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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Native who led WWII refugees to safety
Fry and others saved more than 2,000 people, many of them prominent
intellectuals, artists, and scientists who had waited too long to flee
France
** Unveiling a new spirit
With a band of Muslim extremists having declared holy war on the United
States, Vikan said he hopes the Walters can help educate people about the
religion's true tenets
** Museum makes no bones over new strategy
On that subject, South Australian Museum director Tim Flannery has bemoaned
the replacement of artefacts with "Disneyland-style" displays
** Smithsonian jumps at offer of obsolete speed dialer
The device gathered dust until a few weeks ago, when Lannucci decided to
throw it out
** Tapu put on lizards at Te Papa
The case is one of several fuelling tensions at the national museum between
Maori knowledge, and science
** Rare Neolithic Art Discovered on Greek Island
Rare Neolithic stone carvings depicting sailing ships, animals and fish have
been discovered on the Aegean island of Andros
** Pulitzer Prizes 'Un-Museum'
Above all, she did not want the regimentation that so many blockbuster
museum shows impose, did not want people to feel herded from gallery to
gallery to gift shop.
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** Queen's £2 million stamp to go on show
The Mauritian stamp was the first to be issued by a colonial post office
** Schoolboy deciphers ancient text
A schoolboy has beaten museum experts by deciphering ancient Egyptian
writing
** Museums host Halloween hauntings
Young trick-or-treaters will have a spooktacular time at the Betty Brinn
Children's Museum's Not-So-Scary Halloween
** Traitor Blunt's secret memoir
The document detailing his years of espionage will not be published until
2013, 30 years after the death of the fourth member of the Cambridge spy
circle
** Human body exhibition has vomit machine
The Grossology exhibition at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum also has a
huge sneezing nose
** Hunting change
A Gallic equivalent of Stonehenge, Dr Chris Scarre believes the monuments
were built when people changed from being hunter-gatherers to farmers
** Rare texts tell medieval tales
The text storeroom, called a geniza, contained 250,000 manuscripts and
fragments of manuscripts in Hebrew, most dating to the 11th to 13th
Centuries
** Made For The Maharajas
While the lavish jewels of India are on display at the Metropolitan Museum,
an almost-as-elegant array is on sale in the Met's shops
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius: (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You will discover incontrovertible proof that
Lynn Anderson did, in fact, promise you a rose garden
** Wall-to-wall misery recalled as 'Rat Pee Terrace' gets facelift
The "back-to-back'' houses in Inge Street, central Birmingham - the
description derives from the way they were built, two deep with a shared
rear wall - are prime examples of their kind
** He carves out his dream by rebuilding part of a monastery
The stonemason has the daunting task of putting together a portion of the
13th century Spanish monastery that William Randolph Hearst took apart
** World's biggest shoes go on display
The German Shoe Museum in Hauenstein has awarded top billing to the pair
** Floods Swept Ancient Nile Cities Away
The researchers have concluded that the two cities collapsed when the land
they were built on suddenly liquefied
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Staying 'N Sync: Programming with and for Teens
** You've digitised but now what?
** Eldredge Prize for outstanding scholarship
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** "Art Positions" a "Pioneers Village" for cutting edge galleries created
by Art Basel Miami Beach
** New Zealand Museum Welcomes Canadian Intern .
** 3rd Science Centre World Congress.
** Workshop "University Collections: opportunities & access" Utrecht
** The Fragile Tradition: The German Cultural Imagination since 1500
** The American Federation of Arts' eighth annual Directors Forum
** The Bidding Culture and Local Government: Effects on the Development of
Public Libraries, Archives and Museums
** Ten Days that Shook New York: The Transit Strike of 1966
** Art, Light and Space from the middle ages to the present
** ECSITE Annual Conference 2001 "Sharing ideas, developing skills,
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