The leadership of the Paraguayan "Resistencia" decided to keep this tree in place while building a new rostrum in the stadium, and people sitting in the stands won't have to look far to find some shade.
For 600 years, this great white oak has been standing in the of Basking Ridge, N.J. When the tree failed to bloom last spring officials made the decision to cut it down realizing that it had been there even longer than the town itself.