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week's edition include:
** Churchill and the Anarchists reveals terrorism in 20th century Britain
The interrupted robbery of a jewellery shop that led to the murder of three
unarmed policemen, known as the Houndsditch Murders and the subsequent Siege
of Sidney Street, shocked the early 20th century British public
** To build a better mousetrap - German museum shows how
The museum is home to a host of unusual mousetraps which illustrate man's
ingenuity when it comes to killing pests
** The Corcoran, re-imagined
Beset by years of financial troubles, leadership changes and a drifting
sense of identity, the Corcoran Gallery of Art - Washington's largest
private art museum - is turning to a team of consultants in an attempt to
chart its destiny
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** 'Dr. Death' Wants to Exhibit His Own Corpse
Gunther von Hagens, famous/infamous for exhibiting preserved corpses in his
controversial "Body Worlds" exhibitions, has revealed that he is suffering
from Parkinson's disease, a degenerative nervous disorder, and that he is
preparing to go on show himself after his death
** Found In the Archives: Claud Thornton's Traveling Crime Museum
Little is known about the museum's creator, Claud Thornton; his military
records do not survive, but based on Delano's description of him as a
shell-shocked veteran of World War I, it's hard to avoid imagining the sort
of action he might have seen that, followed by the Depression, put him on
the road with these papier-mache figures of John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd
and other well-known criminals
** A Triage to Save the Ruins of Babylon
The damage done to the ruins of ancient Babylon is visible from a small
hilltop near the Tower of Babel, whose biblical importance is hard to
envision from what is left of it today
** Ruby slipper reward hits $250,000
The slippers, one of four known pairs worn by Garland in the classic 1939
movie, were on a 10-week loan from Hollywood movie memorabilia collector
Michael Shaw when someone broke in through the back door, smashed a display
case and fled with them
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** Historic Preservation & Lost Artifacts in Harrisburg
According to the article, over 1,800 historic artifacts (including a musket
from Gettysburg battlefield, an original Kentucky rifle from the 1700's, and
an early likeness of Pennsylvania native and frontier legend Daniel Boone)
have gone missing from an end of the year audit at the State Museum in
Harrisburg and the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Lancaster County
** Cats Guard Art At St Petersburg Museum
A lesser known fact about the museum's astonishing history is that felines
have inhabited the cosy cellars for centuries - surviving Tsars and
Communists
** Greece's first Vehicle Museum to open in March
The recently-inaugurated Museum, located on the top level of the
three-storey Athenian Capitol multi-purpose cultural, commercial and
recreational facility, features an 1895 fire pump, the oldest exhibit on
display, while other highlights include cars belonging to historical figures
of the arts and politics, some of which were acquired through international
auctions over the last three decade
** Pardon or not, it's business as usual at Billy the Kid Museum
Whether America's most infamous Wild Westerner gets his posthumous walking
papers or not, Tim Sweet will show up to work as usual on Monday morning
just like he and his parents have done since Sweet's grandfather opened the
museum in east-central New Mexico in 1952
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** Sabretooth cats threatened most ancient human ancestor
Humankind's oldest known ancestor probably lived in fear of several large
sabretooth cats that roamed the same ancient lakeside habitat in Africa
** Ancient horned rodent creates museum excitement 50 years later
Remains of a mylagaulus horned rodent found this year in storage at Sam
Noble museum could be a newly discovered species
** China builds Sichuan earthquake museum
Chinese state media says construction has begun on a museum commemorating
the nearly 90,000 people who died during a 2008 earthquake
** The piano king William Steinway
A new museum exhibit is striking a chord with historians and music buffs
alike, offering them a glimpse inside the mind of piano-making royalty
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** Museum Wants to Return Objects, but There's a Hitch
Costa Rica had made no claim to the objects, which were exported in the late
19th and early 20th centuries by Minor C. Keith, a railroad magnate and a
founder of the United Fruit Company
** Archaeologists to probe Sherwood Forest's 'Thing'
A 'Thing', or open-air meeting place where Vikings gathered to discuss the
law, was discovered in the Birklands, Sherwood Forest, five years ago
** A lively look at death
These works of art are current-day caskets from the African country of
Ghana, home of the world's most colorful and imaginative burial boxes
** Turkey to open torture museum in Ankara jail
Ulucanlar Jail in Ankara, the site of 19 hangings and many allegations of
torture in its 81-year history, has been turned into a museum
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** MacMillan's lost tales of Arctic adventures retold
Long lost tapes of explorer Donald MacMillan, recounting his sometimes
harrowing Arctic travels, have been painstakingly restored and converted to
a digital format at Bowdoin College's Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
** Giant New Saber-toothed Cat Puppet Pounces
On weekends this December, and through the week starting January, visitors
to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) will be educated
and enthralled by the latest addition to the museum's puppet troupe - a
life-sized saber-toothed cat
** Government cuts mean venue shuts its doors to the public
Liverpool's National Conservation Centre will close to visitors as a result
of government cuts
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