The Rogerses were devout Southern Baptists, and in Hampton Alan mostly kept to himself and his Bible, occasionally picking buckets of pecans from a giant tree in the back yard.

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Hill had spent two years trying to protect a giant redwood tree by living in its branches, and she was going to speak at a San Francisco bookstore.

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From the air, close to 400 villas fan out into the ocean in the shape of a giant palm tree, much like the Palm in Dubai -- a grandiose development that has been plagued with problems from its inception.

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There are different classes in the game, but the only thing class determines is where a player starts on the giant passive skill tree.

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So the traditional outdoor Nativity scene unveiled on Christmas Eve next to a giant illuminated Christmas tree in St Peter's Square has been paid for not by the Holy See but by the taxpayers of one of Italy's poorest regions, Basilicata, in the heel of Italy.

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Debris was tangled in the median's crossover barriers, including huge pieces of sheet metal, tree limbs and a giant oil drum.

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James drops them by mistake on the peach tree, causing a giant peach to sprout, which James ends up living inside with various friendly insects.

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The Jubilee Pavillion is based on the same design as that at Chesterfield and the tree lying inside the playing area is reminiscent of the giant lime at Canterbury.

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