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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:
** 4000-year-old perfumes found on Aphrodite's fabled island
The perfumes were scented with extracts of lavender, bay, rosemary, pine or
coriander and kept in tiny translucent alabaster bottles
** Russian Czar's love letters
Alexander II fell passionately in love with the teenaged Yekaterina
Mikhailovna Dolgorukova after an encounter in 1866 and installed her as his
mistress near the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg where she could enter
through a secret stairway
** Rare Wine Vessel Sold to British Museum
A rare bronze wine vessel from the late Shang Dynasty was purchased at
auction for $8.1 million by a British museum
** Worker seriously hurt in museum mishap
The Canadian Museum of Civilization was plunged into darkness yesterday
after a maintenance worker was seriously injured in an accident that knocked
out the building's power
** Home of Jefferson's girlfriend excavated
The excavation of a hidden chamber at the former home of Thomas Jefferson's
girlfriend has not turned up any love letters - yet
** Intruder hits two at museum
He allegedly smashed the glass panels of a display case, removed the coat,
hat and pants from a World War II uniform and put them on
** Malaysian museum defies calls to shut down "ghost" exhibit
A museum in mainly Muslim Malaysia is defying calls for it to stop a popular
exhibition featuring ghosts and other supernatural beings, arguing it has
educational value
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** Brazen robbers steal Faberge egg
Instead of mounting a hi-tech raid that involved disabling alarms, avoiding
lasers and needing precision timing they took the less innovative, and
certainly more blunt approach, of taking a sledgehammer to the glass
** Slavery Museum Urged to Return Donation
The museum, which is in the midst of a $165 million capital campaign, does
not plan to return the $200,000 donation
** Visitors drop after Swedish museums introduce fees
Sweden's state-owned museums have seen visitors drop by more than one-third
since the new government scrapped a free-entry policy
** Thieves waltz off with gold from Japan museum
There were no sensors or burglar alarms, since the museum allowed its
visitors to touch the gold as they wanted
** 1,400 Artefacts Returned to Afghanistan Museum
The collection, which includes a piece from a foundation stone that was
"touched by Alexander the Great" and several items thousands of years old,
was assembled in Switzerland by Afghans who wanted to save their cultural
heritage after decades of war
** Bone-chilling Paris
Strangely, the French find bones more offensive than excrement and before
you enter the catacombs, a giant ossuary housed beneath the streets of
southern Paris, there are no fewer than five warnings
** Hart stopper for forgers
Pro Hart embraced the DNA technology because he was dismayed whenever he
heard of someone buying a work that was a copy
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius, November 22 to December 21- Sagittarius is hurt by allegations
that it's been slipping product placements into weekly predictions; so hurt
in fact that it may soon seek out the pain-relieving properties of Extra
Strength TylenolT.
** Archaeologists have a dig about colonial relics left on shelf
Archaeologists digging up artefacts in Sydney are being forced to store them
in their own homes because there is no central repository for them
** Masters of disguise
Though there may have been stylistic parallels, it did not necessarily mean
that military camouflage was directly inspired by cubism itself
** How do you defrost a giant squid? With a giant microwave
This latest specimen has eyes as big as dinner plates, and would yield
calamari rings the size of tractor tyres
** Teaching old fossils new tech tricks
In order to get to the newly revamped exhibit, which opened recently with a
tech-savvy face-lift, I had to use a museum floor plan to navigate my way
past duelling moose in the Hall of North American Mammals, around some rats
and badgers in the Small Mammals display, and through a corridor of totem
poles in the Northwest Coast Indians exhibit
** The Big Chill: Self-censorship in an age of uncertainty
** Tourism PhD Networking Conference - Leeds Metropolitan University
** Who Else Lived Here? - McFaddin-Ward House is pleased to announce the
return of the Historic House Museum conference.
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