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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

Camille
345; "Courage, Camille..."

Camp, Walter
159;

Campbell-Bannerman, Mr.
448;

Candlebrow, Mr. Gideon
406;

Candlebrow University
405; "institute of higher learning in the heartland"; 451;

Capitalism
79; and modern chemistry; and the Tsar, 83; 147; collapse of, 415; 419; Wikipedia entry

Capsheaf
492; pal of Cyprian Latewood

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; 465;

Chavalito, Señor
387; what El Ñato calls Frank

Cheesely, Thrapston III
367; Reef Traverse's alter-ego - "East Coast nerve case"

Chess
543; "war in miniature"; 558;

21; held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America; eulogy, 56; 476; 503; Wikipedia entry

Chinchito
350; "jumped-up circus midget" on the Bowery stage, at R. W. Vibe's party;

Chinese Gong Effect
356;

Chirpingdon-Groin, Ruperta ("Pert")
367; "touring English woman" in Denver; levitation during performance of new work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 896;

Chisholm, Grace
490;

Christianity
453; born-again;

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.

Chuck
347; harpist at Smokefoot's

Chums of Chance
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; 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;

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; Chums of Chance and the Caged Women of Yokahama, 411;

Cinema / Film
"Dreamtime Movy" (theater), 450; 456-57;

Clarabella
249; Dally's doll

climber
131; 167;

Coeur d'Alene
333; 362; 463;

Cold Harbor
335;

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;

Colonialism
527; in the Belgian Congo;

color
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;

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

"commonwealth of toil that is to be"
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 Lyrics...

Comptes Rendus
532; scholarly journal

Cone Amor
468; Mayva's ice-cream parlor

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

Crayke
492; fond of Shetland ponies

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

Crookes, Sir William (1832-1919)
228; English chemist and physicist. Sir William attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy; Wikipedia entry

Crusades
436; counter-Crusades, 437;

Crystal
473;

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;

Czolgosz
372; assassin of President McKinley;