As the largest ebola outbreak in history tears through rural villages and towns in Africa, and — for the first time ever — major cities which are overcrowded and ill- prepared, eye-witnesses recount the sheer horror at ground level.

Mother, Brother, Lover: Selected Lyrics, Jarvis Cocker

THE Crannell Giant, which had lived for 3,000 years near the Little River in Humboldt County, California, was felled by loggers in 1926. It contained about 70,000 cubic feet of wood, making it the biggest single organism ever recorded.