <br /> '''Creede'''<br /><br /> 650;<br /> <br /> '''Cripple Creek'''<br /><br /> 82; in Colorado - strike for an 8-hour day;<br /> <br /> '''Crookes, Sir William (1832-1919)'''<br /><br /> 228; English chemist and physicist. Sir William attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crookes Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Crusades'''<br /><br /> 436; counter-Crusades, 437;<br /> <br /> '''Crystal'''<br /><br /> 473; 565;<br /> <br /> '''cubeb'''<br /><br /> 17; the name for the berry and for the oil obtained from the unripe berry of the East Indian climbing shrub P. cubeba. The dried fruits are sometimes used as a condiment or are ground and smoked in cigarette form as a catarrh remedy. The oil is used medicinally and also in soap manufacture. The masticated roots of kava, P. methysticum, widely grown in its native Pacific islands, are made into a beverage called kavakava, which contains soporific alkaloids. It is an integral part of religious and social life there. A preparation of kava for commerce, also called kavakava, is sold widely as an herbal remedy for anxiety and insomnia. -- From [http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/pepper The Free Dictionary]<br /> <br /> '''Culpepper, Madge and Mia'''<br /><br /> 60; worked at the Hamilton Street establishment of Nelly Lowry; 66;<br /> <br /> '''Curly'''<br /><br /> 183; Waiter at a Chicago hotel;<br /> <br /> '''Custozza'''<br /><br /> 661; the summer of;<br /> <br /> '''Cyclomite'''<br /><br /> 182-185; combo of cyclopropane plus dynamite, and psychotropic; "reality-modifying explosive" 233; 683;[[Cyclomite|DISCUSSION]]<br /> <br /> '''Czolgosz'''<br /><br /> 372; assassin of President McKinley;<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Wackett Punches'''<br /><br /> 53; used to quiet cattle or horses<br /> <br /> '''Wagwheel, Tansy'''<br /><br /> 178;<br /> <br /> '''Walker, Foley'''<br /><br /> 31; special assistant to Scarsdale Vibe, 99; substitute conscript for Vibes during the Civil War, subsequently taking a bullet to the head, which gives him the ability to hear "communications from far, far away," 100ff; 156; 330-333; "righteous men who believed it was God they heard whispering" 334; in G&ouml;ttingen, 619;<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''<br /><br /> 476; town in Missouri<br /> <br /> '''Wall of Death'''<br /><br /> 184;<br /> <br /> '''Wardenclyffe'''<br /><br /> 326; on Long Island, where Tesla built his Tower<br /> <br /> '''Washoe process'''<br /><br /> 375;<br /> <br /> '''Wave functions'''<br /><br /> 426; 536;<br /> <br /> '''Waziri's from Waziristan'''<br /><br /> 23;<br /> <br /> '''Weedon'''<br /><br /> 495; at Cambridge<br /> <br /> '''Weierstrass, Karl (1815-1897)'''<br /><br /> 500; a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis"; Weierstrass functions, 594; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Weierstrass Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Wells, Buck'''<br /><br /> 179; "mine manager and cavalry commander at Telluride"<br /> <br /> '''Wells, H. G.'''<br /><br /> 398; 407; 412; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.g._wells Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Wensleydale'''<br /><br /> 37; confronts Baslight<br /> <br /> '''Werfner, Dr.'''<br /><br /> 226; Renfrew's "opposite number"; 499; 602; 680; 719;<br /> <br /> '''Western Reserve'''<br /><br /> 59; in Ohio<br /> <br /> '''Whiskey Hill'''<br /><br /> 60; in Cleveland; 62;<br /> <br /> '''Whistler'''<br /><br /> 578;<br /> <br /> '''Whitechapel'''<br /><br /> 678; Whitechapel is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is a built-up inner city district located 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper Jack the Ripper], the unidentified serial killer (or killers), was active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name "Jack the Ripper" is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings; Rippercetta, 680; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel Wikipedia entry]]<br /> <br /> '''White City, The'''<br /><br /> [[Image:whitecity.jpg|thumb|The White City, Chicago, 1893|right]]3; Costing over a half billion in today's dollars and covering 686 acres, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and Fair in Chicago was a grand sight to its 27 million visitors -- a planned layout of large, classically inspired buildings (what we now call the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_architecture Beaux Arts] style) all built on the same scale and all painted white -- hence, the nickname of "The White City." And within and around those white buildings was the most amazing display of 65,000 exhibits depicting (to quote the Exposition promoters) "all of the highest and best achievements of modern civilization; all that was strange, beautiful, artistic, and inspiring; a vast and wonderful university of the arts and sciences, teaching a noble lesson in history, art, science, discovery and invention, designed to stimulate the youth of this and future generations to greater and more heroic endeavor." 10; 36; Dally think about, in Chicago, 336; [http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html More from the "Encyclopedia of Chicago"]<br /> <br /> '''White City Investigations'''<br /><br /> 36;<br /> <br /> '''Whitehall'''<br /><br /> 444; Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, centre of national government, towards the traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I, which is often regarded as the heart of London for its residents and tourists. Along its way it is lined by many government ministries; "Whitehall" is therefore also frequently used as a metonym for governmental administration, as well as being a geographic name for the surrounding district; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''White Wings'''<br /><br /> 150;<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker, Edmund'''<br /><br /> 542; English mathematician;<br /> <br /> '''Wilde, Oscar'''<br /><br /> 185; 536;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde Wikipedia entry]; Wilde's lecture tour of the USA in 1882 took him to Leadville; while there he was invited by the mayor to tour the Matchless silver mine and open their new lode. It was in a Leadville bar that Wilde saw the notice, <br /> "Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadville,_Colorado Wikipedia entry (Leadville)]<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelm'''<br /><br /> 543;<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelmstrausse'''<br /><br /> 686; 690;<br /> <br /> '''Williams and Walker'''<br /><br /> 344; "coon review"; Bert Williams and George Walker, in the first decade of the twentieth century, became the most famous black entertainers in the world. They had teamed up in California in 1893, came to New York in 1896 as "Two Real Coons," and two years later were making a dance called the cakewalk all the rage. Williams and Walker, as they were then known, made American theatrical history by bringing the first black musical, In Dahomey, to Broadway in 1902.<br /> <br /> '''Windy City'''<br /><br /> 3; aka Chicago &#151; the origins of the nickname are in dispute and they are explored in this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_City%2C_Origin_of_Name_(Chicago) Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Witherspoon Street'''<br /><br /> 159, in Princeton, NJ [[Witherspoon Street|DISCUSSION]]<br /> <br /> '''Woevre, Piet'''<br /><br /> 540; formerly of the Force Publique; 558;<br /> <br /> '''Wolf-Ferrari'''<br /><br /> 512;<br /> <br /> '''Wordsworth'''<br /><br /> 535'<br /> <br /> '''''Workers' Own Songbook'''''<br /><br /> 49; [[ Workers' Own Songbook|DISCUSSION ]]<br /> <br /> '''World-System'''<br /><br /> 33; Tesla's free power; [[Tesla's_World_System|Read Tesla's "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy"]]<br /> <br /> '''World War I'''<br /><br /> 578;<br /> <br /> '''Wyman, Pap'''<br /><br /> 88; Owns the eponymous Pap Wyman's Saloon where Mayva is working when she meets Webb Traverse. Bartenders at the saloon are "Adolph" and "Ernst".<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Wackett Punches'''<br /><br /> 53; used to quiet cattle or horses<br /> <br /> '''Wagwheel, Tansy'''<br /><br /> 178;<br /> <br /> '''Walker, Foley'''<br /><br /> 31; special assistant to Scarsdale Vibe, 99; substitute conscript for Vibes during the Civil War, subsequently taking a bullet to the head, which gives him the ability to hear "communications from far, far away," 100ff; 156; 330-333; "righteous men who believed it was God they heard whispering" 334; in G&ouml;ttingen, 619;<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''<br /><br /> 476; town in Missouri<br /> <br /> '''Wall of Death'''<br /><br /> 184;<br /> <br /> '''Wardenclyffe'''<br /><br /> 326; on Long Island, where Tesla built his Tower<br /> <br /> '''Washoe process'''<br /><br /> 375;<br /> <br /> '''Wave functions'''<br /><br /> 426; 536;<br /> <br /> '''Waziri's from Waziristan'''<br /><br /> 23;<br /> <br /> '''Weedon'''<br /><br /> 495; at Cambridge<br /> <br /> '''Weierstrass, Karl (1815-1897)'''<br /><br /> 500; a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis"; Weierstrass functions, 594; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Weierstrass Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Wells, Buck'''<br /><br /> 179; "mine manager and cavalry commander at Telluride"<br /> <br /> '''Wells, H. G.'''<br /><br /> 398; 407; 412; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.g._wells Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Wensleydale'''<br /><br /> 37; confronts Baslight<br /> <br /> '''Werfner, Dr.'''<br /><br /> 226; Renfrew's "opposite number"; 499; 602; 680; 719;<br /> <br /> '''Western Reserve'''<br /><br /> 59; in Ohio<br /> <br /> '''Whiskey Hill'''<br /><br /> 60; in Cleveland; 62;<br /> <br /> '''Whistler'''<br /><br /> 578;<br /> <br /> '''Whitechapel'''<br /><br /> 678; Whitechapel is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is a built-up inner city district located 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper Jack the Ripper], the unidentified serial killer (or killers), was active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name "Jack the Ripper" is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings; Rippercetta, 680; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel Wikipedia entry]]<br /> <br /> '''White City, The'''<br /><br /> [[Image:whitecity.jpg|thumb|The White City, Chicago, 1893|right]]3; Costing over a half billion in today's dollars and covering 686 acres, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and Fair in Chicago was a grand sight to its 27 million visitors -- a planned layout of large, classically inspired buildings (what we now call the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_architecture Beaux Arts] style) all built on the same scale and all painted white -- hence, the nickname of "The White City." And within and around those white buildings was the most amazing display of 65,000 exhibits depicting (to quote the Exposition promoters) "all of the highest and best achievements of modern civilization; all that was strange, beautiful, artistic, and inspiring; a vast and wonderful university of the arts and sciences, teaching a noble lesson in history, art, science, discovery and invention, designed to stimulate the youth of this and future generations to greater and more heroic endeavor." 10; 36; Dally think about, in Chicago, 336; [http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html More from the "Encyclopedia of Chicago"]<br /> <br /> '''White City Investigations'''<br /><br /> 36;<br /> <br /> '''Whitehall'''<br /><br /> 444; Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, centre of national government, towards the traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I, which is often regarded as the heart of London for its residents and tourists. Along its way it is lined by many government ministries; "Whitehall" is therefore also frequently used as a metonym for governmental administration, as well as being a geographic name for the surrounding district; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''White Wings'''<br /><br /> 150;<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker, Edmund'''<br /><br /> 542; English mathematician;<br /> <br /> '''Wilde, Oscar'''<br /><br /> 185; 536;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde Wikipedia entry]; Wilde's lecture tour of the USA in 1882 took him to Leadville; while there he was invited by the mayor to tour the Matchless silver mine and open their new lode. It was in a Leadville bar that Wilde saw the notice, <br /> "Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadville,_Colorado Wikipedia entry (Leadville)]<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelm'''<br /><br /> 543;<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelmstrausse'''<br /><br /> 686; 690;<br /> <br /> '''Williams and Walker'''<br /><br /> 344; "coon review"; Bert Williams and George Walker, in the first decade of the twentieth century, became the most famous black entertainers in the world. They had teamed up in California in 1893, came to New York in 1896 as "Two Real Coons," and two years later were making a dance called the cakewalk all the rage. Williams and Walker, as they were then known, made American theatrical history by bringing the first black musical, In Dahomey, to Broadway in 1902.<br /> <br /> '''Windy City'''<br /><br /> 3; aka Chicago &#151; the origins of the nickname are in dispute and they are explored in this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_City%2C_Origin_of_Name_(Chicago) Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Witherspoon Street'''<br /><br /> 159, in Princeton, NJ [[Witherspoon Street|DISCUSSION]]<br /> <br /> '''Woevre, Piet'''<br /><br /> 540; formerly of the Force Publique; 558;<br /> <br /> '''Wolf-Ferrari'''<br /><br /> 512;<br /> <br /> '''Wordsworth'''<br /><br /> 535'<br /> <br /> '''''Workers' Own Songbook'''''<br /><br /> 49; [[ Workers' Own Songbook|DISCUSSION ]]<br /> <br /> '''World-System'''<br /><br /> 33; Tesla's free power; [[Tesla's_World_System|Read Tesla's "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy"]]<br /> <br /> '''World War I'''<br /><br /> 578;<br /> <br /> '''Wyman, Pap'''<br /><br /> 88; Manages the eponymous Pap Wyman's Saloon where Mayva is working when she meets Webb Traverse. Bartenders at the saloon are "Adolph" and "Ernst".<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''absquatulate'''<br /><br /> 8; run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; 343;<br /> <br /> '''Ace, Mr.'''<br /><br /> 415; visitor from the future (Trespasser); 555;<br /> <br /> '''''Achphanomen'''''<br /><br /> 616; <br /> <br /> '''Adam of Bremen'''<br /><br /> 128; (also: Adam Bremensis) One of the most important German medieval chroniclers. He lived and worked in the second half of the 11th century. He is most famous for his chronicle ''Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum'' (''Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church''); [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_of_Bremen Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Adams, Maude (1872-1953)'''<br /><br /> 338; American stage actress, most noted for her signature role, Peter Pan; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Adams Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Addle, Ed'''<br /><br /> 60; regular at Oil Well Saloon;<br /> <br /> '''aeronaut''': the pilot of a balloon or airship; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition Chicago World's Fair, 1893] and [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html more here]<br /> <br /> '''Aether'''<br /><br /> 55; 58; 132-133; 140; 306; 320; "sounds like light" 426; 458; 557; 565-66; 595; aka ''Akasa'', 613; 620; aka ''Luminiferous aether ''; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether Wikipedia article on Luminferous aether]<br /> <br /> '''aigrette'''<br /><br /> 456; Aigrette (from the French for egret, or lesser white heron), the tufted crest, or head-plumes of the egret, used for adorning a woman's head-dress, the term being also given to any similar ornament, in gems, &c. An aigrette is also worn by certain ranks of officers in the French army. By analogy the word is used in various sciences for feathery excrescences of like appearance, as for the tufts on the heads of insects, the feathery down of the dandelion, the luminous rays at the end of electrified bodies, or the luminous rays seen in solar eclipses, diverging from, the moon's edge. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigrette Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Akashi, Baron'''<br /><br /> 294; "roving military attach&eacute;" and "famous international spy"<br /> <br /> '''''akousmata'''''<br /><br /> 232; Greek: "things heard"; holds a much more secretive connotation like ‘signs’, or even perhaps ‘passwords’. These were explained as a set of rules of conduct used by the Pythagoreans. A few examples as given by Aristotle’s testimonies, like “abstain from beans as being due either to the fact that they resemble the genitals in shape, or because they resemble the gates of Hades." Also noted in this passage was “not to touch a white cock” and “not to touch any sacred fish” probably due to the earlier discussion on sacrifice.<br /> <br /> '''Albert Lea'''<br /><br /> 71; Pronounced "Albert Lee," a town in south-central Minnesota. It is also mentioned in passing in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' as the hometown of a minor character, "where the speed limit is lickety split"; [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Albert+Lea,+MN+56007&ie=UTF8&z=9&ll=43.65123,-93.369026&spn=1.007532,2.768555&om=1 Google Map]<br /> <br /> '''alchemy'''<br /><br /> 76-77; Alchemy refers to both an early form of the investigation of nature and an early philosophical and spiritual discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art; and photography, 80; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Alfonsito'''<br /><br /> 310; [[ATD-D#drop|Jimmy Drop's]] lieutenant<br /> <br /> '''Algernon'''<br /><br /> 369; Ruperta's driver (?)<br /> <br /> '''Algie'''<br /><br /> 672; "flaneur of Ruperta's acquaintance"; a flaneur is a detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis, a 'gentleman stroller of city streets', first identified by Charles Baudelaire; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''"All Pimps Look Alike to Me"'''<br /><br /> 48; an 1896 barroom ditty that was "cleaned up" to become "All Coons Look Alike to Me" and recorded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Collins Arthur Collins] in 1899 and considered by some to be the First Rock 'n' Roll Record. [[All_Pimps_Look_Alike_to_Me|Read the whole story...]]<br /> <br /> '''A.M.E.'''<br /><br /> 702; Alternate Means of Egress<br /> <br /> '''America'''<br /><br /> 219; "innocent, all but oppressively wholesome"; and shame, 567; American light, 580; "delivered yourselves into the hands of capitalists and Christers" 643;<br /> <br /> '''Amsterdam'''<br /><br /> 107; Indian Ocean island; M''egaera'' shipwrecked, 108;<br /> <br /> [[image:anamorphoscope.jpg|thumb|Anamorphoscope|right]]'''anamorphoscope'''<br /><br /> 249; a curved mirror or other optical device for giving a correct image of a picture or the like distorted by anamorphosis; paramorphic, 249;<br /> <br /> '''Anarchism'''<br /><br /> 6; "the inexorable rising tide of World Anarchism..."; 37; 43; 49-51; 60; 66; 87; 175 (as terrorists); 179; bomb factory in London, 235; 370; Barcelona in 1890s, 372;<br /> <br /> '''Anarcho-syndicalists'''<br /><br /> 14; Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labor movement. ''Syndicalisme'' is a French word meaning "trade unionism" – hence, the "syndicalism" qualification. Anarcho-syndicalists view labor unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the State with a new society democratically self-managed by workers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Anemometer'''<br /><br /> 6; An instrument for measuring wind speed; Robinson anemometer, 6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemometer Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Angels'''<br /><br /> 42; "Avenging Angels" 271; creatures, 277; H. Vanderjuice, 322; 332; birds, 336; 379; 389; 446; 531; in Venice, 575; "too bright to look at directly" 616; of deep shit, 619; 632; 642; Gentleman Bomber, as "messenger" 692; wings, 699;<br /> <br /> '''Anglo-Russian Entente'''<br /><br /> 631; the 1907 diplomatic accord between England and Russia to respect the integrity and independence of Persia.<br /> <br /> '''Anharmonic Pencil'''<br /><br /> 455; a "pencil" in this context refers to a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point, a figure that is not harmonic, i.e., not a multiple of its component parts; 532; 593;<br /> <br /> '''Anti-Stone'''<br /><br /> 78;<br /> <br /> '''Apostles' Creed'''<br /><br /> 58; The Apostles' Creed (circa 700 AD) (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum), sometimes titled Symbol of the Apostles, is an early statement of Christian belief, a creed or "symbol." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles'_Creed Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Arbuckles'''<br /><br /> 638; It was in the United States where coffee initially started to be commercialized. In 1865, John Arbuckle marketed the first commercially available packages of ground, roasted coffee. His brand, 'Ariosa', was sold over a far larger area then any other coffee roaster. Instead of being confined to a small area close to his roasting factory, Arbuckle was able to establish his coffee as a regional brand. Others soon followed suit and, by World War I, there were a number of regional roasters including companies such as Folgers, Hill Brothers, and Maxwell House; [http://www.gallacoffee.co.uk/acatalog/History_of_Coffee_Pt_IV.html From Galla Coffee website]<br /> <br /> '''Archer, Mr.'''<br /><br /> 467;<br /> <br /> '''argentaurum'''<br /><br /> 375;<br /> <br /> [[Image:arkansas-toothpick1.jpg|thumb|Arkansas Toothpick, made by Harvey McBurnette - 9.5" blade|left]]'''Arkansas Toothpick'''<br /><br /> 31; The Arkansas Toothpick is essentially a heavy dagger with a pointed, straight 12-20 inch blade. The "toothpick" is balanced and weighted for throwing and can also be used for thrusting and slashing. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_toothpick Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''arnophilia'''<br /><br /> 211; <br /> <br /> '''Arriaga, Camilo'''<br /><br /> 381; ''potosino''; a leader of Mexican anarchist group founded by Enrico and Ricardo Flores Magon in 1882; on August 30, 1900, he published the manifesto ''Invitación al Partido Liberal'' in San Luis Potosi. This document sparked a movement leading to formation of the ''Partido Liberal Mexicano'' (PLM) five years later, and was Ricardo Flores Magón's main vehicle for organizing the anti-Diaz struggle and for spreading the ideals of anarchism throughout Mexico; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Mexico Wikipedia - Anarchism in Mexico]<br /> <br /> '''Arvin'''<br /><br /> 264; in the Nonpareil;<br /> <br /> '''aryq'''<br /><br /> 441; The Russian Turcologists Malov and Tenishev mention a Western Yugur word ''Aryq'', meaning Chinese or muslim Turk. This is a loanword from Tibetan, ''A-rig'', the name of a country of nomadic herdsmen situated to the west of Amdo. It originally may have referred to the local Tibetan population. But Pynchon's use suggests it is a drink. Hmmm.<br /><br /> Arak or araq is an anise-flavored liquor popular in the Middle East; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak_(liqueur) Wikipedia entry]<br /><br /> '''&auml;ssalamu &auml;l&auml;ykum'''<br /><br /> 441; As-Salāmu `Alaykum (السلام عليكم) is an Arabic language greeting used in both Muslim and Christian cultures. It means "Peace be upon you." It is also transliterated as Assalamu 'Alaikum or As-salaamu Alaikum. The traditional response is "wa `Alaykum As-Salām", meaning "and peace on you". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Salamu_Alaykum Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Astarte-Bad'''<br /><br /> 714; in Vienna, with lurid mosaics of pre-biblical orgies; Astarte is a pre-biblical goddess of fertility, sexuality and war; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''"at silly point"'''<br /><br /> 222; "silly point" is a position in the game of cricket, played close to the batsman<br /> <br /> '''Aubergine, Madame'''<br /><br /> gives Reef Traverse dancing lessons in Denver;<br /> <br /> [[Image:Audumla.jpg|thumb|Audhumla - <br /> N. A. Abilgaard, 1790|right]]'''Audumla'''<br /><br /> 142; The primeval cow. Audumla (Audhumla) was born from rime at Ginnungagap. The primeval giant Ymir (Aurgelmir) lived on the milk that flow from the cow's teats. Audumla also provided nourishment to Ymir's six-headed son. Audumla received nourishment through licking the salty rime-stones. Audumla licked the stone until it was shaped into a man. This stone became Buri, grandfather of the Aesir gods: Odin, Vili and Ve.<br /> <br /> '''Aughrim'''<br /><br /> 231; The Battle of Aughrim was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the Jacobites and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691, near the village of Aughrim in County Galway; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aughrim Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''August, Ernst'''<br /><br /> 230; Crown Prince Ernst August II of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, (Ernst August Wilhelm Adolf Georg Friedrich) (21 September 1845-14 November 1923), was the eldest child and only son of King George V of Hanover and his wife, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. Ernst August had the misfortune of being deprived of the thrones of Hanover upon its annexation by Prussia in 1866 and later the Duchy of Brunswick in 1884. Although he was the senior male-line great grandson of King George III, the Duke of Cumberland was deprived of his British peerages and honours for having sided with Germany in World War I; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_August_of_Hanover%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Cumberland]<br /> <br /> '''Automorphic Dispensation'''<br /><br /> 453;<br /> <br /> '''Avery'''<br /><br /> 193; a company inspector or spy (indeterminate)<br /> <br /> '''Aychrome, Police Inspector Vance'''<br /><br /> 605; at Chunxton Crescent;<br /> <br /> '''Azeff, Monsieur Yevno'''<br /><br /> 720; Yevno Azef (also spelled Azev) was a double agent in a big way, working for both Russia's turn-of-the-century revolutionaries and the Czar's Okhrana. He was convicted of attempting to assassinate Tsar Nicholas II and was executed in 1911. He was also a founder of the Social Revolutionary Party. <br /> <br /> '''Aziz, Abdel'''<br /><br /> 520; "young sultan" in Morocco<br /> <br /> '''Aztecs'''<br /><br /> 394; "foundation story of the eagle and the serpent"<br /> <br /> '''Aztl&agrave;n'''<br /><br /> 214; "ghosts of..."; 277;<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Wackett Punches'''<br /><br /> 53; used to quiet cattle or horses<br /> <br /> '''Wagwheel, Tansy'''<br /><br /> 178;<br /> <br /> '''Walker, Foley'''<br /><br /> 31; special assistant to Scarsdale Vibe, 99; substitute conscript for Vibes during the Civil War, subsequently taking a bullet to the head, which gives him the ability to hear "communications from far, far away," 100ff; 156; 330-333; "righteous men who believed it was God they heard whispering" 334; in G&ouml;ttingen, 619;<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''<br /><br /> 476; town in Missouri<br /> <br /> '''Wall of Death'''<br /><br /> 184;<br /> <br /> '''Wardenclyffe'''<br /><br /> 326; on Long Island, where Tesla built his Tower<br /> <br /> '''Washoe process'''<br /><br /> 375;<br /> <br /> '''Wave functions'''<br /><br /> 426; 536;<br /> <br /> '''Waziri's from Waziristan'''<br /><br /> 23;<br /> <br /> '''Weedon'''<br /><br /> 495; at Cambridge<br /> <br /> '''Weierstrass, Karl (1815-1897)'''<br /><br /> 500; a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis"; Weierstrass functions, 594; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Weierstrass Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Wells, Buck'''<br /><br /> 179; "mine manager and cavalry commander at Telluride"<br /> <br /> '''Wells, H. G.'''<br /><br /> 398; 407; 412; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.g._wells Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Wensleydale'''<br /><br /> 37; confronts Baslight<br /> <br /> '''Werfner, Dr.'''<br /><br /> 226; Renfrew's "opposite number"; 499; 602; 680; 719;<br /> <br /> '''Western Reserve'''<br /><br /> 59; in Ohio<br /> <br /> '''Whiskey Hill'''<br /><br /> 60; in Cleveland; 62;<br /> <br /> '''Whistler'''<br /><br /> 578;<br /> <br /> '''Whitechapel'''<br /><br /> 678; Whitechapel is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is a built-up inner city district located 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper Jack the Ripper], the unidentified serial killer (or killers), was active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name "Jack the Ripper" is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings; Rippercetta, 680; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel Wikipedia entry]]<br /> <br /> '''White City, The'''<br /><br /> [[Image:whitecity.jpg|thumb|The White City, Chicago, 1893|right]]3; Costing over a half billion in today's dollars and covering 686 acres, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and Fair in Chicago was a grand sight to its 27 million visitors -- a planned layout of large, classically inspired buildings (what we now call the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_architecture Beaux Arts] style) all built on the same scale and all painted white -- hence, the nickname of "The White City." And within and around those white buildings was the most amazing display of 65,000 exhibits depicting (to quote the Exposition promoters) "all of the highest and best achievements of modern civilization; all that was strange, beautiful, artistic, and inspiring; a vast and wonderful university of the arts and sciences, teaching a noble lesson in history, art, science, discovery and invention, designed to stimulate the youth of this and future generations to greater and more heroic endeavor." 10; 36; Dally think about, in Chicago, 336; [http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html More from the "Encyclopedia of Chicago"]<br /> <br /> '''White City Investigations'''<br /><br /> 36;<br /> <br /> '''Whitehall'''<br /><br /> 444; Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, centre of national government, towards the traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I, which is often regarded as the heart of London for its residents and tourists. Along its way it is lined by many government ministries; "Whitehall" is therefore also frequently used as a metonym for governmental administration, as well as being a geographic name for the surrounding district; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''White Wings'''<br /><br /> 150;<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker, Edmund'''<br /><br /> 542; English mathematician;<br /> <br /> '''Wilde, Oscar'''<br /><br /> 185; 536;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelm'''<br /><br /> 543;<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelmstrausse'''<br /><br /> 686; 690;<br /> <br /> '''Williams and Walker'''<br /><br /> 344; "coon review"; Bert Williams and George Walker, in the first decade of the twentieth century, became the most famous black entertainers in the world. They had teamed up in California in 1893, came to New York in 1896 as "Two Real Coons," and two years later were making a dance called the cakewalk all the rage. Williams and Walker, as they were then known, made American theatrical history by bringing the first black musical, In Dahomey, to Broadway in 1902.<br /> <br /> '''Windy City'''<br /><br /> 3; aka Chicago &#151; the origins of the nickname are in dispute and they are explored in this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_City%2C_Origin_of_Name_(Chicago) Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Witherspoon Street'''<br /><br /> 159, in Princeton, NJ [[Witherspoon Street|DISCUSSION]]<br /> <br /> '''Woevre, Piet'''<br /><br /> 540; formerly of the Force Publique; 558;<br /> <br /> '''Wolf-Ferrari'''<br /><br /> 512;<br /> <br /> '''Wordsworth'''<br /><br /> 535'<br /> <br /> '''''Workers' Own Songbook'''''<br /><br /> 49; [[ Workers' Own Songbook|DISCUSSION ]]<br /> <br /> '''World-System'''<br /><br /> 33; Tesla's free power; [[Tesla's_World_System|Read Tesla's "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy"]]<br /> <br /> '''World War I'''<br /><br /> 578;<br /> <br /> '''Wyman, Pap'''<br /><br /> 88; Manages the saloon where Mayva is working when she meets Webb Traverse. The unnamed saloon is owned by "Adolph" and "Ernst".<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Kabbalists'''<br /><br /> 227; the "Tree of Life" tattoo-ed on Eskimoff; 318; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Kaffirs'''<br /><br /> 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]<br /> <br /> '''Kailash, Mt.'''<br /><br /> 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_mundi Axis Mundi], the center and birth place of the world; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kailash Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Kaiser Wilhelm (1859-1949)'''<br /><br /> 367; William II or Wilhelm II (born Frederick William Albert Victor; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Victor) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling both the German Empire and Prussia from June 15, 1888 to November 9, 1918; hair pomade, 367; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Wilhelm Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Kali'''<br /><br /> 709; goddess with a long and complex history in Hinduism (although sometimes presented in the West as dark and violent). Her earliest history as a figure of annihilation still has some influence, while more complex Tantric beliefs sometimes extend her role so far as to be the Ultimate Reality and Source of Being; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Kanuni'''<br /><br /> 653; ancient code of conduct in Albania<br /> <br /> '''Kashgar'''<br /><br /> 676; an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashgar Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Katie'''<br /><br /> 337; waitress in Yew York City restaurant, Schultz's Vegetarian Brauhaus, from Chillicothe, Ohio; aspiring actress, 338;<br /> <br /> '''Katie bar the door'''<br /><br /> 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]<br /> <br /> '''Keeley Cure'''<br /><br /> 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]<br /> <br /> '''Kellner'''<br /><br /> 525;<br /> <br /> '''Kennedy, John Fitzgerald'''<br /><br /> 626; "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a citizen of Berlin") is a famous quotation from a June 26, 1963 speech of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin. He was underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after the Soviet-supported Communist state of East Germany erected the Berlin Wall as a barrier to prevent movement between East and West. There is an urban myth that he should have said "Ich bin Berliner" ("I am from Berlin") and that by adding the article "ein" ("a"), he was a non-human Berliner; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner More about this at Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Kensington Sid'''<br /><br /> 602;<br /> <br /> '''Kepler'''<br /><br /> 115;<br /> <br /> '''Khan, Jenghiz'''<br /><br /> 439; in Nuovo Rialto<br /> <br /> '''Khartoum'''<br /><br /> 29;<br /> <br /> '''Kh&auml;utsch, Max'''<br /><br /> 47; a captain in the Trabants, and field chief of K&K Special Security, who had "proven himself useful at home as an assassin"; 679;<br /> <br /> '''Kieselguhr Kid'''<br /><br /> 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; Note also the connection with a Gravity's Rainbow identity, probably a pseudonym/alternate identity for Tyrone Slothrop, the "Kenosha Kid."<br /> <br /> '''Kimura, Mr. Shunkichi'''<br /><br /> 29; 318; translated Tsurigane into English, 532; 567; <br /> <br /> '''Kindred, Deuce'''<br /><br /> 193; hired by mine owners to kill Webb Traverse; 267; weds Lake Traverse; on the move with Lake, 472;<br /> <br /> '''Kindred, Hope'''<br /><br /> 473; Deuce's sister;<br /> <br /> '''Kinsley's'''<br /><br /> 49; Famous Restaurant at 105-107 Adams St.;<br /> <br /> '''Kipling, Rudyard (1895-1936)'''<br /><br /> 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]<br /> <br /> '''Kipperville'''<br /><br /> 348; "Saturday night in..."; "Kipperville" is most likely a reference to the story ''Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel'' by Virginia Lee Burton, wherein Mike and promises to dig the cellar for Popperville's new town hall in one day using his steam shovel Mary Anne. The citizens from Kipperville and other nearby towns all come to watch. [[Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel|Read the Amazon description]].<br /> <br /> '''Klein, Felix (1849-1925)'''<br /><br /> 324; German mathematician, known for his work in group theory, function theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a hugely influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day. He was appointed lecturer at Göttingen in early 1871; 565; 593; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Knott, Professor'''<br /><br /> 531; from the Imperial University of Japan<br /> <br /> '''Kovalevskaia, Sofia<br /><br /> 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; 601; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Krakatoa'''<br /><br /> 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]<br /> <br /> '''Kronecker, Leopold'''<br /><br /> 593; "sinister influence of..."; "the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man" 593; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronecker Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Kropotkin'''<br /><br /> 373;<br /> <br /> '''Ku Klux Klan ("KKK")'''<br /><br /> 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/Ku_klux_klan Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Kundschaftsstelle'''<br /><br /> 716; Austrian<br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''absquatulate'''<br /><br /> 8; run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; 343;<br /> <br /> '''Ace, Mr.'''<br /><br /> 415; visitor from the future (Trespasser); 555;<br /> <br /> '''''Achphanomen'''''<br /><br /> 616; <br /> <br /> '''Adam of Bremen'''<br /><br /> 128; (also: Adam Bremensis) One of the most important German medieval chroniclers. He lived and worked in the second half of the 11th century. He is most famous for his chronicle ''Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum'' (''Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church''); [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_of_Bremen Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Adams, Maude (1872-1953)'''<br /><br /> 338; American stage actress, most noted for her signature role, Peter Pan; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Adams Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Addle, Ed'''<br /><br /> 60; regular at Oil Well Saloon;<br /> <br /> '''aeronaut''': the pilot of a balloon or airship; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition Chicago World's Fair, 1893] and [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html more here]<br /> <br /> '''Aether'''<br /><br /> 55; 58; 132-133; 140; 306; 320; "sounds like light" 426; 458; 557; 565-66; 595; aka ''Akasa'', 613; 620; aka ''Luminiferous aether ''; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether Wikipedia article on Luminferous aether]<br /> <br /> '''aigrette'''<br /><br /> 456; Aigrette (from the French for egret, or lesser white heron), the tufted crest, or head-plumes of the egret, used for adorning a woman's head-dress, the term being also given to any similar ornament, in gems, &c. An aigrette is also worn by certain ranks of officers in the French army. By analogy the word is used in various sciences for feathery excrescences of like appearance, as for the tufts on the heads of insects, the feathery down of the dandelion, the luminous rays at the end of electrified bodies, or the luminous rays seen in solar eclipses, diverging from, the moon's edge. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigrette Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Akashi, Baron'''<br /><br /> 294; "roving military attach&eacute;" and "famous international spy"<br /> <br /> '''''akousmata'''''<br /><br /> 232; Greek: "things heard"; holds a much more secretive connotation like ‘signs’, or even perhaps ‘passwords’. These were explained as a set of rules of conduct used by the Pythagoreans. A few examples as given by Aristotle’s testimonies, like “abstain from beans as being due either to the fact that they resemble the genitals in shape, or because they resemble the gates of Hades." Also noted in this passage was “not to touch a white cock” and “not to touch any sacred fish” probably due to the earlier discussion on sacrifice.<br /> <br /> '''Albert Lea'''<br /><br /> 71; Pronounced "Albert Lee," a town in south-central Minnesota. It is also mentioned in passing in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' as the hometown of a minor character, "where the speed limit is lickety split"; [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Albert+Lea,+MN+56007&ie=UTF8&z=9&ll=43.65123,-93.369026&spn=1.007532,2.768555&om=1 Google Map]<br /> <br /> '''alchemy'''<br /><br /> 76-77; Alchemy refers to both an early form of the investigation of nature and an early philosophical and spiritual discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art; and photography, 80; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Algernon'''<br /><br /> 369; Ruperta's driver (?)<br /> <br /> '''Algie'''<br /><br /> 672; "flaneur of Ruperta's acquaintance"; a flaneur is a detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis, a 'gentleman stroller of city streets', first identified by Charles Baudelaire; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''"All Pimps Look Alike to Me"'''<br /><br /> 48; an 1896 barroom ditty that was "cleaned up" to become "All Coons Look Alike to Me" and recorded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Collins Arthur Collins] in 1899 and considered by some to be the First Rock 'n' Roll Record. [[All_Pimps_Look_Alike_to_Me|Read the whole story...]]<br /> <br /> '''Alphonsito'''<br /><br /> 310; [[ATD-D#drop|Jimmy Drop's]] lieutenant<br /> <br /> '''A.M.E.'''<br /><br /> 702; Alternate Means of Egress<br /> <br /> '''America'''<br /><br /> 219; "innocent, all but oppressively wholesome"; and shame, 567; American light, 580; "delivered yourselves into the hands of capitalists and Christers" 643;<br /> <br /> '''Amsterdam'''<br /><br /> 107; Indian Ocean island; M''egaera'' shipwrecked, 108;<br /> <br /> [[image:anamorphoscope.jpg|thumb|Anamorphoscope|right]]'''anamorphoscope'''<br /><br /> 249; a curved mirror or other optical device for giving a correct image of a picture or the like distorted by anamorphosis; paramorphic, 249;<br /> <br /> '''Anarchism'''<br /><br /> 6; "the inexorable rising tide of World Anarchism..."; 37; 43; 49-51; 60; 66; 87; 175 (as terrorists); 179; bomb factory in London, 235; 370; Barcelona in 1890s, 372;<br /> <br /> '''Anarcho-syndicalists'''<br /><br /> 14; Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labor movement. ''Syndicalisme'' is a French word meaning "trade unionism" – hence, the "syndicalism" qualification. Anarcho-syndicalists view labor unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the State with a new society democratically self-managed by workers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Anemometer'''<br /><br /> 6; An instrument for measuring wind speed; Robinson anemometer, 6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemometer Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Angels'''<br /><br /> 42; "Avenging Angels" 271; creatures, 277; H. Vanderjuice, 322; 332; birds, 336; 379; 389; 446; 531; in Venice, 575; "too bright to look at directly" 616; of deep shit, 619; 632; 642; Gentleman Bomber, as "messenger" 692; wings, 699;<br /> <br /> '''Anglo-Russian Entente'''<br /><br /> 631; the 1907 diplomatic accord between England and Russia to respect the integrity and independence of Persia.<br /> <br /> '''Anharmonic Pencil'''<br /><br /> 455; a "pencil" in this context refers to a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point, a figure that is not harmonic, i.e., not a multiple of its component parts; 532; 593;<br /> <br /> '''Anti-Stone'''<br /><br /> 78;<br /> <br /> '''Apostles' Creed'''<br /><br /> 58; The Apostles' Creed (circa 700 AD) (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum), sometimes titled Symbol of the Apostles, is an early statement of Christian belief, a creed or "symbol." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles'_Creed Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Arbuckles'''<br /><br /> 638; It was in the United States where coffee initially started to be commercialized. In 1865, John Arbuckle marketed the first commercially available packages of ground, roasted coffee. His brand, 'Ariosa', was sold over a far larger area then any other coffee roaster. Instead of being confined to a small area close to his roasting factory, Arbuckle was able to establish his coffee as a regional brand. Others soon followed suit and, by World War I, there were a number of regional roasters including companies such as Folgers, Hill Brothers, and Maxwell House; [http://www.gallacoffee.co.uk/acatalog/History_of_Coffee_Pt_IV.html From Galla Coffee website]<br /> <br /> '''Archer, Mr.'''<br /><br /> 467;<br /> <br /> '''argentaurum'''<br /><br /> 375;<br /> <br /> [[Image:arkansas-toothpick1.jpg|thumb|Arkansas Toothpick, made by Harvey McBurnette - 9.5" blade|left]]'''Arkansas Toothpick'''<br /><br /> 31; The Arkansas Toothpick is essentially a heavy dagger with a pointed, straight 12-20 inch blade. The "toothpick" is balanced and weighted for throwing and can also be used for thrusting and slashing. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_toothpick Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''arnophilia'''<br /><br /> 211; <br /> <br /> '''Arriaga, Camilo'''<br /><br /> 381; ''potosino''; a leader of Mexican anarchist group founded by Enrico and Ricardo Flores Magon in 1882; on August 30, 1900, he published the manifesto ''Invitación al Partido Liberal'' in San Luis Potosi. This document sparked a movement leading to formation of the ''Partido Liberal Mexicano'' (PLM) five years later, and was Ricardo Flores Magón's main vehicle for organizing the anti-Diaz struggle and for spreading the ideals of anarchism throughout Mexico; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Mexico Wikipedia - Anarchism in Mexico]<br /> <br /> '''Arvin'''<br /><br /> 264; in the Nonpareil;<br /> <br /> '''aryq'''<br /><br /> 441; The Russian Turcologists Malov and Tenishev mention a Western Yugur word ''Aryq'', meaning Chinese or muslim Turk. This is a loanword from Tibetan, ''A-rig'', the name of a country of nomadic herdsmen situated to the west of Amdo. It originally may have referred to the local Tibetan population. But Pynchon's use suggests it is a drink. Hmmm.<br /><br /> Arak or araq is an anise-flavored liquor popular in the Middle East; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak_(liqueur) Wikipedia entry]<br /><br /> '''&auml;ssalamu &auml;l&auml;ykum'''<br /><br /> 441; As-Salāmu `Alaykum (السلام عليكم) is an Arabic language greeting used in both Muslim and Christian cultures. It means "Peace be upon you." It is also transliterated as Assalamu 'Alaikum or As-salaamu Alaikum. The traditional response is "wa `Alaykum As-Salām", meaning "and peace on you". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Salamu_Alaykum Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Astarte-Bad'''<br /><br /> 714; in Vienna, with lurid mosaics of pre-biblical orgies; Astarte is a pre-biblical goddess of fertility, sexuality and war; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''"at silly point"'''<br /><br /> 222; "silly point" is a position in the game of cricket, played close to the batsman<br /> <br /> '''Aubergine, Madame'''<br /><br /> gives Reef Traverse dancing lessons in Denver;<br /> <br /> [[Image:Audumla.jpg|thumb|Audhumla - <br /> N. A. Abilgaard, 1790|right]]'''Audumla'''<br /><br /> 142; The primeval cow. Audumla (Audhumla) was born from rime at Ginnungagap. The primeval giant Ymir (Aurgelmir) lived on the milk that flow from the cow's teats. Audumla also provided nourishment to Ymir's six-headed son. Audumla received nourishment through licking the salty rime-stones. Audumla licked the stone until it was shaped into a man. This stone became Buri, grandfather of the Aesir gods: Odin, Vili and Ve.<br /> <br /> '''Aughrim'''<br /><br /> 231; The Battle of Aughrim was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the Jacobites and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691, near the village of Aughrim in County Galway; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aughrim Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''August, Ernst'''<br /><br /> 230; Crown Prince Ernst August II of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, (Ernst August Wilhelm Adolf Georg Friedrich) (21 September 1845-14 November 1923), was the eldest child and only son of King George V of Hanover and his wife, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. Ernst August had the misfortune of being deprived of the thrones of Hanover upon its annexation by Prussia in 1866 and later the Duchy of Brunswick in 1884. Although he was the senior male-line great grandson of King George III, the Duke of Cumberland was deprived of his British peerages and honours for having sided with Germany in World War I; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_August_of_Hanover%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Cumberland]<br /> <br /> '''Automorphic Dispensation'''<br /><br /> 453;<br /> <br /> '''Avery'''<br /><br /> 193; a company inspector or spy (indeterminate)<br /> <br /> '''Aychrome, Police Inspector Vance'''<br /><br /> 605; at Chunxton Crescent;<br /> <br /> '''Azeff, Monsieur Yevno'''<br /><br /> 720; Yevno Azef (also spelled Azev) was a double agent in a big way, working for both Russia's turn-of-the-century revolutionaries and the Czar's Okhrana. He was convicted of attempting to assassinate Tsar Nicholas II and was executed in 1911. He was also a founder of the Social Revolutionary Party. <br /> <br /> '''Aziz, Abdel'''<br /><br /> 520; "young sultan" in Morocco<br /> <br /> '''Aztecs'''<br /><br /> 394; "foundation story of the eagle and the serpent"<br /> <br /> '''Aztl&agrave;n'''<br /><br /> 214; "ghosts of..."; 277;<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''absquatulate'''<br /><br /> 8; run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; 343;<br /> <br /> '''Ace, Mr.'''<br /><br /> 415; visitor from the future (Trespasser); 555;<br /> <br /> '''''Achphanomen'''''<br /><br /> 616; <br /> <br /> '''Adam of Bremen'''<br /><br /> 128; (also: Adam Bremensis) One of the most important German medieval chroniclers. He lived and worked in the second half of the 11th century. He is most famous for his chronicle ''Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum'' (''Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church''); [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_of_Bremen Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Adams, Maude (1872-1953)'''<br /><br /> 338; American stage actress, most noted for her signature role, Peter Pan; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Adams Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Addle, Ed'''<br /><br /> 60; regular at Oil Well Saloon;<br /> <br /> '''aeronaut''': the pilot of a balloon or airship; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition Chicago World's Fair, 1893] and [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html more here]<br /> <br /> '''Aether'''<br /><br /> 55; 58; 132-133; 140; 306; 320; "sounds like light" 426; 458; 557; 565-66; 595; aka ''Akasa'', 613; 620; aka ''Luminiferous aether ''; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether Wikipedia article on Luminferous aether]<br /> <br /> '''aigrette'''<br /><br /> 456; Aigrette (from the French for egret, or lesser white heron), the tufted crest, or head-plumes of the egret, used for adorning a woman's head-dress, the term being also given to any similar ornament, in gems, &c. An aigrette is also worn by certain ranks of officers in the French army. By analogy the word is used in various sciences for feathery excrescences of like appearance, as for the tufts on the heads of insects, the feathery down of the dandelion, the luminous rays at the end of electrified bodies, or the luminous rays seen in solar eclipses, diverging from, the moon's edge. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigrette Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Akashi, Baron'''<br /><br /> 294; "roving military attach&eacute;" and "famous international spy"<br /> <br /> '''''akousmata'''''<br /><br /> 232; Greek: "things heard"; holds a much more secretive connotation like ‘signs’, or even perhaps ‘passwords’. These were explained as a set of rules of conduct used by the Pythagoreans. A few examples as given by Aristotle’s testimonies, like “abstain from beans as being due either to the fact that they resemble the genitals in shape, or because they resemble the gates of Hades." Also noted in this passage was “not to touch a white cock” and “not to touch any sacred fish” probably due to the earlier discussion on sacrifice.<br /> <br /> '''Albert Lea'''<br /><br /> 71; Pronounced "Albert Lee," a town in south-central Minnesota. It is also mentioned in passing in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' as the hometown of a minor character, "where the speed limit is lickety split"; [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Albert+Lea,+MN+56007&ie=UTF8&z=9&ll=43.65123,-93.369026&spn=1.007532,2.768555&om=1 Google Map]<br /> <br /> '''alchemy'''<br /><br /> 76-77; Alchemy refers to both an early form of the investigation of nature and an early philosophical and spiritual discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art; and photography, 80; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Alfonsite'''<br /><br /> 310; Jimmy Drop's lieutenant<br /> <br /> '''Algernon'''<br /><br /> 369; Ruperta's driver (?)<br /> <br /> '''Algie'''<br /><br /> 672; "flaneur of Ruperta's acquaintance"; a flaneur is a detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis, a 'gentleman stroller of city streets', first identified by Charles Baudelaire; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''"All Pimps Look Alike to Me"'''<br /><br /> 48; an 1896 barroom ditty that was "cleaned up" to become "All Coons Look Alike to Me" and recorded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Collins Arthur Collins] in 1899 and considered by some to be the First Rock 'n' Roll Record. [[All_Pimps_Look_Alike_to_Me|Read the whole story...]]<br /> <br /> '''Alphonsito'''<br /><br /> 310; [[ATD-D#drop|Jimmy Drop's]] lieutenant<br /> <br /> '''A.M.E.'''<br /><br /> 702; Alternate Means of Egress<br /> <br /> '''America'''<br /><br /> 219; "innocent, all but oppressively wholesome"; and shame, 567; American light, 580; "delivered yourselves into the hands of capitalists and Christers" 643;<br /> <br /> '''Amsterdam'''<br /><br /> 107; Indian Ocean island; M''egaera'' shipwrecked, 108;<br /> <br /> [[image:anamorphoscope.jpg|thumb|Anamorphoscope|right]]'''anamorphoscope'''<br /><br /> 249; a curved mirror or other optical device for giving a correct image of a picture or the like distorted by anamorphosis; paramorphic, 249;<br /> <br /> '''Anarchism'''<br /><br /> 6; "the inexorable rising tide of World Anarchism..."; 37; 43; 49-51; 60; 66; 87; 175 (as terrorists); 179; bomb factory in London, 235; 370; Barcelona in 1890s, 372;<br /> <br /> '''Anarcho-syndicalists'''<br /><br /> 14; Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labor movement. ''Syndicalisme'' is a French word meaning "trade unionism" – hence, the "syndicalism" qualification. Anarcho-syndicalists view labor unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the State with a new society democratically self-managed by workers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Anemometer'''<br /><br /> 6; An instrument for measuring wind speed; Robinson anemometer, 6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemometer Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Angels'''<br /><br /> 42; "Avenging Angels" 271; creatures, 277; H. Vanderjuice, 322; 332; birds, 336; 379; 389; 446; 531; in Venice, 575; "too bright to look at directly" 616; of deep shit, 619; 632; 642; Gentleman Bomber, as "messenger" 692; wings, 699;<br /> <br /> '''Anglo-Russian Entente'''<br /><br /> 631; the 1907 diplomatic accord between England and Russia to respect the integrity and independence of Persia.<br /> <br /> '''Anharmonic Pencil'''<br /><br /> 455; a "pencil" in this context refers to a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point, a figure that is not harmonic, i.e., not a multiple of its component parts; 532; 593;<br /> <br /> '''Anti-Stone'''<br /><br /> 78;<br /> <br /> '''Apostles' Creed'''<br /><br /> 58; The Apostles' Creed (circa 700 AD) (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum), sometimes titled Symbol of the Apostles, is an early statement of Christian belief, a creed or "symbol." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles'_Creed Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Arbuckles'''<br /><br /> 638; It was in the United States where coffee initially started to be commercialized. In 1865, John Arbuckle marketed the first commercially available packages of ground, roasted coffee. His brand, 'Ariosa', was sold over a far larger area then any other coffee roaster. Instead of being confined to a small area close to his roasting factory, Arbuckle was able to establish his coffee as a regional brand. Others soon followed suit and, by World War I, there were a number of regional roasters including companies such as Folgers, Hill Brothers, and Maxwell House; [http://www.gallacoffee.co.uk/acatalog/History_of_Coffee_Pt_IV.html From Galla Coffee website]<br /> <br /> '''Archer, Mr.'''<br /><br /> 467;<br /> <br /> '''argentaurum'''<br /><br /> 375;<br /> <br /> [[Image:arkansas-toothpick1.jpg|thumb|Arkansas Toothpick, made by Harvey McBurnette - 9.5" blade|left]]'''Arkansas Toothpick'''<br /><br /> 31; The Arkansas Toothpick is essentially a heavy dagger with a pointed, straight 12-20 inch blade. The "toothpick" is balanced and weighted for throwing and can also be used for thrusting and slashing. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_toothpick Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''arnophilia'''<br /><br /> 211; <br /> <br /> '''Arriaga, Camilo'''<br /><br /> 381; ''potosino''; a leader of Mexican anarchist group founded by Enrico and Ricardo Flores Magon in 1882; on August 30, 1900, he published the manifesto ''Invitación al Partido Liberal'' in San Luis Potosi. This document sparked a movement leading to formation of the ''Partido Liberal Mexicano'' (PLM) five years later, and was Ricardo Flores Magón's main vehicle for organizing the anti-Diaz struggle and for spreading the ideals of anarchism throughout Mexico; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Mexico Wikipedia - Anarchism in Mexico]<br /> <br /> '''Arvin'''<br /><br /> 264; in the Nonpareil;<br /> <br /> '''aryq'''<br /><br /> 441; The Russian Turcologists Malov and Tenishev mention a Western Yugur word ''Aryq'', meaning Chinese or muslim Turk. This is a loanword from Tibetan, ''A-rig'', the name of a country of nomadic herdsmen situated to the west of Amdo. It originally may have referred to the local Tibetan population. But Pynchon's use suggests it is a drink. Hmmm.<br /><br /> Arak or araq is an anise-flavored liquor popular in the Middle East; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak_(liqueur) Wikipedia entry]<br /><br /> '''&auml;ssalamu &auml;l&auml;ykum'''<br /><br /> 441; As-Salāmu `Alaykum (السلام عليكم) is an Arabic language greeting used in both Muslim and Christian cultures. It means "Peace be upon you." It is also transliterated as Assalamu 'Alaikum or As-salaamu Alaikum. The traditional response is "wa `Alaykum As-Salām", meaning "and peace on you". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Salamu_Alaykum Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Astarte-Bad'''<br /><br /> 714; in Vienna, with lurid mosaics of pre-biblical orgies; Astarte is a pre-biblical goddess of fertility, sexuality and war; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''"at silly point"'''<br /><br /> 222; "silly point" is a position in the game of cricket, played close to the batsman<br /> <br /> '''Aubergine, Madame'''<br /><br /> gives Reef Traverse dancing lessons in Denver;<br /> <br /> [[Image:Audumla.jpg|thumb|Audhumla - <br /> N. A. Abilgaard, 1790|right]]'''Audumla'''<br /><br /> 142; The primeval cow. Audumla (Audhumla) was born from rime at Ginnungagap. The primeval giant Ymir (Aurgelmir) lived on the milk that flow from the cow's teats. Audumla also provided nourishment to Ymir's six-headed son. Audumla received nourishment through licking the salty rime-stones. Audumla licked the stone until it was shaped into a man. This stone became Buri, grandfather of the Aesir gods: Odin, Vili and Ve.<br /> <br /> '''Aughrim'''<br /><br /> 231; The Battle of Aughrim was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the Jacobites and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691, near the village of Aughrim in County Galway; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aughrim Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''August, Ernst'''<br /><br /> 230; Crown Prince Ernst August II of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, (Ernst August Wilhelm Adolf Georg Friedrich) (21 September 1845-14 November 1923), was the eldest child and only son of King George V of Hanover and his wife, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. Ernst August had the misfortune of being deprived of the thrones of Hanover upon its annexation by Prussia in 1866 and later the Duchy of Brunswick in 1884. Although he was the senior male-line great grandson of King George III, the Duke of Cumberland was deprived of his British peerages and honours for having sided with Germany in World War I; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_August_of_Hanover%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Cumberland]<br /> <br /> '''Automorphic Dispensation'''<br /><br /> 453;<br /> <br /> '''Avery'''<br /><br /> 193; a company inspector or spy (indeterminate)<br /> <br /> '''Aychrome, Police Inspector Vance'''<br /><br /> 605; at Chunxton Crescent;<br /> <br /> '''Azeff, Monsieur Yevno'''<br /><br /> 720; Yevno Azef (also spelled Azev) was a double agent in a big way, working for both Russia's turn-of-the-century revolutionaries and the Czar's Okhrana. He was convicted of attempting to assassinate Tsar Nicholas II and was executed in 1911. He was also a founder of the Social Revolutionary Party. <br /> <br /> '''Aziz, Abdel'''<br /><br /> 520; "young sultan" in Morocco<br /> <br /> '''Aztecs'''<br /><br /> 394; "foundation story of the eagle and the serpent"<br /> <br /> '''Aztl&agrave;n'''<br /><br /> 214; "ghosts of..."; 277;<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Iamblichus of Chalcis (ca 245 - ca 325)'''<br /><br /> 232; also known as Iamblichus Chalcidensis, was a Greek neoplatonist philosopher who determined the direction taken by later Neoplatonic philosophy, and perhaps western Paganism itself. He is perhaps best known for his compendium on Pythagorean philosophy; 620; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamblichus_(philosopher) Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Iceland spar'''<br /><br /> 126; Iceland spar is a calcite, which gets its name from "chalix" the Greek word for lime, a most amazing and yet, most common mineral. It is one of the most common minerals on the face of the Earth, comprising about 4% by weight of the Earth's crust and is formed in many different geological environments. Iceland spar is basically clear cleaved fragments of completely colorless (ice-like) calcite, originally discovered and named after Eskifjord, Iceland where the calcite is found in basalt cavities. It best demonstrates the unique property of calcite called double refraction where, when a ray of light enters the crystal and due to calcite's unique optical properties, the ray is split into fast and slow beams. As these two beams exit the crystal they are bent into two different angles (known as angles of refraction) because the angle is affected by the speed of the beams. A person viewing into the crystal will see two images ... of everything; "The Book of..." 133; "paramorphoscopes of" 250; ''Schieferspath'', 305-06; Zombini's, 355; aka ''espato'' or ''espanto'', 375; double-refraction, 375; 387; 391; 437; 564; "expression in crystal form of Earth's velocity" 688; [http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/carbonat/calcite/calcite.htm From this website]. Note the text of the dust jacket of the book is split into three, not two overlapping images.<br /> <br /> [[image:Tarot_Judgement.jpg|thumb|Judgement|right]]'''Icosadyad'''<br /><br /> 225; the "Company of Twenty-two," meaning the Major Arcana in the Tarot deck. "They are the ones most capable of damage"; Greek: Icosa- = 20; Dyad, according to the Pythagoreans, is the principle of "twoness" or "otherness" and, generally, is any two entities regarded as a unit; in the Tarot context, "icosadyad" would refer a doubling of Number XX of the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck, Judgement; 231; 496; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_(Tarot_card) Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''icosahedron'''<br /><br /> 565; polyhedron having 20 faces, but usually a regular icosahedron is implied, which has equilateral triangles as faces. [Etymology: 16th Century: from Greek eikosaedron, from eikosi twenty + -edron -hedron]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedron Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Ictibus, The Phenominal Dr.'''<br /><br /> 344; "and His Safe-Deflector Hat"; ictibus is the ablative case for the Latin word "ictus" meaning a "blow" or "strike" - thus, away from a strike, appropriately<br /> <br /> '''Idiom Neutral'''<br /><br /> 533; an international auxiliary language, published in 1902 by the International Academy of the Universal Language under the leadership of Waldemar Rosenberger, a St. Petersburg engineer; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom_Neutral Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''I.G.L.O.O.'''<br /><br /> 122; Inter-Group Laboratory for Opticomagnetic Observation, a "radiational clearinghouse in Northern Alaska"<br /> <br /> '''''Imbottigliata'''''<br /><br /> 28; Italian = bottled;<br /> <br /> '''Imperium of Steam'''<br /><br /> 567; 680;<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''<br /><br /> 406; In astrology, the ''Imum Coeli'' (Latin for "bottom of the sky"), IC, is the point in space where the ecliptic crosses the meridian in the north, exactly opposite the Midheaven. It is said to refer to our roots and also to the least conscious part of ourselves. It symbolizes foundations, beginnings in life, what may have been experienced through parental inheritance and homeland influences, need for security and relationships with the home and family life; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imum_Coeli Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> <div id="inconvenience"></div>'''''Inconvenience, The'''''<br /><br /> 3; Chums of Chance's hydrogen skyship; in [[Mason and Dixon]] H.M.S. Inconvenience was a ship that [[Fender-Belly Bodine]] once sailed in.<br /> <br /> '''Inner American Sea'''<br /><br /> 71;<br /> <br /> '''Innocence'''<br /><br /> 87; 223; 235; ''corrupting youth'', 335; 362; 416; Chums of Chance, 418; 502; mathematicians, 540; "hunger for young bodies" 581; 674;<br /> <br /> '''''Interdikt, das'''''<br /><br /> 690; 200-mile phosgene (poison gas) line<br /> <br /> '''Interface'''<br /><br /> 53-54;<br /> <br /> '''inukshuk'''<br /><br /> 126;<br /> <br /> '''Invisibility'''<br /><br /> 43; "a sacred condition" 43; desks, 39; hawk, 55; "intervals of" 61; "emerged from" 62; "the pale invisible" 64; detectives at Colorado mines, 92; duster, 94; "window into" for Kit Traverse, 99; "...distance" 106; Islands disappearing, 108; fireworks, 112; "imperceptable war" 122; extra man, 125; 127; invisible heckler, 133; Hidden People, 134; 135; 142; 144; 150; 153; 160; 163; Fleetwood, 164; home, 165; 176; Major Arcana, 223; 242; 245; 249; 252; 266; chili's, 289; 327; workers at I.J. & K. Smokefoot, 345-46; in New Orleans, 369; 522; Chums of Chance, 549; Invisiblism, 625; 627; cloak of invisibility, 716;<br /> <br /> '''Ipsow, Ray'''<br /><br /> 29; colleague of Professor Heino Vanderjuice of Yale University;<br /> <br /> '''Ironworkers Union'''<br /><br /> 43;<br /> <br /> '''Isafjoror'''<br /><br /> 125; <br /> <br /> '''Isandhlwana'''<br /><br /> 22; "massacre of British troops at"; On January 22, 1879, Isandlwana was the site of the Battle of Isandlwana, where over 20,000 Zulu warriors defeated a contingent of British soldiers in the first engagement of the Anglo-Zulu War. Almost the entire column of about 1,200 British soldiers was killed, and the regimental colours were lost; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isandhlwana Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Isola degli Specchi, aka Isle of Mirrors'''<br /><br /> 244; island of mirror-makers in Venice, 569;<br /> <br /> '''Italian Troubles'''<br /><br /> 369; in New Orleans<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Iamblichus of Chalcis (ca 245 - ca 325)'''<br /><br /> 232; also known as Iamblichus Chalcidensis, was a Greek neoplatonist philosopher who determined the direction taken by later Neoplatonic philosophy, and perhaps western Paganism itself. He is perhaps best known for his compendium on Pythagorean philosophy; 620; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamblichus_(philosopher) Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Iceland spar'''<br /><br /> 126; Iceland spar is a calcite, which gets its name from "chalix" the Greek word for lime, a most amazing and yet, most common mineral. It is one of the most common minerals on the face of the Earth, comprising about 4% by weight of the Earth's crust and is formed in many different geological environments. Iceland spar is basically clear cleaved fragments of completely colorless (ice-like) calcite, originally discovered and named after Eskifjord, Iceland where the calcite is found in basalt cavities. It best demonstrates the unique property of calcite called double refraction where, when a ray of light enters the crystal and due to calcite's unique optical properties, the ray is split into fast and slow beams. As these two beams exit the crystal they are bent into two different angles (known as angles of refraction) because the angle is affected by the speed of the beams. A person viewing into the crystal will see two images ... of everything; "The Book of..." 133; "paramorphoscopes of" 250; ''Schieferspath'', 305-06; Zombini's, 355; aka ''espato'' or ''espanto'', 375; double-refraction, 375; 387; 391; 437; 564; "expression in crystal form of Earth's velocity" 688; [http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/carbonat/calcite/calcite.htm From this website]. Note the text of the dust jacket of the book is split into three, not two overlapping images.<br /> <br /> '''icosahedron'''<br /><br /> 565; polyhedron having 20 faces, but usually a regular icosahedron is implied, which has equilateral triangles as faces. [Etymology: 16th Century: from Greek eikosaedron, from eikosi twenty + -edron -hedron]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedron Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> [[image:Tarot_Judgement.jpg|thumb|Judgement|right]]'''Icosadyad'''<br /><br /> 225; "they are the ones most capable of damage"; Greek: Icosa- = 20; Dyad, according to the Pythagoreans, is the principle of "twoness" or "otherness" and, generally, is any two entities regarded as a unit; in the Tarot context, "icosadyad" would refer a doubling of Number XX of the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck, Judgement; 231; 496; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_(Tarot_card) Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Ictibus, The Phenominal Dr.'''<br /><br /> 344; "and His Safe-Deflector Hat"; ictibus is the ablative case for the Latin word "ictus" meaning a "blow" or "strike" - thus, away from a strike, appropriately<br /> <br /> '''Idiom Neutral'''<br /><br /> 533; an international auxiliary language, published in 1902 by the International Academy of the Universal Language under the leadership of Waldemar Rosenberger, a St. Petersburg engineer; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom_Neutral Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''I.G.L.O.O.'''<br /><br /> 122; Inter-Group Laboratory for Opticomagnetic Observation, a "radiational clearinghouse in Northern Alaska"<br /> <br /> '''''Imbottigliata'''''<br /><br /> 28; Italian = bottled;<br /> <br /> '''Imperium of Steam'''<br /><br /> 567; 680;<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''<br /><br /> 406; In astrology, the ''Imum Coeli'' (Latin for "bottom of the sky"), IC, is the point in space where the ecliptic crosses the meridian in the north, exactly opposite the Midheaven. It is said to refer to our roots and also to the least conscious part of ourselves. It symbolizes foundations, beginnings in life, what may have been experienced through parental inheritance and homeland influences, need for security and relationships with the home and family life; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imum_Coeli Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> <div id="inconvenience"></div>'''''Inconvenience, The'''''<br /><br /> 3; Chums of Chance's hydrogen skyship; in [[Mason and Dixon]] H.M.S. Inconvenience was a ship that [[Fender-Belly Bodine]] once sailed in.<br /> <br /> '''Inner American Sea'''<br /><br /> 71;<br /> <br /> '''Innocence'''<br /><br /> 87; 223; 235; ''corrupting youth'', 335; 362; 416; Chums of Chance, 418; 502; mathematicians, 540; "hunger for young bodies" 581; 674;<br /> <br /> '''''Interdikt, das'''''<br /><br /> 690; 200-mile phosgene (poison gas) line<br /> <br /> '''Interface'''<br /><br /> 53-54;<br /> <br /> '''inukshuk'''<br /><br /> 126;<br /> <br /> '''Invisibility'''<br /><br /> 43; "a sacred condition" 43; desks, 39; hawk, 55; "intervals of" 61; "emerged from" 62; "the pale invisible" 64; detectives at Colorado mines, 92; duster, 94; "window into" for Kit Traverse, 99; "...distance" 106; Islands disappearing, 108; fireworks, 112; "imperceptable war" 122; extra man, 125; 127; invisible heckler, 133; Hidden People, 134; 135; 142; 144; 150; 153; 160; 163; Fleetwood, 164; home, 165; 176; Major Arcana, 223; 242; 245; 249; 252; 266; chili's, 289; 327; workers at I.J. & K. Smokefoot, 345-46; in New Orleans, 369; 522; Chums of Chance, 549; Invisiblism, 625; 627; cloak of invisibility, 716;<br /> <br /> '''Ipsow, Ray'''<br /><br /> 29; colleague of Professor Heino Vanderjuice of Yale University;<br /> <br /> '''Ironworkers Union'''<br /><br /> 43;<br /> <br /> '''Isafjoror'''<br /><br /> 125; <br /> <br /> '''Isandhlwana'''<br /><br /> 22; "massacre of British troops at"; On January 22, 1879, Isandlwana was the site of the Battle of Isandlwana, where over 20,000 Zulu warriors defeated a contingent of British soldiers in the first engagement of the Anglo-Zulu War. Almost the entire column of about 1,200 British soldiers was killed, and the regimental colours were lost; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isandhlwana Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Isola degli Specchi, aka Isle of Mirrors'''<br /><br /> 244; island of mirror-makers in Venice, 569;<br /> <br /> '''Italian Troubles'''<br /><br /> 369; in New Orleans<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Rahman'''<br /><br /> 521; barkeep at Tawil Balak<br /> <br /> '''Ramanujan'''<br /><br /> 498; mathematician<br /> <br /> '''Ramiz'''<br /><br /> 653; in the Swiss Alps; and the Tatzelwurm, 658;<br /> <br /> '''Rand shares'''<br /><br /> 146; 167;<br /> <br /> '''Ranji and C. B. Fry'''<br /><br /> 497; cricketeers<br /> <br /> '''Rao, V. Ganeshi'''<br /><br /> 130; "noted Quaternionist" of Calcutta University; disappearing act at Kursaal, 539; "metamorphosed as an American Negro" 557;<br /> <br /> '''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse'''<br /><br /> 531; in Ostend, Belgium<br /> <br /> '''Rosie's Cantina'''<br /><br /> 649; in El Paso, like that [[El Paso|Marty Robbins song...]]<br /> <br /> '''rationalization / routinization'''<br /><br /> 10: "unshaped freedom being rationalized into movement..."; Venice, 575;<br /> <br /> <div id="veikko"></div>'''Rautavaara, Veikko'''<br /><br /> 89; Finn who Webb Traverse finds "holding a vodka jug in one hand while battling a number of camp guards with the other";<br /> <br /> '''Rayleigh, Lord'''<br /><br /> 565;<br /> <br /> '''Rebellion, The'''<br /><br /> 61; aka The Civil War; 92;<br /> <br /> '''Reclus'''<br /><br /> 528;<br /> <br /> '''Red Onion'''<br /><br /> 371; club in New Orleans where the Merry Coons played and survived;<br /> <br /> '''Renfrew, Professor P. Jotham'''<br /><br /> 226; as "opposite number" of Professor Werfner; 495; at Cambridge; 602; "co-tenant of Tarot card XV" 679; Balkans map, 689;<br /> <br /> '''Repeal'''<br /><br /> 89; of the Silver Act in 1893; [[ATD-S#silveract|See Silver Act]]<br /> <br /> '''Replevin, Lamont'''<br /><br /> 606; antiques dealer; "communication by means of coal-gas" 607; has map of Shambhala, 608; "life-size sculpture groups exhibited the more disreputable of classical and biblical themes" 610;<br /> <br /> '''Republicans'''<br /><br /> 93; victors, 334; 469;<br /> <br /> '''Richardsonian Romanesque'''<br /><br /> 419; <br /> <br /> '''Rideout, Dahlia ("Dally")'''<br /><br /> 27; daughter "4 or 5"; in New York City, 336; "white-slave simulation industry" 339; red hair and freckles, 339; rescued by magicians, 350; to Europe with Erlys and the Zombini's, 505;<br /> <br /> '''Rideout, Erlys'''<br /><br /> 28; wife of Merle who ran off with [[ATD-XYZ#zombini|Zombini]]; 57, aka Eryls Mills; 67, aka Erlys Mills Snidell; in Smokefoot's, 347; at R. W. Vibe's party, 350; to Europe on ''Stupendica'', 506; 573;<br /> <br /> '''Rideout, Merle'''<br /><br /> 26; photographer; Museum dream, 57; from NW Connecticutt, 59; lightning rod salesman, 73; heading east, 449; arrives at Candlebrow, 451; fixture at summer Tim bazaar at Candlebrow, 451; and Chick Counterfly and Roswell Bounce, 454; <br /> <br /> '''Reilly, Sidney'''<br /><br /> 630; aka Chong<br /> <br /> '''Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard (1826-1866)'''<br /><br /> 12; (pronounced REE mahn or in IPA: ['ri:man]) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to analysis and differential geometry, some of them paving the way for the later development of general relativity; space, 131; "g&ouml;ttingen eminence" 496; Riemann sphere, 565, 628; Riemann's Hypothesis, 589; 596; ''Habilitationsschrift'' of 1854, 616; 618; Riemann Elipsoid, 626; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Riley'''<br /><br /> 18; member of the Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.<br /> <br /> '''Rinehart'''<br /><br /> 156;<br /> <br /> '''River of Time'''<br /><br /> 412;<br /> <br /> '''Rocco and Pino'''<br /><br /> 529; Italian naval renegades; 546; 561;<br /> <br /> '''Rodolfo'''<br /><br /> 656; with Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin;<br /> <br /> '''Rosie's Cantina'''<br /><br /> 649; in El Paso, just like that [[El Paso|Marty Robbins song...]]<br /> <br /> '''Roxana'''<br /><br /> 67; Zombini's stage assistant<br /> <br /> <div id="rudolf"></div>'''Rudolf, Archduke, Crown Prince of Austria (1858-1889)'''<br /><br /> 681; the son of Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1887, Rudolf bought Mayerling and adapted it into a hunting lodge. In the autumn of 1888, the 30-year-old crown prince met the 17-year-old Baroness Marie Vetsera, known by the more fashionable Anglophile name Mary. From the start, Mary adored him, and was ready to do anything for him. It was almost certainly not the great romance of his life, but Rudolf did have feelings for her, and was touched by her limitless, almost fanatical, love for him. When Franz Joseph demanded that Rudolf end the relationship, the Crown Prince, as part of a suicide pact, shot his mistress in the head, then himself. This has been referred to as the "Tragedy of Mayerling." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Rudolf Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''R.U.S.H.'''<br /><br /> 708; "Rapid Unit for Shadowing and Harassment" - motorcyclist crew in Vienna<br /> <br /> '''Ruskin'''<br /><br /> 578;<br /> <br /> '''Russell, Bertrand'''<br /><br /> 538; 594;<br /> <br /> '''Russell, Lillian'''<br /><br /> 345; hat<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Wackett Punches'''<br /><br /> 53; used to quiet cattle or horses<br /> <br /> '''Wagwheel, Tansy'''<br /><br /> 178;<br /> <br /> '''Walker, Foley'''<br /><br /> 31; special assistant to Scarsdale Vibe, 99; 156; 330-333; "righteous men who believed it was God they heard whispering" 334; in G&ouml;ttingen, 619;<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''<br /><br /> 476; town in Missouri<br /> <br /> '''Wall of Death'''<br /><br /> 184;<br /> <br /> '''Wardenclyffe'''<br /><br /> 326; on Long Island, where Tesla built his Tower<br /> <br /> '''Washoe process'''<br /><br /> 375;<br /> <br /> '''Wave functions'''<br /><br /> 426; 536;<br /> <br /> '''Waziri's from Waziristan'''<br /><br /> 23;<br /> <br /> '''Weedon'''<br /><br /> 495; at Cambridge<br /> <br /> '''Weierstrass, Karl (1815-1897)'''<br /><br /> 500; a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis"; Weierstrass functions, 594; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Weierstrass Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Wells, Buck'''<br /><br /> 179; "mine manager and cavalry commander at Telluride"<br /> <br /> '''Wells, H. G.'''<br /><br /> 398; 407; 412;<br /> <br /> '''Wensleydale'''<br /><br /> 37; confronts Baslight<br /> <br /> '''Werfner, Dr.'''<br /><br /> 226; Renfrew's "opposite number"; 499; 602; 680; 719;<br /> <br /> '''Western Reserve'''<br /><br /> 59; in Ohio<br /> <br /> '''Whiskey Hill'''<br /><br /> 60; in Cleveland; 62;<br /> <br /> '''Whistler'''<br /><br /> 578;<br /> <br /> '''Whitechapel'''<br /><br /> 678; Whitechapel is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is a built-up inner city district located 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper Jack the Ripper], the unidentified serial killer (or killers), was active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name "Jack the Ripper" is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings; Rippercetta, 680; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel Wikipedia entry]]<br /> <br /> '''White City, The'''<br /><br /> [[Image:whitecity.jpg|thumb|The White City, Chicago, 1893|right]]3; Costing over a half billion in today's dollars and covering 686 acres, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and Fair in Chicago was a grand sight to its 27 million visitors -- a planned layout of large, classically inspired buildings (what we now call the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_architecture Beaux Arts] style) all built on the same scale and all painted white -- hence, the nickname of "The White City." And within and around those white buildings was the most amazing display of 65,000 exhibits depicting (to quote the Exposition promoters) "all of the highest and best achievements of modern civilization; all that was strange, beautiful, artistic, and inspiring; a vast and wonderful university of the arts and sciences, teaching a noble lesson in history, art, science, discovery and invention, designed to stimulate the youth of this and future generations to greater and more heroic endeavor." 10; 36; Dally think about, in Chicago, 336; [http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html More from the "Encyclopedia of Chicago"]<br /> <br /> '''White City Investigations'''<br /><br /> 36;<br /> <br /> '''Whitehall'''<br /><br /> 444; Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, centre of national government, towards the traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I, which is often regarded as the heart of London for its residents and tourists. Along its way it is lined by many government ministries; "Whitehall" is therefore also frequently used as a metonym for governmental administration, as well as being a geographic name for the surrounding district; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''White Wings'''<br /><br /> 150;<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker, Edmund'''<br /><br /> 542; English mathematician;<br /> <br /> '''Wilde, Oscar'''<br /><br /> 185; 536;<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelm'''<br /><br /> 543;<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelmstrausse'''<br /><br /> 686; 690;<br /> <br /> '''Williams and Walker'''<br /><br /> 344; "coon review"; Bert Williams and George Walker, in the first decade of the twentieth century, became the most famous black entertainers in the world. They had teamed up in California in 1893, came to New York in 1896 as "Two Real Coons," and two years later were making a dance called the cakewalk all the rage. Williams and Walker, as they were then known, made American theatrical history by bringing the first black musical, In Dahomey, to Broadway in 1902.<br /> <br /> '''Windy City'''<br /><br /> 3; aka Chicago &#151; the origins of the nickname are in dispute and they are explored in this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_City%2C_Origin_of_Name_(Chicago) Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Woevre, Piet'''<br /><br /> 540; formerly of the Force Publique; 558;<br /> <br /> '''Wolf-Ferrari'''<br /><br /> 512;<br /> <br /> '''Wordsworth'''<br /><br /> 535'<br /> <br /> '''''Workers' Own Songbook'''''<br /><br /> 49;<br /> <br /> '''World-System'''<br /><br /> 33; Tesla's free power; [[Tesla's_World_System|Read Tesla's "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy"]]<br /> <br /> '''World War I'''<br /><br /> 578;<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Rahman'''<br /><br /> 521; barkeep at Tawil Balak<br /> <br /> '''Ramanujan'''<br /><br /> 498; mathematician<br /> <br /> '''Ramiz'''<br /><br /> 653; in the Swiss Alps; and the Tatzelwurm, 658;<br /> <br /> '''Rand shares'''<br /><br /> 146; 167;<br /> <br /> '''Ranji and C. B. Fry'''<br /><br /> 497; cricketeers<br /> <br /> '''Rao, V. Ganeshi'''<br /><br /> 130; "noted Quaternionist" of Calcutta University; disappearing act at Kursaal, 539; "metamorphosed as an American Negro" 557;<br /> <br /> '''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse'''<br /><br /> 531; in Ostend, Belgium<br /> <br /> '''Rosie's Cantina'''<br /><br /> 649; in El Paso, like that [[El Paso|Marty Robbins song...]]<br /> <br /> '''rationalization / routinization'''<br /><br /> 10: "unshaped freedom being rationalized into movement..."; Venice, 575;<br /> <br /> <div id="veikko"></div>'''Rautavaara, Veikko'''<br /><br /> 89; Finn who Webb Traverse finds "holding a vodka jug in one hand while battling a number of camp guards with the other";<br /> <br /> '''Rayleigh, Lord'''<br /><br /> 565;<br /> <br /> '''Rebellion, The'''<br /><br /> 61; aka The Civil War; 92;<br /> <br /> '''Reclus'''<br /><br /> 528;<br /> <br /> '''Red Onion'''<br /><br /> 371; club in New Orleans where the Merry Coons played and survived;<br /> <br /> '''Renfrew, Professor P. Jotham'''<br /><br /> 226; enemy of [[Werfner]] 495; at Cambridge; 602; "co-tenant of Tarot card XV" 679; Balkans map, 689;<br /> <br /> '''Repeal'''<br /><br /> 89; of the Silver Act in 1893; [[ATD-S#silveract|See Silver Act]]<br /> <br /> '''Replevin, Lamont'''<br /><br /> 606; antiques dealer; "communication by means of coal-gas" 607; has map of Shambhala, 608; "life-size sculpture groups exhibited the more disreputable of classical and biblical themes" 610;<br /> <br /> '''Republicans'''<br /><br /> 93; victors, 334; 469;<br /> <br /> '''Richardsonian Romanesque'''<br /><br /> 419; <br /> <br /> '''Rideout, Dahlia ("Dally")'''<br /><br /> 27; daughter "4 or 5"; in New York City, 336; "white-slave simulation industry" 339; red hair and freckles, 339; rescued by magicians, 350; to Europe with Erlys and the Zombini's, 505;<br /> <br /> '''Rideout, Erlys'''<br /><br /> 28; wife of Merle who ran off with [[ATD-XYZ#zombini|Zombini]]; 57, aka Eryls Mills; 67, aka Erlys Mills Snidell; in Smokefoot's, 347; at R. W. Vibe's party, 350; to Europe on ''Stupendica'', 506; 573;<br /> <br /> '''Rideout, Merle'''<br /><br /> 26; photographer; Museum dream, 57; from NW Connecticutt, 59; lightning rod salesman, 73; heading east, 449; arrives at Candlebrow, 451; fixture at summer Tim bazaar at Candlebrow, 451; and Chick Counterfly and Roswell Bounce, 454; <br /> <br /> '''Reilly, Sidney'''<br /><br /> 630; aka Chong<br /> <br /> '''Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard (1826-1866)'''<br /><br /> 12; (pronounced REE mahn or in IPA: ['ri:man]) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to analysis and differential geometry, some of them paving the way for the later development of general relativity; space, 131; "g&ouml;ttingen eminence" 496; Riemann sphere, 565, 628; Riemann's Hypothesis, 589; 596; ''Habilitationsschrift'' of 1854, 616; 618; Riemann Elipsoid, 626; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Riley'''<br /><br /> 18; member of the Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.<br /> <br /> '''Rinehart'''<br /><br /> 156;<br /> <br /> '''River of Time'''<br /><br /> 412;<br /> <br /> '''Rocco and Pino'''<br /><br /> 529; Italian naval renegades; 546; 561;<br /> <br /> '''Rodolfo'''<br /><br /> 656; with Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin;<br /> <br /> '''Rosie's Cantina'''<br /><br /> 649; in El Paso, just like that [[El Paso|Marty Robbins song...]]<br /> <br /> '''Roxana'''<br /><br /> 67; Zombini's stage assistant<br /> <br /> <div id="rudolf"></div>'''Rudolf, Archduke, Crown Prince of Austria (1858-1889)'''<br /><br /> 681; the son of Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1887, Rudolf bought Mayerling and adapted it into a hunting lodge. In the autumn of 1888, the 30-year-old crown prince met the 17-year-old Baroness Marie Vetsera, known by the more fashionable Anglophile name Mary. From the start, Mary adored him, and was ready to do anything for him. It was almost certainly not the great romance of his life, but Rudolf did have feelings for her, and was touched by her limitless, almost fanatical, love for him. When Franz Joseph demanded that Rudolf end the relationship, the Crown Prince, as part of a suicide pact, shot his mistress in the head, then himself. This has been referred to as the "Tragedy of Mayerling." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Rudolf Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''R.U.S.H.'''<br /><br /> 708; "Rapid Unit for Shadowing and Harassment" - motorcyclist crew in Vienna<br /> <br /> '''Ruskin'''<br /><br /> 578;<br /> <br /> '''Russell, Bertrand'''<br /><br /> 538; 594;<br /> <br /> '''Russell, Lillian'''<br /><br /> 345; hat<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>The following is the blurb, attributed to Thomas Pynchon, that appeared, disappeared and reappeared on Amazon.com, for Pynchon's latest novel, ''Against the Day'', released 11/21/06 by Penguin Press. This piece of writing was also used in promotional materials by the publisher, and was eventually edited down (with all author attribution removed) for the book jacket flap copy:<br /> <br /> Spanning the period between the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition Chicago World's Fair of 1893] and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Creek_miners'_strike_of_1894 labor troubles in Colorado] to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event Tunguska Event], Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. <br /> With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred. <br /> <br /> The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla Nikola Tesla], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Lugosi Bela Lugosi], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Groucho Marx]. <br /> <br /> As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. <br /> <br /> Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction. <br /> <br /> Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck. <br /> <br /> &#151;Thomas Pynchon<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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<p>Posthorn@gmail.com: </p> <hr /> <div>The following is the blurb, attributed to Thomas Pynchon, that appeared, disappeared and reappeared on Amazon.com, for Pynchon's latest novel, ''Against the Day'', released 11/21/06 by Penguin Press. This piece of writing was also used in promotional materials by the publisher, and was eventually edited down (with all author attribution removed) for the book jacket flap copy.<br /> <br /> Spanning the period between the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition Chicago World's Fair of 1893] and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Creek_miners'_strike_of_1894 labor troubles in Colorado] to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event Tunguska Event], Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. <br /> With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred. <br /> <br /> The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla Nikola Tesla], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Lugosi Bela Lugosi], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Groucho Marx]. <br /> <br /> As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. <br /> <br /> Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction. <br /> <br /> Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck. <br /> <br /> &#151;Thomas Pynchon<br /> <br /> {{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}</div>

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