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week's edition include:
** A mannequin on a toilet and dry porridge
The Turner Prize, the annual award for artists that never ceases to raise
furious debate on what constitutes art and what should be dismissed as
nonsense, has proved it was not about to change the habit of a lifetime
** James Bond creator's secret plan to end World War 2
Today, the dusty file, stamped with 007 to indicate the tightest security
restrictions, still contains Fleming's meticulously drawn up but wildly
imaginative instructions for that terrifying mission
** Centuries-old antiques stolen from Afghan museum
Antiques dating back 1,300 years have been stolen from a museum in western
Afghanistan and officials are blaming a "powerful gang" for the theft after
a suspect was found dead
** Lone Star Flight Museum and Hurricane Ike
Our curator and her gang are in the middle of preserving many of the objects
and artefacts damaged in the storm
** Uncovering Namibia's sunken treasure
A team of international archaeologists is working round the clock to rescue
the wreck of what is thought to be a 16th Century Portuguese trading ship
that lay undisturbed for hundreds of years off Namibia's Atlantic coast
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** Museum Docent Takes Most of It Off
In the Victorian era, taking off shoes and all the other underpinnings, was
quite a chore as Phoebe attempts to do for her "lady", Mrs. Horace Swazey
** Burning vacuum cleaner likely cause of ship fire
A fire that tore through a famous 19th century British ship was likely
caused by a vacuum cleaner used for renovation work bursting into flames,
police have said
** Corruption cloud over Gandhi Museum, CBI probe sought
A scrutiny of the museum's balance sheet by the office of the Director
General of Audit, Central Revenues, revealed that 1,487 books were missing
from the museum's library
** The unknown side of Seuss
From his left-leaning political cartoons during the Second World War to his
commercial artwork for advertising campaigns, the retrospective touches upon
and offers examples of Geisel's other side
** Rare Middle East ewer sells for $5.6 million at auction
There was one other known ewer, but it was dropped by an employee of a
museum in Florence in 1998 and shattered irreparably, according to reports
** Berlin's Jewish Museum retraces artwork looted by Nazis
More than a half-century after Nazis looted artwork from European Jews, an
unprecedented Berlin exhibition tells both sides of the story: how property
was seized and efforts, at times fruitless, were made to have it restored
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo - August 23 to September 22. Don't let your ego get in the way of
important friendships this week. You're better than that. Much, much better
than that
** Golliwogs for sale
That they are still on sale in a supposedly progressive city such as
Liverpool, and on the doorstep of the International Slavery Museum, is
shocking and we would like to see them taken off the shelves
** Columbia astronaut's diary goes on display
Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the
space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this
weekend for the first time in Jerusalem
** Let's twist again says 18 carat Kate
Quinn has described Kate Moss as a "modern day Aphrodite", and the sculpture
is being displayed in the museum's Nereid Gallery among statues of Greek
beauties including Aphrodite
** Las Vegas rolls dice on mob museum
Plans for the museum are supported by the FBI, which has pledged to locate
organized crime artefacts in Washington and lend them for displays
** Australian history rewritten in rock art
Alongside ancient paintings of thylacines, a mammal long extinct on the
mainland, are images documenting modern-day inventions - a car, a bicycle
wheel, a biplane and a rifle - as well as portraits of a missionary and a
sea captain
** Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future
The American Museum of Natural History
** The Botanic Garden
Fragrant Liverpool culminates with an exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery
** Communicating Cultural Heritage to the Young
2 - 7 November in Paraty and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
** Rockwell's America Opens Nov.1
Ohio Historical Centre Presents World's Largest Rockwell Exhibit
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