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	Amazing Devotion

learnjoy

5-16-2007 7:03 PM

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art, prayer

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5-17-2007 3:49 AM

Deepti

wow

5-17-2007 1:00 PM

BigBadWolf

I would have to Snopes this... seems unfeasible that someone could do this with the naked eye whereas it took 500x magnification to make it readable for me.

5-17-2007 2:12 PM

djkraz

I know the pin is real, but I've never heard the story behind it.

5-17-2007 3:28 PM

Nefer

http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/109/t/000119/p/1.html

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              Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving his time in Sing
Sing prison in the late 1800s when guards found him dead in
his cell.   On his body they found seven regular straight pins
whose heads measured the typical 47/1000ths of an inch or
1.17 millimeters in diameter.   Under 500 magnification it was
found that the tiny etchings seen  on the heads of the pins
were the words to The Lord's Prayer, which is 65 words and
254 letters long.   Of the seven pins, six were silver and one
was gold - the gold pin's prayer was flawless and a true
masterpiece.  Schiller had spent the last 25 years of his life
creating the pins, using a tool too small to be seen by the
naked eye.  It is estimated that it took 1,863 sepatate carving
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