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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Museums safeguard treasures
As Hurricane Isabel blows toward North Carolina, Bob Springle and other
employees at the state's Maritime Museum in coastal Beaufort are prepared
for the worst
** Fire destroys motorbike collection
A massive fire which destroyed much of the National Motorcycle Museum near
Birmingham, ruining 650 vintage machines, was caused by a "carelessly
discarded" cigarette, investigators say
** Museum's Overlooked Table Fetches $400K
Facing tough economic times for nonprofits, museum officials decided to sell
the table, hoping it would fetch some $20,000 to $40,000 at auction
** Bawdy phallic plate 'heads' for Oxford museum
The head is framed by a garland carrying the inscription: "Ogni homo me
guarda come fosse una testa de cazi" (Every man looks at me as if I were a
dickhead).
** Relic looted from Baghdad museum found buried
The 3,200-year-old artifact, which is a representation of female face, was
found buried in an orchard on the outskirts of Baghdad
** UK Lord Of The Rings show opens
Visitors to the show at the Science Museum in London can explore how the
Oscar-winning films were created through displays of costumes, props and
artefacts
** Penniless museums delight thieves
In the last couple of years, the gang has laid its hands on over a dozen
idols stored at various museums and excavation sites
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** Hybrid Craft Lands at Air and Space Museum
"When you see a plane you flew go into a museum, you know you're getting
old," NASA test pilot Warren Hall said from the tarmac
** Ancient Amazon Settlements Uncovered
The Amazon River basin was not all a pristine, untouched wilderness before
Columbus came to the Americas, as was once believed
** Bradman Museum to get Sir Don's controversial letters
The Bradman Museum will house seven of the letters, including one which
alludes to an affair with a woman known only as Nina
** New Hall for Meteorites Old Beyond Imagining
Yet every day about 100 tons of space stuff comes calling on us, unannounced
and mostly undetected, a global fall of extraterrestrial dust grains
** World's Oldest Genitals Found in Scotland
Scientists have discovered fossils of the world's oldest genitals -
belonging to 400 million-year-old insects - in ancient rocks in Scotland
** Water clock piece found
Chinese antique experts said yesterday they have recovered a looted part of
an 18th- century water clock, but dismissed another purported component that
surfaced in Hong Kong recently as a fake
** Fossils of buffalo-size rodent give scientists evolutionary pause
Eight million years ago, a giant relative of today's pet guinea pigs
wallowed in the coastal marshes and lagoons of northwestern Venezuela
** Museum exhibits at risk
Precious exhibits of our national heritage at Auckland War Memorial Museum
are at risk of falling into ruin as fast as legal bills are mounting over a
faulty air conditioning system
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** Rare Rubens work goes on show
The sketches are regarded as some of the Flemish master's most compelling
and revealing work and used as models for his pupils
** Car stolen from garage in Scotland
A white Volkswagen Golf GTI has been stolen from a garage in Scotland in a
daring heist conducted by a group of shady looking individuals thought to be
a gang of international art thieves
** Indian club turns up on eBay
The war club, which dates back to 1870, went missing from a Kansas museum
storeroom in 1994
** Norfolk treasure saved for the county
This stunning treasure discovered in a lavish Anglo-Saxon cemetery in
Norfolk was in serious danger of being lost to the county for ever
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** New Australian History Programme
** International Workshop on the Trusted Digital Repositories for Cultural
Heritage.
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** Architectural Paint Research In Building Conservation
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