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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:
** Tracking 7-inch barbarian proves to be an epic quest
Its presence at the museum helped Cohon decide to take a job as the Nelson's
curator of antiquities.
** A Gold Mine of Information
To most folks in Texas, dried insects are something to be swept out of
corners
** Take a walk on the arty side
The model had paid off handsomely, pulling big curators from the likes of
the British Museum, the Getty and even the DC-based National Gallery of Art
along with thousands of visitors
** Monitor relics to be shown in museum near ship's watery grave
As innovative as it was, the Monitor was no match for the wild weather off
dreaded Diamond Shoals
** Exhibit of racist artefacts tries to promote understanding
Pilgrim doesn't remember his exact frame of mind when he impulsively bought
the salt shaker
** Einstein spent last years telling bad jokes to depressed parrot
In the last years of Albert Einstein's life, he tried to cheer up his
depressed parrot by telling it bad jokes and avoided visitors by feigning
illness, said a newly discovered diary written by the woman known around
Princeton as his last girlfriend
** Snap unhappy - digital photography's dirty little secret
The fear is that as technology evolves, any storage medium in use today will
eventually become obsolete and the material it holds lost to future
generations
** Prince Gets Private Tour of Tank Museum
The director of The Tank Museum in Bovrington, Dorset, showed Charles
selections of tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles from its 300-strong
collection, and answered his questions
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** Captain Cook arrow legend shot down
It was a great legend while it lasted, but DNA testing has finally ended a
century-old story of the Hawaiian arrow carved from the bone of British
explorer Captain James Cook
** Museums month focuses on travel
Seaside postcards, souvenirs and modes of transport are featured in new
exhibitions to mark the annual Museum and Galleries Month
** National Sports Museum to Open Near World Trade Centre Site
The museum, created in partnership with 30 of North America's major sports
halls of fame, museums and organizations, will be the first comprehensive
museum of sports in the country
** Museum Bahari a hidden gem in North Jakarta
The gloomy aspect of the museum building, which was constructed in 1652, was
partly to blame for people's lack of enthusiasm in visiting
** National Museum of Korea Moves
More than 7,000 experts, 490 five-ton shockproof trucks and eight months
will be needed to move Korea's most precious historical relics
** Treasure house on the Vltava
Inexplicably overlooked by almost every guidebook, Nelahozeves belongs to
William Lobkowicz, a preppy former real estate agent from Boston and
descendant of a family of Czech princes
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** Cosmic drama has astronomers excited - and baffled
Researchers at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology (UMIST) unveiled it at the Museum of Science and Industry in
Manchester
** Whining Female Dinosaurs Killed The Entire Species
Researchers proved that dinosaurs where not killed by a big asteroid
colliding with earth, as previously thought, but by nagging and whining
female partners
** This Weeks' Feature Site: The Ushuaia Maritime Museum
The Maritime Museum is on the premises of the Ex Presidio de Ushuaia (or
Cárcel de Reincidentes de Tierra del Fuego) This is where the most dangerous
criminals were kept
** Friendship in photos: Evans and Hemmingway
For decades, the tale of their friendship and influence on one another's
work remained hidden away in boxes and crates in the storage room of a Key
West bar
** Submerged artefacts bill stalls
A great deal of Alabama's history from prehistoric times, the Civil War and
even modern days remains in murky river bottoms, bays and the Gulf of Mexico
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** At Work: An Exploration of Occupational Clothing
** New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Annual Conference: Innovative
Approaches to Learning Across the Lifespan
** Museum Without Walls: The image of the museum in the movies
** Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them: Innovative Approaches to
Student and Faculty Exhibitions
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