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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Taiwan Museum Drops Plan To Lift Elephant With Human Hair
A Taiwanese museum and an amusement park dropped their plan to use braids of
320,000 pieces of human hair to lift an elephant, in an attempt to create a
new Guinness World Record
** The Real Pirates of China - A Colourful, Powerful Bunch
Zhang's fleet crushed the Chinese navy, more than halving its fleet from 165
ships to 72 in two battles in 1808 and 1809
** Missing Whale Stumps Museum on Beach Dig
They would have brought it to the facility in Oklahoma, cleaned it, put it
together and suspended it in the museum
** Redford to help turn Butch Cassidy's Argentine cabin into museum
The outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid arrived in Argentina's
Patagonia region in 1902 pretending to be prosperous cattlemen and built the
cabin between March and April of that year
** Making a Spectacle at a Museum
Anybody know whether you can get plexiglass-lung disease from installing
museum exhibits?
** Benefactors pay MoMA director an extra $5m
Mr Rockefeller has defended the payments on the grounds that they needed to
offer beyond the normal package in order to persuade Mr Lowry to move with
his family to New York
** Kennedy's fatal window sells for $3m
A window said to be the one through which Lee Harvey Oswald shot US
president John F Kennedy in 1963 was sold for three million dollars on eBAY
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** SOS Lisbon for shipwreck hunt
On February 10, Tripati and Ian Godfrey from the Western Australian Museum
published results in Current Science on the 1988 find of a Portuguese cargo
vessel that sank in the 17th century near Marmagao
** Tiny Frog in Amber May Be 25M Years Old
The chunk of amber containing the frog, less than half an inch long, was
uncovered by a miner in Mexico's southern Chiapas state in 2005 and was
bought by a private collector, who lent it to scientists for study
** Mona Lisa's Guards Go on Strike
They're asking for an extra $250 a month to work near the "Mona Lisa," and
an extra $150 a month to stand by "Venus de Milo."
** Home Movie Shows JFK in Dallas
The film shows a clear glimpse of President Kennedy and the first lady a few
blocks from Dealey Plaza and roughly 90 seconds before the killing
** Aboriginals Sue U.K. Museum Over Bones
A Tasmanian aboriginal group is suing Britain's Museum of Natural History to
keep it from conducting tests on bones, teeth and skulls taken from the
island, saying that the experiments would desecrate the corpses
** Shanghai Museum opens exhibit in California
Seventy-seven objects guide visitors through the evolution of China's
history, from the simple pottery of the Neolithic cultures to the intricate
miniature bamboo panoramas and colourful scrolls of the Qing Dynasty, which
ended less than a century ago
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus April 20 to May 20 - You've never been good at saying goodbye, which
explains why your speech therapist keeps charging you for an extra half hour
each week
** London spy show to uncover truth behind espionage
A new exhibition in London lifts the lid on the real-life world of spying,
amid concerns about a developing "Big Brother" society and its effects on
individual freedoms and civil liberties
** Air and Space museum sees fewer crowds
It's a mystery even for researchers at the Smithsonian Institution: what
happened to the huge crowds at the National Air and Space Museum?
** Museum combines DNA, fossils to show human ancestry
Curators say a display of microscopic 38,000-year-old Neanderthal DNA, which
seems to be nothing but a vial in a glass case, marks a symbolic start to a
new permanent exhibit which breaks with a tradition of relying on fossil
research to educate
** Proof that chillies were used in recipes 6,000 years ago
Scientists found that the first people to cook with chillies lived in the
lowland areas of Ecuador but the spicy vegetable soon spread through south
and central America before going global with the Spanish conquistadors
** China to measure the Great Wall
Researchers are to carry out the first detailed survey of the Great Wall of
China to establish just how long the ancient barricade is
** The New You
** International Slavery Museum opening
** 2007 Field School in Archaeology - Angel Mounds State Historic Site, IN
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