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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:
** Blood sculpture 'melts in freezer'
A sculpture of an artist's head made from nine pints of frozen blood has
melted after workers unplugged a freezer
** The museum of food failures
Even after trying so many different foods, Mr. McMath still gets excited
about some new ideas, like colored ketchup
** First humans 'small brained'
Larger brain size was probably not the only driving force behind the exodus
of early humans from Africa
** Tourism officials decry report on mock attack
A think tank seeking to illustrate the possible effects of a terrorist
''dirty bomb'' last month selected the Smithsonian Institution's National
Air and Space Museum as ground zero for its mock attack
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** Fossett lucky to survive last 24 hours
Fossett's balloon capsule is bound for America's Smithsonian Museum in
Washington where it will stand alongside Charles Lindberg's Spirit of St
Louis plane
** Art museum looking at Londoner for leadership
Museum officials decided they wanted a strong manager with financial acumen,
rather than an art expert, given the challenges the museum faces
** Maritime Museum studies site of 14th century shipwreck in southwest
archipelago
The ship and its cargo are believed to date back to the 14th century
** Children's Museums Get $7M Grant
Visitors to 70 American children's museums will learn more about east Asia
in exhibits organized by a $7 million grant
** Maggie head knocked off
A vandal knocked the head off a marble statue of Baroness Thatcher at an art
gallery yesterday
** Queen fought for equal rights
An Egyptian queen who fought 4000 years ago for equal political rights with
men was granted the supreme honor of a pharaonic burial, French
archaeologists said
** Modern Art is Crap - Official
London's Tate Modern paid £22,300 (US$34,000) for the canned faeces of
controversial Italian artist Piero Manzoni, according to Britain's Telegraph
newspaper
** Dropping Nanjing museum from school trips backed
The group are demanding that prefectural authorities ban schools from
visiting the Nanjing Massacre Museum because it is "a stronghold of
anti-Japanese brainwashing."
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** Bone scan for possible Cook relic
A bone which might be from explorer James Cook's leg has been scanned at a
Sydney hospital in an effort to determine its source
** Historian plundered war hero's remains
An aviation historian has admitted plundering the remains of a World War II
fighter pilot
** Turners return home
Paintings and sketches by JMW Turner are about to go on show at the country
house where they were painted 180 years ago
** Feasting on a taste of history
The original parent house disappeared long ago, but the kitchen complements
the museum's C16th Bayleaf Farmhouse & is furnished and equipped as it would
have been in about 1540
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** Art of ancient Egyptians on display in Washington
A close look reveals a string attached to the frog's hinged jaw extending
through a hole in the top of the frog's head
** Who really turned Anne Frank over to the Nazis?
For almost 60 years, the identity of that informant, whose call had such
tragic consequences, has remained a mystery to historians and the most
dogged Nazi hunters.
** Sculpture arrives 15 years late
Massive blocks of stone were winched into place in the piazza outside the
British Library yesterday, a mere 15 years late, as the sculptor wryly
described his work as "maturing nicely"
** Scientists Get Portrait of the 'First Photograph'
The Princess Royal is thought to have disappeared without trace in the 18th
century while on its way to England from the Orient
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