• The courtyard itself was littered with old Soviet antiaircraft guns and rusting howitzers under several ancient shade trees.

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  • The One Million Trees initiative will help five coffee co-operatives grow shade trees to protect crops and establish tree nurseries.

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  • There'd even been a ceremony where he'd shaken the hand of a Mr. Bannwart, who was superintendent of the Bureau of Shade Trees.

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  • So the shade trees protecting the coffee plants became overgrown, stifling the plantation and causing a shade-loving fungus to damage half of his plants.

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  • We brought in historic lighting and shade trees, and began converting the vacant buildings into pop-up business such as local cafes, markets, flower shops and art studios for kids.

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  • Two fenced playgrounds are sheltered underneath mighty shade trees.

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  • They do brunch as well as all types of wursts and schnitzle, but if you do not care about American football or baseball, sit in the second courtyard under the shade trees and away from the large flat screen TVs.

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  • The primary school counts 430 students and 17 teachers, grapples with classic problems of rural schools in many parts of the world from overcrowding and lack of clean water to difficulty in growing much-needed shade trees and river overflows in the rainy season.

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  • There were green picnic tables set out beneath the shade trees full with foliage, and on this sunny weekend afternoon there were waiters in braided white coats moving swiftly about, balancing trays laden with bottles and pitchers and plates, and men of every age gathered at each of the tables, smoking cigarettes and pipes and cigars and drinking deeply from tall beakers and earthenware mugs.

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  • As well as good outdoor and indoor pools, there is an excellent pool for children and plenty of shade under the trees.

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  • In Zamalek, a 20-minute walk north, outdoor cafes are packed with young Egyptians sitting in the shade of the trees.

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  • Others sit by the roadside in the shade of birch trees, bikes propped up next to them on verges dotted with pink and white cosmos.

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  • The sailors, stooped with hunger, curly haired from scurvy, rowed ashore, dragged themselves through shallow water and on up the sand where they entered the shade of the trees.

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  • Billowing trees shade the right.

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  • Nearby, several Americans were resting in the shade of some mulberry trees, talking to each other.

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  • The two buzzing squares make Piata Libertati feel like an oasis of relative calm, its trees offering shade to anyone who cares to sit and watch life sweep past.

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  • But this is only ever a temporary home because trees grow and produce shade, so the beetles have to move on every few years.

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  • Ornamental tree varieties like Jacaranda were also planted on the terraces to provide shade, as well as palm trees and fruit trees like papaya.

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  • Some hundred and fifty years ago, one of the princes had ridden that way, going to a wedding or a funeral in this remote district, felt hot, and ordered that rosewood trees be planted to shade the passersby.

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  • They highlighted a lack of modern resources such as computers, the long delay it often takes for needed school supplies and resources to reach them and how many of the trees that supply needed shade during the lot of school days are being needlessly cut down.

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  • The ornate pool was transformed from a rock quarry in 1923, and includes decorative canals, fountains, waterfalls and coral caves, while palm trees and porticos provide some welcome shade.

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  • He wrote several poems about lying under trees, gazing at the light and shade.

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  • Here, an abundance of free-flowing freshwater springs support hundreds of thousands of olive and fruit trees and date palms, which also shade and cool the valley's mudbrick villages as they rest concealed in the greenery.

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  • About 25 km from Palomino, 30 minutes by bus, is the Quebrada Valencia park, where bamboo forests, enormous banyan trees and an impressive series of cascades provide shade from the oppressive heat.

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  • Trees and plants also play an important role to help induce airflow and provide shade on hotter days in courtyards, and water is a common element because it can help cool the air through evaporation and can have a calming effect on the space.

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