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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Del Boy museum planned
Britain's keenest Only Fools and Horses fan is creating a museum devoted to
the Trotters
** Museum Web Awards final week for nominations
Final few days to pick your favourite site. Nominations close at the end of
July and may be submitted online.
** Beijing opening its first police museum
The situation is tense: The bad guy is holding a screaming hostage with a
gun to her head
** At war over a sunken sub
The H.L. Hunley, the Confederate submarine that sank in the War Between the
States, has become the focus of the War Between the Cities.
** Ancient Ruins Found at Greek Olympic Rowing Site
Archaeologists have discovered ancient ruins at the Skinias Olympic water
sports complex
** Rommel letters reveal secret second family
Until now the field marshal has been seen as an upright soldier with a
conventional life
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** The (Name Here) Museum
Ever since mortgage executive Lawrence Small became the Smithsonian
Institution secretary a year ago, the institution has been in a state of
uproar
** Danish storyteller's ugly duckling birthplace aims to become a swan
One statue, a stuffy museum and a one-room cottage now dwarfed by a parking
garage are the sum total of tributes to Denmark's greatest literary light
** Riddle of Egypt's ghost cities is solved
Two lost cities of ancient Egypt, rediscovered after being submerged for
more than a millennium, fought a losing battle against the Nile
** Two questioned over attempted museum theft
Detectives are questioning two men in London over an attempted theft at the
Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
** Canada cremates iceman
The remains of a 550-year-old Aboriginal man, discovered two years ago, have
been cremated and the ashes buried on a mountain
** Stolen art returned to Germany
After 58 globetrotting years the masterpieces have been returned to the
Bremen Museum
** Gas and steam engine museum to hold auction
Many of the items that do show up are historical in nature, such as civil
war documents, stock certificates and antique toys
** Schoolboy discovers 3,000-year-old ornament in Yorkshire museum
A 16-year-old schoolboy has discovered a rare 3,000-year-old Egyptian
ornament
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** Scottish squaw returns home
Her life was completely transformed when she was invited into the tribe by
the leader of the Indian nation in 1988
** Museum launches three new robotic predators
The museum has invested £500,000 in the exhibition and hopes to attract one
million visitors over the next 10 months
** Students put new spin on cricket museum
Manager Tracy Maitland snapped up the work of marketing students preparing
management and marketing plans for the museum as a class project
** Museum will salute immigrants' courage
Many died trying to cross the southern U.S. border, and those who arrived
were often treated as dirty, uneducated hard laborers
** This Week's Horoscopes - Pisces: (Feb. 19--March 20) It turns out that a
journey through the nine circles of hell is a good concept for an epic poem,
but not for a restaurant
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Small Gauge Film Symposium
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** Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation Awards for 2001
** Claude Pepper and Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Selection of Documents and
Photographs from the Claude Pepper Collection
** Culture and Development on the Development Gateway
** Dig This - Australian Fossil Dig Webcast
** Museums Receive Over $1 Million to Work with Neighbors
** 2001 National Leadership Grants, Museums In The Community Awards
** Audience Research and evaluation 2 day workshop
** Collecting the Colony: Contemporary thoughts on imperial histories
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Message to our loyal readership: Your next issue of Global Museum News will
appear on August 15th. We are taking a well deserved holiday - our first in
three years - and intend to return to the webzine fresh and invigourated
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