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The astonishing 390-year old bonsai tree that survived the Hiroshima atomic blast
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| 08.04.2015
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Posted on 08/04/2015 2:29:25 PM PDT by dware
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08/04/2015 2:29:25 PM PDT
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dware
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/04/2015 2:29:57 PM PDT
by
dware
(Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
To: dware
Bonsai!.....................
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08/04/2015 2:33:59 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: dware
Looks like growth I find under my toe nails.
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08/04/2015 2:36:18 PM PDT
by
prisoner6
(Unmutual and Disharmonious)
To: prisoner6
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08/04/2015 2:38:58 PM PDT
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dware
(Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
To: dware
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08/04/2015 2:39:09 PM PDT
by
Anitius Severinus Boethius
(www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
To: beaversmom
almost looks like a Atom Bomb going off
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posted on
08/04/2015 2:45:56 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: beaversmom
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posted on
08/04/2015 2:46:57 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: dware
Well, it was 390 years old. Then the dudes from Cobra Kai dojo came along, and you know their vendetta against bonsais...
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/04/2015 2:50:41 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: dware
"The history of a 390-year old bonsai tree at the National Arboretum that survived the Hiroshima atomic blast ..." So, the bonsai tree was "started" in 1625 (2015 - 309).
How has the age been verified?
But just imagine, what was going in 1625 AD?
Incredible if true.
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08/04/2015 2:55:07 PM PDT
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StormEye
To: beaversmom
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posted on
08/04/2015 2:55:20 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
To: StormEye
Here in the Sandia Mountains there is a guy who tags trees after determining their age with a core. These are average size Ponderosa Pines.
On the tag he puts a historical event that occurred the year the tree germinated.
These include the start of the War of the Roses (1455), the birth of Elizabeth I (1533), the birth of Joan of Arc (1413), and 1st performance of Hamlet (1601).
To: beaversmom
That is one awesome bonsai, from the Edo period
or early Tokugawa reign. Planted when the unification
of the country was just starting.
For a dramatized view of this time check out the
“Tokugowa Chronicles” on Youtube.
A 13 part series with English subtitles.
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08/04/2015 3:01:40 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: StormEye
How has the age been verified? They cut it down and counted the rings of course.
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posted on
08/04/2015 3:01:57 PM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Tijeras_Slim
To: al baby
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posted on
08/04/2015 3:07:43 PM PDT
by
Guardian Sebastian
(Mother of God, pray for us and our country.)
To: al baby
Amazing how it resembles a mushroom cloud!
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08/04/2015 3:07:45 PM PDT
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steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: al baby
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