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'''Witherspoon Street'''<br /> | '''Witherspoon Street'''<br /> | ||
Revision as of 23:52, 24 December 2006
Wackett Punches
53; used to quiet cattle or horses
Wagwheel, Tansy
178;
Waite, Arthur Edward (1857 - 1942)
225; occultist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. "This was notable for being one of the first decks to illustrate all 78 cards fully, as opposed to the 22 major arcana. Golden Dawn member Pamela Colman Smith illustrated the cards. The deck was first published in 1910." Wikipedia entry
Walker, Foley
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 Göttingen "the angel, if not of death at least of deep shit," 619;
Wall o' Death
476; town in Missouri
184; The Wall of Death is a circus sideshow featuring a drum- or barrel-shaped wooden board wall around which stunt motorcyclists drive and carry out tricks. The audience views from the top of the drum looking down. The bikes start in the middle at the bottom of the drum and drive up an initial ramped section until they gain enough velocity to drive horizontal to the floor, defying gravity. this is a famous act in British society and is often scene in towns and fairs. In modern society there are only a few remaining tours of the wall of death, the most notable of which is "the wall of death world tour", created and run by the Fox family. Wall of Death Website
Wardenclyffe
326; on Long Island, where Tesla built his Tower
Washoe process
375;
Wave functions
426; 536;
Waziri's from Waziristan
23;
Weedon
495; at Cambridge
Weierstrass, Karl (1815-1897)
500; a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis"; Weierstrass functions, 594; Wikipedia entry
Wells, Bulkley
179; referred to as "Buck Wells" by Lew Basnight; "mine manager and cavalry commander at Telluride"; 285; "Cap'n Wells"; Wells was the (real life) manager of Smuggler Mine c. 1911 [1]; the book, Corpse on Boomerang Road: Telluride's War on Labor, 1899-1908 gives a lot more information on Wells and Bob Meldrum.
Wells, H. G.
398; 407; 412; Wikipedia entry
Wensleydale
37; confronts Baslight
Werfner, Dr.
226; Renfrew's "opposite number"; 499; 602; 680; 719;
Western Reserve
59; in Ohio
Whiskey Hill
60; in Cleveland; 62;
Whistler
578;
Whitechapel
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. 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; Wikipedia entry]
White City, The
White City Investigations
36;
Whitehall
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; Wikipedia entry
White Wings
150;
Whittaker, Edmund
542; English mathematician;
Wilde, Oscar
185; 536;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,
"Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best." Wikipedia entry (Leadville)
Wilhelm
543;
Wilhelmstrausse
686; 690;
Williams and Walker
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.
Windy City
3; aka Chicago — the origins of the nickname are in dispute and they are explored in this Wikipedia entry.
Wings
"wings cast long shadows," "wing-flapping miracles of ornithurgy," 27; "White Wings," 150; "God's wing," 211; "wings moving against the moon like clouds," 379; 389;
Witherspoon Street
159, in Princeton, NJ DISCUSSION
Woevre, Piet
540; formerly of the Force Publique; 558;
Wolf-Ferrari
512;
Wordsworth
535'
Workers' Own Songbook
49; DISCUSSION
World-System
33; Tesla's free power; Read Tesla's "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy"
World War I
578;
Wyman, Pap
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".
