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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Mystery of the missing treasures
Intrigue surrounds the theft of items worth £2.5m from St Petersburg's
Hermitage Museum
** Unearthed Afghan treasures overcome odds for Paris show
Two years ago, a rich and ancient trove of some of Afghanistan's most
treasured archaeological artefacts was rediscovered after lying hidden and
feared lost through years of war and instability
** Museum worker's bone haul
When investigators raided the home of former Australian Museum pest
controller Hendrikus van Leeuwen, every room except his bathroom and the
kitchen was filled with stuffed animals and skeletons
** Museum Max in kitty heaven
One of Cape Town's most famous moggies, a former feral cat who went on to
become a Mother City institution, has died
** Former museum curator charged with fraud
The Nebraska suit alleges that Kopitke set up charitable war museums in
three towns there to gain thousands of dollars in incentives, benefits and
personal possessions from individuals and local governments
** Emperor's artefacts unearthed in Rome
Italian archaeologists have unearthed remarkably well-preserved imperial
insignia that belonged to Emperor Maxentius and were buried for safekeeping
after he was defeated by his Christian rival Constantine
** Museum director chains self to dinosaur skeleton in protest
The director of a museum in southwestern Argentina chained himself to an
assembled dinosaur skeleton to demand that fossils and replicas sent to
Buenos Aires, Italy and the United States be returned to his institution
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** Precious Tintorettos leaving Venice for Madrid's Prado for rare exhibit
With some apprehension, Venice is letting several of its precious
Tintorettos travel to Madrid for a rare retrospective of one of its most
prolific painters, celebrated for his virtuosity in brush stroke and
inventive use of perspective
** Stories of tattoos more than skin deep
The story of Andy's tattoo is among many recounted in the Skin Deep
exhibition which arrives at Yarmouth's Time and Tide museum in March on tour
from the National Maritime Museum
** Wales' Christmas traditions from a bygone age
One that will almost certainly not feature is the barbaric Boxing Day
tradition of "holming" or "holly-beating" where boys and young men would use
holly branches to beat the arms or legs of young women until they bled
** Imprint of Leonardo's last supper
Anthropologists say they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index
fingerprint - a discovery that could help shed light on such matters as the
food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin
** Kansas Outlaws Practice Of Evolution
The sweeping new law prohibits all living beings within state borders from
being born with random genetic mutations that could make them better suited
to evade predators, secure a mate, or, adapt to a changing environment
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** Yale reopening renowned art building after $44 million restoration
The Ivy League university has completed a $44 million restoration of the
main building of its art gallery that was designed by legendary architect
Louis Kahn, who designed the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas
** Plea in theft of historic gun
A former Queens resident faces up to 90 days in prison and a $500 fine after
pleading guilty to stealing the pistol Theodore Roosevelt used in the
Spanish-American War
** Historic aircraft wreckage unearthed in Poland
The wreckage of a Second World War aircraft flown by a Canadian crew on a
secret mission to Nazi occupied Poland in 1944 has been unearthed from a
muddy field near Krakow, Poland, exposing bones, personal belongings and
other reminders of their heroic but ill-fated bid to supply insurgents
during the Warsaw Uprising
** New art museum ready to bow on Boston waterfront
Perched on the shore of Boston Harbour, the first new art museum built in
Boston in nearly a century is preparing to open with a collection of modern
painting, sculpture, photography and video
** Peace, Love and a Tax Write-Off
Wanted: tie-dyed shirts, groovy signs, guitars, snapshots, bits of trampled
fence and other artefacts from the 1969 Woodstock concert for an on-site
museum
** Saxon jewellery bought by museum
A small piece of Saxon jewellery unearthed in Kent has been bought by
Maidstone museum
** Man held for Pharaoh Relic sale
A man has been arrested in France after advertising what he said was a lock
of hair from Egypt's Pharaoh Ramses II for sale on the internet
** Museums and Universal Heritage - 21st General Conference & 22nd General
Assembly of the International Council of Museums
** Long Tails, Tipping Points and Cultural Literacy: Museums, Trends and
Communities
** Mission Earthling - Unveiling the secrets of the human body
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