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week's edition include:
** Baby mammoth yields secrets after 40,000 years in Siberian tundra
Her body was so well preserved in the permafrost that her stomach retained
traces of her mother's milk, and scientists identified sediment in her
mouth, trunk and throat - suggesting that she suffocated while struggling to
free herself from the mud
** Painting fetches £10,000 after artist vandalises it
An angry artist whose painting was criticised drew graffiti all over the
canvas as a protest - and was astonished when it sold as a Banksy-style work
for £10,000
** French outrage as McDonald's moves into the Louvre
In a move that is bound to upset both France's art lovers and gastronomes,
the Louvre will soon be hosting the unmistakable golden arches of
McDonald's, with the burger chain set to open a branch in the museum next
month
** Egypt Cuts Ties With the Louvre
The decision represents one of the most aggressive attempts yet by Egypt to
reclaim relics from some of the world's leading Egyptology collections
** Iron helmet 'from Battle of Stamford Bridge' found in Midlands antique
shop
A rusty iron helmet that may be the only surviving relic of one of the most
decisive battles in English history has been found in an antiques shop
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** Hadrian's Wall plans expansion
The development will unite two existing museums at a central section of
England's largest World Heritage site and showcase a series of ancient
postcards known as the Vindolanda Writing Tablets
** International butterfly museum to be built in Myanmar
Over 40,000 butterflies and insects from home as well as those from China,
Africa, Malaysia and Thailand will be kept in the museum established in the
NKG's orchid garden and butterfly fossils from across the country will also
be shown there
** High-tech parking lot helps museum 'go green'
When she heard the 5,700 square feet of crushed glass and glue kept 501,600
beer bottles out of the landfill, she knew the museum was meeting its
sustainable building goal
** Imelda Marcos' shoes in Philippine museum saved from floods
Curator Dolly Borlongan said the staff quickly moved the collection to the
top shelves of display cabinets, and only around 100 got wet
** Cod liver oil and pink peignoirs
What better testament to the notoriously noxious quality of cod liver oil
could there be than this - that the allure of the pink peignoir was forever
spoiled by the spill, and could not be restored - even after repeated
washings?
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** How buried treasure can unearth legal proceedings
Yet, had Terry Herbert been combing a field in Ireland with his metal
detector and stumbled on a similar find, rather than be praised for his
efforts, he would most likely be facing a Garda investigation and preparing
himself for court
** Gas mask bra among Ig Nobel prize winning ideas
Other winners honoured included scientists who found that empty beer bottles
are much better weapons in a bar brawl than full bottles; researchers who
used bacteria in panda poop to reduce kitchen waste; and in homage to the
worldwide financial meltdown, the executives of four Icelandic banks who
contributed to the island nation's economic collapse
** Anne Frank museum launches YouTube channel
The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam is airing the only known video of the
teenage diarist on a channel dedicated to her on YouTube
** Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts
At the viceroy's evening parties, the diamonds were so large they looked
like stage gems; it was impossible to believe that the pearls in the
million-pound necklaces were the genuine excrement of oysters
** Captain Cook's weather logs help scientists predict climate changes
Ships' logs from Cook's Discovery and Resolution, William Bligh's Bounty and
300 other 18th and 19th-century explorers' vessels are being transcribed and
digitised in a project that will allow climatologists to trace changing
weather patterns
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** In Recession, Curators Tap the Treasures at Hand
Herein Washington, as elsewhere, museums are employing a patchwork strategy,
spotlighting their own collections, pairing their own holdings with borrowed
works, and/or doing small retrospective shows
** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn: Dec 22 to Jan 19 - While it's true that history is written by the
winners, it, like most everything else in life, is copyedited by the losers
** Ardipithecus: We Meet At Last
Scientists have learned a lot from these pre-Lucy hominid fossils, but
before now they weren't able to make very detailed reconstructions of these
creatures
** Taiwan museum to open joint exhibition with China
In the waning stages of the Chinese civil war, the forces of Nationalist
strongman Chiang Kai-shek moved 600,000 items of Chinese calligraphy,
porcelain, bronzes, landscape paintings, portraiture and figurines from the
imperial collection in the Forbidden City to Taiwan
** N#de Image of Brooke Shields Removed From UK Museum
Due to the photograph's controversial nature, the Tate Modern says it sought
legal advice before deciding to display the piece and planned to display it
behind a curtain in a dark room with a sign in front warning viewers of
"challenging" material
** Captain Appointed - The Jewel Of Muscat
The Jewel of Muscat, the unique Oman-based project of maritime archaeology,
has announced the appointment of a Captain for its historic voyage early
next year.
** New York State's Museums in Conversation: What Inspires You?
April 11-13, 2010 at the Albany Marriott, Wolf Road, Albany, NY
** World's largest living lizard revealed as Australian for first time
New scientific research reveals the world's largest living lizard species,
Indonesia's Komodo dragon, most-likely evolved in Australia three to four
million years ago.
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