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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

An image of the cover of the book "In Search of Schrödinger's Cat." This book by John Gribbin discusses quantum physics. Gribbin details the scientists who developed quantum theory and investigates the atom, time travel, radiation, superconductors, the birth of the universe, and life itself. This cover includes a picture of Schrödinger's cat, both dead and alive, in a box. Other text: "A fascinating and delightful introduction to the strange world of the quantum - absolutely essential for understanding today's world"

Medical Curiosities: A Miscellany of Medical Oddities, Horrors and Humours

An image of the cover of a book titled "Medical Curiosities" by Robert M. Youngson. It is a rich source of fascinating scientific lore and medical information, providing information on a number of bizarre ailments. There are six pictures on the cover relating to historical medical practices and text which reads: "The extraordinary side of human health from bacon therapy and death via astrology to nutmeg psychosis, medicinal toads and miracles at Lourdes"

Multi-Faceted Characters - Visual Branches of Characters' Lives

This is one of AMM's notebook pages, consisting of 3 web-like drawings. In the center of each web is a character name and connected to that are branches of that character's life. The transcription is as follows: WEB 1: Middle = JACK Branches = MIMI, SIMON, MAD, KAREN, FROELICH, MIKE WEB 2: Middle = MAD Branches = COLLEEN, MAR + GRACE, CLAIRE, AURIEL + LISA WEB 3: Middle = MAD Branches = NATURE + COLLEEN, SCHOOL, HOUSES + LAWNS + AURIEL + LISA, HOME

German Scientists in Canada- AMM notes

Page from AMM's notebook on German Scientists in Canada from 1947-1949. Transcription pending.

Press Article Planning + Masked Truths - Early Notes

Transcription of a page from one of AMM's notebooks. The notes on the page are miscellaneous and do not all correspond with the same scene or moment. A plot point circled around on this page is the newspaper article that is printed on the events surrounding Claire's death, the children's statements, and Rick's and Henry's alibi. AMM planned for the paper to both dismiss the notion of war criminals in Canada being a dangerous or foreign ordeal, and also to incorrectly conclude that the war criminal was in the car with the alleged air force man that waved at Rick and that it was a sadist from a munitions factory who was preying upon children in Centralia. Transcription: () - best guess at a word or phrase <> - scratched out on the page [] - indecipherable - Proud of never having been in SS - he was a CIVILIAN - Von Braun was not + yet he (goes) to America - Does a piece appear in L. Free Press? War criminals under every bush Bygones be bygones War is over + the only people in CANADA have been cleared. - Fr. understandably concerned (further) + a Jew - who may have suffered terribly → judgment. - Paper gets facts wrong: war criminal in car with air force man. - A sadist from a munitions factory on the loose, preying upon children - A thinks it’s good that Marjorie’s statement is less incriminating than Grace’s - A thinks Colleen is not married

Fried's True Emotions + Madeleine's Guilt - Early Notes

Transcription of a page in AMM's notebook. This is a miscellaneous page and not all sentences directly correlate with the same chapter or plot point. This page explores Madeleine's guilt of the lie she told and for never telling anyone about Mr. March's assaults, since she now sees sickeningly clearly that he killed Claire. It also demands more character background from Fried, as MacDonald begins to form his motives for defecting and his true opinions and feelings toward the others at Dora, specifically how he is perceived in comparison to people like Von Braun. Transcription: () - my best guess of what the phrase / word is <> - crossed out on the page [] - indecipherable Her guilt about lie will begin the [indecipherable] she tells her father what she said + he says good always tell the truth. People see (Mengle pitching dryer beet) in Oxford County. Unsubstantiated. Mad. reads transcripts and feels guilty for not having told about Mr. March because it is sickeningly clear to her that he did it. Need moment of Mr. March after Rick is arrested or convicted - his fear, relief - he knows he is implicated, terrified of being accused. When it turns out he had alibi, Mad. gives up on finding out. Need more from FRIED on what he has been doing in S. Union - why he wanted to <to> defect - his Von Braun resentment + hero worship - his resentment of being seen as a killer when the others are heroes.

Froelich's Attempts to Reveal Fried + Jack's Involvement - Early Notes

Transcription of a page in one of AMM's notebooks. It is a miscellaneous note, with the ideas not directly correlating to the same chapter or moment, though Fried, Froelich, and Jack are mentioned a couple separate times. In this page, she lays out why Jack shouldn't worry about Froelich potentially exposing Fried and brainstorms ways Jack might work to protect Fried's identity as well. Transcription: - The “running man”, behind [indecipherable] convey plot message ie. CAR - Simon points that out regretfully in phone call - A - does not need story of [indecipherable] being shot - HANGINGS are it. - <put> move Peenemunde from N. Falls to phone conversation? Need it before N. Falls - Jack does not need to obsess about Fr + [indecipherable] - maybe Fr. has put up flyers - gone to press but… they won’t print it in Ex or London - Karen gets worried about his obsession? - Does Jack suggest Fro. put up flyers? - does he then take them down? - Why is Fried worried about being [indecipherable] in a country which is haven for war criminals? - EICHMANN? - Germany wants to prosecute at [indecipherable] CJC + [indecipherable] Froelich?

Louise Dennys' editor notes

Printed out email from a Louise Dennys to Astrid Otto, providing a play-by-play of notes from the first few chapters of TWTCF

RCAF Station Centralia map w/ key

Printed map of RCAF station Centralia with a Key, as well as handwritten additions by AMM

AMM notebook cover + list of book titles

Photo of the cover of one of AMM's notebooks, with a list of books used as research material written on the front- many of which are catalogued in Omeka. There is a piece of masking tape across the top of the book adorned with a circled number 1

Froelich's + Jack Early Character notes

Fried early notes

Collection of Drawings by AMM

coming back to this

"Rocket + The Reich" notes

Handwritten notes by AMM in relation of the book "The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missle Era" (Omeka ID: 18091). The Transcribed notes are as followed: Key: <scratched out on the page> [unsure of word/educated guess] {are square brackets AMM inputted, used to differentiate from my own square brackets} Transcription: DVID “and the duty of a king conquered a father’s feelings” [re Iphigenia] <April ‘98> May ‘98 Rocket + The Reich Jews not at Dora until summer ‘44 Penemunde on island of Usedom “The Woman in the Moon” by Fritz Lang Space-flight/ballistic weapon began [?] in Germany and revived together in U.S The idealist utopianism of manned space flight has always gone hand in hand with [?] rocketry 8 “the {German} rocket had provided escapist entertainment for the new mass culture of the 20’s

List of chapter header quotes

Collection of quotes from sources such as LOOK magazine and books such as The Kennedy Tapes; used at the beginning of chapters in TWTCF

Spitfire: TWTCF manuscript + notes

Cover for AMM's 2002 manuscript (excluding final section) of The Way The Crow Flies, previously named Spitfire (related to Madeleine's description via her father). There are scrawled notes on the side, some of which I can make out. These include: "NB. Phonecall with Simon [...] labour at camps/dora" "froelich knew about Oskar [from the...]" "pg. 558-62 Jack and [simon] ... (I can't figure out most of this)" "Simon should introduce "[...]" race not Jack. Jack should only worry..." "Madeleine + Froelich [...]?"

RCAF Centralia Graphic Map - Housing Units

Graphic/drawn map of RCAF station Centralia, including markers of "AREA 1" and "AREA 2", a road labeled "TO CENTRALIA, LUCAN [?], LONDON, TORONTO", and small numbers in circles. Assumedly, there is a legend that is not visible here. Additionally, there is scrawled text that says "3/3" and "Housing units"

RCAF station Centralia + open fields

Photograph of RCAF station in Centralia, Ontario, displaying the vast amount of fields and open area there was surrounding the station at least on one side

RCAF station Centralia

Photo of RCAF station in Centralia, Ontario, most likely during the 50s or 60s (Station was used in WW2, closed, then reopened for cold war usage in late 40s)

Map and Legend of RCAF Station Centralia 1958

Printed photo of an aerial map of the RCAF station in Centralia, Ontario, alongside a building legend

AMM Drawing: Hitler and man (possibly Goebbels)

Hand drawing of Hitler and what I am assuming is some sort of advisor. AMM mentioned in our meeting that the picture is Hitler, but I don't think he mentioned who the second man is. Included is an image that is somewhat similar to the drawing but not an exact match. The man, if the photo provided is a match, would be Joseph Goebbels, a Nazi politician, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and former Chancellor of the German Reich (from Wikipedia)

Berlin-Mitte Alley

Description from Alamy: "This street in Berlin-Mitte is an old alley between Fischerstraße and Fischerbrücke on Fischerinsel, taken in 1931 (alley no longer exists). In the background you can see the tower of the Altes Stadthaus (then Neues Stadthaus). "

Concentration and Death Camp Chart

A chart of concentration and death camps, and their function, locastion, date established, date evacuated, date liberated, and estimated number of people murdered (column and all numbers are cut off).

"Secret Agenda" Page Clippings

Pages 25, 26 and 27 (seemingly in full) and 3 un-numbered clippings of various pages of "Secret Agenda", from what seems to be a chapter called "Rules of the Game". One clipping has "68" written next to it, most-likely the page number, with a rewritten quote from the page written underneath it. I was unable to find the author of the book. I got results for "Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deepthroat, and the CIA" by Jim Hougan, but I am not sure if that is a match with this.

The New York Review "The Secret Intelligence Wars"

Article from the Sept. 26 2002 issue of The New York Review, titled "The Secret Intelligence Wars" by Thomas Powers. Digital copy of the issue's cover is included.

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