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Louise Carnegie did indeed play a role in convincing her husband to sell his company in order to retire to Scotland. Thereafter, the Carnegies split their time between Scotland and New York, devoting themselves to philanthropic activities such as Carnegie Hall and the Carnegie Technical School, which is now called Carnegie Mellon University.
Gwen’s old date seeds could probably be resurrected if she treated them well. In 2005 botanists succeeded in reviving a two-thousand-year-old date seed found in the ancient fortress of Masada, the site of the famous siege in AD 74. The first date palm that sprouted was named Methuselah and was identified as a Judean date palm, a tree that had been extinct for hundreds of years. Other date seeds found at Masada have also sprouted, and the palms were named Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith, and Hannah. Date palms have long been known for their medicinal qualities, and as these ancient palms grow and are propagated, it is hoped they may offer new insight into herbal remedies that were lost to history.