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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:
** Dresden averts cultural tragedy
Museum workers and soldiers have saved some 4,000 priceless paintings from
the floods
** Bush Wants Home for Bug Collection, Just Not Now
President Bush on Wednesday poked fun at Congress for putting money in an
emergency spending package for "a new building for worms and bugs," but he
does want the facility
** Meet the cheery Britons signing up for plastic immortality
They could end up being flayed and gutted, or sliced and diced, but from the
looks on their faces they could hardly wait
** Robin Hood's escape tunnel found
Archaeologists excavating 14th-century manmade caves beneath the museum
stumbled upon it accidentally when they broke through a rotten wood floor
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** 'Meteorite man' arrested again
A lucrative trade appears to be flourishing in these rare objects which
rained out of space
** A philanthropist with a purpose
Chong-Moon Lee seems worlds away from the days he lived on a dry patch of
dirt dug out from underneath a boulder
** Museum prepares mobiles-in-fishtank exhibit
The Design Museum in London is preparing an exhibit involving 150 mobile
handsets suspended in a fish tank
** China Had Express Mail in 221 B.C.
Express postal delivery would seem to be a modern invention, but writings on
ancient bamboo slips suggest that China had such a service 2,223 years ago
** Building a digital museum
Efforts have now started to take some of this heritage - fragments of
fascinating data - and digitise them for posting on the internet
** Fossil geese as tall as giraffes
The bones of 3000 giant fossil geese have been found in a "dinosaurs'
graveyard" in the Northern Territory Outback
** Rural museum wins tussle for mining capsule
The Smithsonian Institution has backed off its bid to acquire the yellow
capsule used to rescue nine trapped miners last month
** Jupiter Doing Something Wrong
A mysterious arm, estimated to be some 3 million light years across, once
again appeared to part the black fabric of space, point an angry finger
directly at Jupiter, and shout "No!"
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** World's earliest coins find place in Orissa museum
The Orissa State Museum has acquired 325 rare and valuable silver punch
marked coins, identified as the world's earliest coins dated between 10th
and 6th century BC
** Museum Paints Different WWII History
Next to its weathered worship hall lies a darker side - a sprawling war
museum featuring rocket-propelled kamikaze planes, one-man "human torpedo"
suicide subs and a history lesson on World War II from a distinctly Japanese
perspective
** Metal detector finds on show at British Museum
An exhibition of treasures found mostly by metal detector enthusiasts was
unveiled at the British Museum this week
** Frisbee maker wants ashes to have final spin
They are discussing with Frisbee makers how his remains can be moulded into
a limited number of "memorial flying discs". See also
** Schultz museum to open this weekend
The museum will preserve both Schulz's legacy as the creator of "Peanuts,"
the most popular comic strip of all time, and more than 50 years of his
original artwork
** Gunshots damage Chihuly Bridge of Glass
It was the first known case of vandalism either on the bridge or at the
adjoining Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art
** Russian belugas join Pingtung aquarium
Six Russian beluga whales arrive in Taiwan to join the collection of
exhibits at the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
** Museum operator's 10 reasons for believing Elvis lives
Bill Beeny's Top Ten list of reasons why he believes Elvis is still alive
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** ICOM-MPR 2002 annual conference which will take place in Mexico City 3 -
8 November 2002.
** School for Scanning: Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets
** U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Center For Advanced Holocaust Studies
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** ANICA : Australian Network for Information on Cellulose Acetate
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