Dave Platt wrote:
Were these seeds alive, or dead? How about the plants which sprouted
from them after the seeds were planted?

There is a date plant growing in Jerusalem at Hebrew U. The seed it came from
was found recently at Massada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada where it
was left from the Jewish resistance against Rome, 1930 or so years ago.

Geoff.


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understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation.
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