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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Corrupt auctioneer stole art cash
Sale of the century netted nearly £6m for man who put Picassos and Mirós on
market
** Sharjah museum receives Gulf's first mail plane
The first aircraft used to transport mail in the region has been handed over
to Al Mahata Museum
** Valuable Art Lost in WTC Rubble
Millions of dollars worth of art, including works by Alexander Calder,
Louise Nevelson, Joan Miro and Roy Lichtenstein, was damaged or destroyed
** Tropical storm uncovers 1800s ship remains at Ponte Vedra Beach
Seventy-seven jagged wooden ribs of a 19th-century sailing ship were
uncovered on this northeastern Florida beach by tropical storm Gabrielle
** Hertzberg Circus Museum to close
Part of the museum's 40,000-item collection will go to the Central Library
downtown
** Vietnam museum recalls perils of unseen enemy
With America apparently poised to strike back after the attacks two weeks
ago, the "War Remnants Museum" in Saigon provides a vivid testiment to what
high-tech weapons can and cannot achieve
** French cathedrals exhibit their treasures
This wealth of creativity stems partly from the sheer number of cathedrals
in France-some 160 at the time of the Revolution
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** Transporting precious items was no easy chore
How do you handle irreplaceable objects that range in age from 300 to 500
years old?
** Searching for elusive 300-mile Wall of Gengis Khan
As old Chinese chronicles describe it, the wall consisted of a huge earthen
berm topped by wooden parapets
** Explore heavens, Earth at museum site
Museums have been transformed over the decades from stodgy repositories of
history to interactive wonderlands
** Funding the British Museum
Total expenditure budget for the British Museum, for the year 2001 /2, is
expected to be £46,363,000
** Historic Cabin Destroyed by Arson
The cabin was one of the oldest in central Maryland's Howard County
** Tuscany's Excalibur is the real thing, say scientists
The sword of St Galgano, said to have been plunged into a rock by a medieval
Tuscan knight, has been authenticated
** Veteran Smithsonian director leaving post
The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History,
Spencer R. Crew, is departing his post after two decades with the National
Mall fixture
** Palestinian Exhibit Applauds Terror
Visitors crowded through the door to see a re-creation of the suicide attack
at the Sbarro pizza restaurant, complete with fake body parts and pizza
slices
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** Radar Locates Austrian Roman Ruins
Archaeologists have dug around the site east of Vienna for nearly a century,
but geophysicists using radar were able to peer through layers of earth
** Ramezay undergoes repairs
The Château Ramezay museum in Old Montreal will close Sunday for repairs and
is to reopen in June
** No Dead Sea Scrolls at Olympics
Worries about the cost of transporting and insuring the safety of the Dead
Sea Scrolls have prompted Olympic organizers to cancel a display of the
religious artifacts
** British Museum to promote culture, and itself
Already under consideration are two mottos: "Ours! Ours! All ours!" and
"Posession is nine-tenths of our collection."
** Exhibit proves posters as vital as ever
The seemingly antiquated technology of the printed poster has lost little of
its importance as a conveyance of information
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** Following the Fortune Hunters: The Art and Culture of the Ovens
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