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In a secret location 10,000 feet high in the White Mountains

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In a secret location 10,000 feet high in the White Mountains of California,stands a vast tree,1______ thick,gnarled branches stretch skyward."It is the oldest living tree 2______(find) on the earth.It's a 55–foottall bristlecome pine that's nearly 5,000 years old.It's as old as the great pyramids of Egypt.Older,3______ a thousand years,than Hammurabi's rule in Babylon.Far from being 4______ silent witness to history,the giant plant and 5______ old trees have stories to tell.They are stories that scientists are now able to read more clearly – stories about huge volcanic eruptions,forest fires,and droughts.But the tree can also tell gentler stories about log cabins,precious violins,and even three–part paintings 6______ may have been split up long before.Have you ever coundted a tree's rings on a stump to see 7______ old it is?In temperate climates like 8______ of the United States,each ring represents one time.But 9______ the 1920s,Andrew Ellicott Douglass discovered something else about the rings:Environmental conditions could help determine the 10______ (wide) of the rings.
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