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** Rembrandt painting sells for nearly $29 million
A rare black teddy bear made when Britain was in mourning after the sinking
of the Titanic fetched £91,750 at an auction in London
** Another First for Asia Guinness World of Records Museum
Now, with the January grand opening of the world's largest Guinness World of
Records Museum in Taichung, Asia's residents can get in on the fun as well
** Pooh hyperactive; Eeyore needs Prozac
Winnie the Pooh is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
and could be prone to Tourette's syndrome; Eeyore has chronic depression,
and Christopher Robin is in the midst of a gender-identity crisis
** Tsar's Throne Returned to City
The Russian imperial throne, upholstered in shimmering new red velvet, was
restored to its original home in St. Petersburg's Winter Palace on Saturday
** Carnegie Museum opens its stash of insects to the public
Forty-year-old Bob Androw is such an insect enthusiast that when he goes
home to Ohio for the holidays, he expects his mom will have a few bugs
frozen in film containers to give him
** Star of Bethlehem unraveled
At the risk of crowding the Biblical story, Mike Reynolds, a former Fletcher
High science teacher and finalist contender to be NASA's teacher in space,
will speak on the scientific evidence about the star of Bethlehem
** Fake antiquities litter top museums
More than 1,000 fake antiquities have been exposed in the collections of the
world's leading museums, including the British Museum and the Ashmolean in
Oxford
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** Museum Gets Route 66 Stretch
Flatbed trucks brought a 48-foot stretch of Route 66 to the National Museum
of American History on Wednesday - 55 tons of American road lore
** Sanxingdui Used to Be Pilgrimage Center: Experts
Sacrificial offerings unearthed at the Sanxingdui, an important relic site
in southwest China's Sichuan Province, have proven that the site used to be
a pilgrimage center in the world during ancient times
** Creaky Memory Cruise
Thirty-one men, with an average age of 74, sailed from Gibraltar today in a
ship that's almost as old as they are
** Anonymous donor plays Santa to arts centre
The George Weston Recital Hall has been given a new lease on life after the
infusion of a ``generous anonymous private donation,'' the city and the
Toronto Centre for the Arts announced yesterday
** French maps and drawings of ancient India to be exhibited
Curated by distinguished scholars on Indo-French relations Jean Marie Lafont
and Laurent de Gaulle, the exhibition includes 42 drawings and maps from the
Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer, made in the 18th century by French
cartographers
** Alleged Picasso cat thief arrested
The FBI said Tuesday it arrested a Wisconsin man for last month's theft last
of a ceramic cat crafted by Pablo Picasso from the Ernest Hemingway House
museum in Key West, Fla.
** Vancouver Art Gallery looks south to choose its new director
The Vancouver Art Gallery is negotiating with a U.S.-born art historian and
museum administrator to be its new director
** Museum secures rare plane
One of the world's rarest aeroplanes has been bought for nearly £200,000 by
the Museum of Flight at East Fortune in East Lothian.
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** Mahathir Opens Exhibition On Persian Marriage Certification The
certificates will be shown to the public for the first time, thus making
Malaysia its first destination worldwide. It includes wedding vows, details
of gifts and also Quranic verses in them
** The Earth's greatest treasures, yours for a cool £4m
Minerals from the world's finest private collection went on display
yesterday before they are sold in an auction that is expected to raise more
than £4 million
** Danish Art Museum Founder Dies
Knud W. Jensen, the cheese salesman who quit his job to found what later
became Denmark's renowned museum of modern art Louisiana, died Tuesday
** Dark days for not so secret society
To many people Sicily is synonymous with the Mafia, so it might seem
surprising that the island's first Mafia Museum is only now being opened
** New Museum Installation Presents Archive of Holiday Music On four
evenings during the exhibition, a group of invited disk jockeys will create
live re-mixes of their own selection from Marclay's Christmas records
** The Winners of Global Museum Caption Contest !
** ENDANGERED HISTORIC JEWISH SITES TO RECEIVE EMERGENCY FUNDING
** CIMI-MCN 2001 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
** Huge Crowd To Museum In Weekend
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