Google searches uncovered that a mathematical concept called the Fibonacci number sequence underlies the structure of tree branches.
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White trash trucks slowly approached the piles of tree branches that had been cordoned off by yellow plastic ribbon.
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The East Room has been transformed into a winter wonderland, complete with four trees and garland and tree branches in every window.
It looked like a vista from an epic Russian romance tree branches coated with ice and frozen vineyards running along the hilly landscape.
The authorities blame unexpected storms, tree branches falling on high-voltage power lines (as in the Italian example) and other acts of nature.
In many areas local utility companies will even cut back your wayward tree branches free of charge if they sit too close to electrical lines.
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He said the injuries were likely caused by Goldman flailing around while under attack, striking tree branches and stumps in the small, partly enclosed area where he died.
The main attraction is supposed to be the human heart, not a big, blabbering snowman who slides down hills and has his crystals rearranged by tree branches and plows.
Areas of the north San Fernando Valley experienced outages as tree branches tangled with power lines in at least two areas, said Michelle Vargas, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
At Turner Broadcasting System Inc. in Atlanta, a strategy-development team recently drew tree branches and placed sticky notes on the branches to explore ways to extend the Turner Classic Movies brand, says Jennifer Dorian, a senior vice president.
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As The Asahi Shimbun reports, that system isn't the best for producing deep bass (making them less than ideal for music), but it apparently fares considerably better with the medium and high-pitched sounds of birds and rustling tree branches.
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Tree branches bending down to the water hide the turn of the river on both sides, and what you see is a lake with wooded hills, a few little houses on the far shore, a pier with a tiny man fishing.
The ground was soft and swampy, fallen tree branches lay over the paths, I heard the obsessive self-hypnotizing cicadas, the gulp of the bullfrogs, and knew with an animal sense only lately developed in me that there were some four-footed creatures about.
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.
As its name suggests, this spins the software equivalent of a roulette wheel to generate a random tree, then examines how snugly the branches of that tree fit the modern foliage.
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For trees especially, he said to mulch the ground surrounding the trunk as far out as the end of the tree's branches.
When completed, this tree had sprouted branches representing all the main language groups in modern Europe: Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic and so on.
Those eggs are deposited in the tree's branches, but when they hatch (which they do two weeks after being laid), the resulting larvae fall to the ground and tunnel down to the tree's roots, from which they suck their sustenance.
WHO's Essential Drugs Programme (a worthy attempt to work out a minimum list of the drugs that should be available in every country in the world), describes the organisation as being like a Christmas tree on whose branches new projects are hung at random, frequently without regard to what is there already.
Embellishment can precede structure, like a tree sprouting leaves before branches.
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If they were branches of a tree weighed down with snow, they would be torn from the trunk in the first breeze.
To substitute for fossils, and thus reconstruct the ancient branches of the tree as well as the modern-day leaves, Dr Dunn used mathematically informed guesswork.
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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.
No one would ever guess that Luka and Jovo, from the branches of the tree up which they had scrambled, had watched the tiger reel back in surprise and look around, puzzled.
But a tree cannot be healthy if the branches are overburdened, the trunk is damaged, or the roots are weak.
The pale moonlit sky, seen through the branches of the rosewood tree, tilted back and forth like a bowl of swaying water.
This Christmas, they are planning an elaborate tree made of weeping-willow branches.
"The orthograde single and two-footed leaps are likely useful during feeding and crossing short distances between branches of the same tree, " explains Mr Channon.
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The Spaniard's tee shot on the 10th hole somehow came to rest about 15 feet up in an oak tree, sitting between two large branches.
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