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** Nude Female Jesus Photo Stirs Furor
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani began assembling a task force to monitor "decency" in
tax-sponsored art exhibits Friday, as a museum opened a show including a
photograph depicting Jesus as a naked woman
** Imelda Marcos, first lady of sole, opens shoe shrine
Former First Lady Imelda Marcos, the world's most notorious shoe collector,
opened a museum in the Philippines on Friday dedicated to footwear and
boosting tourism
** Museum Wants Rebel Leader's Sweat Towel
Colombia's national museum has asked legendary guerrilla leader Manuel
"Sureshot" Marulanda to hand over for an exhibit the sweat towel that has
been his trademark for decades.
** Treasure in search of a trove
Stacked up like Grandma's garage, tenfold, this suburban warehouse contains
the millions of artefacts the museum does not have the space to store.
** Penn Museum Gets $16 Million Gift
A University of Pennsylvania alumnus and renowned archaeologist has donated
$16 million to renovate an antiquated museum building, the largest gift ever
given to the 113-year-old facility
** Pre-Inca treasure tombs are unearthed in Peru
Three treasure-filled tombs have been found in Peru from a little-known
ancient society that disappeared 700 years before the Incas reached the peak
of their power
** Scientists unearth dissected remains on Oxford grounds
Archeologists excavating the site where Oxford University's medical school
once stood have discovered a pit full of the skeletal remains of executed
criminals and abandoned children used in 18th-century dissections
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** F.M. Kirby Foundation Donates Fine Art to Morris Museum
The F.M. Kirby Foundation has donated two important oil paintings to the
Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey
** Historic National Registry For African American Railroad Employees
The idea for the registry was originally intended to document surviving
members of the once renowned Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP)
union, the first African American labor union chartered in the United States
** Henry Moore Exhibit Opens in Dallas
More than 200 works will be featured, from 10 -foot-tall bronzes to plaster
models small enough to fit in the palm of a hand
** Archaeologists unearth early Sharjah fort
A team of French archaeologists has excavated a large square building called
Meleiha Fort dating back to the second century AD at Melieha
** Treasure House of the People
'The museum is far from finished - it's an organic thing we've created'
** Tangled map of the national psyche
It's a sort of satirical embodiment of Australia - a comfortable collection
f the past, a cynical view of the present, and a closed view of the future -
and maybe that's what museums should do.
** Grab the Butter, It's Time to Eat Bliny
This year the city's main Maslenitsa celebrations will be held Saturday at
he Kolomenskoye complex in southern Moscow, a picturesque open-air museum
perched on a hill overlooking the Moscow River
** New Museum Film Explores the Sun
On the year's shortest day the light of the rising sun streaks down a shaft
and pierces the darkness in the world's oldest known scientifically designed
room, the inner chamber at Newgrange
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** New Twist In 'Millennium Man' Saga
The temporary transfer of the fossils has fuelled heated debate in Kenya,
with the interested groups, including the government, arguing that they
should have remained in Kenya
** Pros And Cons of Online Auctions
Items that sell best at e-auctions are out-of-print books, maps, recent
out-of-production limited edition collectibles such as Beanie Babies and
Hummel figurines, and rare sports collectibles that are well authenticated
** Grueling Household Tasks Of 19th Century Enjoyed By Suburban Woman
"It's so neat to make something with your own hands," Brinkworth said.
"There's nothing more pleasurable than spending a lazy Sunday afternoon
churning butter."
** Did mozzies help bring down Roman Empire?
Archaeologists said the findings supported the hypothesis that an outbreak
of a particularly lethal form of malaria in the fifth century probably
contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire
** China's 'Nanjing Man' Challenges Out of Africa Theory
Australian and Chinese scientists have dated China's ``Nanjing Man'' as
580,000 to 620,000 years old
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