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week's edition include:
** Fat lady's tooth leads to Egypt's lost queen
The key to unlocking its identity was a loose tooth found in a relic box
believed to contain some of the queen's embalmed organs, according to the
researchers
** World's oldest car for sale
The car was built in France in 1884, about a year before Gottlieb Daimler
and Karl Benz of Germany built their first experimental gasoline-powered
cars
** British architect unveils project to revamp Berlin museums
British architect David Chipperfield has unveiled plans to complete the
renovation of Berlin's Museum Island, that was damaged and fell into neglect
during World War II and the communist division of the capital
** Lucy To Tour
The State Department gave final approval Wednesday for one of the world's
most famous fossils - the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in
Ethiopia in 1974 - to tour the U.S. on exhibit for the first time
** Neanderthal genome map possible
Researchers studying Neanderthal DNA say it should be possible to construct
a complete genome of the ancient hominid despite the degradation of DNA over
time.
** New trove of Anne Frank documents is released
Anne Frank's cousin gave up custody Monday of thousands of letters,
photographs and documents that archivists say will reveal details about the
background of the teenage diarist who became a symbol of the Holocaust
** Florence museum visitors can see restorers at work on Donatello's
"David"
New techniques including lasers will allow restorers to remove encrusted
dirt and grime from the 1.58-meter masterpiece while keeping it in its place
in the museum
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** Museum to import controversial dung painting
A private Tasmanian museum has applied to import a controversial painting
from the United Kingdom that contains elephant dung
** Cold War-era chills - Tourists welcome
At the budding Moscow tourist attraction called the Confrontation Cold War
Museum, historical remembrance and a touch of make-believe mix in an
ambiguous but thought-provoking cocktail
** Museum delivery arrives 34 years late
Boxes full of educational films recently arrived at Michigan's Holland
Museum, but unfortunately the packages were originally expected 34 years ago
** Pistol declared coolest of them all
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's target pistol, as championed by sports writer John
MacKinnon, has triumphed in the Choose the Coolest competition to determine
the coolest item from the Royal Alberta Museum's usually unseen collections
** Director who oversaw creation of new war museum gone
The chairman of the National Council of Veteran Associations, believes the
departure is tied to controversy over an exhibit on bombing of Germany in
the Second World War
** Titanic Rescue Log Sells for $102,000
A log book from the cable ship Mackay-Bennett detailing the grisly efforts
to recover corpses from the Titanic fetched $102,000 at Christie's
International in New York - more than double its $50,000 high estimate
** Twitchers cry foul in case of the deceased parrot
Dubbed the Tasmanian tiger of the skies, this small, drab, budgerigar-like
bird has fascinated scientists, frustrated twitchers and inspired artists,
poets and novelists for more than a century
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** Director's criminal past stuns museum board
A search committee picked the late Ted Peters from more than 100 candidates
who applied in 1994 to direct Plano's Heritage Farmstead Museum, a historic
landmark and annual recipient of city grants
** Amistad to retrace infamous slave trade route
For the next 16 months, a ship bearing the name Amistad once again will sail
the Atlantic, tracing a 19th-century route of the slave trade
** Riddle of the bog
Lindow Man - because the marsh that maintained him in dark seclusion for so
long is Lindow Moss - goes back on view today in a state-of-the-art,
refrigerated and transparent grave in the British Museum's excellent new
prehistoric galleries
** The secrets behind the faces
The van Heythuysen is among the 60 or so paintings in an exhibition of Dutch
portraits that opens at London's National Gallery next week and will travel
to the Mauritshuis in The Hague in October
** 2 heads dead
The two-headed rat snake known affectionately by fans worldwide as "We" has
died
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