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week's edition include:
** RFU launch exhibition to honour war heroes
The two world wars cut short the lives of millions of young men and women,
many of them first class athletes
** Museum Of Nature & Science Cuts Jobs, Programs
The city's Museum of Nature & Science will eliminate 11 jobs and cut
programs and services to prepare for reductions in taxpayer funding
** Glasgow pays £1.44m to bring Mackintosh furniture home
By any measure, it is a right few bob more than she paid Mackintosh for the
gear when she commissioned the four pieces for her home
** Museum launches interactive exhibits
The virtual doors of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum opened to the world on
Wednesday
** Seeing colour's full beauty
For McDonald, the BMA show holds a particular attraction beyond its
groundbreaking revelations about the history of colour printmaking
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** An angel in disguise
16 years after the rape & murder of Anita Cobby, an exhibition on the crime
and its aftermath poses important questions about our humanity
** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo: (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your small town will ban all dancing after
witnessing your ungainly attempts at that "Ketchup Song" dance
** Family accuses National Gallery of breaking terms of bequest
Some of the National Gallery's most outstanding Renaissance paintings could
become the subject of legal action to reclaim them after the gallery was
accused of failing to honour the donor's last wishes
** Peru Devotes Museum to 'Tutankhamen of Americas'
He was dubbed the "Tutankhamen of the Americas" because of the golden
splendour of his tomb, discovered in northern Peru 15 years ago
** In pictures: Woolly rhino find
The skull of a woolly rhino unearthed recently at an English quarry in what
was described as an "extraordinary" find is unveiled at London's Natural
History Museum
** Museum shuns rotting pine tree icon
The 2m section of the trunk is lying partially covered in an outside
courtyard at the museum, infected with ants, cockroaches and borer
** Golf museum may be built in Russian Tea Room building
The Russian Tea Room, the famed former restaurant that once attracted
celebrities and socialites, may be converted into a golf museum
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** Museum's Goal: Save the World's Wild Places
Just six months after their expedition, the researchers completed a vivid
and richly illustrated report for the Peruvian government
** Texas Crystal Skull Gets Worldwide Attention
"The crystal skull contains important information about the purpose of
destiny and history of mankind," said JoAnn Parks, Keeper of Max the Skull
** Israeli official doubts Jesus reference on casket
Scholars had hoped the nearly 2000-year-old ossuary, a box once used to hold
bones for burial, would be the most important find in the history of New
Testament archaeology. MORE
** Lore of shipwrecks, treasure topic in Lewes
"I once dived on a wreck and found a small leather shoe and nearby was a
porcelain doll's head. "
** Elgin Marbles letter fetches £7,000
The handwritten 19th-Century letter, bought by an anonymous bidder from
Athens, fetched seven times its reserve price after frantic bidding
** Scientist Fears Car Thieves Threw Away Rare Fossil
A South African scientist said Tuesday he feared thieves who stole his van
last month may have thrown away a unique 250-million-year-old fossil that
was inside the vehicle
** Northern Qi Tomb Murals Unearthed Intact in N. China
The tomb, though suffered many robberies with stones and coffin planks
scattered all around, has most of its paintings remain untouched,
archaeologists said
** Art, academia and a battle for billions
Pleading insolvency, the Barnes Foundation served Lincoln with the
equivalent of surprise divorce papers on Sept. 24
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** ACA 2003 in Toronto!
** Current Archaeological Prospection Advances for Non-Destructive
Investigations in the 21st Century
** Explorasian II
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Paulo
** The Society for the History of Technology invites nominations for its
Dibner Award
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