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week's edition include:
** Aloysius too ancient to revisit Brideshead
"He is in good spirits but is getting on in years and really looks like a
centenarian," said Ian Pout, owner of the Teddy Bear Museum in Witney, where
Aloysius resides
** Lerwick museum's bid for St Ninian's Isle treasure
The treasure of silver bowls and ornaments, which is believed to date from
around 800AD, was found in 1958 by a schoolboy helping at an archaeological
dig on the island, and ever since its discovery it has been controversial
** Putin Pledges Month's Salary to Museum
President Vladimir Putin has promised to contribute one month's salary to
the construction of a Jewish museum of tolerance
** Napoleon and Churchill letters kept in laundry room
One of the word's greatest collections of historical letters, including a
note written by Napoleon to his lover Josephine, has been found in a filing
cabinet tucked away in a Swiss laundry room
** Israel displays rare Old Testament text
A rare Old Testament manuscript some 1,300 years old is on display for the
first time, after making its way from a secret room in a Cairo synagogue to
the hands of an American collector
** New ant museum offers a lesson in ethics and order in modern life
Thailand's first ant museum is now open to visitors who are curious about
how the ''super-organism'' can teach humans lessons about life
** Former Philly museum head pleads guilty
Museum officials remain confounded over what led Carter to use the
institution as his personal piggy bank
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** Military-issued novelty toy saved D-Day paratroopers lives
The crickets were lifesavers for American paratroopers scattered in the dark
on a morning when using a flashlight to check a map or shouting in English
meant instant death
** Keeping treasured violins forever young
A violin, it turns out, needs to be played, just as a car needs to be driven
and a human body shooed off the couch
** Ethiopia wants the Queen to return royal bones
In the latest Ethiopian drive to reclaim stolen artefacts and relics, the
government in Addis Ababa has written to the Queen, asking her to send home
Alemayehu's remains
** Uncool Zookeeper Won't Let Anyone Ride Gorillas
Despite heartfelt pleas, Janice Petrone, a totally lame and uncool zookeeper
at the Brookfield Zoo, repeatedly told a group of area sixth graders that
they were not allowed to ride on the backs of the western lowland gorillas
** Witness fingers Japanese museum in Italian art-trafficking
The expert witness for the prosecution in a trial in Italy over the
trafficking of stolen art objects to the United States has claimed a
Japanese museum is housing items unearthed illegally in Italy
** Colombia Fights U.S. Diver for Treasure
The Spanish galleon San Jose was trying to outrun a fleet of British
warships off Colombia's coast on June 8, 1708, when a mysterious explosion
sent it to the bottom of the sea with gold, silver and emeralds now valued
at more than $2 billion
** Stupid Boy not so stupid
A 15-year-old Norfolk schoolboy has set up a Dad's Army museum in his back
garden
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** 'Buffalo Bill' Cody billboard from 1878 restored
An 1878 billboard promoting a 'Buffalo Bill' Cody stage show has been
restored, five years after it was discovered beneath the crumbling brick
facade of a former hotel
** A kindly view of Cook the carer
Foster's essay goes some way towards restoring a hero's reputation that has
been tarnished by a series of recent "revisionist" histories
** Laud of the flies
Plans have yet to be finalised but the organisers have been researching a
site not far from the Mottisfont Abbey beat of the River Test in Hampshire
where Frederic Halford fished regularly as he laid down the etiquette and
approaches of upstream dry fly fishing in the 1900s
** Museum exhibits masks for dancing and death
La Paz's Museum of Ethnography and Folklore has opened a rare exhibition of
masks displaying two millennium of Bolivia's ancient and modern traditions
of masquerading, which mixes indigenous and European culture and religious
beliefs
** Museum thief gets the finger
After setting off the alarm at Berlin's Technical Museum late on Tuesday,
the 35-year-old man escaped from two security guards, clambered up a
three-metre fence, but got snagged by a ring on the middle finger of his
right hand
** Open Collections: Exploring Online Cultural Resources
** New Zealand Police Museum to host International Police Museum
Conference.
** 2008 California Association of Museums Conference
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