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The Gazette: Marion man dies while serving life sentence for sexual abuse, kidnapping of Cedar Rapids woman in 1981

Marion man dies while serving life sentence for sexual abuse, kidnapping of Cedar Rapids woman in 1981

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CEDAR RAPIDS - A 43-year-old man was found dead at the scene of a house fire just before 6 a.m. Sunday at 215 22nd St. NW. Greg Buelow, spokesman for the Cedar Rapids Fire Department, said two ...

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Cultivation of cedars for their wood has an equally long history, with recent genetic and environment studies corroborating local oral mythology and Hittite cuneiform text records that two small geographically isolated populations of Lebanon cedar in northern Anatolia 500 km north of its main native area are of human origin, deliberately ...

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Prominent species of true cedars include the Atlas Cedar (Cedrus atlantica), Cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani), and Deodar Cedar Tree (Cedrus deodara), with each offering a distinct landscape beauty.

Cedar, any of four species of ornamental and timber evergreen conifers of the genus Cedrus (family Pinaceae), three native to mountainous areas of the Mediterranean region and one to the western Himalayas.

The cedar tree belongs to a small group of evergreens known for their strong build and steady growth. A tree is called a cedar when it has certain shared traits, like needle clusters, woody cones, and a tall, layered shape.

The four types of cedar trees are Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) with dark green foliage, Cyprian cedar (Cedrus brevifolia) with bluish-green needle-leaves, Himalayan cedar (Cedrus deodara) with bright green needles and moderately large cones, and cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) with its glaucous, bluish-green foliage.