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==Page 448==
448.23-24 '''like American cowboy actor Henry Fonda'''<br />
Contrary to [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]], Fonda did not appear "almost exclusively" in Westerns before ''The Grapes of Wrath'' in 1940. He did appear in ''The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' (1936), but that film is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and is not a Western as such. He played Frank James in ''Jesse James'' (1939) but did not make ''The Return of Frank James'' until 1940. Other Fonda roles in the 1930s included crime dramas (''You Only Live Once''), comedies (''The Male Animal'', ''The Lady Eve''), historical dramas (''Drums along the Mohawk''), and biographical films (''Young Mr. Lincoln''). The description of Albert Speer "leaning akimbo against the wall" bears an anachronistic resemblance to Fonda as Wyatt Earp in some scenes of John Ford’s ''My Darling Clementine'' (1946).  (As a side note, both ''The Return of Frank James'' and ''You Only Live Once'' were directed by Fritz Lang, after he had fled Nazi Germany to America.)

==Page 449==
[[image:buffalo-bayou.jpg|thumb|Buffalo Bayou|120px|right]]449.15 '''Buf-falo Bayou'''<br />
Buffalo Bayou is in Houston, Texas. Part of it was dredged and cleared over the years to create the Houston Ship Channel.

==Page 452==
452.39-40 '''Ackeret, Busemann, von Kármán and Moore, some Volta Congress papers'''<br/>
Jacob Ackeret, Adolf Busemann, Theodore von Kármán, Norton  B. Moore: all experts on supersonic flight; 5th Volta Congress on High Speeds in Aviation, held in Rome in 1935

==Page 453==
453.3 '''the Gomerians whistling... as you sat out on counter the KdF ship'''<br/>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero_language Silbo Gomero] (Gomeran whistle) was the unique whistle language invented by the extinct Guanche people in the Canary Islands, later adapted to Castilian by Spanish settlers. The purpose of the Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy) movement was "to inculcate workers with a sense of being an integral part of the racially based national community" (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15. edition, 1994. 20:122) Among several attractive leisure-time projects, this  program subsidized workers' vacations, including cruises on the Mediterranean or the Baltic Sea; there were [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_durch_Freude four cruisers], see ''Tätigkeiten''. Sailing past the Canary Islands may be pure fiction, enhancing the extinction/genocide theme.

==Page 454==
454.01 '''in the Pentagon'''<br />
The world’s largest office building was completed in 1943.

==Page 455==
455.35 '''"Sporri" and "Hawasch"'''<br />
Doctor Mabuse’s two assistants in Lang’s 1922 film.

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