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**  Austria has 186,000 books looted by Nazis--WJC  **
Demonstrating the wide reach of Holocaust restitution efforts, the World
Jewish Congress said Wednesday that Austria's libraries had 186,000 books
that the Nazis had stolen from Holocaust victims


**  French Team Discovers Queen Pyramid in Sakkara  **
A team of French archeologists has discovered a pyramid at Sakkara near
Cairo belonging to an ancient Egyptian queen from the Sixth Pharaonic
Dynasty


**  TV, Radio Museum bows documentary fest  **
The Museum of Television & Radio has unveiled plans to launch an annual
Television Documentary Festival, the first edition of which will roll out
May 3-21 in New York.


**  Stolen czarist treasure recovered on Hollywood street corner  **
A jewel-encrusted dagger given to Russian Czar Alexander III was found
Tuesday on a Hollywood street corner, two days after it disappeared from an
exhibit at the Queen Mary ocean liner turned hotel


**  Smith reneges on pledge for free museums  **
Chris Smith, the Culture Secretary, has abandoned plans to abolish admission
charges to national museums and galleries after failing to win extra money
from the Treasury


**  Penny snapped up for $AUS 245,000  **
Australia's rarest coin, a mint-proof 1930 George V penny bought by the
nursing home entrepreneur Mr Doug Moran 18 years ago, was sold for $245,000
at auction in Sydney


**  School row over Mallory picture  **
A school has become embroiled in a row with its old boys' association over
who owns the rights to a pictorial record of George Mallory's attempt to
scale Everest


**  Face to Face With Fame  **
There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. --Dominic
Behan ALFRIED KRUPP found that out the hard way when he consented to having
his picture taken by photographer Arnold Newman in 1963


**  Republic falls short on arts funding  **
A comparative study of arts expenditure in a range of developed countries
shows Ireland near the bottom of the league table, and says that increases
have "not matched the economic growth of the Celtic Tiger


**  Collecting - Pieces of Political History  **
At first glance, the black-and-white button promising "Honest Government"
from John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan seems hardly worth a second glance.
But to political collectors Steven and Gary Cohen, it's worth a cool
$150,000.


**  Naples Museum Plans To Expose Ancient Erotica  **
A collection of ancient Roman erotica, thought too scandalous for mere
mortals to view and stashed in a Naples museum for the better part of 200
years, is to go on public view next month..


**  The Glory That Was Chrome  **
Nowhere in the world does Detroit's heyday live on in such glorious decay as
in Cuba, where auto maintenance is art, religion and necessity


REMEMBER:  Theme of International Museum Day, 18 May 2000. "Museums for
peace and harmony in Society"


**  Neanderthal, Modern Man DNA Differ  **
Researchers say DNA extracted from a 29,000-year-old bone has cast doubt on
the theory that modern humans evolved in part from squat, heavy-browed
Neanderthals


**  Brigitte Bardot criticizes Va. museum for planned dolphin exhibit  **
Brigitte Bardot is condemning the Virginia Marine Science Museum for a plan
to keep dolphins in a tank.


**  Controversy over elusive document revives interest in 1965 coup  **
Leaning forward in his armchair, Indonesia's founding father, President
Sukarno, hands a sheaf of papers to a general seated on his right. Other
generals, presidential aides and the first lady watch impassively

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