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St. Barbara
81; "patron saint of artillery men"

St. Cosmo, Randolph
24; Ship Commander of The Inconvenience

St. Masque
108; Indian Ocean island; volcano, 109;

St. Paul
107; Indian Ocean island

Saint-Saën, Camille
27; his "wonderful 'Bacchanale'"; from his opera "Samson and Delila which premiered in Weimar, Germany on December 2, 1877;

Saksaul, H.M.S.F.
425; The saksaul is a plant/tree native to the deserts of China, particularly the Gobi desert where some believe Shambhala lies underground; it has a very hard wood and is covered with knobs; "subdesertine craft" 432; 434; attacked, 444;

Salisbury, Lord (1830-1903)
58; Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister on three occasions, for a total of over 13 years; Wikipedia entry

Sananzolo, Ettore
571; engineer at mirror factory in Venice

Sanatorium Böfli-Spazzoletta
692; "Bright red private hostel stamp"

sand-fleas
440; aka Chong pir ("big lice"), live under the desert and feed on human blood; Pulex;

Sands, Captain
444; aka Inspector at Whitehall in London; 607;

San Miguel County
80; where Merle Rideout and Dally lived, in Colorado

Santos-Dumont, Monsieur
529; 576;

sap-head
7; a fool: a person who lacks good judgment

Saracens
436;

Saratoga chips
39;

Satan
333; "The Evil One"

Schicksal, das
635;

Schiff
131;

Schmidt, Chief
59; Cleveland cop

Schwärmer
613; gas pressure;

Schwartz
511; mathematician at University of Berlin

Scioto
66;

Scorcher cap
42;

scuttlebutt
3; The origin of the word scuttlebutt which is nautical parlance for a rumor, comes from a combination of scuttle - to make a hole in the ship's side causing her to sink - and butt - a cask or hogshead used in the days of wooden ships to hold drinking water; thus the term scuttlebutt means a cask with a hole in it. Scuttle; describes what most rumors accomplish if not to the ship, at least to morale. (from The Goat Locker Website)

Self-reference
117; "my harmless little intraterrestrial scherzo"; "Hundreds, by now thousands, of narratives, all equally valid — what can this mean?" 681-82;

Semana Santa
376;

Sempitern
452; Candlebrow's canoeable river

Sentience
177;

Sentient Rocksters
133; 149;

Sergei, Grand Duke
595; assassinated;

Seurat, Georges-Pierre (1859-1891)
584; French painter and the founder of Neoimpressionism. His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is one of the icons of 19th century painting; 587; Wikipedia entry

Seven Sisters
159;

Sfinciuno Itinerary
425; map to Shambhala; 436; Sfinciuini is the Sicilian member of the Italian flatbread family. All around Sicily sfinciuni takes many local disguises. It can be made with or without cheese, with tomato sauce or 'Strattu, the fantastic sun-dried Sicilian tomato concentrate, with or without bread crumbs... the list could go on forever. In its probably original version, from the nuns of the San Vito monastery, it is even filled with sausage meat. The name of this dish, sfinciuni, probably comes, as many Sicilian terms do, from the Arab. The original Arab isfang, meaning fried sweet, became the Sicilian sfingia which took up the meaning of something soft and spongy. "additional level of encryption" 437;

Shakespeare
344; 385;

Shambhala
435; In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala (also spelled Shambala or Shamballa) is a mystical kingdom hidden somewhere beyond the snowpeaks of the Himalayas; 441; 609; "An ancient metropolis of the spiritual, some say inhabited by the living, others say empty, in ruins, buried someplace beneath the desert sands of Inner Asia. And of course there are always those who'll tell you that the true Shambhala lies within."" 628; 631; "the Pure Land" 686; 718; 793; Wikipedia entry Notes on Shambhala in the Gobi Desert

Shabotshi
390; The Tarahumare Indians of the Sierra Madre, one of the least known among the Mexican tribes, live in caves to such an extent that they may properly be termed the American Cave-Dwellers of today. In their iconography, the devil is always represented with a beard, and the Tarahumari call Mexicans "Shabotshi" ("the bearded ones"); About the Tarahumare Indians

Shorty
506; ship's cook near Krakatoa

Siege of Paris
19;

Signat
584;

Sigurd, King
127;

Sillery
162; drinking;

Siluro Dirigibile a Lenta Corsa
529; 706;

89; repeal of in 1893, 89; President Cleveland, convinced that the Sherman Silver Act, passed in 1890, was the cause of the drain on the U.S. gold reserves, called a special session of congress and convinced them to repeal the Act. Read more...; Wikipedia entry

Sipido
528; Anarchist assassin

Ball Lightning

73; sentient ball lightning; Ball lightning reportedly takes the form of a short-lived, glowing, floating object often the size and shape of a basketball, but it can also be golf ball sized or smaller. It is sometimes associated with thunderstorms, but unlike lightning flashes arcing between two points, which last a small fraction of a second, ball lightning reportedly lasts many seconds. There have been some reports of production of a similar phenomenon in the laboratory, but some still disagree on whether it is a real phenomenon; Wikipedia entry

sky-dogs
14; canines who rode in the airships

Sloane laboratory
29;

Sloper, Phoebe
486; childhood friend of Tace Boilster's;

Slow and the Stupified, The
611;

"Smegmo"
407; "an artificial substitute for everything in the edible-fat category, including margarine"

Smoked Haddock
447; one of Gaspereaux's many "locals" in London

Snazzbury, Dr.
500; of Oxford University, "Snazzbury's Silent Frock";

Snidell, Bert
75; former husband of Erlys; Dally's biological dad who died before she was born, 357;

Snidell sisters
573;

Socialism
32;

Soltera, E. B.
644; Dwayne's contact in Juarez — Regeneration Equipment;

Somble, Strool & Fleshway
34; Scarsdale Vibe's attorneys; 455;

South Seas Pavilion
26; at the Chicago World's Fair

Spazzoletta
669; 670;

Ssagan (talking reindeer)
785;

Spectral Theory
603;

Spengler, Dr.
412;

Spielmacher, Herr
615; International Manager - Bank of Prussia;

Spongiatosta, Principessa
582; semi-notorious aquaintance of H. Penhallow;

Spooninger, Bing
419; "Mouthorganman Apprentice"

Squanto and the Pilgrims
416;

Stein, Aurel
436;

Steve, aka Ramon
638; in Mexico (recall Foppl's in V.);

Stiftskaserne
703; Military barracks area in Vienna; The Stiftskaserne tower was the most heavily-armed Vienna flak tower, mounting four twin 128mm guns.

Stinerite
528;

Stockmen's Hotel
31;

Stockton, Bob
368; his bar in Denver

stranniki
663; wandering men in Russia

Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
498; German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. He was also a noted conductor; Salome opera, 626; Wikipedia entry; The Official Richard Strauss Website

straw "skimmer"
13; straw hat with a narrow brim, popular boating hat during the 1890's;

Stuffed Edge
609; "remote and horrible town of..."

Stupendica, S.S.
356; liner takes Zombini's to Europe; distinct versions of, 514; "latent identity as the battleship H.M.S. Emperor Maximilian" 515; "Liner-to-Battleship Effect" 518; "Two-Stupendica problem" 521;

sub-Clerkenwell trinket
489;

Suckling, Darby
3; the baby of the Inconvenience crew who serves "as both factotum and mascotte"; 109-110; Ship's Legal Officer, 398;

Sue, Marie Eugène (1804-1857)
125; a roman-feuilleton by; M. Eugène Sue was a French novelist, born in Paris. A feuilleton (a diminutive of French feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers. A roman-feuilleton is a serialized novel;

Svegli, Professore
569; University of Pisa

Swinburne
535;

Swome, Lionel
628; T.W.I.T. travel coordinator; 668;

Symmetry
537;