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week's edition include:
** Creation Museum staffer struck by lightning
A worker on the zip line was standing on the ground, holding a line, when
lightning suddenly struck [Video]
** Dutch female jouster defies Henry VIII by battling at Royal Armouries
finale
In an appearance which organisers fear may have horrified King Henry VIII, a
Dutch female jouster, posing as a member of a 15th century Bruges team and
wearing the androgynous armour of a Milanese wearer from 1470, has competed
in a joust at the Royal Armouries in Leeds
** Early South Americans conquered the Atacama desert
If people did enter South America along its west coast, Quebrada Maní could
have been an important pit stop for heading inland
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** Victorian woman photographer Cameron celebrated at NY museum
Cameron received a camera as a Christmas gift in 1863 from her daughter with
the idea that "it might amuse you, mother, to try to photograph during your
solitude"
** Every Cat Has Its Day: Hermitage Museum's Mouse Catchers Are
Immortalized in Portraits
While it might seem risky to keep dozens of cats near some of the world's
most precious pieces of art, cats are regarded as treasured guardians of the
State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, patrolling the basement
for mice and rats and treated like furry royalty by doting staff members
** Lord Foster pulls out of expansion of Moscow's Pushkin State Museum
The expansion of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, one of the most
prestigious and controversial building projects in Russia, has descended
into chaos after Lord Foster quit the project after seven years saying he
had been frozen out
** Far Out: Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Came from Outer Space
Inside the tomb, which belonged to a teenage boy, the iron beads were strung
together into a necklace alongside other exotic materials, including gold
and gemstones
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** National Portrait Gallery unveils earliest known portrait of a guinea
pig
Portraits of children were popular among the nobility and gentry in the
sixteenth century across Europe, enabling families to document lineage and
fertility, and to capture individual likeness, at a time when child
mortality was high
** Do critics paint women artists out the picture?
Bridget Riley, not David Hockney, is Britain's greatest living painter, but
an ingrained prejudice against female greatness puts a glass ceiling on the
pantheon as well as the boardroom
** Dallas Tower Dithers as Glass Roasts Museum Masterpieces
The two-year-long dispute has boiled over recently with city-council members
and the arts community calling for solutions and one man losing his job over
phony Facebook postings
** Children's museum to teach Cajun culture
The first exhibit at the front of the museum provides information from eight
countries, including Spain and France, and how they've influenced the Cajun
culture
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** Museum Of History Of Polish Jews In Warsaw Becomes Symbol Of Jewish
Revival
To commemorate over 1,000 years of Jewish history and heritage in Poland,
the Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened in Warsaw this April
** Where Words Mean as Much as Objects
Four years ago, the American Museum of Natural History agreed to return to
the Apaches 77 objects from its collection, including headwear, feathers,
bows and arrows, medicine rings and satchels containing crystals and charms
** Museum staff works on collection preservation
The Tri-State Museum staff worked with Belle Fourche Fire Chief Mark Hespe
Monday to learn about using fire extinguishers in the city's biggest
collection of historic artifacts that can't be replaced
** Virginia museum's pirate gathering aims to set Guinness record
Pirate wannabes, pirate speakers, wenches, heck, anyone with a striped shirt
and a swagger, the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Va., desperately wants
you - about 15,000 of you, to be precise.
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** Looters ransack Egyptian antiques museum and snatch priceless artefacts
Egypt's famous Malawi National Museum has been ransacked, looted and smashed
up by vandals in another example of the recent unrest in the country
** 14th-century poison ring found near Bulgaria's Kavarna
Bulgarian archaeologists working on the remains of the medieval fortress on
Cape Kaliakra, near the town of Kavarna on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast,
have found a well-preserved poison ring
** Aviation Museum rolls out Cold War Starfighter
The plane was one of the few surviving aircrafts involved in the Canadian
program from 1961 to 1984
** Scientists Finally Pronounce Human Genome
Revealing the long-awaited results of a 10-year study conducted by a massive
international research team, scientists confirmed Thursday that work on the
Human Genome Enunciation Project was finally complete (satire)
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** Museum embezzler pleads guilty
Sutton's fondness for the youth baseball team was such that, out of the more
than $34,000 stolen from the museum through the credit card scam, less than
$200 went toward his personal use
** Swedish Museum to Recover Lost Scientific Artifact
The brass-and-silver astrolabe, made in 1590 and worth around half a million
Euros ($750,000), turned up when an Italian collector discovered that the
piece was listed as missing and came forward to return it
** Excavating One of the Nazis' First Concentration Camps
Columbia served as a training center to teach and perfect new torture
methods that would later be employed to run Germany's huge network of
concentration camps around Europe
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** Class of 2013; Legends of Flight
International Air & Space Hall of Fame selects Class of 2013; Legends of
Flight land in San Diego.
** History Symposium: From Fibers to Fashion
Join the Historical Society of Frederick County for a day full of the
history of fiber arts and textiles at our ninth annual history symposium
** Crafting a Continuum + FlashBackForward
ASU Art Museum - Crafting a Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft is the
first comprehensive museum exhibition to highlight our extensive craft
holdings, including new international acquisitions in wood, ceramic and
fiber
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