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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:
** $5M Moon Rock Stolen From Malta Museum
A tiny moon rock believed to be worth about $5 million was stolen from a
museum in Malta, 30 years after President Richard Nixon donated it to the
Mediterranean island nation
** Museum competition in Vienna "has gone crazy"
A fierce conflict has broken out among museums in Vienna precipitated by the
reopening last year of the renovated Albertina
** Civilisation's earliest relics are on offer in cyberspace
More than a year after the looting of the National Museum in Baghdad,
thieves are still picking apart archaeological sites across Iraq, stealing
antiquities from the dawn of civilisation
** Picasso painting goes missing from Paris museum
They have searched high and low and now the Pompidou Centre thinks it must
have been stolen
** World Parrot Day
Zoos all over the UK are holding events to highlight the parrots, from
Edinburgh Zoo to Paradise Park in Cornwall
** Catalans fight for custody of Dalí's Great Mast##bator
It may seem an unlikely symbol of national pride, but The Great Mast##bator,
a painting by the eccentric Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, was at the
centre of a tug-of-war between Catalan separatists and a Madrid museum
yesterday
** Sunken treasure trove fetches twice expected price
Rare Ming dynasty Chinese porcelain and gold pieces salvaged from a 16th
century Portuguese shipwreck near Mozambique have sold for double the
expected amount
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** Homeric feat: Legend vs. fact
The Project Troia team has reported finding heaps of sling bullets, evidence
of burning and signs of an earthquake in Hisarlik's sixth settlement
** Faberge eggs home to roost
Fifteen Czarist-era Faberge eggs were triumphantly unveiled in a Kremlin
museum Tuesday, three months after a Russian billionaire purchased the
collection
** Scuba diving fun at Aberdeen Maritime Museum
The items for display have been drawn from the collections of 13 museums who
are members of the Maritime Curators Group
** Virtual tour of bin Laden's hideout makes Turner Prize shortlist
The pair, who visited Afghanistan in 2002, created an interactive digital
model of the al Qaeda leader's "last official address" - a bunker visitors
could navigate in virtual space
** Whitney Museum Renews Expansion Plans
The Whitney Museum of American Art has renewed its plans for a $200 million
expansion, interviewing new architects including Italian designer Renzo
Piano
** Gold Threads may change fortunes
A Chinese exhibition at Corowa comes with Chinese fortune cookies and
Chinese tea for some of the visitors
** Judge Rules Christie's Ripped Off Thomson Heir
The two vases, said to be 300-year-old French masterpieces, were auctioned
from the country estate the British aristocrat Marquess of Cholmondeley
** Maori head returns from Argentina
A preserved tattooed Maori head held in Argentina for nearly 100 years will
be returned to New Zealand next week
** Feds offer looted artefact deal
Looting ancient sites has been illegal since 1990, when a federal law was
enacted protecting sacred objects and sacred places on federal and Indian
land
** Cicadas Declared Legal Tender to Boost Economy
Under the terms announced by Greenspan, each cicada has been accorded a
value of one dollar, resulting in billions of dollars literally emerging
from the ground to bolster the flagging economy
** Where do you take them: Strake Hall of Malacology
Malacology is the study of mollusks -- those tiny creatures that wear
nature's best jewellery right on their backs
** Philanthropist unites arms and history in gift to hometown
Tucked under the sofa and stored in the basement and bedrooms, Frazier
stashed a collection of historic weaponry that, over the years, grew to
include Teddy Roosevelt's "Big Stick"
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** Founding Bristol Magpie receives national Museum & Heritage Award
** The Society for Applied Anthropology's 2005 annual meeting is in Santa
Fe, April 6-10.
** Learning through Objects: The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Centre is
offering an innovative training program for museum professionals and early
childhood educators interested in using objects to teach young children.
** The Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute is proud to announce the Sixth
Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert Region
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