Alas,+Babylon

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 Frangipani shrubs and trees
Frangipani flowers are known for their unique [|fragrant]  clusters of colorful, bright, waxy and long lasting flowers. They are in a similar class as magnolias.

The character Florence has two lovebirds in a cage.
====**Florence** works for Western Union. ==== ====The setting is the ficticious town of **Fort Repose** in Central Florida, somewhere along the St. John's River. ====

====Generations of the **Bragg** family have lived in the two-story home with land that slopes to the St. John's river. ====

====In the midst of the idyllic setting, we read that Sputnik 23 has been sent into orbit around the earth, causing fear among Americans in the 1960s.  <-- Background on The Cold War ====

The Strategic Air Command was located in Omaha, Nebraska.

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 A Titan II Missile Silo One of the missiles left from the Cold War a "mushroom cloud"

McCoy Air Force Base was made into Orlando International Airport ..... Pic of old downtown Mt. Dora where the author Pat Frank wrote A. B.

[|Map of Mediterranean and Gulf of Iskenduran, Turkey]