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week's edition include:

**  Medallists back return of marbles to Parthenon
Ten British Olympic medal winners are backing the return of the Parthenon
marbles to Greece for next year's Olympic Games

**  Cash crisis threatens to drive Burns collection to Edinburgh
Some manuscripts have already faded because the display cases that house
them are vulnerable to the sun's ultra-violet rays

**  Gaudi enters futuristic WTC plan
Another venerated architect has entered the field of luminaries presenting
designs for the site of the World Trade Centre - but this one has been dead
for 77 years

**  Gun Experts Charged With Fraud Over Sale
Two firearms experts were indicted on charges of swindling a gun collector
in a deal involving antique pistols, including guns owned by legendary Texas
Ranger Samuel H. Walker

**  Strewth, it's about time, cobber
The good old word dunny, first recorded in 1933, is believed to have come
from the British dialect word dunnekin meaning dung house
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**  Welsh lovers get an early start
The tale is quite a sad basis for a romantic tradition, says Emma Lyle,
assistant curator at the Museum of Welsh Life

**  National Gallery bids farewell to old friend
Raphael's Madonna of the Red Faces - showing the infant Jesus signing an
export license under the adoring gaze of the Virgin Mary has now been sold
to the McDonald's Restaurant Museum in Malibu

**  Fake Indian art market forges ahead
Mr De, a compulsive insurer who has insured not only every work of art he
owns but his cuff-links too, is the exception

**  Museum vandalism
A former New York museum employee is accused of vandalizing a famous oil
painting of the first American President.  MORE

**  'Cloning device' display defended
Britain's Science Museum in London defended its decision to exhibit a
machine that the shadowy Raelian sect claims to have used to clone humans

**  Iraq's Ancient Treasures in the Line of Fire
Preparations have been made to protect priceless museum collections from
looting and bombing that saw the theft of some 4,000 pieces in 1991

**  Collector's dark past hangs over a Berlin show
The collection was financed in part by an inheritance from Flick's
grandfather, Friedrich Flick, a German industrialist who used tens of
thousands of slave labourers during World War II.
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**  Love that costs a leg or two
A male member of the world's most sexually unequal animal species has
finally been found alive

**  Beijing hits out at museums' refusal to return relics
China is demanding overseas museums return plundered cultural relics but has
been rebuffed by the top establishments in the United States and Europe

**  Bush Eyes Fed Budget Hike for Libraries
President Bush will ask Congress for 15 percent more federal money for
libraries and museums next year than he requested for this year

**  Artists' sculpture to 'wrap' US park
The married artists have devised an environmentally friendly version of
their work, following objections about the damage it could cause to the park

**  Rare antelope 'back from dead'
Skins collected by a British explorer in the early 20th Century are being
used in conservation efforts to save an endangered African antelope

**  Exhibit Surveys Leonardo Da Vinci's Life
For exhibit curator Carmen Bambach, the page containing drawings of the
horse, the woman and the cannonballs embodies da Vinci's ability to tackle
many subjects at once

**  Feeling Sheepish
February 1st is the start of Chinese New Year and Global Museum send all of
it readers greetings on a special CNY ecard.

**  Inside the hidden kingdom
But what is going on these days behind that dour limestone façade, as staff
prepare themselves for a convulsive transformation?

**  This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST

**  World Cultural Heritage: Uniting by Understanding

**  The 36th Georgia Archives Institute

**  Digging In: Recipes from Archaeological Field Camps Around the World
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