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week's edition include:

**  Scott of Antarctic letters go on display
The last letters written by Antarctic explorer Robert Scott to his wife and 
young son before the adventurer died on his South Pole expedition are to go 
on display for the first time

**  Dracula's Castle Goes Up for Sale
The link to the Dracula story has turned the Gothic fortress, perched on a 
rock and surrounded by mountains, into a popular tourist destination

**  Mummy, you're purr-fect
They have been stored in a cardboard box - labelled `dim sims' - since at 
least the early 1980s, with the gallery having no known record of when they 
were acquired

**  Flood threatens historic St Petersburg
The historic centre of Saint Petersburg was under threat Wednesday as flood 
waters broke the banks of the River Neva in places, spilling into streets 
near the world-famous Hermitage art museum

**  Fresh fossils are best for DNA
New research has found that the DNA in fossils cleaned and preserved in 
museum collections degrades about 70 times faster than in bones left buried 
in the ground

**  Bonnie Prince Charlie leads the charge at exhibition
Rarely-seen items linked to the Glencoe Massacre, the Highland Clearances 
and the Battle of Culloden will all feature in Land and Legacy, which will 
open in the Capital in the summer at the National Museum of Scotland
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**  Ringo's childhood home may be preserved as part of new museum in 
Liverpool
Negotiations are under way to dismantle the condemned Liverpool row house 
and rebuild it as part of a major new museum in the north-western English 
city

**  Bacon work unseen for 40 years to sell for £12m
It is a painting that has not been seen in public since 1963 and it may 
disappear again after it is sold next month for what is anticipated to be a 
world record price for the artist

**  Spy offered to kill Hitler with suicide bomb
A British double agent offered to assassinate Adolf Hitler in a suicide 
mission but his plan was rejected by MI5, archive papers reportedly have 
revealed

**  Thousands visit Natural History Museum after Ben Stiller Movie
New York's American Museum of Natural History has seen a 20 percent jump in 
attendance over the holidays

**  Museum plans for Abu Dhabi stirs row in France
Plans to export a version of the most famous museum in France to a resort in 
the oil-rich city of Abu Dhabi has sparked accusations the French government 
is sacrificing cultural standards for profit

**  Field Museum researcher says he discovered new bat species
A biologist at Chicago's Field Museum said he has discovered a new species 
of sucker-footed bats that are thriving in deforested areas of western 
Madagascar

**  Lawyer Took Part In Talks That Secured Return Of Munch Paintings
A lawyer representing the alleged ringleader of a 2004 bank robbery played a 
key role in the safe return of two paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard 
Munch
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**  100 Monkeys on Typewriters Demand Personal Computers
For almost a century one hundred chimpanzees have been pounding away on old 
style typewriters trying to recreate, at random, the works of William 
Shakespeare

**  Climate shift helped destroy China`s Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty, seen by many historians as a glittering peak in China's 
history, was brought to its knees by shifts in the monsoon cycle, according 
to a study recently published

**  Exhibit examines history of bark cloth
Distinct cultures from Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and Oceania all 
developed the same response to the need for textile coverings in an extreme 
environment

**  Rare Flower On Verge Of Blooming At Maine Discovery Museum
Despite the stink, people gather whenever one blooms, since they open only 
once every two to three years

**  Columbia Professor Investigates Possible Michelangelo Forgery
When art historians heard the suggestion recently that a famous statue 
believed to be the work of classical sculptors was in fact a forgery by the 
Renaissance artist Michelangelo, they were sceptical

**  Easter Islanders wonder how many statues are enough
Our elders ask what possible reason can there be to restore more moai, when 
we can see that those that have been restored are deteriorating more rapidly 
than those that are broken and still lying on the ground

**  Open Source History: Making History Public The American Association for 
History and Computing (AAHC)

**  IMLS Announces Registration for 2007 WebWise Conference

**  NYCMER Annual Conference - Spaces for Learning

**  Registration for the 2007 Volunteer Management Conference is now open

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