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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this 
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week's edition include:

**  Chainsaw-wielding mayor enrages museum board
At a council meeting yesterday afternoon, a contrite Mr. Young apologized to 
outraged members of the museum's board, including former Toronto mayor John 
Sewell, before they had a chance to unleash their ire

**  Shipwreck Display Floated at Museum
The Museum said the exhibition offered a rare insight into why fear of 
shipwreck loomed so large and the devastation these wrecks caused

**  Paris smoking museum honours what city will ban
Thus left to meander, the drop-in visitor may well overlook the more earnest 
exhibits here - Egyptian sheeshas, Chinese opium pipes - and note the small, 
red-circle-and-slash signs reminding guests that, in no uncertain terms, 
smoking is strictly forbidden in the Museum of Smoking

**  Romance of the Skies plane crash haunts pair 50 years later
The airliner mystery is partly what pushed him to become a historian, and 
years later when he was hired as a director at the Smithsonian's National 
Air and Space Museum, the first thing he did was dig for clues to the 
Romance crash - to no avail

**  King Tut makes an appearance
The mummy of King Tut has been put on public display for the first time 
since the boy pharaoh's tomb was discovered in Egypt 85 years ago

**  Head of US National Children's Museum arrested on child porn charges
The Washington museum posted a message on its Web site saying officials 
there are "horrified" by news of Singer's arrest

**  Orkney beast 'similar to Nessie'
Most of the original remains have been lost, the skull and 'paw' had been 
sent down to London in the 19th Century and were destroyed in the Blitz, so 
the only surviving parts that she could locate were in a storage at 
Edinburgh's Royal Museum

**  A vessel that took people to life
A fishing boat that may have helped in an effort that saved thousands of 
Jews from the Nazis now rests beside a German rail car that may have carried 
Jews and other Holocaust victims to their deaths
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**  Houston museum raises millions for Islamic art collection
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has raised more than $3.6 million for a 
project to establish the first collection of Islamic art in Texas and the 
South

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**  Unlocking the secrets of colour daguerreotypes
In 1850, an improbable mix of ingenuity, ambition, and kitchen chemistry 
propelled Hill to make a shocking announcement: he had produced the first 
colour daguerreotypes, later known as Hillotypes

**  Headless skeletons hold Pacific colonization key
A 3,000-year-old burial site in Vanuatu containing 60 headless skeletons and 
skulls in pots is helping end the mystery over colonization of the Pacific 
and the first Polynesians

**  The Walters opening
With these records, O'Loughlin believes the museum will be able to re-create 
how the reclusive millionaire chose to display his art

**  Smithsonian balks at donation
The Smithsonian Institution has taken the rare step of putting on hold a $5 
million donation from the American Petroleum Institute after two members of 
the museum complex's board of regents, including a U.S. senator, balked at 
accepting oil-industry money for a major initiative on the world's oceans

**  Beauty in the basement
The Picasso masterpiece is worth an estimated $55-$65 million on the 
international art market, but its only regular contact with the human eye is 
the fiercely critical gaze of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
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**  Kremlin wives brought to life in new Moscow exhibition
From a sumptuous gown of the last Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna to a 
peasant-style smock worn by Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, a new 
exhibition on the wives of Kremlin leaders illuminates a turbulent century

**  Ice age comet theory causes big bang
The researchers say the impact also may have wiped out or fragmented the 
prehistoric Clovis people who flourished in North America at the time

**  Former Seaport Museum leader gets 15 years in prison
The 15 year sentence followed more than six hours of testimony regarding the 
depth of the loss at the Philadelphia maritime museum

**  Nazi Secret Police Museum Finally Gets Off the Ground
Since 1987, black-and-white photo reproductions documenting the Nazi terror 
have been posted in a temporary outdoor exhibit near the ruins of the former 
Gestapo and Reich Security Offices, which were destroyed during the war by 
allied bombs

**  City and Country - Ninth Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium

**  Flood Warning? Annual Science Lecture  - The Natural History Museum, 
London

**  Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch

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