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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Did ancient Egyptians build with kites?
Researchers used a mammoth kite to set a 6,900-pound obelisk upright, a feat
they say demonstrates that ancient Egyptians may have harnessed the wind
** International row over tiger poo
Poo from an extinct Tasmanian tiger has sparked an international scientific
row
** Historic plants bloom online
Hidden away among 2.7 million plant specimens stored in 2,000 cabinets in
the upper levels of the Field Museum of Natural History is the tiny,
white-rooted Thismia Americana
** New type of donor changes outlook for cultural groups
''Even though the economy has changed, and ticket sales are down, I am
really bullish that this is a great time to raise money,''
** Our Feature Museum of the Week
The Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research(RMBR) has its origins in the
Raffles Museum which was founded in 1849
** 3 kids treated for rabies after contact with bat
The children were invited to touch bats being held by a staff member of the
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
** Old shred of cloth tantalizes museum curator
Could it really be part of the flag that accompanied Lt. Colonel George
Armstrong Custer to his death
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** Greek organ makes British debut after 2,300 years
The first keyboard instrument ever made has been re-created by
archaeologists and musicians
** Web key helps researchers identify mammals
A Field Museum scientist has come up with a novel way of putting the
museum's enormous collection of artifacts and specimens to use around the
world
** Croc in the Rhine sparks police search operation
German police have launched a helicopter search after a crocodile was
apparently spotted in a German river
** A Rosetta for future linguists
A small San Francisco foundation is leading an effort to create a modern
Rosetta Stone, a collection of 1,000 translations
** Locked in the past?
What role should the past play in the future of a confident country:
irrelevance, imposition or inspiration?
** Museum Of Aviation Set to Fly
The Grumman Wildcat, which was refurbished extensively after more than half
a century under water, is one of the 70 craft that will be on display
** International Museum of Toilets
Ever wondered what a museum dedicated entirely to the history of toilets
would be like ? Probably not, but Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak is online to tell
you anyway
** Paintings hidden in Brooklyn apartment returned to Azerbaijan museum
About 200 valuable works of art hidden in a Brooklyn apartment have been
returned to the Republic of Azerbaijan
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** Vermeer exhibition to draw 270,000 visitors
More than 10,000 advance tickets - at £8 for an adult - have been sold for
the exhibition
** Buying fever sweeps New York auctions
The spring art auctions in New York last month brought surprisingly high
prices for works by a number of contemporary artists
** View of cowboys' freedom draws Czechs to museum
Wearing jeans, boots and straw cowboy hats, the two Czechs looked with awe
and amazement at guns and clothes of a time gone by
** China Takes Steps to Preserve Peking Man Site
China's top science organ and cultural relics department are taking steps to
protect the well-known Zhoukoudian site
** UK space centre to open in Midlands
It has taken four years to build, has five exhibition areas and one of the
world's most advanced planetariums
** The NAGARA Local Government Records Roundtable
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** The Friendly Museum:Managing Children's Programmes in African Museums
September 2-9, Nairobi Museum,
** Call for Papers.
The editorship of the annual book series, Research in Economic Anthropology
** REGISTER NOW!, to the California Association of Museums' Annual
Conference
** Are you responsible for visitor services at your museum?
** Traveling Exhibitions Database
** Powerhouse Museum Launches TOP 100 AUSTRALIAN INNOVATIONS ONLINE
** Flood Damage to the Houston Academy of Medicine - TMC Library: June 2001
** Nunavut Archaeological and Palaeontological Sites Regulations
** The International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting 2001 "Cultural
Heritage and Technologies in the Third Millennium"
** Holocene environmental catastrophes and recovery
** The Information Deficit: Canadian Solutions conference
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