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week's edition include:
** Tolkien ring works its magic one more time
An ancient gold ring that may have inspired the piece of jewellery at the
centre of The Lord of the Rings books is having its own exhibition at The
Vyne, a National Trust property in Hampshire
** 18-pound tortoise reportedly stolen, then not stolen from Iowa museum
Cashew was held in an enclosure that also had other tortoises and a museum
official says the only way he could get out was by someone climbing over a
4-foot glass wall and taking the animal
** Madonna Selling Léger Painting to Benefit Girls' Education
Madonna has decided to sell "Trois Femmes à la Table Rouge,'' a 1921
painting by Fernand Léger to benefit girls' education projects in
Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries
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** The dull carver and the magical modeller
Henry Moore comes out seeming grave, slow and ponderously monumental, and
Rodin, who was born more than 50 years before him, spirited and much lighter
on his feet
** Maya Blue Paint Recipe Deciphered
The ancient Maya used a vivid, remarkably durable blue paint to cover their
palace walls, codices, pottery and maybe even the bodies of human sacrifices
who were thrown to their deaths down sacred wells
** Who Knew? Napoleon's General Was a Prolific Beetle Collector
By the time he died in 1845, Dejean had amassed a daunting collection of
24,643 species of beetles and more than 118,000 specimens, some of them
scooped up from battlefields
** New Boss at the Louvre
There had even been speculation at one time that the government would break
with tradition and choose a non-French chairman at a time when the Louvre -
the world's most visited art museum - is ever more dependent on its foreign
visitors and activities abroad
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** Victoria and Albert Museum, examines Britain on the brink of change
The Recording Britain collection, owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum,
was the result of a unique project to capture images of vulnerable
buildings, landscapes and lifestyles at a time of immense change
** Shark-Tooth Sword Reveals Lost Species
An analysis of shark-tooth weapons from the 19th century reveals two shark
species, the spot-tail and dusky, where once common in the Gilbert Island
reefs in the Central Pacific
** Smithsonian releases Wright brothers contract detailing 'first in
flight' claims
A little-known 1948 contract between the estate of Orville Wright and the
Smithsonian has the museum legally bound to call the Wright brothers first
in flight: "The Smithsonian shall [not state] any aircraft ... earlier than
the Wright aeroplane of 1903 ... was capable of carrying a man under its own
power in controlled flight," it states
** Pluto's Gate Uncovered in Turkey
Known as Pluto's Gate - Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin - the cave
was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and
tradition
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** Museum dumps Alfred Barnes exhibit
Less than a year after Albert Barnes's art, uprooted from its original home
in Merion, Pennsylvania, occupied new quarters, the collector himself has
been removed from the Philadelphia museum that now houses his treasures
** Tour Guide chooses a Museum's bullet scarred belt
It's the one my father was actually wearing on the day, and you can see, at
the top of the centre, where the bullet went into his lower back and the
bullet then travelled through his body and came out through his heart
** Chastened, Folk Art Museum Puts Down Healthier Roots
In fact, the folk art museum's greatest success, its supporters say, may be
its decision to shed, for now at least, the outsize ambitions that steered
it toward trouble in the first place
** Little Narberth Museum in running for Britain's biggest art prize
One claim to fame held by the tiny Welsh market town of Narberth is that its
inhabitants were in the thick of the 19th century Rebecca Riots where angry
farmers would dress as women to pull down tollgates and storm workhouses
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** British Museum snaps up historic scroll depicting birth of modern Japan
A Japanese scroll showing in meticulous detail the arrival of the US fleet
led by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854 has been acquired by the British
Museum
** Trove of Neanderthal fossils found in Greek cave
A trove of Neanderthal fossils, including bones of children and adults,
discovered in a cave in Greece hints the area may have been a key crossroad
for ancient humans, researchers say
** Russian, Indian Billionaires Join Top U.S. Museum Boards
International trustees now make up 20 percent of the New Museum of
Contemporary Art in New York's board, including new arrivals Jose Olympio
Pereira, chief executive officer of Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN)'s
Brazilian unit, and Hank Latner, managing director at the Shiplake
Development Company in Toronto, Canada
** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo - Your beloved cats Oscar, Sofie, Tim, Gibson and Malcolm are asked to
appear on national television after smothering you in your sleep
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** New Mary Rose Museum to open in May
The 16th Century hull will once again be on display at Portsmouth Historic
Dockyard museum - the same dockyard where the ship was built 500 years ago
** Art museum's storage bin held a secret masterwork
A scene of Venice painted by 18th century artist Canaletto was languishing,
covered in grime, until a curator took a closer look
** Out of Southeast Asia: Art That Sustains
The Textile Museum - April 12 through October 13, 2013
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