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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:
** Met Offers Close-Up of Egyptian Tombs
Visitors will be allowed, five at a time, to enter the tomb of Perneb and
gaze at the carvings, which were put on the walls sometime between 2380 B.C.
and 2350 B.C
** Splice of life: Elvis recording in pieces
The man who gave the world All Shook Up may now be all cut up, says a
company selling what it claims are two-inch pieces of one of Elvis's songs
** New Art, New Building, New Ideas, New Future
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has unveiled the schematic design for its
new building by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry
** Pickled dragon mystery
The baby dragon, in a sealed jar, was discovered with a metal tin containing
paperwork in old-fashioned German of the 1890s
** Only one third of China's Great Wall still stands
Two-thirds of the Great Wall of China has been destroyed by sightseers,
developers and erosion
** International alert for stolen ivories
The fear now is that they could be stashed in a freezing shed or an
overheated room: either could rapidly lead to disastrous cracking
** Thousands protest Swedish art exhibit
Sweden's prime minister has been bombarded with about 14,000 e-mails from a
U.S.-based Jewish human rights group protesting an art exhibit
** Hurricane Unearths Ancient Fossil
Heavy erosion by Hurricane Isabel pounding on the cliffs that line the St.
Mary's River in Maryland uncovered the fossilized skull of what
palaeontologists say was a whale that swam in the area eight million years
ago
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** Old Master market hit by 'bird flu'
Experts say hundreds of bird paintings have been infected with the disease,
which could have a disastrous effect on the forthcoming Maastricht fine art
fair where millions of dollars change hands each year for hideous pictures
of wildfowl, domestic poultry and other avian species
** Criminal to celebrity: Outlaws in popular culture
The transformation of outlaw heroes into cultural icons through film,
folklore, music and literature goes under the spotlight during an
international conference at the National Museum of Australia
** Scientist Turns Green to Gold with Modern-day Alchemy
Extracting gold from plants sounds like modern-day alchemy, but New Zealand
earth scientist Chris Anderson has managed to do it
** Planetarium plans Columbia tribute
The planetarium hopes to attract an audience for a special program about the
shuttle crew members and the scientific discoveries they made during their
flight
** Security guard stole $20,000 from museum
Over four days at Labour Day weekend, during the museum's Chinese dinosaur
exhibition, Sutherland and another security guard secured $19,577.10 in cash
and cheques in a locked cabinet in the administration area
** After Dinner News: Whale Explodes on Street
The decomposing remains of a 60-ton sperm whale enroute to a university,
exploded on a busy Taiwan street, showering nearby cars and shops
** Archaeologists discover artefacts from predecessor culture in central
Mexico City
Archaeologists announced Wednesday they have discovered an ancient
Teotihuacan settlement on a hill in central Mexico City, dozens of miles
from the pyramids where Teotihuacan - long regarded as a mother culture of
central Mexico - flourished nearly 2,000 years ago
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** Hasselhoff claims he had hand in Berlin Wall falling
David Hasselhoff has complained to museum curators after finding his photo
absent in a collection of memorabilia about the fall of the Berlin Wall
** Greeks withdraw El Greco painting
A Greek museum has denied the National Gallery in London the loan of an El
Greco painting because it is afraid the painting may be confiscated
** The hallowed history of the carrier pigeon
As the Prussians advanced, the system of stuffing dispatches into hollow
metal balls and floating them down the Seine somehow proved ineffective
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