Not so long ago, museum bug hunters discovered a new genus of centipedes perhaps the world's smallest under the fallen leaves in Central Park.

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The "white" part of Marley's family tree had been dismissed as fallen leaves tattered remnants of another season, and not worth chasing.

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These women are celebrating the hugely successful fad of "scrapbooking, " a hobby that involves putting family photos into albums, along with written reminiscences and artifacts--die-cut shapes, stickers, clip art, cloth swatches, doilies, buttons, ticket stubs, fallen leaves, report cards, memorabilia, kids' drawings, whatever.

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One night in early autumn, with the swampy ground of the Nature Preserve papered with fallen leaves, I was hunkered down to examine a dead snake about a foot in length whose color I thought might in life have been green, when, as I stood, I felt something brush the top of my head.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

This is a story about loyalty no Marine leaves a fallen Marine on the battlefield but some betray each other as racial tension infects the company.

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During these movements, I observed some things again and again: when it rains, dried leaves and fallen trees are washed down the valleys with the soil.

UNESCO: Title

In winter of course healthy and sick ash trees are difficult to tell apart as the leaves will all have fallen to the ground.

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