The chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II will be cut down Nov. 21 because it is too diseased to be saved, the city said Tuesday.

update to picked by muppet 2 years ago

Emerge from the heavy foliage of the Oasis - Before you stands the 145-foot tall Tree of Life. The branches span 165 feet across. There are over 100,000 leaves on the tree and the trunk is 50 feet wide. 20 artists carved into the trunk, branches and roots over 320 animals. Thousands worked on the construction of the Tree of Life which took 18 months to build. Photos picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Police Capt. Randy Pentis said having a person allegedly call a tree service to remove someone else's tree is rare. "It's criminal," Pentis said. "It's grand theft of property." picked by hisidea 2 years ago

Two police community support officers are under investigation after they were spotted hiding behind a tree as a man was beaten up by three teenage girls. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The only film images of Anne Frank. On July 22 1941, the girl next door to Anne Frank gets married. From the window of her house in Amsterdam, she looks at the bride and groom. picked by hypnotode 3 years ago

The tree, a deciduous hybrid related to the rowan, was first noticed in a small lay-by at Watersmeet in North Devon in the 1930s with a no-parking sign tacked to the bark.

It is only recently that scientists have undertaken a biochemical analysis to confirm the tree is a new species and it was formally named yesterday. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

The woman, who was hung from a tree after being accused of sorcery, gave birth to her baby while struggling to free herself. (BTW: Both survived) picked by tigertony 2 years ago

For more than eight centuries, the Nasca culture prospered in the coastal valleys of Peru until its sudden downfall around 600 AD.

A team of archaeologists has now found convincing evidence the decline was self-inflicted and began with the cutting down of a tree that could have protected them from devastating climate change. picked by bingo 4 weeks ago

mephitic dipsomania blamed for execrable deracination of erudition

declared "deontologically deleterious" picked by teaya21 3 years ago

In 1986 Peter had the idea of growing a chair. Nine years later Peter & Becky became partners. Pooktre was born. Together they have mastered the art they call Pooktre, which is the shaping of trees as they grow in predetermined designs. picked by Mershaullk 3 years ago

A classic meal of human desperation, tree bark has become a must-have during periods of scarcity. But you don’t have to eat it al dente the way termites and beavers do picked by suebe 3 months ago

A man is dead after being trapped more than 50 feet up in a palm tree, but fire officials say it probably wasn't the chainsaw wound to his leg that killed him picked by suebe 8 months ago

Autumn in the States means tree trimming.
I had a few estimates to knock down a huge tree on the Dangerman Estate come in lowball @ $1250.00.
( removal include, of course ) Imma do it Myself. picked by Dangerman 2 years ago

Newly discovered documents reveal the Frank family’s desperate efforts in 1941 to get to the U.S. or Cuba. picked by Neiako 3 years ago

Pumpkins don't usually grow on trees, but that's exactly where a New Jersey family found one this weekend. The Phillips family found a 10-pound orange object hanging on a vine from a tree in their backyard. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

In the garden of my house there's a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it.

To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs by trimming them with a pencil sharpener. I used two Røde NT6 and a NTG-2 as microphones, combined with a customized stethoscope. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

A team from the European Southern Observatory captured the breathtaking picture of the Christmas Tree Star Cluster over more than 10 hours using the Wide Field Imager in Chile. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Wood from a common tree may one day factor prominently in meeting transportation fuel needs, according to scientists whose research on the fast-growing poplar tree is featured on the cover of tomorrow's edition of the journal Science. picked by Galoot 3 years ago

...Here's more of it; now it's a tree stump virgin Mary. Worshipping a tree stump? Isn't that idolatry, proscribed by the Vatican and the Commandment?

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picked by murtysanchez 2 months ago

An acacia tree started dripping a foamlike substance after the owner of the property died. Many believe it is "supernatural ice". Yuh-huh. picked by gnikgnok 2 years ago