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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Aquarium to sell two-headed albino snake
The World Aquarium in St Louis has been home to We, a one-of-a-kind
two-headed albino rat snake, since 1999
** Treasure ship to reveal its secrets after 800 years
Stormy waves cut short the voyage of the Chinese merchant vessel as it left
a southern port laden with exquisite porcelain 800 years ago to sell its
wares along the ancient trade route known as the Marine Silk Road
** Portuguese museum discovers Rembrandt paintings are fakes
The two oil paintings - one a supposed self-portrait of the painter and the
other a depiction of a friend of his - were donated to the municipal museum
of the southern city of Faro in 1944 by Portuguese diplomat Amadeu Ferreira
de Almeida
** Ancient Egyptians Held Dwarves in High Esteem
Short stature didn't prevent dwarves in ancient Egyptian culture from
attaining high positions in society
** Non-profit Friends misspent thousands
Audit claims non-profit historic group misspent public money, much of it on
perks for its president
** F.B.I. Will Continue Investigating Everhart Theft
There are no leads yet on that stolen art at the Everhart Museum, but the
F.B.I. has announced it is not giving up
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** Archaeological Dig Unearths Hopes for a Civil War Museum
Windswept and rocky, the knobby point overlooking the Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal in present-day Potomac provided a strategic lookout but little shelter
for the Union soldiers who fortified the spot in 1862
** Museum displays all that a computer geek could desire
Anybody who remembers life before laptops or e-mail knows how quickly
technology has changed
** German museum renounces claim to art that Nazis took off walls
Berlin's greatest art museum renounced Wednesday any claim to a
million-dollar Edvard Munch painting that a Norwegian collector is to sell
next month at a Sotheby's auction
** 'Da Vinci Code' Boosts Louvre Visitors
About 7.3 million people visited the art museum in 2005, up from its
previous record of 6.7 million in 2004
** New law pinches Denmark's small museums
A new law instructing Denmark's 130 nationally accredited museums to drop
admission fees is causing museums to seek funds elsewhere
** How Auld Lang Syne is the song we love to forget
The poem was written by Burns around 1788 and he sent the words and a
suggested tune to the British Museum
** Museum sells Fuddy Duddy
The plane, the most recognizable asset of the former National Warplane
Museum, was put up for sale in the summer after museum officials realized
they couldn't hang on to the warbird and still survive financially
Sheikh accused of art export 'abuse'
The world's biggest art collector, Sheikh Saud Al-Thani, has been accused of
abusing the system governing the export of art works from Britain
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** Italian paintings on show in Shanghai
On show are masterpieces by such well-known Italian artists as Leonardo Da
Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Tiziano Vecellio
** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn December 22 - January 19: As manager of a pet store, you've long
suspected employees were flushing dead goldfish down the toilet. The
poodles, on the other hand, will surprise you.
** Astronauts raising money for former museum director
Several former astronauts are collecting money to pay legal expenses for Max
Ary, the former Cosmosphere director who was convicted of stealing artefacts
from the space museum
** Kansas Underground Salt Museum
The Kansas Underground Salt Museum won't open until early July, but it is
already scheduling tour groups
** Construction on Asia's largest marine museum begins
Construction of the Nanhai No. 1 Museum, designed to display a first ancient
vessel discovered on the "Marine Silk Road" of the South China Sea, has
begun in Yangjiang city of south China's Guangdong Province
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