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Garçons de '71
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Gatlin, Reverend Moss
49; Anarchist preacher; "we are Stripes and Solids on the pool table of earthly existence" 87; The New York Times offered the following solution to the anarchist threat, “In the early stages of an acute outbreak of anarchy a Gatling gun, or if the case be severe, two, is the sovereign remedy."

Ghloix, Otto
132; "Expedition alienist"; "psychomedical officer" 143;

Gibbs, Professor Willard
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Gigg, Jack
99; Kit Traverse's sidekick

Gilmore, Mr.
187; conductor in New Mexico

Ginnungagap
127; "the lightless abyss"; Ginnungagap ("seeming emptiness"), in the cosmology of Norse mythology, is the primordial void separating Niflheim and Muspell, the land of eternal ice and snow and the land of eternal heat and flame; Wikipedia entry

GOD
87; "God's ledger; 131;

Gold Standard
89; The "gold standard" is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold; Wikipedia entry

grapnel
13; a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope

Grundy, Mrs.
Mrs Grundy is the personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety (from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough, which appeared in 1798), a person who is too much concerned with being proper, modest, or righteous.

guncotton
27; guncotton is Nitrocellulose (Cellulose nitrate) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose (e.g. through exposure to nitric acid or powerful nitrating agent), used in explosives


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