Re: Shakespeare Hacked the Bible.

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From: Bill Jefferys
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <Treed-ya02408000R0103971906240001@library.airnews.net>,
Treed@CAM.ORG (Tony Reed) wrote:

#William Shakespeare left an Easter egg in the King James
#Version of the Bible...
#
#Check it out at: <http://www.cam.org/~treed/bill.html>
#Note: lynx-friendly site.

I'm really glad to see this. The Psalm 46 bit is really old, but I believe
I was the first to point out to Usenet folks the bit about Shakespeare's
age. (I have no idea if the Friedmans discussed that aspect; I discovered
it for myself.)

Anyway, it's a good bit of fun, and a wonderful factoid.

Bill "William Shakespeare was my great, great, great, great, great, great
grandfather" Jefferys

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From: bill@dont.spam.me.org (Bill Jefferys)
Subject: Re: Shakespeare Hacked the Bible.
Date: 1997/03/04
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