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In this weeks edition of your award-winning international ezine:
Images Show Warm Side of Dinosaur Hearts
Surprise images of the insides of a 66 million-year-old dinosaur show it had
the heart of a warm-blooded animal, adding to evidence that dinosaurs were
not slow and plodding but quick and hungry
Evolution of education philosophy from Confucianism to democracy chronicled
An upcoming retrospective exhibition will assemble a host of historic and
modern materials that offer insight into the evolution of the education
system and its values over the past 600 years
Chinese president sits on ancient throne during trip to Greece
Chinese President Jiang Zemin sat on the throne of the ancient Minoan
kingdom and toasted farmers with local wine
Mother and child reunion
A lost panel from a 14th-century Italian altarpiece has just completed a
remarkable journey from a bedroom wall on a Somerset farm, where it had been
for a century, to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York
Monet puts RA in theme park league
The Impressionist exhibition pushed the gallery into the English Tourism
Council's top 10 attractions of 1999. The number of visitors to the RA rose
to 1.39 million last year from 912,714 in 1998, taking it from 19th to eight
in the table
Original Mormon chapel reopens
The world's first Mormon chapel, built in a village near Gloucester in 1836,
reopened last night as a museum of Mormon history in Britain
RAWALPINDI: Ancient civilization discovered at Taxila
Excavations by the archaeology department at sites of ancient ruins of
Taxila, about 30km away from here, have revealed the existence of ruins of
another contemporary city dating 200 BC
Museum needs $400,000 to survive
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney requires a cash injection of more
than $400,000 to survive until the end of the year, increasing pressure on
the State Government to find secure funding for its operations
Historian Seeking Signs of Slaves
He was born a slave in Alabama, but Cornelius Matthews died a free Texan.
One of thousands of slaves to outlive the Civil War, Matthews went on to
marry in a legal ceremony, father three children and register to vote
Four failures on, PMC plans another art museum
Shocking it may seem, but as many as four projects for setting up museums in
the city have not seen the light of the day, though the Pune Municipal
Corporation (PMC) in India had allotted land and funds in its budget for
setting up these museums!
Paul Revere's Renowned Silver, Engravings on View in Worcester
More than 100 examples of Paul Revere's finest silver, 20 engravings and
several pieces of early American furniture are on view at the Worcester Art
Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts
Washington's Textile Museum Features Ottoman Embroidery
An exhibit featuring embroidery created during the Ottoman Empire is on view
through July 30 at the Textile Museum in Washington
Space Out: New York's Rose Center Gives Astronomy a High-Definition Edge
While most planetariums display the night sky with stars as seen from earth,
the Space Theater show "flies" the audience through it. All the data was
assembled into one continuous, fluid trip that takes the audience on a
flight from earth to deep space
Contents of English shipwreck now on display
Marc Tremblay was walking along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in
the fall of 1990 when he noticed what looked like a long piece of driftwood
on the shore.
Scottish hidden treasure to go on display
The public is to be granted behind-the-scenes access to Scotland's
historical treasures as part of plans by the National Museums to open up its
vast stored collections
Native American Tradition in a Modern World:
Fishing and the Cultural Identity of the Grand Traverse Band
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