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** Captain's Remains Found in U.S. Civil War Submarine
The remains of Lt. George Dixon, captain of the Civil War submarine H.L.
Hunley, have been found inside the long-submerged vessel
** Martin Scorsese to record Saint Petersburg museum on film
The 90-minute film will take the form of a journey through the
museum,capturing a series of lavishly re-constructed scenes from
19th-century Russian history
** Staff Claim Foul Play at Hampden Museum
Scotland's new football museum is being taken to an employment tribunal by
two former managers
** N.Y. legislators want Arafat bust removed from wax museum
"Arafat, alive and breathing or with wax in his lungs, does not belong in
any venue in New York," state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said
** At last, a railway success story
Thanks to the secrets of Stephenson's Rocket and the erotic effect of uneven
19th century rails, Britain has captured this year's Egg - the annual award
for Europe's best museum
** Kerouac Manuscript Bought for $2.2M
The original manuscript of ''On The Road,'' author Jack Kerouac's epic tale
of disaffected youth wandering America, was auctioned Tuesday for $2.43
million
** From turkey box to a museum
Fourteen years ago, the DuPage Children's Museum existed only as a turkey
box full of files on Dorothy Carpenter's kitchen table
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** Seafood Gave Modern Humans Edge
Early modern humans in Europe apparently enjoyed plenty of nourishing fish
dinners, which may have given them an evolutionary edge over Neanderthals
** Guggenheim, With a Gehry on Top
For the first time in the Guggenheim Museum's 42-year history, there is an
unintended work-in-progress on display
** Sun key to Mayan misery?
The ancient Mayans may have had good reason for their fascination with the
heavens, new research by climate historians suggests
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** Museum Okays Scantily Clad Virgin
A collage of the Virgin of Guadalupe clad in a flowery two-piece swimsuit
remains on display at a state-run museum despite protests from some Roman
Catholics.
** Hunt for wreck of Hood
A £2 million expedition to find the last resting place of HMS Hood, the
British battleship sunk by the Bismarck with all but three of her crew, will
begin next month
** Keepers of flame seek city fire museum
The city's firefighters find it ironic that while New York has a museum to
celebrate its department, as do a number of smaller cities, Chicago doesn't
** Alexandria library, a true successor of its ancient manestuke
The revival of the Alexandria library is of deep cultural significance in
that it is an ambitious attempt to recreate a glorious chapter in Egypt's
history as the cultural capital of the world
** Plan Sought to Halt Vandalism of Ancient Art
Painted Rock, in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, is a world-class site
of ancient Native American art, revered equally by Indians and archeologists
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** Philatelic Museum pushes envelope
Included in the museum's extensive collection are Britain's Penny Black
stamps - the world's first postage stamps
** Creatures great and small, this museum will freeze them all
Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York are
building a 21st century version of Noah's Ark
** Building Removed to Make Way for Three Gorges Museum
The construction of the planned museum, with a floor-space of 40,000 square
meters, will be completed in three years.
** Moving-Day Tips
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be. Museum staff take note
** King Tut's peas live on in Mie museum
Seeds from peas found during excavations of Tutankhamen's tomb many decades
ago have grown into purple pods at the Suzuka Municipal Museum of Archeology
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** The AASLH "Not Your Ordinary Workshop Series" Summer Workshops
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** The Ontario Archaeological Society presents The Archaeology of Space &
Place In The Great Lakes Basin
** VI European Conference On Archives Firenze, 30 may - 2 June 2001
** School for Scanning: Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets
** Ninth ECAI Conference 2001 "Towards an Electronic Cultural Atlas:
E-Publishing and Knowledge Management in the Humanities"
** Points Of Contact: Performance, Homes & Gardens
** Digital Cultural Heritage III: Finding Aids and Analysis Tools in
Archives and Memory Institutions
** The Canadian War Museum (CWM) is proud to announce the new location for
the Museum, in the heart of downtown Ottawa on LeBreton Flats
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