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What does UBTREAS mean in "By the Waters of Babylon"?
John finds this at some broken columns and he could only read half. Any help would be great. thanx
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Since we can deduct that the City of the Gods is New York we can also figure out some of the meanings. "--primitive hunting society after destruction of "civilized" world)....
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Subtreasury.....as in the Department of the Subtreasury
It's a fragment of "Subtreasury Building."
it is an incomplete phrase that was actually SUBTREASURY
"UBTREAS" in "By the Waters of Babylon" is The Subtreasury Building on 21st Street in New York......
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