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week's edition include:
** Mona Lisa Teacup Attack Joins Loony Tradition of Defiling Art
Mentally, a large number of art attackers appear to be several sandwiches
short of the full picnic
** L.A. museum director lived 10% of the time in N.Y.
But is it really reasonable for the head of a Los Angeles museum to live
more than a month each year in Manhattan?
** Rarely-seen Reagan treasures
Wearing gloves, Rob Zucca, an exhibition specialist at the Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, carefully turned the pages
of a condolence book from President Reagan's state funeral in 2004
** Charges filed against museum director
Those who know Marty Phelps are stunned to hear the director of the Medina
Railroad Museum is charged with sexual abuse, and the museum itself may be a
target of the investigation
** Tule Springs preservation prospects take off
A massive swath of Las Vegas Valley teeming with ice age fossils could
become a national monument operated by the National Park Service as soon as
next year
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** Japanese war dead skulls at UC museum
The skulls and bones of Japanese war dead from World War II's Battle of
Saipan are being kept at UC Berkeley in apparent violation of the Geneva
Conventions for the protection of war victims
** Archaeologists discover 4,000 yr old gold-banded dagger in Scotland
Archaeologists in Perthshire, Scotland, have unearthed a spectacular early
Bronze Age grave containing a gold-banded dagger still wrapped in its
4,000-year-old sheath, which means it is as old as the pyramids
** The nouveau fakes: Russian avant-garde forgeries
Such is the popularity of the revolutionary art movements such as
Constructivism and Suprematism, which spread through Russia in the early
part of the 20th century, that forgers are glutting the market
** Ancient nutcracker on display at museum
For awhile, the McKees' site has been an archaeologist dream for artefacts
from the Paleo Indian times, uncovering items that range 3,000-6,000 years
old
** Part of aviation history stolen from Museum of Flight
In the 1920s and 30s, Ken Houseolder lived his dream, flying in an open
cockpit delivering airmail, transporting movie crews, and he was one of the
first commercial pilots for United Airlines
** Britain's first works of art really rock
Visitors can see how Creswell, on the border between Derbyshire and
Nottinghamshire, evolved from the gorge's creation 260 million years ago to
the last Ice Age and to the first Victorians to start its exploration
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** could shed light on missing looted art
A newly discovered catalogue of artworks stolen by Nazis compiled for Adolf
Hitler could help unravel the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of lost
masterpieces seized during the Second World War
** Egyptian expert in Hyderabad to restore mummy
The 1.40 metre long mummy is one of the six in Indian museums and the only
in south India
** War Museum display riles French heritage group
The display of an 18th-century French coat of arms at the Canadian War
Museum in Ottawa is insulting, and the artefact should be returned to Quebec
City, says a French-Canadian heritage group
** British Museum to advise on Zayed museum
The British Museum has agreed with Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development &
Investment Company (TDIC) to act as a consulting partner on the development
of the new Zayed National Museum in the emirate
** Bird-feather bandits strike English museum
Curators of the Natural History Museum at Tring, 30 miles northwest of
London, said that thieves have stolen about 300 of their most gloriously
hued specimens from a vast collection assembled over centuries
** Tale of 1911 trek goes up for sale
Even in a forbidding landscape where human endeavour has been tested to the
limit, it was one of the most insane adventures ever undertaken: more than
108km and back in the Antarctic winter through relentless winds, appalling
blizzards and numbing temperatures for the sole purpose of gathering Emperor
penguin eggs from their remote breeding grounds
** Behind the Scenes at Harvard's Museum of Natural History
Among the treasures hidden from sight at Harvard's Museum of Natural History
are the world's biggest egg, Stephen Jay Gould's seashells and Vladimir
Nabokov's collection of butterfly genitalia
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** Dig in for WWI trench warfare at London museum
Smell a German latrine, fight off the effects of a mustard gas attack and
discover how soldiers in the trenches of World War One rid themselves of
lice at a new exhibition in London's Imperial War Museum
** Cutting Edge: A History of Human Hair at the Red House Museum
A range of artefacts will be on display from Roman combs and hairpins,
amazing perming machines from the 1930s that look like giant metallic squid
and beautiful tiara
** Exhibition shows development of archaeology in Hong Kong
An exhibition that depicts the development of archaeology in Hong Kong from
the 1920s to the present day is being held at the Hong Kong Heritage
Discovery Centre until September 26.
** Pursuing a Change of Place: American Tourists of the 19th Century
The Historical Society of Frederick County Maryland and the Catoctin Centre
for Regional Studies present: The Fifth Annual History Symposium
** Sky Rangers Workshop for Outdoor Astronomy Education
Bryce Canyon National Park
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