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The Danger Tree had been part of a clump of trees located about halfway into No Man's Land and had originally been used as a landmark by a Newfoundland Regiment trench raiding party in the days before the Battle of the Somme. [19] British and German artillery bombardments eventually stripped the tree of leaves and left nothing more than a ...
Fortunes of War is the name given to a series of six novels by Olivia Manning that describe the experiences of a young married couple early in World War II.The series is made up of two trilogies: the books The Great Fortune (1960), The Spoilt City (1962), and Friends and Heroes (1965) comprise The Balkan Trilogy, while The Danger Tree (1977), The Battle Lost and Won (1978), and The Sum of ...
Despite the inherent dangers associated with handling it, the tree has been used as a source of wood by Caribbean furniture makers for centuries. It must be cut and left in the sun to dry the sap. [6] To avoid dangerous contact with the poisonous parts, the tree may be burnt at the base to fell it. [20]
His Newfoundland family memoir, "The Danger Tree," (published as Come From Away in the US) published in 1991, was greeted with extraordinary international acclaim. His most recent novel, "The Figures of Beauty," published in 2013, won the Bressani Literary Prize. It was described by the Wall Street Journal as "a moving tale of love, fate, and ...
But the rains will also create new dangers. Areas around Los Angeles that were burned by the Palisades and Eaton fires, which destroyed nearly 17,000 structures and caused 29 deaths combined last ...
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California's oldest tree, a Palmer's oak thought to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old, may be threatened by a proposed development, environmentalists say.
Dead pine trees, weakened by last summer's drought and hungry beetles, are a major public safety concern for Louisiana residents, with fears that fragile tree limbs may come crashing down on homes ...