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<P>Visionaries:</P>
<P>Nathan Wilson, according to his proud father, will soon put Moscow, Idaho on
the map as the home of the man who "figured out how the Shroud of Turin was
originally made." Nate's happy pappy, Doug Wilson, announced the
startling news on his blog site <A
href="http://dougwils.com/">http://dougwils.com/</A>. It would appear
that Nate -- all on his own and up on the roof of the ambiguously zoned New
St. Andrews College -- has figured out how the Shroud of Turin was
created. Doug's piece, called "The Shroud of Turin: Toward a Mystery
Solved," provides links to an article Nate wrote and a website he
maintains that deals with this Moscow boy's amazing (miraculous?) scientific
endeavors. </P>
<P>Okay, I confess that members of my family members (particularly that
cranky medievalist Auntie Establishment) were initially convulsed with laughter
by Doug's blog. However, we soon decided
that Doug's piece was an exercise in paternal irony. Alas, not
so. I followed the links provided by Doug and discovered that Nate,
applying the "<FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 PTSIZE="10"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF">the solution patterns of G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown
stories, worked through a 'paradigm shift' in the world of current theories of
Shroud forgery." </FONT></P>
<P>I won't give away the story or the solution behind this late-in-life
science fair experiment of the twenty-something Nate -- you'll have to read
it yourselves. I direct you instead to a scientific
explanation of the Shroud at <SPAN
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size=2><A
href="http://www.petech.ac.za/shroud/nature.htm">http://www.petech.ac.za/shroud/nature.htm</A>.
Mr. Allen's work predates Nathan's by a number of years, and, it turns out, Mr.
Allen himself relied on even older work. I am told (but have not seen
the show) that a similar theory was presented once upon a time on The
Discovery Channel. (Auntie again, being a crank.)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
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size=2>I am unfamiliar, except in the most cursory way, with the history of
glass, but I do have a question about Nate Wilson's shroud theory.
Where does Nate suppose that a clever early medieval forger got hold
of a sheet of glass of sufficient size and clarity to produce the
six-foot-two image on the Shroud of Turin? Hell, we couldn't get
glass like that in Moscow until the turn of the century. Perhaps there was
a Homeum Depotum in medieval Italy? If Nate could answer that question,
then I'm sure that puzzled medievalists the world over would truly thank
him. (Well, except for Auntie. She wouldn't thank him if he
found the Spear of Destiny and the True Cross -- though she speculates
that perhaps they're up on the NSA roof as
well.) </FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=2>Rose Huskey</FONT></SPAN></P>
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