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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:
** Tsarist Bond Owners Target Hermitage Art
French holders of tsarist Russian state bonds asked a Paris court on
Thursday for permission to confiscate paintings from the Hermitage Museum on
show in Paris, saying Moscow still owes them money
** Casino magnate's £6.9m flutter takes hidden Rembrandt to Vegas
The wood-panelled painting shows Rembrandt aged 28 and is dated 1634, by
which time he would already have been famous and living in luxury in
Amsterdam with his new wife Saskia
** Two Jesse James museums issue challenges
And the dispute centers around yet another DNA test to prove which body is
that of the famed late outlaw
** Shipment of Pre-Columbian gold arrives safely
Amongst the treasures are sacrificial blades used for the ritual slitting of
throats and cutting out of victim's hearts, gilded crowns and headdresses
** U.S. Soldiers Seize Iraqi Artifacts
U.S. forces in Iraq have seized 5,000-year-old artifacts from a suspected
smuggler and recovered 12 pieces stolen from a Baghdad museum
** New theory of flight built from the ground up
A new study on the claws of birds suggests their forebears were much more
terrestrial, or ground-dwelling, than had been thought, and that they had
their feet very much on the ground before taking off
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** Tate director's tower block fury
Sir Nicholas Serota has joined a protest against plans for a tower block
which he says will overshadow one of the UK's most famous galleries
** Linux Reconstructing Tree of Life
The project is attempting to construct a pattern of relationships that
biologists believe links all of Earth's present and past species - from the
smallest microbe to the largest vertebrate that existed during Earth's 4
billion-year history.
** Fangs for the memories - Elvis tooth on the block
Part of a tooth and a crown from Elvis Presley's mouth is the centrepiece
item in a memorabilia auction that includes a lock of the king's hair and a
special edition gold-plated record of his mega-hit "Love Me Tender."
** Royal Tyrell Museum receives rare fossil
A 71-million-year old fossil of a squid-like marine animal has been given to
the Royal Tyrell Museum
** Museum 'populist and ideological'
Aspects of the National Museum of Australia are ideologically driven or
populist and not based on serious scholarship, according to a yet-to-be
released review
** Museum looters should be shot: Archaeologists
Likewise, an American archaeologist has called on her compatriots to kill
looters of Iraq's archaeological sites
** Lost masterpiece by Vermeer discovered in Utah garage
To the gentle denizens of Greenbone, Utah (population 1700), May 30th 2003
seemed like any other day, but for local car mechanic Judd Hershowitz
everything was about to change
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** Roman brooch find in Shetland extends ancient travel routes
The fibula, or brooch, which has been dated to between 50BC and 50AD, could
have belonged to an islander returning to the area around Norwick on
Shetland after serving in the Roman army
** Sculptor is giving new life to a prehistoric shark
Applying a silicon-based rubber compound is the first step in resurrecting
an animal that lived 265-million years ago
** Ancient tomb discovered in south China province
A villager, named Mei Qinghua, came upon the tomb while digging in his
courtyard
** And now..The Mango Museum
The purpose of the Yuching Mango Explorer Museum is to educate interested
locals about all aspects of the crop and to give tourists a reason to visit
** Final design presented for World War I museum
A sensory-rich mixture of digitized images and sounds would convey the
illusions and realities of total war in a new museum planned for the Liberty
Memorial
** Mayor's artifact spending spree draws criticism
The gems of Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed's 18-month, $4.8 million
spending spree on Old West memorabilia are arrayed on a conference table
just outside his office
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** Through the Eye of the Needle: New Perspectives on New York Sewing
Saturday, March 27, 2004
** What's your Bag? Teabag, that is.
** Changing images: The role of photographic collections in the digital age
The international SEPIA conference at the Finnish Museum of Photography
** Unexpected Science with Professor Gore
Sometimes science just doesn't behave the way it should!
** Attack Of The Giant Mold Spore
Friday, August 15, 2003 at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
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