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...14TH CENTURY SKEPTIC One of the first universally accepted documentations of what we now know as the Shroud of Turin happens to be a letter declaring it a fraud. In 1389 Pierre d'Arcis, then Bishop of Troyes, described a "twofold image of one man, that is to say, the back and the front...thus impressed together with the wounds which he bore." The linen cloth had occupied a place of honor in a church in the tiny French town of Lirey since the 1350s; D'Arcis, who was writing to his Pope, complained that "although it is not publicly...
...History of the Second World War helped win him a Nobel Prize for literature. Writing, however, never fully engaged his energies. Politics consumed him. His father Lord Randolph Churchill was a brilliant political failure. Early in life, Winston determined to succeed where his father had failed. His motives were twofold. His father had despised him. Writing in August 1893 to Winston's grandmother, the dowager Duchess of Marlborough, he said the boy lacked "cleverness, knowledge and any capacity for settled work. He has a great talent for show-off, exaggeration and make-believe." His disapproval surely stung, but Churchill reacted...
Congratulations on your 75th! The reasons for your success are twofold [75TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE, March 9]: you consistently corral great writers, and you get away with telling people what to think without making most of them mad--no mean feat in this, the most independent-minded country in the world. I don't like your new, light, jazzy format. But you can't fight success. I'll be reading TIME, no doubt, for years to come. JOEL LAYNE Boise, Idaho...
...addition to sending out an advisory letter, the response of the HUPD will be twofold, according to McNamara...
Their interest is twofold. First they want to better understand El Nino itself--what makes it work, what makes it recur, how it affects human activities. To that end, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced last week that it is setting aside $2.1 million to study the impact of the latest flurry of El Nino-related storms...