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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:
** Berlin Police Recover Stolen Art, Arrest Five
Nine Expressionist paintings snatched from a Berlin art museum have been
found and five people arrested
** World Museum Day Marked in Macao
Macao reports the highest density of museums in the world - with a dozen
museums in an area of only 23 square kilometers
** How Ottawa's history took a wrong turn
The story of how they were discovered, extracted, transformed, lost,
forgotten, remembered and misremembered is equal parts tragedy, farce and
epic
** Grave Is One of Europe's Richest
A 4,000-year-old grave found near Stonehenge contains the remains of an
archer and a trove of artifacts
** Work not an impediment to personal Web surfing at work
An overwhelming 86 percent of respondents say doing some work during the
surfing day has no negative impact
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** Golden Bear eager to see museum devoted to his life
The $14-million museum is located on the Ohio State campus, a couple of
1-irons away from the university's basketball arena
** Living with the past
Unknown to many, there are 22 museums scattered around Singapore, each
representing a different chapter of the island's rich heritage
** Art With Whine & Cheese
"Completely outrageous," she said. "It's absolutely ridiculous. Every city
in the world, at their art openings, serves wine
** China claims world's smallest 1.1 grams Holy Qur'aan
The Qur'aan is being kept in Ningxia Museum in China's Ningxia province,
where many ethnic Chinese Muslims from the Hui minority live
** Earliest known written documents being assembled in Web library
Historians using the modern language of computers are assembling a virtual
library of the earliest known written documents: clay tablets inscribed more
than 4,000 years ago
** New Bid to Recover Monitor Turret
For students of the war, maritime history, marine archaeology and maybe even
metallurgy, it can't get much better than that
** Canada's Lords Have New Vision for Museums
With museums, size usually counts: whichever one holds the biggest and
grandest collection of stuff wins
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** Giant Panda Museum Established in SW China
Fifteen panda specimens and four panda skeletons, as well as 420 animal
displays and 86 plant samples are due to be shown
** Duke Ellington's time keeps ticking
A Swiss private museum bought the Patek Philippe chronograph which fetched
about twice its pre-sale estimate
** Indonesian reefs excite scientists
The Museum of Western Australia researcher identified a record 283 species
of fish in a single dive
** Murdered politician's house to become museum
The home of murdered Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn will be turned into a
museum
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** Birthday celebrations for V&A
Mr Periton has created 50 intricate cut-outs inspired by the V&A's
collections which will be transformed into light, colour and silhouette
** Thief's mother destroys $2.7b art haul
More than 60 paintings by major artists, including Brueghel, Boucher and
Watteau, have been torn up and thrown out with the rubbish by an art thief's
mother
** Falcon chicks' webcam lets surfers see them grow
An Ohio museum has installed a webcam so people can follow the fortunes of
three peregrine falcon chicks
** A Day in Pieces, America In Grief
It has a stain around the waist and is covered with badges and insignia from
groups that came to dig, serve meals and sometimes sing at ground zero
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** Researching New York 2002: Perspectives on Empire State History
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from Children.
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** Documenting Underdocumented Populations & Communities
** Keith Haring - 'Heaven and Hell'
** Heritage Resources Under Pressure
** Whose Paintings ? Scandal over the National Gallery's collections policy
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