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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Museum scoops top tourism award
The Imperial War Museum North has blown away the competition to scoop the
Large Attraction of the Year prize at the 2006 England's Northwest Tourism
Awards
** China needs more, better museums
China should set up more museums and improve their management to meet
people's needs, scholars told a seminar on museums
** Carpets to kitsch, Kremlin gifts go on display
Sent with warm greetings from some of last century's most cold-blooded
rulers, they are not mementoes that many would choose to cherish
** Sole delivered from evil
A convict woman's boot found in a roof cavity of Brisbane's old Commissariat
Store in Williams St is thought to have been part of an ancient folk magic
ritual
** So what did the Muslims do for us? Here's what
A groundbreaking exhibition exploring the history of Muslim contributions to
science and invention has opened in Wales
** Swedish Teens Find Viking-Age Silver Treasure
Archaeologists said Monday they found more than 1,000 silver coins in a
Viking-age hoard discovered by chance on the Swedish island of Gotland
** Cave an Ice Age time capsule
The bear that left a 3-foot-long claw mark in an Ice Age clay bank was the
largest bear species ever to walk the earth, about 6 feet tall at the
shoulder and capable of moving its 1,800 pounds up to 45 miles per hour in a
snarling dash for prey
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** International Space Station Crew Chastised for 'Messing Around'
Today, the three-man crew of ISS was severely chastised for juvenile
behaviour, complete with threats by Houston to send "adults up there in
about one minute."
** Cleaning Chihuly No Easy Job
It's just a mental adjustment, I think everyone's afraid of heights to a
certain extent, but we clean 50 story towers in that chair
** Vandalized Living History Museum Makes Comeback
Volunteers have worked tirelessly to bring the Shoal Creek Living History
Museum back to life after vandals struck in August
** Cave fossils are early Europeans
While many researchers think Neanderthals were simply driven to extinction -
either by climate change or competition with the moderns - a handful of
scientists believe they interbred with the incomers and contributed to the
modern human gene pool
** Infamous Piece of Chicago History Goes on the Block
This could be a legitimate mechanism for preserving a bit of this country's
history with the death penalty, so future generations will be able to look
back on these practices and make whatever judgments they will
** Feature Site - The Museum of Underwater Archaeology
The International Institute of Maritime Research has joined with the First
Colony Foundation to search for evidence of the Raleigh Colony which
disappeared in the late sixteenth-century
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** A business built on bones
Enter an adjoining room, and one is greeted with the sight of aquarium tanks
full of dermestid beetles swarming over animal skulls, eating the last bits
of tissue left on the skull bones
** History erupts on paper
Versailles's collection of drawings stems from the "citizen king"
Louis-Philippe's transformation of the then abandoned palace in the 1830s
into a museum to the general glory of France.
** Infamous axe donated
An axe infamous for its role in Iowa's most notorious mass murder will be
donated to the Villisca Historical Society
** Astronauts may locate Great Wall from space
A senior Chinese cultural heritage official has expressed the hope that
astronauts in the future could prove whether the over 6,000-km-long Great
Wall, one of the seven wonders of the world, can be seen with the naked eye
from space
** The Scoop on Poop
Our goal with the exhibit was to make people think, kids especially, about
the science in all aspects in life and this thing that adults don't like to
talk about.
** The Heavenly Science Of Cosmic Collisions
Narrated by Robert Redford, the galactic drama surveys the power of
colliding asteroids, errant space debris, cavorting galaxies and the
excoriating forces of solar wind
** Valuing the Historic Environment
** AFRICOM Board of Directors Announced
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