Deeply moved by the beauty of the stars shining between the branches of a fir tree, he brought home an evergreen tree and decorated it with candles to share the image with his children.
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Cigarette reliably in hand, he poured champagne, hugged beautiful women, brought home the Christmas tree.
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When Hurricane Katrina's mighty winds and waters slammed into the Big Easy last August, Ashe jumped off a third-floor balcony of her elegant home into a tree and clung to its swaying branches.
From the tree to home decorations to the dinner, it can all be done for you.
"I got home to find one tree crashed onto the front of my house, another crashed from my garden into my neighbour's garden, and chimneys smashed to smithereens after falling off my neighbour's house, " said Liz Munro from Moseley.
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Every year, Trafalgar Square in London becomes home to an enormous Christmas tree.
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Discover acquired the Home Loan Center business from Tree.com, in June last year to complement the student-loan portfolio it acquired from Citigroup in September, 2011.
Now, with local unemployment nearing 14 percent, Spruce Pine is rebuilding around tourism and local crafts and is rebranding itself as the home of the perfect Christmas tree.
Then a willow tree fell at his home in Connecticut, smashing onto his court.
One man died when a tree crashed into his home, and a woman died when her home's roof collapsed, according to the AP.
Among the six people killed in Virginia was a 90-year-old woman who was asleep in bed when a tree fell on her home.
Instead, we should explore less unpleasant ways to cut energy use though such things as incentives for decentralizing work, promoting home-based labor, more tree planning and effective insulation.
Go ice-skating in the Piazza della Liberta or make for the Piazza della Republicca, home to Florence's enormous Christmas tree sparkling with 16, 000 lights.
The wind sent a tree smashing into a Sacramento home where four friends were playing cards, but they didn't stop the game, according to KCRA-TV.
In the Entrance Hall on the State Floor, crystal snowflakes hang from the ceiling above visitors as they walk toward the Blue Room, home to the official White House Christmas Tree, also decorated in honor of military families.
Anthony Raines, 51, was killed when a tree crashed down on his mobile home, crushing him on his bed, Bartow County Coroner Joel Guyton said.
Marwell Zoo has become home to a further four species of Partula tree snail, which originate from islands in the Pacific Ocean and are extinct in the wild.
Then, as if to permanently seal her hold on her tortured son, Janet Fischl committed suicide by smashing her VW bus into the only tree on a desert road near her home.
On returning home from school, he would lounge against a nearby tree and watch.
And we try to connect visitors to who we are today when we perform them, ' explains Treffrey, gazing over the verdant tree-lined valley the Siksika have called home for centuries.
Their home, once teeming with activity, sits quietly on a tree-lined street.
The previous year Williams also picked up the Liverpool Victoria UK Championship and the Regal Welsh Open on his home turf to place him at the top of the snooker tree.
Notable: The owners of this brown shingled home perched on a Mill Valley hillside say it feels like a tree house albeit one with three levels, a wine cellar and a "Harry Potter" room under the stairs where their daughter once liked to hide.
More than 20 elderly residents at an apartment home in Indianapolis were displaced when the facility lost power due to a downed tree.
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This small forest enclave is also home to hundreds of plant species, some of which, like the kyami tree(ph), are facing extinction in the Caribbean.
Regular homeowners insurance provides coverage for the cost of additional living expenses if a home is damaged by an insured disaster, such as wind damage or a tree that fell through the roof.
Set within the Maya Forest, Rio Bravo is the largest private reserve in Belize, with more than 260, 000 acres of tropical rainforest that is home to endangered ocelots and jaguars, more than 400 bird species and 200 tree species.
Father Christmas and the Christmas tree, the inventions of Nordic pagans, did not enter the average home until the end of the 19th century, but are now well established.
Hidden west along the tree-lined streets are pricier boutiques selling clothing, shoes, accessories and home wares.
It offers shops from Valentino to second-hand stores housed within tightly packed brownstones, and just a few streets over, tree-lined Commonwealth Avenue is a strolling boulevard that leads to Boston Public Gardens, home of the famous Swan Boats.
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