Is the answer that, like a tall pine tree, the Japanese pagoda with its massive trunk-like central pillar known as a shinbashira simply flexes and sways when riding out a typhoon or an earthquake?

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Robinson's plot is in section 6 on the Queens side of the graveyard, on Jackie Robinson Way near Cypress Road, across from a large stone mausoleum near a low black fence, tall evergreen tree and hedge row.

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He is alive and unhit by the same hazard that leaves one tall palm tree standing where a hurricane has passed.

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Over the course of the day, the trail bent to the contours of the gorge, taking us through fragrant forests of deodar a Himalayan cedar tree and tall rai conifers, toward the snowy mountaintops that were our ultimate destination.

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The breadfruit was Mau's favourite tree anyway: tall and light, with a twisty grain excellent for boat-building, sticky latex for caulking, and big starchy fruit which, fermented, made the ideal food for an ocean voyage.

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The main tree, in the Blue Room, is an 18 and-a-half foot tall Fraser fir festooned with designer-made tiny outfits for Mr. and Mrs.

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But the focal point of the room is a tall, single-paned modernist window above the bar that perfectly frames the changing leaves of a tree outside, and the dishes that give at least the impression of lightness are truly memorable.

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