What is the legend of the dogwood tree?
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"What is the legend of the dogwood tree? Was the cross Jesus was crucified on made of dogwood?"\n\nThe Bible does not tell us what type of wood the cross Jesus was crucified on was made of. Roman history does not go into specifics as to how the crosses were made or what type of wood they were made of. As a result, we cannot know for sure what type of tree was used to make the cross. There is a legend that it was made of dogwood. This is unlikely considering the typical size of a dogwood tree. The legend of the dogwood tree, author unknown, is as follows:\n\nIn Jesus' time, the dogwood grew\nTo a stately size and a lovely hue.\n\n'Twas strong & firm it's branches interwoven\nFor the cross of Christ its timbers were chosen.\n\nSeeing the distress at this use of their wood\nChrist made a promise which still holds good:\n\n"Never again shall the dogwood grow\nLarge enough to be used so\n\nSlender & twisted, it shall be\nWith blossoms like the cross for all to see.\n\nAs blood stains the petals marked in brown\nThe blossom's center wears a thorny crown.\n\nAll who see it will remember me\nCrucified on a cross from the dogwood tree.\n\nCherished and protected this tree shall be\nA reminder to all of my agony."\n\nAgain, this is just a "legend." It is a nice poem, but there is no Biblical basis to it. The legend of the dogwood tree is very likely not accurate.\n\nthank you,
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The Hartford Couurant, a newspaper in Conn. wrote a story about Rory Emerald finding Yoko Ono's bonsai tree. Of course it turned out to be a hoax, a friendly hoax. The Post & other tattler tabloids had a lot of fun with the ruse. (great & thought provoking question)
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dog woods. my grandma had some. she said the stripes are the blood from jesus crist since they made his cross out of dogwood she is very religious
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http://www.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/yellowwood/yellowwood.html\n\nThe link has all the information and pictures.\n\nHope it helps.
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the hickory tree(named by the spainish)
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The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica (other names Galenia asiatica, Salvadora indica), is a small tree or shrub with a crooked trunk, seldom more than one foot in diameter, bark scabrous and cracked, whitish with pendulous extremities. Its fibrous branches have been used as toothbrushes by many Islamic communities — miswaks.
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http://oregonstate.edu/trees/dk/
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Is this a riddle? \nYou gave virtually no information about the animal, only that it has a tail and can climb trees.\n\nIt could be a lizard, snake, monkey...\n\nAre you thinking of the double-snake wrapped around a staff? This is the symbol of medicine, the caudecus.
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Greetings! There are several legends surrounding this rock on the Rhine River in German folklore, the most common tale centering around a strikingly beautiful maiden (Lorelei)whose immense beauty so "enchanted" the men-folk, and because her lover was faithless and left her, she sought the love of others. As a result, the townsfolk charged her with being a witch, fearing she had brought sin to the town. She was brought before the Bishop and put to trial, but was declared innocent. Instead of death, it was ordered she serve in a Convent. Lorelei begged for death, but was denied, and as she was being brought to the Convent, she passed by a steep cliff, where it is said that she leapt to her death. The legend has it that she was turned into a Siren, and the sound of her singing so mesmerized the sailors who sailed past, prompting them to look up to the rock. Upon doing this though, their boats would crash against the rocks and sink.\n\nAnother version of the legend simply says that the beautiful maiden, Lorelei, was so grieved by the betrayal and loss of her lover that she hurled herself into the river. She was then transformed into a siren and her hypnotic singing could be heard echoing among the rocks, bringing sailors to their deaths.\n\nI hope this helps :-)
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This is the only thing that I came up with.  http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/264335.html\nIt is by Dogwood.
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Try: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/beantrees/
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The bark is on the outside of the tree and is usually fibrous and/or corky in nature. It is produced continually and can be either persistent or can be shed regularly (as in many smooth-trunked trees). The reason "ring-barking" will kill a tree is that if all the true bark (ie, the living, growing part, not the dead corky/fibrous part) is damaged then phloem transport of nutrients (products of photosynthesis) from the leaves to the roots is stopped and the roots will die and so will the plant. (The sapwood is xylem and transports water and minerals to the leaves)
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The Christmas tree has become a symbol of the spirit of Christmas in many countries and many, if not all, our homes. What led Christians to adopt this custom? \n\nThe first mention in history of fir trees used in Christmas celebrations was in 12th century Germany. A fir tree was used in mystery plays as the so-called "paradise" tree. These dramas were held outside during the Advent and Christmas seasons and the fir tree symbolized the tree of life in the Garden of Eden. The evergreen fir tree is a sign of hope throughout the winter season--hope in the promise that the rest of nature too will awaken to new life in the coming spring. The message of this symbolism was simple: through Jesus Christ we too have hope for everlasting life. Indeed, Jesus Christ has become our tree of life--the paradise tree. As such the evergreen Christmas tree reminds us that even though our earthly season must come to an end, yet we will live through the grace of our Lord Jesus. \n\nThe use of the indoor Christmas tree began early in the 17th century, in Strasbourg, (which at that time belonged to Germany, but is now France) spreading from there throughout Germany and then into northern Europe. In 1841, Albert the German-born husband of Queen Victoria, first introduced the Christmas tree custom to Great Britain. He had the first decorated Christmas tree set up in Windsor Castle in 1841. The first Christmas trees in the New World were introduced by Hessian soldiers in 1776. Later German immigrants brought the tradition into wider use in the US. The custom of decorating a community tree began in the early 1900's and is a popular custom in the US today.\n\nWhat is the symbolism of the Christmas tree today? Well first of all, the fir tree is an evergreen--it does not die or fade away or lose its needles in the winter. In this sense it has soon come to represent the immortality of the resurrected Christ. \n\nThe lights in the Christmas tree also have a deeper meaning. Originally the lights used were candles, of course. During my childhood days in Germany my grandparents still lit dozens of candles in their Christmas tree. The candles too were meant to symbolize Christ, specifically his self-giving love and gift of life to us. As many of us know, the candle provides light and warmth as it consumes its own substance, the wax. So, too, did Jesus give of his own substance--his life--so that we might find divine light. And when we have found divine light for ourselves, we too are enabled through the power of the Holy Spirit to give of ourselves to others. After all, Christmas is the feast of love, where we share gifts with each other as Christ shared the gift of life with us.
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There are quite a number of legends about the rhinoceros stamping out fire. The story seems to have been common in Malaysia and Burma.\n\nThis type of rhinoceros even had a special name in Malay, 'badak api', where badak means rhinoceros and api means fire. The animal would come when a fire is lit in the forest and stamp it out.\n\nIf there is or can be any truth in the legend, it would be hard to decide. Suffice it to say that there has been no sighting of this phenomenon in recent history. \n\n\nRemember, kids, only you can stomp out forest fires" \nSmokey the Rhino
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it means the legend was true!
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GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES \n\nTHE GOLDEN GOOSE \n\nby Jacob Ludwig Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm \n\nTHE GOLDEN GOOSE - \n\nTHERE WAS a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called the Simpleton, and was despised, laughed at, and neglected, on every occasion. It happened one day that the eldest son wished to go into the forest to cut wood, and before he went his mother gave him a delicious pancake and a flask of wine, that he might not suffer from hunger or thirst. When he came into the forest a little old gray man met him, who wished him good day, and said, "Give me a bit of cake out of your pocket, and let me have a drink of your wine; I am so hungry and thirsty." \n\nBut the prudent youth answered, "Give you my cake and my wine? I haven't got any; be off with you." And leaving the little man standing there, he went off. \n\nThen he began to fell a tree, but he had not been at it long before he made a wrong stroke, and the hatchet hit him in the arm, so that he was obliged to go home and get it bound up. That was what came of the little gray man. \n\nAfterwards the second son went into the wood, and the mother gave to him, as to the eldest, a pancake and a flask of wine. The little old gray man met him also, and begged for a little bit of cake and a drink of wine. But the second son spoke out plainly, saying, "What I give you I lose myself, so be off with you." And leaving the little man standing there, he went off. \n\nThe punishment followed. As he was chopping away at the tree, he hit himself in the leg so severely that he had to be carried home. \n\nThen said the Simpleton, "Father, let me go for once into the forest to cut wood"; and the father answered, "Your brothers have hurt themselves by so doing; give it up, you understand nothing about it." \n\nBut the Simpleton went on begging so long, that the father said at last, "Well, be off with you; you will only learn by experience." \n\nThe mother gave him a cake (it was only made with water, and baked in the ashes), and with it a flask of sour beer. When he came into the forest the little old gray man met him, and greeted him, saying, "Give me a bit of your cake, and a drink from your flask; I am so hungry and thirsty." \n\nAnd the Simpleton answered, "I have only a flour and water cake and sour beer; but if that is good enough for you, let us sit down together and eat." Then they sat down, and as the Simpleton took out his flour and water cake it became a rich pancake, and his sour beer became good wine. Then they ate and drank, and afterwards the little man said, "As you have such a kind heart, and share what you have so willingly, I will bestow good luck upon you. Yonder stands an old tree; cut it down, and at its roots you will find something," and thereupon the little man took his departure. \n\nThe Simpleton went there, and hewed away at the tree, and when it fell he saw, sitting among the roots, a goose with feathers of pure gold. He lifted it out and took it with him to an inn where he intended to stay the night. \n\nThe landlord had three daughters who, when they saw the goose, were curious to know what wonderful kind of bird it was, and ended by longing for one of its golden feathers. The eldest thought, "I will wait for a good opportunity, and then I will pull out one of its feathers for myself"; and so, when the Simpleton was gone out, she seized the goose by its wing- but there her finger and hand had to stay, held fast. Soon after came the second sister with the same idea of plucking out one of the golden feathers for herself; but scarcely had she touched her sister than she also was obliged to stay, held fast. Lastly came the third with the same intentions; but the others screamed out, "Stay away! for heaven's sake stay away!" But she did not see why she should stay away, and thought, "If they do so, why should not I?" an
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The fastest flower in the west, or anywhere else, is a woodland wildflower of North America called bunchberry dogwood. A bunchberry dogwood (Cornus canadensis) bears flowers much like those of the beloved ornamental dogwood tree, but the entire bunchberry stands hardly knee high. The flower opens explosively -- so quickly that the pollen experiences 800 times the gravitational force that an astronaut feels blasting off in the space shuttle.