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week's edition include:
** Who Draws the Borders of Culture?
It was gridlock in the British Museum the other morning as South African
teenagers, Japanese businessmen toting Harrods bags, and a busload of German
tourists - the usual crane-necked, camera-flashing babel of visitors -
formed scrums before the Rosetta Stone, which Egyptian authorities just
lately have again demanded that Britain return to Egypt
** Theft of safe at Sixth Floor Museum visitors centre thwarted
Investigators declined to comment on whether the botched theft - the thieves
ran off, leaving the safe behind - was an inside job at the world-famous
museum, which is dedicated to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
** Holy Batman! Cayman Islands museum features original car
The government says Elton John's Rolls Royce and a Mercedes Benz once owned
by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin also are on display at the Cayman Motor Museum
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** Skeletal remains missing from Donegal museum
The remains, believed to be thousands of years old, were found after the
quarry was sealed off following the discovery of a skull and bones in
another location in Donegal in sand, which had been delivered there from the
quarry
** Plans for the National Museum of Qatar Unveiled
Taking the desert rose, a mineral formation of crystallized sand underneath
the desert's surface, as his muse for the museum's 1.5-million-square-foot
site on the Doha Corniche, a waterfront promenade on the Doha Bay in the
country's capital, Nouvel devised a ring of low-lying, interlocking
pavilions that encircle a large courtyard
** Swansea archaeologist works to send stolen artefacts home
The Welsh academic works across the world in persuading museums to return
ancient artefacts to Egypt, Italy, Greece and other countries suffering a
plague of history looting
** What's The Tax Deduction For A Bondage Machine?
A few years ago, when Ann Marie Coughlin, a New York dominatrix also known
as Domina M., donated her brushed-steel bondage machine to be shown at the
Museum of Sex, many people benefited
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** Depression, despair, love and parties
An "electrifying run" of seductive letters written by Iris Murdoch to French
poet Raymond Queneau, containing more than 160 unseen items of
correspondence written by the novelist in her late 20s and early 30s, have
gone on show to the public for the first time after being bought by Kingston
University for £50,000
** Humans Interbred with Neanderthals, Study Suggests
Humans today could be part Neanderthal, according to a new study that found
our ancestors interbred with an extinct hominid species some millennia ago
** Sculpture deemed too complex for Africa could be real after all
Ever since a pure copper sculpture was found buried in a palm grove near the
Nigerian city of Ife, experts from the West have argued that the artefact
was a fake that was too sophisticated to have been created by African hands
** "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" Opens
Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition
reveals how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her
social, political, and sartorial emancipation
** Supermarket singer on Turner Prize Shortlist
The Glasgow-born 44-year-old is best known for recording herself singing
versions of pop and folk songs which she has replayed in stairwells,
supermarkets, and under bridges
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** Hendrix items set for Smithsonian exhibit
Janie Hendrix brought a colourful patchwork full-length leather coat, a
leather necklace and a leather pouch to be shown in "Up Where We Belong:
Native Musicians in Popular Culture"
** Woolly mammoth's survival secret? Antifreeze blood
The extinct beasts had a form of antifreeze blood that kept their bodies
supplied with oxygen in the sub-zero temperatures, according to a study of
DNA extracted from 43,000-year-old mammoth remains
** Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of Rocks'
A coalition of geologists are challenging the way we look at global stone
reserves, claiming that, unless smarter methods of preservation are
developed, mankind will eventually run out of rocks
** Kansas salt museum celebrates third birthday
Created in mined salt caverns, the museum has tallied about 277,640
admissions since May 1, 2007
** Rewarding The Evil: OJ Simpson's Clothes To Be Put In a Museum
Out of respect for the families of those that died, possibly at the hands of
OJ Simpson, nobody should pay to view the suit if OJ Simpson will be making
a buck out of it
** First African amber reveals Cretaceous life
The first amber fossils from the African continent have been discovered,
revealing a snapshot of life 95 million years ago and giving clues to the
evolution of animals and plants
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** Founder of Stalin museum killed in Russia
A Russian businessman who set up a Josef Stalin museum in the city once
named after the Soviet dictator has been beaten to death by attackers
** Iraq demands return of its Jewish archive
What they found in the flooded basement of Saddam Hussein's secret police
headquarters was a legacy of destruction - the demise of one of the oldest
Jewish communities in the world
** Lives of Dogs
Exhibition on Display at the National Sporting Library from May 27 through
December 11, 2010
** Race to the End of the Earth
In the tradition of the acclaimed Shackleton exhibition, follow daring early
20th-century explorers in a life-and-death competition to be the first
humans ever to reach the South Pole.
** RIT Future of Reading Symposium
Rochester Institute of Technology
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