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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:
** Thief escapes with British Museum piece
An ancient Greek marble bust worth £25,000 ($72,000) was stolen from a
British Museum gallery left unattended because of staff shortages
** 18mph museum three-wheeler gets speeding ticket
Police have tried to issue a speeding ticket for a vintage vehicle with a
top speed of 18mph which hasn't been on the roads for 40 years
** Robbers Dig Tunnel in Huge Art Heist
Robbers who spent two months digging a tunnel into a museum in Paraguay made
off with five centuries-old paintings valued at well over $1 million over
the weekend
** Trove of Giant Marsupial Bones Found in Outback
The prize among a treasure trove of bones stumbled upon by adventure seekers
is a near perfect skeleton of a marsupial lion
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** One Architect's Vision at Uffizi
For the wicked-tongued Italian art critic, it's a seven-story-high bed frame
that would horrify art-lovers as they take their leave of the Uffizi
** Resurrected: John the Baptist
A skeleton discovered near the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found
may be the 2,000-year-old remains of John the Baptist
** Ground Zero artefacts exhibited as sad reminder of terror attacks
They went on display yesterday at the New York State Museum in Albany, one
of the handful of institutions gingerly beginning to exhibit artefacts from
Ground Zero
** Christian Designs Found in Tomb Stones of Eastern Han Dynasty
Studies show that as early as 86 A.D., or the third year under the reign of
"Yuanhe" of Eastern Han, Dynasty Christianity entered into China
** Israel pulls plug on Einstein show in China
Chinese censorship of parts of an Israeli exhibit on Albert Einstein has
caused Israel to call off the show, scheduled to tour China
** 1918 Human Influenza Epidemic No Longer Linked To Birds
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History historic bird
collections was critical in determining that the 1918 influenza pandemic
that killed 20 million to 40 million people worldwide did not originate from
birds
** Malays flock to see ghosts
An exhibition on ghosts as depicted in various cultures of the world at the
national museum in Kuala Lumpur is drawing huge crowds
** Original 'dragon bone' study found
The National Science Museum has recently discovered in its collections the
original copy of a study, written by a Japanese Confucian scholar,
describing the fossilized remains of an ancient elephantlike creature
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** French police discover cache of valuable artworks stolen from Swiss
gallery
A 46-year-old man was placed under investigation after French police
discovered a cache of artworks stolen from a Swiss gallery
** Museum opens at Elie Wiesel's birthplace in Romania
The childhood home of Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel was
opened on Monday as a museum
** Cleaning duty at the Rodin museum
We live in a different era now - one more rigorously protective of its
treasures - and Bibi's nose, since restored, is faring better, thanks to the
"Do Not Touch" sign at his side
** Lack of fee attracts new faces
Not only has annual attendance doubled-to just under 200,000-since the
admission fee was dropped in June 2001, but visitors also are younger and
from more diverse ethnic groups
** The Man Behind The Killer
Inside was a 600ft art gallery and a mausoleum designed to hold van
Hoogstraten's body for 5,000 years, entombed like an Egyptian pharaoh with
his treasures
** Monitor expedition finds possible human bones
Some of the four officers and 12 crew members lost when the USS Monitor sank
on New Year's Eve 1862 are thought to have been swept overboard
** Argentina reflects on legacy of Evita
Visitors to the museum, which was to open to the public Friday, will be
treated to clips from the movies she made when she was an actress
** Building a statement
While city councilors granted permission for the construction project, they
were forced to veto a request by organizers who wished to sacrifice a pig on
the museum grounds
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Converging Futures? Australia and Canada in a New Millenium
** Art Meets Technology In A New Exhibition At Te Papa
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** Museum Institutes at Sagamore
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