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The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Nine masterpieces seized in ten-minute raid
Expressionist masterpieces worth about £6 million have been stolen in a
daring but astonishingly simple ten-minute raid
** Tenement Museum Wants to Expand
The museum that preserves the Lower East Side's immigrant history is seeking
to expand by evicting residents of a renovated tenement next door
** Selling Elvis: His diehard fans are dying off
That challenge was on full view last week at Graceland, where the elderly
taking snapshots of Elvis' tombstone far outnumbered the young
** Strange Site of the Week: Gallery of the Unidentifiable
Don't miss the "Petrified Seafood Special" excavated at Pompeii, 1st century
A.D., or the brass "Florentine Double Stuf Oreo Press" c. 1735
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** Letter by suffragette leader goes on display
The one-page Pankhurst letter was discovered in a bag during preparations
for the museum opening
** Thatcher backs bid to make ship a Falklands museum
The 37-year-old HMS Fearless played a key role in the Falklands War and now
veterans of the conflict want to turn it into a floating museum
** Rare Anglo-Saxon bowl discovered
A delicate Anglo-Saxon glass bowl has been uncovered, preserved for 1,500
years without so much as a chip, in thick mud at the bottom of an ancient
ceremonial bucket
** LA Museum Displays Glimpse of 17th Century Holland
Ms. Hendrix says the 17th century was a time of momentous change in Holland,
and Dutch churches, as religious and cultural centers, were symbols of the
transformation
** German City Unlikely Home of Beatles Museum
Tourism managers have done their best to cast the city as a "German
Liverpool," having zebra crossings painted at numerous crossings
** 'Mona Lisa' of Coins May Fetch Record Auction Price
The 1933 Double Eagle up for sale followed a long and winding road from its
minting to the auction block
** Scientists Discover New Insect
Insect scientists are all abuzz about the discovery of a new insect.
** Mount Vernon Plans $85 M Museum
Officials at George Washington's estate are planning a new $85 million
museum and high-tech orientation-center complex to attract younger visitors
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** Obituary: Thor Heyerdahl
" I feel that I have the same love for nature, the mountains, the forests,
the fjords, as all my fellow Norwegians, the same sense for adventure and
the same feeling for brotherhood among different people"
** Campbell Soup Heiress Donates $5M
Campbell Soup heiress Dorrance H. Hamilton has pledged $5 million to help
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts expand its downtown Philadelphia
campus
** New Kalkriese Museum Features Varus Battle
During the summer of 1987, the British amateur archaeologist, Major Tony
Clunn, discovered a Roman treasure of coins in Kalkriese and, in so doing,
pinpointed the historic battle site
** Asteroid strike museum opens
The National Space Centre is to play a vital role in warning of the risks of
earth being hit by asteroids
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** That's no lady, that's...
... the earliest known portrait of the third Earl of Southampton,
Shakespeare's patron and possible lover
** Scientists Push Back Primate Origins
A small, 85-million-year-old creature that looked like a lemur could be the
common ancestor of all primates, including humans
** Thousands of Inca mummies discovered in Peru
A mucky shantytown slum on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, built on an ancient
Inca cemetery, has yielded an immense treasure trove of 2,200 Inca mummies
** Exhibit Explores Tatto and Marine History
"Skin is a living canvas," says tattoo parlor owner Art Lewis, explaining
that maritime history has been mapped on that canvas for 300 years
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** "The Best in Heritage" , Dubrovnik 19-21 September 2002
** ICOM Committee For Conservation
** Postmodern Medievalisms - The Seventeenth Annual International Meeting
of the Conference on Medievalism
** The National Film Preservation Foundation
** The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
** 5th Cambridge Heritage Seminar - Making the means transparent: Exploring
Research Methodologies In Heritage Studies
** Hurricane Preparedness: Surviving The Big One
** 'A box of matches is the curator's best friend'
** 'Going back to our roots'
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