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week's edition include:
** Museum scours seabed for sunken treasures of colonial history
Previous expeditions to the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef uncovered the
schooner HMCS Mermaid (in 2009), and the Porpoise and the Cato (both 2010) -
all part of the trade route between England, Australia and Asia, carrying
cargo such as coal and timber, troops or convicts
** Turner prize-winner's work stolen from Christie's
Gordon, who won the Turner prize in 1999 and whose art is owned by museums
including the Tate and New York's Museum of Modern Art, is angry at the
behaviour of the auction house
** Site of Interest - Biblioboard
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your browser, which is part of a larger, sustainable ecosystem for the
curation and distribution of history
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** Fossil Fly's Camouflage Tricks Scientists
When the hangingfly (Juracimbrophlebia ginkgofolia) that was fossilized in
this find stretched its wings, it would have resembled the five-lobed leaf
of an extinct ginkgo-like tree (Yimaia capituliformis) that once dwelled in
the region
** Could tiny jellyfish hold the secret to immortality for humans?
After more than 4,000 years - almost since the dawn of recorded time, when
Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral
found on the ocean floor - man finally discovered eternal life in 1988
** Play, Work, Build With Your Children
A museum dedicated to architecture, engineering and design may not seem like
an obvious place to take young children, but the National Building Museum
currently has two large rooms dedicated to play for children two and up
** Killer Cave May Have Inspired Myth of Hades
A giant cave that might have helped serve as the inspiration for the mythic
ancient Greek underworld Hades once housed hundreds of people, potentially
making it one of the oldest and most important prehistoric villages in
Europe before it collapsed and killed everyone inside, researchers say
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** Prices plummeting, lustre fading - has Damien Hirst jumped the pickled
shark?
While the names of the 20th century's great artists such as Mark Rothko,
Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter have emerged more valuable
than ever from the financial collapse, the same, it is claimed, is not true
of Damien Hirst
** Bodleian Library in dons' bad books
Complaints have since been made about students bringing in burgers and
chips, cakes and hand cream, using their phones and chatting to friends
** The Forgotten Kingdom? The Kingdom of Man and the Isles
Telling tales of grudge battles, indulgent Kings and Queens, haunted
chieftains and dastardly politicians, a giant pair of storybooks form the
centrepiece of this show, capitalising on the Isle of Man's place as the
seat of power in the powerful sea kingdom once formed between the Outer
Hebrides, Skye, the Inner Hebrides, Argyll and the Irish Sea
** Everest litter becomes art
The 75 sculptures, including one of a yak and another of wind chimes, were
made by Nepali artists from empty oxygen bottles, gas canisters, food cans,
torn tents, ropes, crampons, boots, plates, twisted aluminum ladders and
torn plastic bags dumped by climbers over decades on the slopes of the
world's highest mountain
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** Hermitage instills shock of the new with contemporary art wing
With four exhibits going on show over the past two months, the museum's new
wing, inside a building that once housed the tsarist-era finance ministry,
has moved one step closer to its official opening - 2014, when the Hermitage
will celebrate its 250-year anniversary
** Philippines says 146 paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and other masters
missing
Marcos distributed his priceless collection of at least 300 artworks to
cronies when his regime crumbled in 1986; only about half have been
recovered by Manila
** A British Museum Treasure Will Visit the United States
Often referred to as "the first bill of human rights" because its
inscription encourages freedom of worship throughout the Persian Empire, it
is a small clay object - not quite nine inches long - bearing an account, in
Babylonian cuneiform, by Cyrus, the King of Persia of his conquest of
Babylon in 539 B.C.
** Human poo leaves archeological stain in Norway
Starting around 2,250 years ago, the presence of people's poo painted a
picture of human population changes in the region around Lake Liland on one
of the Lofoten Islands
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** World War II Spitfires buried in Burma to be excavated by British team
A series of surveys, carried out by the trio in the area during the past
decade, have revealed swathes of electrically conductive material beneath
the soil
** Archaeologists discover shipwrecks, ancient harbor on coast of Israel
A team of archaeologists have discovered the remains of a fleet of
early-19th century ships and ancient harbor structures from the Hellenistic
period (third to first century B.C.) at the city of Akko, one of the major
ancient ports of the eastern Mediterranean
** MoMA Gains Treasure That Met Also Coveted
The Museum of Modern Art and the Met have never been direct competitors
because their missions are different; one focuses on certain periods while
the other is an encyclopedic institution
** Florida car museum sells its treasures at auction
Staluppi is liquidating his Cars of Dreams Museum and its 115 collector
vehicles in an auction; the Batmobile, the Evel Knievel motorcycle, the
lines and lines of perfectly shined cars, all of them will be gone
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius - Your disdain for authority will be full display this week when
you pick a fight with a handsome set of leather-bound encyclopedias
** Searching for Doggerland
Once thought of as a largely uninhabited land bridge between modern-day
continental Europe and Britain - a place on the way to somewhere else -
Doggerland is now believed to have been settled by Mesolithic people,
probably in large numbers, until they were forced out of it thousands of
years later by the relentlessly rising sea
** Chinese Painting and Calligraphy of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties from
the Osaka City Museum of Fine Art
Hong Kong Museum of Art
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** Digitizing Specimens in Wet Collections: Getting Started
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Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) is pleased to announce the
second in a series of preparation-specific workshops focusing on organizing,
launching, maintaining, and/or enhancing a biological collections
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