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week's edition include:
** The Barnes Revises Attributions of Old Masters
"I don't think any of it was shocking or surprising," said the Barnes
Foundation's senior administrative officer, "For decades people have been
saying some of our old masters weren't what we said they were."
** No Sign of Legendary Cat in Monitor Cannon
Was there a black cat aboard the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, placed
inside a cannon by a superstitious but desperate sailor as the vessel was
sinking?
** San Diego Aerospace Museum to unveil Predator
A high-endurance, medium-altitude, unmanned aircraft system for surveillance
and reconnaissance missions, the aircraft can carry air-to-air and
air-to-ground missiles while providing continuous and persistent armed
reconnaissance and battlefield support to ground troops
** Not your average Dusty Old Museum
Walk into any Thai museum and you are usually greeted with a sign that reads
"Do not touch" or "Be careful" - in other words, not exactly a welcoming
place to visit
** Mozart's Head Snatched From Museum
Thieves snatched the head of a life-size Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wax figure
from a Salzburg museum
** Bones reveal first shoe-wearers
Sturdy shoes first came into widespread use between 40,000 and 26,000 years
ago, according to a US scientist
Museum Bear Bites Off an Old Woman's Foot
A bear named Masha bit off the foot of an elderly woman who was cleaning the
area near her cage at the Yaroslavl Museum Park
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** Egypt unearths ancient mosaic floor in Sinai
A multicoloured mosaic floor dating back to the 2nd century has been
unearthed in the Sinai peninsula
** For sale: one megalithic tomb (if buyer passes muster)
Pascal Normand has decided to sell his 5,000-year-old megalithic tomb, but
he is being very choosy about who gets it
** Bishop Museum offering volcanic experience
Once finished, visitors to the Bishop Museum's Science Adventure Centre will
be able to walk through the volcano and physically experience the heat of a
volcanic plume
** Museum gets a Monet gem
The Art Institute of Chicago announced it has received an important new
gift: "Water Lily Pond," circa 1919, part of a late series of Monet's
paintings of the Japanese-style pond on his country estate in Giverny,
France
** Unusual Museums of the World: Bigfoot 'lives' at museum dedicated to its
legend
Rugg knew when he decided to turn his former arts-and-crafts studio into a
museum that the area had generated numerous reports of Bigfoot encounters up
until the 1980s
** Museum gives a grounding in geology
Visitors to the Royal Museum of Scotland are being invited to learn how to
polish minerals such as agate and zircon as part of this year's Scottish
Geology Festival
** Ruby slippers stolen
A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz and insured
for $US1 million ($A1.33 million) is missing from a museum in Minnesota
** Preserving Beijing's royal mansions
"If the Forbidden City represents the royal culture, the quadrangle housing
the folk culture, then princes' mansions should have their own culture,"
said Gu Changjiang, director of the administration centre of Prince Gong's
Mansion
** Treasure found in ice case
"A stroke of wonderful luck" has uncovered priceless artefacts from Captain
Robert Scott's tragic journey to the South Pole nearly a century ago
** Rembrandt, Caravaggio go head-to-head in Amsterdam exhibit
Amsterdam's two main museums will join forces for the first time ever early
next year to mount an exhibit pairing major paintings by two geniuses of
Baroque art, Dutch master Rembrandt and Italy's Caravaggio
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