Difference between revisions of "T"

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Tammanoid
150; creatures, 150; Tammany Hall was the name given to the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in New York City politics from the 1790s to the 1960s. Wikipedia entry

Tarahumanara Indians
23; of Northern New Mexico

Tarot
186;

Tate, Professor
131; three dimensions

Telluric Interior
114;

Teresa
87; girl Webb fancies on his way to Colorado

Terrorism
85; "monsters that Did the Deed" 85; innocent victims, 87; "radius of annihilation" 95;

Tesla, Dr. Nikola (1856-1943)
33; 97 - "Tesla logged in his diary on July 3, 1899 that a separate resonance transformer tuned to the same high frequency as a larger high-voltage resonance transformer would transceive energy from the larger coil, acting as a transmitter of wireless energy, which was used to confirm Tesla's patent for radio during later disputes in the courts. These air core high-frequency resonate coils were the predecessors of systems from radio to radar and medical magnetic resonance imaging devices." from this nice Tesla page - This information was later used to confirm his patent for radio which he received posthumously in 1946, 3 years after his death - from this Tesla page; Kit Traverse working for, 97; Wikipedia entry; Read this article about Tesla's Death Ray and the Tunguska Event

Thick Bush
8; town where Chick Counterfly was recognized as the son of "Dick" Counterfly

Throyle, Hastings
131; collegial nemesis of T. Blope

Time
33; 54; 111; colonizing, 131; "at right angles to the flow of" 132; 143;

toroidal dispensation
128;

Tovarishchi Slutchainyi
123; Russian counterparts to the Chums of Chance

Töpler Influence Machine
58;

Trabants
45;

Traverse, Cooley
105; Webb's father

Traverse, Frank
90; Webb's son

Traverse, Kit
90; Webb's son who goes to Yale; vectorist, 97; 156;

Traverse, Lake
90; Webb's daughter

Traverse, Reef
89; Webb's first-born son

Traverse, Webb
76; "sort of mine engineer in Colorado" 76; from South Pennsylvania, 87;

Trilby hat
185;

Trouvé
28; screw unit;

Tsangpo-Brahmaputra
130;

Tubby
161; trained pig

Tungus Reindeer herders
23;

Tunguska Event
145; an explosion that occurred at 60°55′N 101°57′E, near the Podkamennaya (Under Rock) Tunguska River in what is now Evenk Autonomous Okrug, at 7:17 AM on June 30, 1908. The event is sometimes referred to as the great Siberian explosion. Wikipedia entry

Turner, Freddie
52; at Harvard

Twin Vibes, The
102; Foley Walker and Scarsdale Vibe "in matching sport ensembles of a certain canary-and-indigo check"

Tzigane
18; Bindelstiffs of the Blue A.C.'s balloon-ship