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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:
** Argentine torture site to become museum
It took two decades for the government to begin recognizing the sites where
thousands of citizens were tortured and killed by the military junta during
Argentina's so-called Dirty War, and next year the most infamous one will
finally be vacated by the military so it can become a museum
** Night At The Museum
See the trailer at Global Museum
** Museum stab victim had baby with her
A young mother stabbed to death in a Liverpool museum was with her baby son
at the time, police have said
** Artwork damaged at embassy bash
A valuable painting on loan from one of Australia's finest indigenous
collections was damaged during a cocktail party hosted by Alexander Downer
at the Australian embassy in Paris in June, despite the owner's requests
that all artworks be closely guarded
** Mystery of Ancient Astronomical Calculator Unveiled
A team led by Cardiff University researchers has unravelled the secrets of a
2,000-year-old computer which could transform the way we think about the
ancient world.
** Found - Fossils and a 4-Headed Chicken
In the main room of the exhibition, which opened last week, a pickled
star-nosed mole shares shelf space with the first blue grosbeak nestling
found in New York City, a jar of squid eggs and a four-headed chicken born
on a Staten Island farm in 1914
** Britain battling to compete in art market
Britain's art heritage is draining away and its museums can no longer
compete against foreign rivals in bidding for old masters
** Did an eco-disaster spawn complex life?
The greatest mass extinction of all time led to the proliferation of complex
marine life that quickly dominated the undersea scene, according to a new
analysis of the fossil record
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** Two injured in Fremantle museum blast
Two people were injured in a gas explosion at the Fremantle Maritime Museum
in Western Australia
** Polly embroiled in 'dead' parrot episode
The reputations of a Queensland cabinet minister, one of the state's
best-known naturalists and a senior government scientist are on the line
over a lime-green parrot
** Police Display Art Fakes in London
Pseudo Picassos, counterfeit Chagalls and other fakes are on display in
London this week, part of an effort by Scotland Yard to warn dealers about
forged art that it says fuels crime gangs around the world
** Pushy Gang Members
Motorcycle gang members rudely pushed past patrons attending the Burt Munro
exhibition opening at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery to pay tribute to
their hero
** Man threatens museum over re-enactment
Berger's home is separated from the ceremony by just some trees, and the
cannon fire reportedly shakes his home so hard it sets off his security
alarms and traumatizes his pets
** British museum's exhibition marks 400th anniversary of Jamestown
An exhibition celebrating the first permanent English settlement in the
United States opened Wednesday at a London dockside museum near where 104
men embarked for Virginia in 1606. See also - A Grave Story
** McDonald's New McRibbit Sandwich Raises Brows
McDonald's countered charges of animal cruelty by pointing out that the frog
is first stunned with a McTaser then forced to listen to Barry Manilow music
before being placed on the bun
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** Wax worker gets saucy with 'stars'
A night worker at Madame Tussauds faces losing his job after posing for
photos groping star waxworks
** Drought blamed for killing off the big Australians
Further evidence has emerged that it was harsh climate, and not human
habitation of the continent, that was the slayer of the car-sized wombats,
2.5-metre tall kangaroos, sheep-sized echidnas and other extra-large beasts
that once roamed the outback
** Artists track every stuffed polar bear in UK
Two artists prowled the country in search of stuffed polar bears -- and
uncovered 34 of the proud Arctic icons discarded in stockrooms or
languishing in stately homes
** With bodies on display, science centre to attract visitors and ethical
questions
People might have generically donated their bodies for research or
education, but not have any idea that might include a public exhibition
** Museum Starts Adopt-An-Artefact Program
The skull of Sue the T-Rex, one of the Field Museum's best known pieces, and
two man-eating Tsavo lions also will cost sponsors $1 million
** Gray to Green
** Safe Toys and Gifts Month
** A Thousand Museums Take Root and Bloom
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