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Stephen Nowlin <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:37:28 -0700
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Indigo Nights's electrons arrived as:

>Records from the period allowed Lemaire to estimate
>how many men in Jerusalem carried each of the three
>names. Using simple math, he was then able to estimate
>that there were no more than 20 men in the city of
>80,000 who were named James, who had a father named
>Joseph and who had a brother named Jesus."

Wow.... that's an interesting statistic.  Of course, it means there's a
95% chance that this box belonged to one of the Jerusalem JJJs who were
not of the divine sort.

Let's just hope that none of the other 19 were also wandering preachers.
If just one other was, our history's in big trouble....

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Art Center College of Design

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