STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND Literature 1961. Written by Robert A. Heinlein.

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#	Record Name	Group	Category	Subcategory
BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU
1	Angel Bread	BBB	Food Products	Baked Goods
	Angel Bread Food product made by Manna Bakeries.
2	The Arcane Science of Judicial Astrology...	BBB	Literature	Books
	The Arcane Science of Judicial Astrology and Key to Solomon's Stone Paper-backed book that Madame Alexandra Vesant uses to calculate the influences of the heavenly bodies when creating her personalized horoscopes.
3	Archangel Foster Cookies	BBB	Food Products	Baked Goods
	Archangel Foster Cookies Food product made by Manna Bakeries.
4	Archangel Foster Tabernacle of the Churc...	BBB	Religion	Churches
	Archangel Foster Tabernacle of the Church of the New Revelation Temple where Jubal takes Mike to meet the Fosterites.
5	Archangel Jubal Tabernacle	BBB	Religion	Religious Organizations
	Archangel Jubal Tabernacle Joke Jubal makes. Jubal: "Don't rub it in, girl. I would have made a good one if I hadn't fallen into the fatal folly of reading anything I could lay hands on. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist. Shucks, this place we're headed for today would have been known as the Archangel Jubal Tabernacle."
6	Ares Chandler	BBB	Corporations	Companies
	Ares Chandler Subsidiary of Lunar Enterprises.
7	Baxter's Combined Shows and Riot of Fun ...	BBB	Amusement	Circuses
	Baxter's Combined Shows and Riot of Fun for All the Family Circus that Mike and Jill join for a while.
8	Bethesda Medical Center	BBB	Healthcare	Hospitals
	Bethesda Medical Center "He sent his ship's surgeon Dr. Nelson along to make sure that Valentine Michael Smith was installed in a suite in Bethesda Medical Center, transferred gently into a hydraulic bed, and protected from outside contact by marine guards."
9	Biddle, Frisby, Frisby, Biddle, & Reed	BBB	Legal Aid	Law Firms
	Biddle, Frisby, Frisby, Biddle, & Reed Law firm Caxton hires to help him get in to see Smith.
10	The Brotherhood of Baptism	BBB	Religion	Religions
	The Brotherhood of Baptism Theorestical future church of Mike's. "So we close down the Church of All Worlds-it is closed down. So we move and open the Congregation of the One Faith-and we get kicked out again. Then we reopen elsewhere as the Temple of the Great Pyramid-that one will bring flocking the foolish fat and fatuous females, and some of them will end up neither fat nor foolish-and when we have the Medical Association and the local bar and the newspapers and the boss politicos snapping at our heels there-why, we open the Brotherhood of Baptism somewhere else."
11	Cahuenga Cave	BBB	Nightlife	Nightclubs
	Cahuenga Cave The night club with real Los Angeles smog, imported fresh every day. Six exotic dancers.
12	Champion	BBB	Vehicles	Spacecrafts
	Champion Ship used for the second human expedition from Terra to Mars: "But the war and the delay resulted eventually in a much stronger, safer expedition than that of the lost Envoy. The Federation Ship Champion, manned by an all-male crew of eighteen experienced spacemen and carrying more than that number of male pioneers, made the crossing."
13	Christian Science Monitor	BBB	Periodicals	Newspapers
	Christian Science Monitor News outlet mentioned in the response to the publication of identical doctrinaire denunciations of Short's elevation: "Christian Science Monitor ignored it. Times of India snickered at it editorially, and the Manchester Guardian reported it without comment."
14	Church of All Worlds	BBB	Religion	Churches
	Church of All Worlds Religion inspired by the real life religious group of the same name.
15	The Church of All Worlds Incorporated	BBB	Religion	Churches
	The Church of All Worlds Incorporated One of the churches that Mike founds.
16	Church of the New Revelation	BBB	Religion	Churches
	Church of the New Revelation Also known as Fosterite Church.
17	Cincinnati Children's Hospital	BBB	Healthcare	Hospitals
	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Hospital mentioned during the series of news stories that open Part Two: "Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Campbell VI had a son and heir by host-mother at Cincinnati Children's Hospital while the happy parents were vacationing in Peru."
18	The Congregation of the One Faith	BBB	Religion	Religious Organizations
	The Congregation of the One Faith Theorestical future church of Mike's. "So we close down the Church of All Worlds-it is closed down. So we move and open the Congregation of the One Faith-and we get kicked out again. Then we reopen elsewhere as the Temple of the Great Pyramid-that one will bring flocking the foolish fat and fatuous females, and some of them will end up neither fat nor foolish-and when we have the Medical Association and the local bar and the newspapers and the boss politicos snapping at our heels there-why, we open the Brotherhood of Baptism somewhere else."
19	The Crow's Nest	BBB	Periodicals	Newspaper Columns
	The Crow's Nest Ben Caxton's newspaper column.
20	Dattelbaum's Department Stores	BBB	Retail	Department Stores
	Dattelbaum's Department Stores Department store, sponsor of the Church of the Revelation's hymn Happy Faces Uplifted. "Heavenly messages, another commercial, and the awarding of door prizes. Then a second hymn, Happy Faces Uplifted, was sponsored by Dattelbaum's Department Stores where the Saved Shop in Safety since no merchandise is offered which competes with a sponsored brand-a children's Happy Room in each branch supervised by a Saved sister."
21	Death Song of a Wood's Colt	BBB	Literature	Books
	Death Song of a Wood's Colt Story by Jubal Harshaw.
22	The Devil and Reverend Foster	BBB	Literature	Biographies
	The Devil and Reverend Foster Book. "Another bootleg edition of the unauthorized biography The Devil and Reverend Foster appeared simultaneously on news stands throughout the United States, by nightfall every copy had been burned and the plates destroyed, along with incidental damage to other chattels and to real estate, plus a certain amount of mayhem, maiming, and simple assault.
23	Dr. Archer Frame	BBB	Healthcare	Doctors
	Dr. Archer Frame Doctor at the Bethesda Medical Center.
24	Dr. Broemer	BBB	Healthcare	Doctors
	Dr. Broemer Doctor at the Bethesda Medical Center.
25	Dr. Brush	BBB	Healthcare	Doctors
	Dr. Brush Doctor at the Bethesda Medical Center.
26	Dr. Garner	BBB	Healthcare	Doctors
	Dr. Garner Doctor at the Bethesda Medical Center.
27	Dr. Nelson	BBB	Healthcare	Doctors
	Dr. Nelson The Champion ship's doctor.
28	Dr. Phipps	BBB	Healthcare	Doctors
	Dr. Phipps Doctor at the Bethesda Medical Center.
29	Dr. Tanner	BBB	Healthcare	Doctors
	Dr. Tanner Doctor at the Bethesda Medical Center.
30	Dr. Thaddeus	BBB	Healthcare	Doctors
	Dr. Thaddeus Doctor at the Bethesda Medical Center.
31	Ely on Inheritance and Bequest	BBB	Literature	Books
	Ely on Inheritance and Bequest Book Mike consults in order to understand the concept of inheritance. "Mike was aware that he was having trouble grokking in fullness the human concept of property and, in particular, the ideas of bequest and inheritance. So he most carefully avoided inserting his own ideas and stuck to the book - a book which Jubal recognized shortly as Ely on Inheritance and Bequest, chapter one."
32	The Envoy	BBB	Vehicles	Spacecrafts
	The Envoy Ship used for the first human expedition from Terra to Mars, a "primitive flying coffin".
33	Federation Special Service Bureau	BBB	Legal Aid	Police Departments
	Federation Special Service Bureau Also known as the S.S. World government police force. "But to be a member of the S.S. squads a man had to have larceny in his heart and sadism in his soul. Gestapo. Storm troopers in the service of whatever politico was in power."
34	Forward, Foster's Children!	BBB	Music	Songs
	Forward, Foster's Children! Song - hymn sung by the Church of the New Revelation: "Forward, Foster's Chil-dren! Smash apart your foes / Faith our Shield and Ar-mar! Strike them down by rows-! Second verse! Make no peace with sin-nen! God is on our side!"
35	Fosterism	BBB	Religion	Religions
	Fosterism Religion of the Church Of The New Revelation. Jubal: "As morals, Fosterism is merely the Freudian ethic sugar-coated for people who can't take their psychology straight, although I doubt if the old lecher who wrote it-pardon me, 'was inspired to write it'-was aware of this. He was no scholar. But he was in tune with his times, he tapped the Zeitgeist. Fear and guilt and a loss of faith- How could he miss? Now pipe down, I'm going to nap."
36	General Atomics	BBB	Corporations	Technology Companies
	General Atomics Swiss corporation, American controlled.
37	General Synthetics	BBB	Corporations	Technology Companies
	General Synthetics Technology company that Caxton mentions. "When I was working on the General Synthetics bribery scandals I never slept twice in the same place and ate nothing but packaged food I had bought myself."
38	Girls Are Like Boys, Only More So	BBB	Literature	Books
	Girls Are Like Boys, Only More So Story by Jubal Harshaw.
39	Hank's Grill	BBB	Dining	Restaurants
	Hank's Grill Restaurant where Mike worked as dishwasher, Jill as waitress.
40	Happy Faces Uplifted	BBB	Music	Songs
	Happy Faces Uplifted Song - hymn sung by the Church of the New Revelation, sponsored by Dattelbaum's Department Stores.
41	I Married a Martian	BBB	Literature	Books
	I Married a Martian New story by Jubal Harshaw. "Title: I Married a Martian. Start: All my life I had longed to become an astronaut. Paragraph. When I was just a tiny thing, with freckles on my nose and stars in my eyes, I saved box tops just as my brothers did-and cried when Mummy wouldn't let me wear my Space Cadet helmet to bed. Paragraph. In those carefree childhood days I did not dream to what strange, bittersweet fate my tomboy ambition would-"
42	I Was a Prisoner on Mars	BBB	Cinema	Movies
	I Was a Prisoner on Mars Peerless Features offers Smith 60,000 for his exclusive story, to be named I Was a Prisoner on Mars.
43	The Imperial	BBB	Travel	Lodging
	The Imperial Hotel.
44	Inflation	BBB	Sports	Racehorses
	Inflation Race horse. "A three-year-old named Inflation, carrying 126 pounds with Jinx Jenkins Up, won the Kentucky Derby, paying fifty-four for one..."
45	Institute for Social Studies	BBB	Research Institutes	Institutes
	Institute for Social Studies Institute that handled crew selection for the first human expedition from Terra to Mars aboard the Envoy.
46	The Junior Spirit-in-Action Team	BBB	Youth Services	Youth Programs
	The Junior Spirit-in-Action Team Fosterite youth group the Shepherd mentions while Smith listens to a broadcast of a Fosterite service. "The junior Spirit-in-Action team will give a practice demonstration before the supper, so come early and see the fur fly! Our team coach. Brother Hornsby, has asked me to tell you boys on the team to fetch only your helmets, gloves, and sticks-we aren't going after sinners this time. However, the Little Cherubim will be on hand with their first-aid kits in case of excessive zeal."
47	La Societe Astronautique Internationale	BBB	Organizations	Professional Organizations
	La Societe Astronautique Internationale International astronautical society. "Six years after the Envoy was silent, the drone probe Zombie, sponsored jointly by the Geographic Society and La Societe Astronautique Internationale, bridged the void and took up an orbit for the waiting period, then returned."
48	Larkin and Associates	BBB	Corporations	Companies
	Larkin and Associates Company occupying the moon at the time of the famous case of General Atomics versus Larkin.
49	Living Aphrodite	BBB	Music	Albums
	Living Aphrodite Audio recording that Jill mentions when helping Mike look for a gift for Duke. Jill: "A de-luxe Album of Feminine Beauty in Gorgeous Stereo-Color by the World's Greatest Artists of the Camera. Notice: this item will not be sent by mail. It will be forwarded at purchaser's risk by prepaid express only."
50	Lover Soap	BBB	Maintenance Products	Cleaning Products
	Lover Soap
51	Lunar Enterprises	BBB	Corporations	Technology Companies
	Lunar Enterprises Daughter corporation of General Atomics.
52	The Lyle Drive	BBB	Technology Products	Electronics
	The Lyle Drive Drive the Champion ship used, designed by Mary Jane Lyle Smith.
53	Madame Alexandra Vesant	BBB	Services	Psychic Services
	Madame Alexandra Vesant Mrs. Douglas' astrology guide that creates personalized horoscopes.
54	The Manchester Guardian	BBB	Periodicals	Newspapers
	The Manchester Guardian News outlet mentioned in the response to the publication of identical doctrinaire denunciations of Short's elevation: "Christian Science Monitor ignored it. Times of India snickered at it editorially, and the Manchester Guardian reported it without comment."
55	Manna Bakeries	BBB	Food Stores	Bakeries
	Manna Bakeries Sponsor of hymns of the Church of the New Revelation, maker of Angel Bread and Archangel Foster Cookies. "Our first hymn is sponsored by Manna Bakeries, makers of Angel Bread, the loaf of love with our Supreme Bishop's smiling face on every wrapper and containing a valuable premium coupon redeemable at your nearest neighborhood Church of the New Revelation, Brothers and Sisters, tomorrow Manna Bakeries with branches throughout the land start a giant, price-slashing sale of pre-equinox goodies. Send your child to school tomorrow with a bulging box of Archangel Foster cookies, each one blessed and wrapped in an appropriate text-and pray that each goodie he gives away may lead a child of sinners nearer to the light."
56	A Martian Named Smith	BBB	Literature	Books
	A Martian Named Smith Jubal Harshaw's next story.
57	Mary Jane Smith	BBB	Vehicles	Spacecrafts
	Mary Jane Smith Spaceship. "The Lyle-Drive Exploratory Vessel Mary Jane Smith landed on Pluto.
58	New Grand Avenue Temple	BBB	Religion	Temples
	New Grand Avenue Temple Church in Kansas City.
59	The New Humanist	BBB	Periodicals	Newspapers
	The New Humanist Newspaper.
60	The New Mayflower	BBB	Dining	Restaurants
	The New Mayflower Restaurant Jill mentions to Caxton.
61	The New Revelation	BBB	Literature	Religious Books
	The New Revelation The Couch of the New Revelation's Bible. The tattooed lady offers the copy that Blessed Foster gave her to Mike and Jill.
62	NWNW	BBB	Cinema	TV Stations
	NWNW New World Networks. Network on the stereo while Caxton and Jill eat dinner at the restaurant in Hagerstown.
63	Omniscio	BBB	Technology Products	Audiovisual Devices
	Omniscio A futuristic television like device.
64	One for the Road	BBB	Literature	Books
	One for the Road Story by Jubal Harshaw.
65	The Other Manger	BBB	Literature	Short Stories
	The Other Manger Short story by Jubal E. Harshaw, using the pen name Molly Wadsworth, about a little kitten that wanders into a church on Christmas Eve to get warm.
66	Peerless Features	BBB	Media Companies	Film Production Companies
	Peerless Features Company that offers Smith 60,000 for his exclusive story, to be named I Was a Prisoner on Mars.
67	The Post Syndicate	BBB	Periodicals	Newspaper Posts
	The Post Syndicate News media outlet Caxton works for.
68	Professor Simon Magus	BBB	Services	Psychic Services
	Professor Simon Magus Madame Alexandra Vesant's late husband and well known mentalist, stage hypnotist and illusionist, and student of the secret arts.
69	The Rhine Foundation	BBB	Research Institutes	Institutes
	The Rhine Foundation "Cavendish had received his training in total recall from the great Dr. Samuel Renshaw himself and his professional hypnotic instruction had been undergone as a fellow of the Rhine Foundation."
70	Rut	BBB	Periodicals	Magazines
	Rut Magazine from joke Jubal makes. Dr. Nelson: "I saw this patient only ten days ago. Tell me where he got those muscles?" Jubal: "Why, he sent in a coupon from the back cover of Rut: The Magazine for He-Men. You know, the ad that tells how a ninety-pound weakling can-"
71	Sans Souci Hotel	BBB	Travel	Hotels
	Sans Souci Hotel "You are now looking at the main entrance of the magnificent Sans Souci Hotel, Gem of the Gulf, whose management is in no way responsible for this hunted fugitive and who have cooperated with the authorities throughout according to a statement just issued by Chief of Police Davis."
72	The Science Foundation	BBB	Research Institutes	Institutes
	The Science Foundation Organization assigned control of the corporate trust housing alll of Dr. Mary Jane Lyle Smith's basic patents.
73	Shadow of Greatness: One Woman's Story	BBB	Literature	Biographies
	Shadow of Greatness: One Woman's Story Mrs. Douglas's official biography, which stated that Joseph E. Douglas, Secretary General of the World Federation of Free States, had proposed to her during the counting of ballots in his first election to office.
74	Stereovision Receiver	BBB	Technology Products	Audiovisual Devices
	Stereovision Receiver Also known as babble tank. Future version of modern day television sets.
75	Talbot Saloon	BBB	Nightlife	Saloons
	Talbot Saloon Location of that Caxton sends to pick Jill up.
76	The Temple of the Great Pyramid	BBB	Religion	Temples
	The Temple of the Great Pyramid Theorestical future church of Mike's. "So we close down the Church of All Worlds-it is closed down. So we move and open the Congregation of the One Faith-and we get kicked out again. Then we reopen elsewhere as the Temple of the Great Pyramid-that one will bring flocking the foolish fat and fatuous females, and some of them will end up neither fat nor foolish-and when we have the Medical Association and the local bar and the newspapers and the boss politicos snapping at our heels there-why, we open the Brotherhood of Baptism somewhere else."
77	The Times of India	BBB	Periodicals	Newspaper Times
	The Times of India News outlet mentioned in the response to the publication of identical doctrinaire denunciations of Short's elevation: "Christian Science Monitor ignored it. Times of India snickered at it editorially, and the Manchester Guardian reported it without comment."
78	Togetherness Magazine	BBB	Periodicals	Magazines
	Togetherness Magazine Where Jubal Harshaw instructs his assistant to send his new story, Death Song of a Wood's Colt.
79	Union Theological Seminary	BBB	Religion	Religious Organizations
	Union Theological Seminary Seminary. "It had not troubled Jubal when Mike was run out of Union Theological Seminary, hotly pursued in spirit by a pack of enraged theologians, some of whom were angry because they believed in God and others because they did not-but all united in detesting the Man from Mars."
80	Wise Girl Maithusian Lozenges	BBB	Drugs	Medicine
	Wise Girl Maithusian Lozenges Sponsor of NWNW, New World Networks, the network on the stereo while Caxton and Jill eat dinner at the restaurant in Hagerstown. "Remember, friends, every wise girl uses Wise Girls. Easy to carry, pleasant to take, guaranteed no-fail, and approved for sale without prescription under Public Law 1312, Why take a chance on old-fashioned, unesthetic, harmful, unsure methods? Why risk losing his love and respect?"
81	Young Men's Happiness Class	BBB	Education	Classes
	Young Men's Happiness Class Class taught at the Church of the New Revelation's Sunday school.
82	Zombie	BBB	Vehicles	Spacecrafts
	Zombie Drone probe. "Six years after the Envoy was silent, the drone probe Zombie, sponsored jointly by the Geographic Society and La Societe Astronautique Internationale, bridged the void and took up an orbit for the waiting period, then returned."
MAKE BELIEVE MAP
83	Airotel	Map	Urban Areas	Cities-U.S.
	Airotel Colony in Kentucky. "...two guests of the Colony Airotel, Louisville, Kentucky, discorporated, one voluntarily, the other by heart failure."
84	Elysian Fields	Map	Residential Communities	Apartment and Condos
	Elysian Fields Housing development.
85	The Kingdom of South Africa	Map	Geographic Areas	Territories
	The Kingdom of South Africa Monarchy mentioned during the series of news stories that open Part Two: "The Kingdom of South Africa, Federation associate member, had again been cited before the High Court for persecution of its white minority."
OTHER
86	Jubal Harshaw	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Jubal Harshaw Jubal Harshaw: You must identify yourself, in the specified legal fashion, World Code paragraph 1602, part II, before you can serve a warrant. And that goes for all those other apes, too, and that pithecan parasite piloting for you.
87	Mahmoud	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Mahmoud Mahmoud: 'Grok' is the most important word in the Martian language-and I expect to spend the next forty years trying to understand it and perhaps use some millions of printed words trying to explain it. But I don't expect to be successful. You need to think in Martian to grok the word 'grok'. (While the word 'grok' was created for the novel, it can now be found in Merriam Webster's Dictionary).
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