The Chessmen of Doom (annotations)

A

• Argonne Forest, Battle of
• Assyrian-winged bull (lamassu)

B

• Baal (deity)
• Balkan Sobranie (tobacco)
• Big Ed's Steak House (Stone Arabia, Maine)
• Blodgett, Mr.
• Boston and Maine Railroad timetable
• Boudicca’s Revolt
• Boy Scout flashlight
• British Museum (London, England)
• Bulgaria

C

• Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Chapel, Stone (Lake Umbagog, Maine)
• Charles II, King (England)
• Checkers (game)
• Chess (game)
• Chevrolet (automobile)
• Childermass Estate (Stone Arabia, Maine)
• Childermass, Ferdinand Count Fathom
• Childermass, Humphrey Clinker
• Childermass, Peregrine Pickle
• Childermass, Roderick Random
• Clock, Benrus
• Clock, Waterbury shelf
• Coca-Cola (beverage)
• Coleman lamp
• Coote, Charles
• Cracker Jack
• Crazy Annie

D

• Dixon, Henry (Grampa)
• Dixon, Johnny (John Michael)
• Dixon, Kate (Gramma)
• Down in the Valley (song)
• Durham, New Hampshire
• Duston Heights Railway Station (Duston Heights, Massachusetts)
• Duston Heights, Massachusetts

E

• Elda (Gramma Dixon's cousin)
• Evinrude outboard motor

F

• Ferguson, Byron Q. "Fergie"
• Fillmore Street (Duston Heights, Massachusetts)
• Flies and grounders (game)
• Flynn, Mike
• Freel, Murgatroyd, Ph.D.

G

• General Store (Stone Arabia, Maine)
• Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt)
• Great Russell Street (London, England)
• Gulf Oil station (Stone Arabia, Maine)

H

• Hadrian (Emperor)
• Haggstrum College (Duston Heights, Massachusetts)
• Halley's Comet
• Hecate (deity)
• Herkimer, General Nicholas
• Higbee, Mr.
• Higbee's Landing (Lake Umbagog, Maine)
• Holmes, Sherlock (fictional character)

I

• In nomine Tetragrammaton (phrase)

J

• Jack-in-the-Pulpit (flower)
• Jolly, Jolly Sixpence (song)

K

• Kabbala
• Kelly, George R. “Machine Gun”
• Kennebec River (Maine)
• Key, Francis Scott
• Korean War

L

• Lake Mooslookmeguntic (Maine)
• Lake Umbagog
• Lake Umbagog Islands
• Lewis Chessmen
• Lewis, Isle of (scotland)
• London, Jack
• Lords of War

M

• Mail Pouch (tobacco)
• Man, Unnamed (taxi driver)
• Masonic pin
• McKillop and Ward Law Offices (Duston Heights, Massachusetts)
• Mecca Theater
• Meerschaum pipe
• Melkonian, Highgaz (Dr.)
• Merrimack Sporting Goods Shop (Duston Heights, Massachusetts)
• Merrimack Street (Duston Heights, Massachusetts)
• Mike Flynn’s Boat House (Lake Umbagog, Maine)
• Mohawk Valley
• Mons Meg (cannon)

N

• Nash (automobile)
• Nasturtium (flower)
• North Woods Whammy (book)

O

• Oort cloud
• Oort, Jan
• Oriskany, Battle of
• Otho (Roman emperor)
• Our Father (prayer)

P

• Packard coupe (automobile)
• Peregrine Childermass (statue)
• Perseids meteor shower
• Peter's Sweet Shop (Duston Heights, Massachusetts)
• Pine Tree State Tailors (Bangor, Maine)
• Ping-pong (game)
• Pontiac (automobile)
• Portland, Maine
• Prince of the Air
• Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
• Public Library (Stone Arabia, Maine)

R

• Rangeley Mountains (Maine)
• Resurgam (phrase)
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat (song)

S

• Sacher torte (dessert)
• Scotland Yard (London)
• Scott Glacier (Antarctic)
• Sears and Roebuck
• Shakespeare, William
• Skye Boat Song, The (song)
• Skye, Isle of (Scotland)
• Smollett, Tobias
• Solitaire (game)
• St. Leger, Barry (Colonel)
• Stallybrass, Edmund
• Sterno
• Stone Arabia Police Department (Stone Arabia, Maine)
• Stone Arabia Railway Station (Stone Arabia, Maine)
• Stone Arabia, Maine

T

• Thripp, Anna Louisa
• Times of London (newspaper)
• Trajan (Roman emperor)

U

• U.S. Route 1
• University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire)

V

• Vade in perditionem (phrase)
• Verger, Spectral
• Vitellius (Roman emperor)

W

• Waltzing Matilda (song)
• Web, The (television program)
• Westphalia, Treaty of
• Wilde, Cornel
• Willoware porcelain saucer
• World War I

X

• X-ray

Z

• Zip your lip