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week's edition include:
** Nobody Understands the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 'Suggested' Fees
Entrance to the beloved The Metropolitan Museum of Art costs a "suggested"
price of $25 for adults; but nobody's quite sure what that suggestion means,
or whether it's even legal
** National Library appeals for safe return of huge crocodile
Davy, a life-size replica of an African specimen, had been moved to the
gardens by staff at the National Library of Scotland, who wanted the fake
tetrapod to draw attention to their current exhibition about legendary
explorer David Livingstone
** The most extensive animation show ever mounted
Visitors have the rare opportunity to see an incredible array of animation
techniques in more than 100 animated film segments from across generations
and cultures
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** Prehistoric avian had unique dual-purpose tail
First described more than a decade ago, the latest analysis of the bird
Jeholornis surprised palaeontologists by revealing a previously unrecognised
second group of flight feathers at the base of its tail
** New York art exhibit celebrates centennial of iconic 1913 show
A century after the controversial 1913 Armory Show in New York challenged
America's perception of art, a new exhibition is celebrating the event with
works from the original including masterpieces by Henri Matisse, Marcel
Duchamp and Francis Picabia
** Mysterious symbol discovered in Walter Raleigh portrait reveals his love
of Elizabeth I
Experts at The National Portrait Gallery say a newly discovered sea and moon
symbol hidden beneath centuries-old layers of paint on a Walter Raleigh
portrait reveal his love and devotion towards Queen Elizabeth I
** Forgotten Fabergé Comes Out of the Attic
The Fabergé workshops produced about 50 sculptures in semiprecious stones
and gold representing peasants, servants and the occasional Gypsy singer and
street sweeper
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** Damien Hirst's womb with a view shocks staid Gulf society
Never a stranger to controversy, Damien Hirst has sparked a row among
religious conservatives in the Middle East with the unveiling of his latest
work in Qatar
** First Evidence of Comet Striking Earth Found in Egypt
The pebble, which the team has named "Hypatia" in honor of the ancient
female mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, is
also studded with diamonds, which makes sense considering its cometary
origin
** Hey! Where you going with our museum?
A ridiculous story on a fake news website said President Barack Obama
announced he would kick in his own money to keep a Muslim museum open during
the government shutdown
** Mummified Head May Not Belong to King Henry IV
Testing old DNA is tricky, however, and too little DNA was recovered from
the mummified head to entirely rule it out as Henry's
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** Lost Leonardo da Vinci painting found in Swiss bank vault
Carbon dating showed there is a 95 per cent chance it was produced between
1460 and 1650, but further analysis is needed to ensure that certain parts
of the painting were not completed by one of the artist's pupils
** New York museum ups security as gold bar sculpture goes on show
Tower of Power, a 1985 sculpture now on show in the long-awaited Burden
retrospective, consists of 100 kilograms of gold ingots - worth, at today's
prices, about £2.6m - stacked in a small pyramid and encased in a vitrine
** Smartphone app to let world see Dornier17 German bomber fly via RAF
Museum
Using a specially developed Augmented Reality App, called Apparition:
Dornier Do 17, a full scale, 3D vision of the aircraft can be placed in
various locations around the globe
** Fright at the Museum
When asked if a human needs to have died in the museum for "energies," as
they call them, to be roaming the halls, Dr. Stew answered in the negative
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** Maritime Museum takes a look at blockade running
Hundreds of the sleek, fast steamers - their decks often lined with cotton
bales - sailed and in and out under the dark of the moon, eluding Union
warships on station to intercept them
** Museum of Clean also green
The museum opened in 2011 and includes old toilets, vintage vacuums and
descriptions of the consequences of poor urban hygiene: vermin-infested
18th-century cities where disease-plagued residents huddled together in dirt
and squalor
** He bit off more than he could chew!
The ancient skeletons are in such good condition they show that the larger,
2ft creature died of suffocation just after it bit the smaller one in half
** Museum Acquires Incredible Collection of Japanese Games
If you've ever gone full Indiana Jones while staring at a huge collection of
videogames - by which I mean being driven to exclaim "That belongs in a
museum!" - you'll be pleased to hear that a museum is now where you can find
one of the world's biggest collections of Japanese games
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** French museum makes bid to recover lost paintings of first world war
Almost a century ago, as the trenches of the first world war snaked ever
closer, the Corot painting was crated up by German soldiers and moved by
truck from Douai to a nearby town, then in the last chaotic months sent by
barge and train to Brussels together with most of the greatest treasures of
the Douai museum
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer - You'll confront your problems head-on this Thursday, which is
rather unfortunate, as your problems involve a mountain goat
** Archaeologists uncover a scene of horror at 'Swedish Pompeii'
Swedish archaeologists have uncovered what appears to be a 5th-century
murder mystery at an island fort that's being compared to Italy's Pompeii
ruins
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