“The United States Department of Agriculture’s Plant Hardiness Zone ... there was an invisible belt that connected them to ...

with proper agriculture, might nourish a vast population.” While Congress shelved Lynch’s report recommending colonization, it helped spark the US’s fascination with the Holy Land – and ...

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