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In your FREE international EZINE this week:
** Napoleon's troops buried in Acre 200 years on **
Four of Napoleon's soldiers were buried beside their comrades on Tuesday,
200 years after they were killed in the siege of the fortress port of Acre
and beheaded by its Ottoman defenders
** Monet's 'Waterlilies' sells for $22 million **
A "Waterlilies" painting by French impressionist Claude Monet sold for more
than $22 million late Monday at a Christie's auction
** Lasers will lay prehistoric bones bare in no time at all **
Freeing delicate fossils from the rock that has entombed them for millions
of years could soon be much easier and quicker, say physicists at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
** Man hunts for Nazi past in Berlin bunkers **
Dietmar Arnold swings open a heavy steel door and leads the visitor down a
pitch black hallway leading to a massive bunker complex built by the Nazis
at the height of World War Two.
** Brave new world promises fun sex, royals in space **
Come 2010, according to the often-prescient Arthur C Clarke, Prince Harry
will become the first member of Britain's royal family to fly in space.
Lights will be turned on at the flick of a thought -- switches will be
consigned to history
** Underwater Warriors **
A sailor on the deck of the USS Housatonic saw in the moonlight a sight that
would chill the hearts of mariners for generations to come
** CAT Scan Used To Study Artifacts **
Smithsonian Institution scientists are finding surprises every day as they
use the latest in modern technology to study the inner secrets of the
distant past.
** Nazis May Have Stolen Painting **
Officials with the North Carolina Museum of Art say they want to ``do the
right thing'' in resolving a dispute over a 16th-century painting that wound
up at the museum more than 40 years after allegedly being stolen by Nazis
during World War II
** 2 Centuries of Seafaring Remembered **
By early evening the battle for the city had been clearly lost. The American
commandant, following his direct orders, lit the fuses, set the fires and
destroyed the U.S. Navy's leading shipyard
** £10m helps tell story of British immigrants **
The biggest National Lottery grant to an ethnic-minorities project has been
won by an Asian woman, who will receive £10 million to create a museum
celebrating immigration and Britain's many faiths
** Dinosaurs draw crowds at activity day **
A three-metre tall dinosaur and shellfish fossils came out of storage to
celebrate the beginning of Science Week Ireland at the National Museum's
Earth Science Activity Day
** Gehry unveils Chicago pavilion with garden motif **
A proposed outdoor concert pavilion with towering steel flower petals and a
huge trellis drew raves Thursday for architect Frank Gehry, who put Bilbao,
Spain, on the map with his curvilinear Guggenheim Museum
** Net Destinations: science museums on the Internet **
A recent column strolled through art museums on the Web, which doubtless
prompted some readers to wonder, ``Hey! What about science museums?''
** Website of the Week **
Old Cowtown Museum is a unique, 17 acre open-air living history museum which
recreates Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas from 1865 to 1880.
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