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** Masked robbers steal $2 million of gold, gems from Calif. mining museum
But the thieves didn't get away with the biggest prize of all - the nearly
14-pound Fricot Nugget, a giant crystalline gold mass unearthed in the
California Gold Rush era
** Computers Can Make Art Even In Their Sleep
The purpose of the Electric Sheep project, according to Draves, is to "show
people that computers can be that soft and beautiful and have that spark of
life
** Artificial toes made walking in sandals easier in ancient Egypt
If the parts were indeed used to help ancient Egyptians missing a big toe
walk normally, they would be the earliest known practical prostheses --
older than the bronze and wooden Roman Capua leg, which dates back to 300
B.C.
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** Return to Antikythera: Divers revisit wreck where ancient computer found
But their most famous find was a battered lump that sat unnoticed for months
in the courtyard of Athens' National Archaeological Museum, before it
cracked open to reveal a bundle of cogwheels, dials and inscriptions
** 3D-Print Your Own Ancient Art at Museum Scanathon
Last week, with the San Francisco Asian Art Museum closed to the public,
Christian Pramuk baby-stepped his way in a half-circle around Standing
crowned Buddha with four scenes of his life, using a DSLR to snap upward of
40 photos of the thousand-year-old stone sculpture
** Tomb of Maya Queen K'abel Discovered in Guatemala
Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the tomb of Lady K'abel, a
seventh-century Maya Holy Snake Lord considered one of the great queens of
Classic Maya civilization
** Turner Prize: It's art all right - but is it modern?
Chetwynd is an anarchist who lives in a nudist colony in south London and
she has recently given birth, meaning her performances will be more limited
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** Whopping diversity of wasps identified in tropical America
Wasps of the subfamily Orthocentrinae (family Ichneumonidae), which eat
their hosts alive, are just a few millimetres long and had mostly been
missed from the scientific records for South and Central America
** 16th century dissections revisited in Royal College of Physicians'
Curious Anatomys display
Curious Anatomys revisits the centuries of academia held within a set of
anatomy tables as rare as their usage was gristly, bringing human veins,
nerves and arteries dissected in the 17th century and arranged onto wooden
panels
** Mark Rothko painting at Tate Modern 'defaced'
A painting by artist Mark Rothko at the Tate Modern has been defaced by a
small amount of black paint, a spokeswoman for the gallery has confirmed
** Royal Armouries director-general suspended
Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley, who commanded British troops in Iraq and
Afghanistan, has been suspended as Master of the Armouries over an issue
raised by its internal auditors, KPMG
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** Historic Royal Palaces launch 1,000-year-old Facebook timeline of Tower
of London
A mere 1,000 years of post-dating is available to Facebook users, giving the
owners of the page the chance to cover the execution of Anne Boleyn, the
torture of Guy Fawkes and the Great Fire of London (1538, 1605 and 1666, in
case you can't already recite them instantly)
** ABBA museum to open in Swedish capital in 2013
A museum devoted to pop supergroup ABBA will open next year in the Swedish
capital aiming to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors
** Face to face with the young crews of Bomber Command
The series of evocative photographs is currently helping visitors to
Yorkshire Air Museum, based at the former bomber base of RAF Elvington near
York, glimpse the faces of the men and women who once lived in its preserved
huts and barracks
** Bosnia's National Museum is latest victim of political funding crisis
The National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina will close on Thursday after 124
years - the victim of a political funding crisis that is devastating the
divided nation's cultural institutions
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** First Look! A Grand Opening For Oslo's Astrup Fearnley Museum By Renzo
Piano
The complex was built for 700 million kroner ($122 million) and was financed
by the developers of Tjuvholmen, the yuppie neighborhood where it is located
** Seeking Return of Art, Turkey Jolts Museums
An aggressive campaign by Turkey to reclaim antiquities it says were looted
has led in recent months to the return of an ancient sphinx and many golden
treasures from the region's rich past
** Shanghai seeks premier art status with new museums
The China Art Museum, intended to be Shanghai's premier showplace for modern
art, threw open its doors in the former China pavilion, which was the
signature building for the world's fair
** MOCAtv debuts on YouTube, with free museum membership offer
The channel debuted with 10 short videos, plus advertising content inserted
by YouTube's parent company, Google, that made for interesting
juxtapositions on its opening day
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** Preserving Old Warships Dear To U.S. Veterans, Costly For Museums
The Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, a popular tourist spot in
South Carolina's Charleston Harbor, is facing the same challenge as other
U.S. Navy ship museums: keeping retired, once-storied warships afloat
** Irish Famine Museum Opening at University
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, which the Connecticut university is opening
to the public on Oct. 11 in Hamden, has the world's largest collection of
visual art, artifacts and printed materials related to the famine, college
officials say
** Post-Straight: Contemporary Hong Kong Photography 2012
Presented by Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2012
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** San Diego Air & Space Museum Honors its "Class of 2012"
Pioneering Legends to be inducted into its International Air & Space Hall of
Fame
** Stories Written in Stone
International Symposium on Chert and Other Knappable Materials
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