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Unusual trees around the world

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Mangroves are unusual and a bit counterintuitive: they spread seaward while also helping defend the land behind them. These trees serve as vital defenses against coastal damage. Mangroves,  photo : Ariefrahman, (CC BY-SA 4.0) Their seeds grow into seedlings and when these seedlings fall, they either become fixed in the mud or float away to another site. A banyan can look like a whole forest even though it is one tree. Roots drop from its branches, take hold in the ground, and grow into new supports like trunks. Banyan,  photo : Kiran Gopi, (CC BY-SA 4.0) I was surprised to learn that one such tree, with a circumference of 2,000 feet has been estimated as being capable of sheltering 20,000 people. That is a massive amount of shade. India has several giant banyans. Thimmamma Marrimanu in Andhra Pradesh currently holds the  Guinness canopy record  at about 5.41 acres (an area equivalent to three soccer fields); The Great Banyan in Kolkata is another famous specimen at a...
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The new CEO of the Lviv IT Cluster will most likely be Mykhailo Lemak, if the participants vote for him.  https://www.facebook.com/mykhailo.lemak/ Since 2017, a partner of the “Creative City Lviv” project. In 2018, he co-founded the online magazine Creatives. From 2018 to 2019, he was the managing partner of Skovoroda radio. He was also the deputy director of the magazine “RIA-Lviv”.
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Oleksandr Usyk and Rico Verhoeven.

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Brit ish strongman  Eddie Hall  shared his expectations for the fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Rico Verhoeven. The winner of the "World's Strongest Man 2017" competition believes that the Ukrainian is facing a serious test. "Verhoeven is honestly the scariest man on the planet. Even top fighters say they wouldn't want to fight him in kickboxing. I saw it in his eyes. "If there's one person you don't want to fight, it's Rico. He's a real fighter. I think Usyk is in for a shock. It's going to be a very big problem for him," Hall added. As a reminder, the fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Rico Verhoeven is scheduled for May 23 in Egypt
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Usyk is visiting UEFA Champions league final.

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 Usyk is visiting UEFA Champions league final.
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Musical highlights of the summer: June concerts at the capital's Philharmonic

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  In June, the National Philharmonic of Ukraine ends its concert season. Visitors can expect a rich program: from an introduction to the versatile Mozart to the pure music of Pyart and Sylvestrov, from the monoopera of Vitaly Gubarenko to an evening of vocal music by students of Yevgenia Miroshnichenko. Foreign guests will visit the capital as well: conductor Teodor Kuhar will take up the viola, Spanish conductor Ramon Torrelledo will prepare a program of works by Ukrainian and Spanish composers of the classical era and the 20th century, Hungarian musicians Zofia Baichai and Zalan László Kovacs will demonstrate an unexpected combination of harp and tuba. Symphony No. 3 "Love" will be performed for the first time in Kyiv, written by Lviv composer Bohdana Frolyak and performed according to the new sheet music edition of the works of Borys Lyatoshinsky. Music lovers are also invited to listen to soundtracks to Ukrainian films from different years, American modernist music of...
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