Heading west to Colorado, Aspen is aglow this time of year in bright golds and oranges from its famous aspen trees.

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King Solomon built his famous temple in Jerusalem with the wood of cedar trees cut and hauled from Lebanon.

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For sky watchers, the reports bring to mind the famous Tunguska event of 1908 in remote Siberia, in which an asteroid entered the atmosphere and exploded, leveling trees over an area of 820 square miles -- about two-thirds the size of Rhode Island.

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