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Gen / I think thing to do is to raise 'Casualness". / Like seeming telepathy, which occurs at odd moments, but can't be willed. [SF-VI; 1403.]


Geo Syst / Complicated / But as Todd (Astronomy, p 257) says of the asteroids, the network or their orbits is inconceivably complicated. [AF-I; 355. Todd, David Peck. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies. New York: P.F. Collier, 1922, 257-258.]


Geo Syst / See day smoke, Siberia, July, 1896. / Came from a revolving star. [SF-VI; 1404. See: 1896 July 19-30, (VII: 1539, 1540, 1542, & 1548).]


[Ghosts]:


Ghsts / and the telephone / Trib. / 1878 / March 8-5-1. [AF-II; 291. (New York Tribune, March 8, 1878, p. 5 c. 1.)]


[?] / 1926 / Sept / Occult Digest ofp. 29 / Ghost in black near Lewis, Kansas, who in pasture, dug, crying: "My poor baby!" [SF-V; 400. (Danelson, Effa. Occult Digest. Chicago: Occult Digest, 1925, p. 29.) Thayer: "Found flying / may belong here."]


[Ghost[ / 1903 / July 23 / N.Y. Trib, 2-1 / Ghost / Greenwich, Conn. [SF-VI; 1405. (New York Tribune, July 23, 1903, p. 2 c. 1.)]


Ghost / Reported by Dr. Jessopp / Cur. Lit. 32-98. [SF-VII; 75. (Current Literature, 32-98.)]


Ghost or boy / Seemingly authentic storyschool room, of Newburyport, Jan 11, 1873. [SF-VII; 821. See: (1873 Jan 11).]


Ghost / Figure visible only to one Jan 31, 1875 / Other cases before. [SF-VII; 822. See: (1875 Jan 31).]


Ghost period / N.Y. City / Aug 20 ab. / 1894. [SF-VII; 917. See: (1894 Ab Aug 20).]


Ghost in black / Feb. 5, 1889. [SF-VII; 918. See: (1889 Feb 5).]


Ghosts / Mists / Oct 4, 1889. [SF-VII; 919. See: (1889 Oct 4).]


Ghst / Black-dressed woman ap and disap / Feb 8, 1892. [SF-VII; 920. See: (1892 Feb 8).]


Ghst / 1883 / Trib. / Jan. 14-4-1. [SF-VII; 921. (New York Tribune, January 14, 1883, p. 4 c. 1.)]


Ghost / Mists? / See June 13, 1885. [SF-VII; 922. See: (1885 June 13).]


[Giants]:


Giants / Notes and Queries, March 7, 1925that from Ermelo, near Johannesburg, had been reported gigantic human footprints, over four feet long, in granite. [AF-II; 293. (Notes and Queries, March 7, 1925.)]


Giants / Bibliography / Index / (5) / 6 / under BibGiants. [AF-II; 294.]


Giant / Bones found near Stramberg (Moravia) by Prof Maska / Naturebefore April, 1881. [AF-II; 295. “Notes.” Nature, 23 (January 27, 1881): 296-298, at 296. “Animal Remains in the Schipka Cavern.” Nature, 23 (March 10, 1881): 446. “A solitary human relic was found in a protected place at the wall of a side passage of the cavern, and near a fireplace. It was the fragment of a lower jaw, amid ashes and inter-breccia of lime. The same layer contained mammoth remains and stone implements. Of the jaw only the front part with incisors, one canine, and the two pre-molars, of the right side remained. The latter three teeth were still in the jaw undeveloped, but were visible, because the front wall of the jaw was wanting. The largeness and thickness of the jaw, first of all, were remarkable. The teeth-development corresponds to the first year of life, but the jaw and the teeth are as large as those of an adult.” Srivastava, R.P. Morphology of the Primates and Human Evolution. New Delhi: PHI Learning, 2009, 139. The Šipka jaw is now thought to have belonged to a late Neanderthal child, (about ten years old). Karel Jaroslav Maška.]


Giants / Sc. Gos. 1868/55. [AF-II; 296. (Science Gossip, 1868-55.)]


[Giant] / Giant's Grave / Roy Soc Antiq Ireland, 5 ser, 12/163-172. [AF-II; 297. Buick, George R. "The Giant's Grave, Loughloughan, Broughshane, County Antrim." Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, s. 5 v. 12 (1902): 163-172. The cairn was locally called the "Giant's Grave" but contained only a few cists with urns and bone fragments, (nothing of giants).]


[Giant] / 1869 / Jan 12 / [LT], 6-b / Giant's skeleton. [AF-II; 298. (London Times, January 12, 1869, p. 6 c. 2.)]


Giant / Human bones found near Montpellier, France, indicating a being 10 or 11 feet high. / Pop Sci News 1890/113. [AF-II; 299. (Popular Sciences News, 1890-113.)]


[Girls]:


Girls / But place, too, is a factor. Usually a girl leaves, and no phe follow. [SF-VII; 67.]


Girl Children / Boarders / Cideville / 1850-51. [SF-VII; 863, See: 1850-51, (A; 282).]


Servant girl / Nov 20, 1870. [SF-VII; 864. See: (1870 Nov 20).]


Children / Nieces / Aug., 1887. [SF-VII; 865. See: (1887 Aug).]


Girl / Seriously affected / Oct 8, 1889. [SF-VII; 866. See: (1889 Oct 8).]


Girl / Servant / not in a job but a visitor / March 5, 1883. [SF-VII; 867. See: (1883 March 5).]


Girls / But so many of them new in a family. [SF-VII; 868.]


Girls / Younged than puberty / March 12, 1870. [SF-VII; 869. See: (1870 March 12).]


Girl / Defective / Jan-Feb, 1895 / See, I think, the Wem case. [SF-VII; 870. See: (1895 Jan-Feb), and, (Wem case).]


Girl / Aged 9 / Jan 31, 1875. [SF-VII; 871. See: (1875 Jan 31).]


Girl servant / new / Aug 29, 1874. [SF-VII; 872. See: (1874 Aug 29).]


Girl / Stranger / Aug 19, 1923. [SF-VII; 873. See: (1923 Aug 19).]


Girl / Case said in presence of manbut he had a son / Dec 23, 1923 / little son accused. [SF-VII; 874. See: (1923 Dec 23).]


Girl / Confession but phe not stop. [SF-VII; 875.]


Girl / Child died / Jan 29, 1874. [SF-VII; 876. See: (1874 Jan 29).]


Girl / See Fires Dif places. [SF-VII; 877.]


[Grl] / (N) / Girl passes a window and it breaks / 1834. [SF-VII; 878. See: See: 1834 (A; 111).]


Girl / Child 14 months old / July 7, 1923. [SF-VII; 879. See: (1923 July 7).]


Girl Confession / March 12, 1914. [SF-VII; 880. See: (1914 March 12).]


Girl / Confession / March 27, 1921. [SF-VII; 881. See: (1921 March 27).]


Girl / Confession / Sept 30, 1913. [SF-VII; 882. See: (1913 Sept 30).]


Girl / Small daughter / June 19, 1906 / also a visitor. [SF-VII; 883. See: (1906 June 19).]


Girl / Confession denied / Aug 18, 1910. [SF-VII; 884. See: (1910 Aug 18).]


Girl / Confession / May 12, 1912. [SF-VII; 885. See: (1912 May 12).]


Girl / In all these cases no instance of same girl and phe appearing somewhere else considerably later. [SF-VII; 886.]


Girl / Mental defective / Jan-Feb, 1895. [SF-VII; 887. See: (1895 Jan-Feb).]


Girl / Fires / Absurd explanation / Oct 28, 1891. [SF-VII; 888. See: (1891 Oct 28).]


Girl called "half-witted" / Oct 28, 1891. [SF-VII; 889. See: (1891 Oct 28).]


Girls / Stories of being tied. / See polt and a constable tied / Ap. 9, 1887. [SF-VII; 890. See: (1887 Ap. 9).]


Girl / Child of an imbecile mother / Feb 26, 1883. [SF-VII; 891. See: (1883 Feb 26).]


Girls and boys / Not one noted by me, appears in later publicity. [Note cut off]usapiaPalidino was one of these girls. [SF-VII; 892.]


Girl / Boy / Dec. 24, 1885. [SF-VII; 893. See: (1885 Dec 24).]


Girl / Grown woman / but a child in the household / Feb. 16, 1887. [SF-VII; 894. See: (1887 Feb 16).]


Girls / Seem not tricks or revenges of theirs. Often new in a place. [SF-VII; 895.]


Girl / Not / Craze case / 1906. [SF-VII; 896. See: (1906).]


Girl / Servant / an employed boy / Feb. 1, 1879. [SF-VII; 897. See: (1879 Feb 1).]


Girl / "Electric Boy" / Objs move. / Dec. 24, 1885. [SF-VII; 898. See: (1885 Dec 24).]


Girl / No girl mentioned / May 18, 1906. [SF-VII; 899. See: (1906 May 18).]


Girl / Not / 1854. [SF-VII; 900. See: (1854).]


Girl /  boy employed / Feb 1, 1879. [SF-VII; 901. See: (1879 Feb 1).]


Girl / Boy / Dec 13, 1921. [SF-VII; 902. See: (1921 Dec 13).]


Girl / A boy / July, 1871 [SF-VII; 903. See: (1871 July).]


Girls / Elec. boy of Portland / Oct, 1909. [SF-VII; 904. See: (1909 Oct).]


Girl / Boy aged 10 / May, 1906. [SF-VII; 905. See: (1906 May).]


Girl / Young man / July, 1910. [SF-VII; 906. See: (1910 July).]


Girl / A young man / Feb. 28, 1906. [SF-VII; 907. See: (1906 Feb 28).]


Girl / Young man / Aug 1, 1907. [SF-VII; 908. See: (1907 Aug 1).]


Polt and Man / March, 1906. [SF-VII; 909. See: (1906 March).]


Polt / Boy / Dec. 23, 1923. [SF-VII; 910. See: (1923 Dec 23).]


Man polt (?) / Nov 18, 1922. [SF-VII; 911. See: (1922 Nov 18).]


Polt boy / Feb. 1, 1879. [SF-VII; 912. See: (1879 Feb 1).]


Polt / Boy / Elec. boy. / Dec. 24, 1885. [SF-VII; 913. See: (1885 Dec 24).]


Polt / No girl / Aug 18, 1907. [SF-VII; 914. See: (1907 Aug 18).]


Polt / A man / Nov. 18, 1870. [SF-VII; 915. See: (1870 Nov 18).]


Girl / None / no young person mentioned / Feb. 12, 1879. [SF-VII; 916. See: (1879 Feb 12).]


[Glass]:


Glass / + / Cor to Bombay Times, told in Rept. B.A., 1852-229, tells of a tumbler half full of water, during a th. stormafter a vivid flash of lightning fell in two parts. "Cut almost as clean asunder as if cloven with a knife. [SF-VII; 823. (Report of the British Association 1852-229.) (Bombay Times. ca. 1852.)]


[The following eleven notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-VII: 923 to 922.]


1880 Sept / Glass-breaking / See March 29, 1894. [SF-VII; 923. See: (1894 March 29).]


1880 Sept 9 / Windows. / In D. Mail, Aug 18, 1920, an account of a large glass ash tray that in an office in London suddenly broke, with a loud report and no one near it. / So often been said that glass tumblers may be broken by certain vibrations from violin or piano. [SF-VII; 924. (London Daily Mail, August 18, 1920.)]


1880 Sept / Glass / In D. Chron., July 4, 1924, Mr. A Harman, of Kenneth Road, Thundersley, Essex, quoted that an ordinary glass tumbler on a marble slab had suddenly with a loud report exploded into a thousand pieces. [SF-VII; 925. (London Daily Chronicle, July 4, 1924.)]


1880 Sept / In Spiritualist, July 19, 1878, copied from N.Y. Sunof a glass nearly full of salt water that split lengthwise. Editor explains was badly annealed glass. Tension outside and inside different and constant strain. [SF-VII; 926. (Spiritualist, July 19, 1878.) (New York Sun, ab. 1878.)]


1880 Sept / Window breaking / See Nov 16 / 1875. [SF-VII; 927. See: (1875 Nov 16).]


1880 Sept / Glass breaking / See phantom bullets / Feb 2. 1916. [SF-VII; 928. See: (1916 Feb 2).]


1880 Sept / Crosshill / window breaking / See March 29 / 1894 / 60 miles. [SF-VII; 929. See: (1894 March 29).]


1880 Sept / Glass breaking / See March 29, 1894. [SF-VII; 930. See: (1894 March 29).]


[1880] Sept 9 / Vase breaks mysteri[ously] / Chambers' Jour 15/122. [SF-VII; 931. (Chambers Journal, 15-122.)]


(1880) Sept / Glass breaking / See Oct. 31 / 1835. [SF-VII; 932. See: (1835 Oct 31).]


Glass breaking when a girl passes it / 1834. [SF-VII; 933. See: 1834 (A; 111).]


[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-VII: 934, 935, & 936.]


Glass suddenly breaking / N.Q. 8-12-355. [SF-VII; 934. (Notes and Queires, s. 8 v. 12 p. 355.)]


[Glass] / [A Mystic Riddle] / T.P.'s & Cassell's Weekly / Aug, 23, 1924. [SF-VII; 935. Magazine clipping. ( T.P.'s & Cassell's Weekly / Aug, 23, 1924.)]


Glass breaking / Sept 9, 1880. [SF-VII; 936. See: (1880 Sept 9).]


[Glozel]:


[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. AF-I: 356 to 358.]


[Glozel] / [Inquiry Is Started on Glozel Relics] / NY Times, Nov 61927. [AF-I; 356. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, November 6, 1927.)]


[Glozel] / [Says Glozel Shows Writing in 3000 B.C.] / [The New York Times, 1927]Nov. 13. [AF-I; 357. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, November 13, 1927.)]


[Glozel] / [The Spirit of Glozel.] / 1927 / Editorial, NY Times, Dec. 4. [AF-I; 358. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, December 4, 1927.)]


[Gravitation & Gravity]:


Gravitation / Ac to law of gravitationgravitational force occupies no time. Is a force, indeed, whose behavior is regulated by this law (law of gravitation). Must proagate itself with infinite velocity through space. / Dr Erwin Freundlich, The Theory of Relativity, p. 20. [AF-I: 359.1, 359.2. (Erwin Freundlich, The Theory of Relativity, p. 20.)]


Gravitation / Does not account for initial velocity. / Poor, Gravitation Versus Relativity, p. 113. [AF-I; 360. (Poor, Gravitation Versus Relativity, p. 113.)]


Gravitation effect? / See slow meteors of Feb 9, 1913. [AF-I; 361. See: 1913 Feb 9, (IX: 2111-2113 & 2115).]


Guano / Ac to researches by Prof Edwards and Prof Habel, Guano not excreta of birds but vast deposits of remains of marine animals. / N.Y. Times, 1872, March 17-2-5, quoting "Once a Week." [AF-II; 292. (New York Times, March 17, 1872, p. 2 c. 5.) "Table Talk." Once A Week, s. 3 v. 9 (February 24, 1872): 200. (Proceedings of the Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New York, 1871, 224-234.)]


[Gulf Stream]:


Gulf Stream / + / Findlay on / B. Assoc., 1869. [AF-II; 300. (Report of the British Association, 1869.)]


Gulf Stream / Once upon a time, in England a popular subject for discussion in debating societies was the probable effect of digging Panama Canal upon the climate of Great Britain. / Lit Digest, March 18, 1922 / Now not supposed such a Stream. [AF-II; 301. (Literary Digest, March 18, 1922.)]


Gulf [Stream] / 1920 / Aug 28 / D. Mail, 5-6 / Captains of Atlantic steamers reporting no eastward drift in the Gulf Stream.[AF-II; 302. (London Daily Mail, August 28, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]


Gulf Stream / N.Q., Ser 2/8/12, 55. [AF-II; 303. (Notes and Queries, S. 2 v. 8 pp. 12, 55.)]


[Gulf Stream] / + / Anti Gulf Stream / Findlay / Rept BA 1869/II/160. [AF-II; 304. (Report of the British Association, 1869-II-160.)]


Gulf Stream / Myth / M.W. Rev., Sept, 1900. [AF-II; 305. (Monthly Weather Review, September 1900.)]


Gulf Stream / [Experts Doubt Changed Route Of Gulf Stream] / [New York Herald Tribune, August 8, 1928]. [AF-II; 306. Newspaper clipping. (New York Herald Tribune, August 8, 1928.)]

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