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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Off-the-beaten-path museums show another side of London
In this city of world-famous cultural institutions, the smaller,
off-the-beaten-path museums can get overlooked
** Traders beat museum execs to galleon treasure
Museum officials here found out too late that fishermen on Rapu-Rapu Island
had discovered late last year a sunken Spanish galleon that contained gold
and silver coins, jars and other valuable treasures
** Microprobe makeover for museum's mummy
The sarcophagus arrived in Australia in the 1880s, holding the mummified
remains of a 17-year-old priestess, Tjeseb
** Civil War soldier's wooden leg is prized possession
Seemingly reaching across the generations, Young touched the artificial leg
of Isaac Byrum Jr., her great-grandfather
** The Chinese Restaurant in America
An exhibit in New York's Chinatown makes clear that the Chinese restaurant
was an economic and social necessity for Chinese immigrants
** Museum gets giant of another kind
When it makes its debut alongside the Spruce Goose on Friday, July 1, it
will become one of just five Titans on display anywhere in the world
** Police seize liberation museum's tanks
Dutch police have impounded several tanks and hundreds of weapons belonging
to a museum just days before the new Veteran's Day celebrations for old
soldiers
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** Fourth Little Piggy Sues Arby's
The fourth Little Piggy has filed a discrimination suit against the Arby's
restaurant chain due to their refusal to serve him a roast beef sandwich
** New theory on moa's demise
Examination of rings in stored moa bones suggests moa may have taken several
years to reach reproductive maturity, making them extremely vulnerable to
hunting
** Vessel promotes museum around the UK
The museum gives a substantial annual grant to her operational costs and in
return she promotes the museum around Britain
** Berlin's Enigma in Stone
The memorial took 17 years to complete and has been a contentious issue -
not just for those in government and media, but also for ordinary Germans
and, indeed, the rest of the Continent as well
** Met exhibit examines influence of textiles on Matisse
Clothes may not always make the man, but for Henri Matisse, material
definitely helped make the Modernist.
** Landslide Victim Hits Art Jackpot
A couple who lost their multimillion-dollar home in a landslide earlier this
month may find their saving grace in a garage-sale purchase they pulled from
the wreckage
** Love affair with handbags dates to B.C.
Believe it or not, the history of the handbag goes further back than the now
classic Hermes Birkin and Chanel 2.55
** Remains of Peat Bog Iron-Age Woman on Display
The remains of a young woman recovered from a peat bog and dated to about
650 B.C. went on display at a German museum today five years after they were
discovered
** Grand Egyptian museum biggest cultural project in 21st century
At a press conference held at the museum's site, Hosni said the first stage
of the project has already started, adding that most of the world
organisations concerned have contributed to it
** Museum Acquires Lennon's Stamp Album
Beatles star John Lennon collected stamps as a schoolboy - and the public
will soon have a chance to see them
** Looted art used to fund terrorist activity in Iraq
Money from the sale of stolen artefacts in Iraq is being used to fund
terrorist activity, the director of Iraq's National Museum has said
** Russian border guards open museum of illegal hunting weapons
Border guards managed to film on video a Chinese man pouring some liquid
into a river
** Nelson's Trafalgar Watch under the Hammer
A gold pocket watch carried by Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar is to
be put up for auction.
** Flames rip through biblical art museum in Texas
Authorities could not immediately determine the cause of the mid-morning
blaze but said all of the museum's patrons and staff managed to escape
unharmed
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** Mountain-Plains Museums Association (MPMA) Hosts its 2005 Conference in
Omaha, Nebraska
** The Visitor Studies Association annual conference is Aug. 2-6, 2005
** Digitizing Historic Newspapers: A Practical Approach
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