The first tree in Reykjavik was planted in 1884 and now the city is relatively green.
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It then spins the wheel again, to tweak the first tree ever so slightly, at random.
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The first tree was brought over in 1947 as a token of Norwegian appreciation of British friendship during the Second World War.
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When the studio replaced a tree damaged by filming in her front yard, she asked for it to be planted in a better place than the one chosen for the first tree by her late husband.
The first thing they see, the very first tree they see honors our men and women in uniform for the extraordinary sacrifice they and their families have made.
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The very first tree visitors see as they enter the White House is the Gold Star Family tree.
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When the Abrams first rented the tree-top level apartment, they wanted a two-year lease, according to court papers.
The first peach tree has been planted by Agatha Christie's grandson Mathew Prichard, and nectarines and apricots will also be planted.
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Martin Luther, founder of the Lutheran branch of Christianity, is fabled to have set up the first Christmas tree lit by candles.
On Thursday, the President and the First Family will attend the National Christmas Tree Lighting on the Ellipse.
At the first snapping of a tree branch or sudden gust of wind, everybody runs into their cabins armed with baseball bats and kitchen knives waiting for a killer that will never come.
In the program, couples also learn about the history of the African-American marriage and many for the first time plot their family tree to trace marriage and divorces.
According to legend, Protestant reformer Martin Luther was the first person to decorate a Christmas tree.
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Oosthuizen caught a break when his ball bounced off a tree back into the first cut.
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Olds was nominated for Stag's Leap, about the end of her marriage, while Jamie was recognised for The Overhaul, her first collection since 2004's Forward prize-winning The Tree.
Kadir's Tree Houses was among the first to invade the coast some 20 years ago.
Elsewhere in the world, regions take 30 to 50 years to recover from bush fires, but here they are the first stage of new life, with tree fronds forming within a couple of weeks.
The first step is figuring out how much sap can be extracted from the average birch tree in the Northeast using modern practices, she said.
From the shadow of the garage, I beheld the back yard, with its Norwegian maples, the tilted white birches, the ancient apple tree whose branches touched the windows of the family room, and for the first time, it seemed, I understood the green glory of this acreage as something indifferent to human life and quite apart from the Victorian manse set upon it.
If funds are forthcoming, the team will visit them all in the coming months to gather first-hand data on tree deaths.
The dogs saw him first, sensed him, perhaps, because he lay partially obscured in the shadow of a tree.
There's not much more to it than that, and a quick stab at the ignition, a first-time roar from the exhaust and we're off, in search of the Joshua Tree National Park and a little bit of extremeweather testing.
But first, for many African Americans the idea of tracing a family tree has been little more than a dream.
If you want to understand what is happening there, imagine: Under the Liberty Tree that stood in Boston Common, early in the first American Revolution, any and all could come to air their grievances and hammer out solutions collectively, and it was there the promise of American democracy first took root.
The tree trail is landscaped with avenues, fountains and waterfalls with the first half of the trail suitable for disabled access.
When I first began to use it, the box was attached to an old oak tree a bit back from the road.
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With sixty sheep to one boy and all the tree shade he could want, my grandfather taught himself to read that first summer.
He says that tree cover is a good first step to keeping cooling costs down in the South.
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