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California Peg
303; sous-maîtresse of the Silver Orchid in Telluride;

camera lucida
141; A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists. It was patented in 1806 by William Hyde Wollaston; Wikipedia entry

Camp, Walter
159;

Capitalism
79; and modern chemistry; and the Tsar, 83; 147; Wikipedia entry

Carnal, Reverend Lube
210; "of the Second Lutheran (Missouri Synod) Church" carnival theory
184-185;

Cartesian
See Descarte, René

Case Institute
58; in Cleveland

Cassidy, Butch (1866-1908?)
172; a notorious train and bank robber.; 180; Wikipedia entry

Cathedral of the Prefiguration
153;

Chandrasekhar, O.D.
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.

charabanc
53; bus: a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; Wikipedia entry

Chase, Ed
176; "boss of the redlight district" in Denver

21; held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America; eulogy, 56; Wikipedia entry

Chirpingdon-Groin, Ruperta ("Pert")
...896

Chthonica, Princess of Plutonia
117; chthonic = "dwelling in or under the earth; also, pertaining to the underworld"; 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.

Chums of Chance
3; "celebrated aeronautics club"; 6, 7; 54; 107; "agents of extrahuman justice" 215; in Murano, 243;

Chums of Chance books
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;

climber
131; 167;

Coleman-Smith, Miss
186;

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; Wikipedia entry; 53;

color
160; 162; 200; 211; mauve, 226; muffins, 236;

Colorado
83; commenting on its shape;

Columbian Exposition of 1893
3; See Chicago World's Fair; 10

Commandant of Earthly Days
17; a "potent though invisible" entity that dictates human behavior

Consuelo
161; bandida in Mischief in Mexico

Control
34; Rational Systems of;

Cooper
202; at Stray's, courting Sage

Counterfly, Chick
4; member of the Chums of Chance; 108; 139;

Counterfly, Richard "Dick"
7; father of Chick Counterfly; 17

Cowboy's Christmas
81;

Coxey's Army
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. Wikipedia entry

Crack of Doom
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. Wikipedia entry

Cracker Jack
24; caramel-coated popcorn

Cripple Creek
82; in Colorado - strike for an 8-hour day;

Crookes, Sir William
228; Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was an English chemist and physicist. Sir William attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy; Wikipedia entry

cubeb
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 The Free Dictionary

Culpepper, Madge and Mia
60; worked at the Hamilton Street establishment of Nelly Lowry; 66;

Curly
183; Waiter at a Chicago hotel;

Cyclomite
182-185; combo of cyclopropane plus dynamite, and psychotropic; "reality-modifying explosive" 233;