National Bible Museum in Dallas?

Very strange thing going on right now in New York and Europe about a “National Bible Museum” to be created in Dallas — strange in that there has been no mention here in the city’s only daily newspaper. But people elsewhere seem to know all about it.

The National Bible Museum, as it has been described to me, would be the size of 10 football fields and is supposed to be built somewhere near downtown Dallas.

Things like this get talked about all the time, and most of them are trial balloons, scams or urban rumors. But here is the intriguing part about this deal: I have it on very good authority that the agents for this museum — a Biblical scholar from Western Michigan and a Dallas man — have been making very major purchases of serious books and manuscripts in New York and Europe for which they have been paying millions of dollars.

Full Dallas Observer Article

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And you thought Obama’s 22 pens were a bit much

When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he reportedly used more than 75 pens, the signing starts around the 50 second mark.

And here’s a little more background on the whole multiple pen tradition. Heck, you’ll even learn why Clinton signed a particular bill with four pens and gave one to Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1974490,00.html#ixzz0j3qrALqy

The first time I learned about this multiple pen signing tradition was when I read about Gen MacArthur, acting as primary representative for the U.S., signed the Instrument of Surrender using  six pens when the Empire of Japan surrendered on the deck of the USS Missouri.  One of the pens went to West Point, and the other went to Annapolis, which I always thought was cool.

In case you were wondering, the pens used by the Japanese were destroyed.

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