"He skis off, he turns around to get a pass, he slams into a tree head first, he falls down unconscious, " reports Hay, who says he was a few feet away.
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 very first tree visitors see as they enter the White House is the Gold Star Family tree.
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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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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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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.
Oosthuizen caught a break when his ball bounced off a tree back into the first cut.
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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.
Kadir's Tree Houses was among the first to invade the coast some 20 years ago.
When the Abrams first rented the tree-top level apartment, they wanted a two-year lease, according to court papers.
He says that tree cover is a good first step to keeping cooling costs down in the South.
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.
If funds are forthcoming, the team will visit them all in the coming months to gather first-hand data on tree deaths.
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.
First you pick a specific tree from one of over a dozen olive groves scattered across the eastern coast of central Italy, in the Le Marche and Abruzzo regions.
According to legend, Protestant reformer Martin Luther was the first person to decorate a Christmas tree.
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On Thursday, the President and the First Family will attend the National Christmas Tree Lighting on the Ellipse.
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.
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.
He was first spotted in Leamington and was later seen in a tree in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, in October.
The tree trail is landscaped with avenues, fountains and waterfalls with the first half of the trail suitable for disabled access.
With sixty sheep to one boy and all the tree shade he could want, my grandfather taught himself to read that first summer.
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.
But first, for many African Americans the idea of tracing a family tree has been little more than a dream.
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 they were branches of a tree weighed down with snow, they would be torn from the trunk in the first breeze.
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