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week's edition include:
** Stonehenge mystery could rest on ball bearings
The same technique that allows vehicles and machinery to run smoothly today
could have been used to transport the monument's massive standing stones
more than 4,000 years ago, according to a new theory
** Threads of Feeling, The Foundling Museum, London
No doubt the functionaries who painstakingly registered each abandoned baby
at Thomas Coram's found-ling hospital between the years 1740 and 1770,
noting its age (rarely more than four weeks), gender and clothing (sometimes
"verminous rags"), were soon enough hardened to the task
** Bid to keep pioneer of the modern computer and Bletchley Park
codebreaker's papers in Britain
A set of reprints of papers belonging to the Enigma code breaking computer
scientist, thought to be the most complete in the world, are to be sold at
auction
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** In the Footsteps of the Museum's Gorillas
It was here, on a 12,000-foot saddle between the Virunga's Mount Mikeno and
Mount Karisimbi, that a Natural History Museum expedition first led in 1921
by the renowned naturalist and taxidermist, Carl Akeley, captured the scene
for one of the museum's most well-known dioramas - an open meadow filled
with lush Hagenia trees and wild celery, sweeping views of distant volcanoes
and a group of five mountain gorillas
** Ancient Tobacco Unearthed In Peruvian Amazon
Peruvian paleontologists say they have discovered fossilized tobacco in the
northern Amazon that dates back 2.5 million years to the Pleistocene Era
** Museum on Nuremberg Trials opens doors in Germany
The museum is organized in the Nuremberg courtroom in which a dozen senior
Nazis were sentenced to death in 1946
** Museum moments are worth preserving
Remember your first visit to a museum? When you were so moved by an object
that you can still see it many years later, as if you'd bought a postcard in
the museum shop and lodged it permanently in your mind
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** Stoney Jack and the Cheapside Hoard
A vast collection of Tudor jewellery, it was found by two workmen in the
cellar of a house on Cheapside in 1912 and eventually made its way into the
museum's collection
** Museum highlights Filipino-Chinese heritage
The "Bahay Tsinoy" museum aims to preserve the long and colorful history of
Filipinos and Chinese, as well as highlight the influences of the two
cultures on each other
** Acoustic Archaeology Yielding Mind-Tripping Tricks
Researchers are uncovering the secrets of ancient civilizations who built
fun house-like temples that may have scared the pants off worshipers with
scary sound effects, light shows and perhaps drug-induced psychedelic trips
** Gehry-designed Miss. museum highlights sculptors
He was known as Biloxi's "Mad Potter," a wild-haired man who spun curious
creations on his pottery wheel at the turn of the 20th century
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** Hope Diamond marks 50 years
The giant blue diamond has been unveiled in a modernized necklace, a setting
designed by Harry Winston, in New York, to commemorate the gem's
half-century on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural
History
** Stolen art's return ends long drama
Yesterday, after a saga that spanned two continents, featured characters
ranging from a Pittsfield thief to a British sleuth of stolen art, and
culminated in the 2008 conviction of a Watertown lawyer-turned-artist, the
last two of the missing paintings were returned to Bakwin
** Tommy Guns and Other Crime World Curiosities
The museum displays beguiling curiosities from the annals of crime: seven
.45-caliber bullets from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the bullet that
killed Pretty Boy Floyd, a shell recovered from the car in which Clyde
Barrow (of "Bonnie and Clyde" fame) was gunned down, and two death masks of
John Dillinger
** Modern Humans Mature More Slowly Than Neanderthals Did, Analysis of
Teeth Suggests
A sophisticated new examination of teeth from 11 Neanderthal and early human
fossils shows that modern humans are slower than our ancestors to reach full
maturity
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** Louvre seeks donations
France's Louvre museum is making an unprecedented appeal to the general
public to help it raise the cash to buy a 16th century painting deemed a
national treasure by art experts
** Detroit Museum Exhibit to Examine Fakes, Forgeries
In the gallery on forgeries, a painting titled "A Female Saint" that once
was attributed to Italian artist Sandro Botticelli is exhibited alongside
"The Resurrected Christ," a Botticelli painting from around 1480
** Kate's excellent adventure: a month at the museum
She grabs her pillow and the quilt her mom made her and heads into the
depths of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry in search of an unusual
place to lay her head for the night
** Italian PM 'enhances' ancient Roman statues
Italy's prime minister is under attack for authorising what amounts to
plastic surgery on two Roman marble statues
** British Museum takeover safeguards buried treasure agencies as quango
goes
The fate of the treasure and portable antiquities schemes was disclosed as
they reported their annual audit of finds, another rich haul of gold coins,
silver goblets, a 3,000-year-old bracelet found by a man clearing stones in
a field in northern Ireland and a 400-year-old toy coach which came out of
the mud of the Thames foreshore
** Five Museums and Five Libraries to Receive Nation's Highest Honor
The Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) has selected five museums
and five libraries to receive the 2010 National Medal for Museum and Library
Service. The National Medal is the nation's highest honor for museums and
libraries that make extraordinary civic, educational, economic,
environmental, and social contributions.
** Brain: The Inside Story
Step into the amazing, changing brain! The American Museum of Natural
History's new exhibition Brain: The Inside Story, which opens this Saturday,
November 20, will give you a new perspective and insight into the human
brain using imaginative art, vivid brain scan imaging, and thrilling
interactive exhibits that will engage the whole family.
** The Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2010
"Act Live - the Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2010" exhibition,
will open at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, 1 Man Lam Road, Sha Tin,
Saturday (November 27).
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