The aircraft hit and sliced off the top off a cedar tree which still survives, just inside the park, before crash landing.

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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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Let me just close by saying here on the South Lawn there is actually a Lebanese cedar tree that was planted 30 years ago, a testimony to difficult times for both the United States and Lebanon, but also the fact that we remain hopeful about the future.

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In northern Lebanon, in the town of Becharre near the famous cedar tree forests, the local specialty is kibbeh mishwiyeh: fresh minced lamb rolled up with bulgur wheat to form giant meatballs the size of tennis balls, stuffed with caramelized onions and pine nuts and grilled until crunchy on the outside.

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The separate elements are so perfectly joined together that the Riva looks as if it might have been carved out of a single tree, the grain of the cedar lustrous under gleaming varnish.

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Owen, now 7, is allergic to peanuts and tree nuts, said his mother, Haylee Kellogg of Cedar Hills, Utah.

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