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week's edition include:
** Prison Museum unlocks 200 years of life in a cell
A museum recounting tales of murder, execution and prison escapes has opened
in one of Durham’s most historic buildings
** Greatest Mistakes - National Gallery pays tribute to the masters of
deception
Entitled Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries, the exhibition
charts some of the museum's most embarrassing errors and faux pas, involving
works once thought of as Old Masters but later removed from the walls of the
gallery to be stashed ignominiously in the basement
** Take that look off your face ...
Darwin's concerns, and the questions he raises in the book - are smiles
unique to humans, why do cats purr, why does laughter take the form of
rapidly reiterated sounds in both monkeys and men - are all about
demonstrating an evolutionary continuity between people and animals
** Art-loving squirrel has blast at museum
Staff members at the Columbus Museum of Art were going nuts trying to stop a
squirrel from gnawing on an outdoor sculpture
** A Century On, A Magnificent Back In His Flying Machine
Less than a week after the world celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Moon
landings, a smaller but no less significant leap for mankind was marked: the
centenary of the first successful cross-Channel flight
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** Teachers hurt in museum to receive €1.4m
A group of teachers injured in 2007 following the collapse of a staircase in
the Natural History Museum in Dublin are in line for a €1.4m compensation
package, including legal fees, from the state
** Earliest human relics in Taiwan unearthed in Taitung
A team from Academia Sinica, Taiwan's highest research institute, has
recently discovered a neolithic stone hearth in a cave in the eastern county
of Taitung that has been confirmed as the earliest human relic to have been
discovered in Taiwan
** Hagia Sophia's angel uncovered
Experts have uncovered one of the six angel mosaics within the world-famous
Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul after it had been hidden for 160 years
behind plaster and a metal mask
** Scene cut from Athens museum film after protests
A scene from an animated film shown to visitors at the new Acropolis Museum
that depicts Christian priests destroying parts of the Parthenon has been
deleted following protests by the Greek Orthodox Church
** Nearly extinct California frog rediscovered
The rare mountain yellow-legged frog was re-found when biologists from the
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and scientists from the San Diego Natural
History Museum retraced a 1908 expedition through the San Jacinto Wilderness
near Idyllwild, California
** Naval museum likely to claim bomber if it is raised
Is a custody battle likely between two aviation museums for the rare Navy
SB2C-4 Helldiver bomber that's been resting on the muddy bottom of Lower
Otay Reservoir?
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra Sep 23 - Oct 23. While the praying mantis hunts the cricket, it is
unaware of the sparrow that lies in wait. Also, it is unaware that the
sparrow found cheap cricket lipstick all over one of its dress shirts last
week
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** Museum guide is a treasure at 96
He quotes Shakespeare, reads and writes Latin, knows French, recites poems
and doesn't hold back his sense of humor
** Vital staffers have been leaving LACMA
A search for a Chinese art specialist has dragged on for nearly three years,
and five curators have left this year or will depart soon
** British Museum and Tate Modern threatened by £100m black hole
Cultural projects including the British Museum's new exhibition wing and the
redevelopment of the Tate Modern are under threat because of a £100 million
black hole in Government funding
** Is Hollywood big enough for two wax museums?
For 44 years, the Hollywood Wax Museum has been Tinseltown's only wax
attraction featuring celebrities, a monopoly that has kept it open through
wars, recessions and riots
** Beat Museum a 'Howl' of a time
Only at the Beat Museum will you find an emergency exit warning you that an
alarm "will Howl" if the door is opened
** Berlusconi 'hid ancient graves'
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has failed to declare the presence of 30
ancient tombs on his land, according to newly published recordings said to
be of him
** Ancient Roman shipwrecks found
Underwater archaeologists in Italy have discovered the wrecks of five
ancient Roman ships in the Mediterranean, with their cargo still largely
intact
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** Ida Interview
Dr Horum tells presenter the BBC's Carrie Gracie about the world of fossil
trading and the bar room deals that brought the primate out of a private
collection and to world attention
** “A Long and Tumultuous Relationship”: East-West Interchanges in American
Art
October 1–2, 2009 Smithsonian American Art Museum
** Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
The Metropolitan Museum
** Afghanistan to reveal its Hidden Treasures at Museum of Civilization
Some of the most exquisite artifacts from Afghanistan’s ancient past,
including precious gold from the fabled Bactrian Hoard, are coming in the
National Capital Region this fall
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