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week's edition include:
** First natural history museum in Singapore unveiled
When ready, the new S$46 million Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum will
be home to some 800,000 Southeast Asian specimens and nearly complete
fossils of three giant dinosaurs
** Italy's Newest Museum: Dante, Moliere and.Personal Finance
Next time you're in Italy, don't miss the fabulous museums at the Vatican,
the Gallery Borghese, the Guggenheim Collection or. the Museum of Savings;
the what?
** 'GoodFella' lives on at Vegas Mob Museum
Henry Hill lives on at The Mob Museum in Las Vegas, which showcases crime
figures and law enforcement personnel and other officials who battled them
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** British Museum sends priceless treasures around the country
One of the best-loved objects in the vast British Museum collection, a small
bronze cat with its tail sedately wrapped around its feet and wearing golden
rings in its ears and nose, is off on a journey its creator could never have
dreamed of in Egypt 2,500 years ago - to Lerwick in Shetland
** Last military vehicle to leave Iraq goes to Fort Hood museum
It took six months and hundreds of people's efforts to get it to Fort Hood,
said Draper, calling the project a "labor of love" for the Army
** Muammar Gaddafi's photo archive gives an insight into the 'Jamahiriya
Even as a young man - he was 27 in 1969 when he and his fellow officers
overthrew the western-backed King Idris - Gaddafi had an eye for the camera
and for posterity
** Tsunami-spoiled pics given new life
Even though all fulltime museum staff were killed in the Tsunami, a group of
volunteers set to work cleaning and digitizing 80,000 or so historical
photographs, negatives, slides and dry prints recovered from the wreckage of
the tsunami-devastated Rikuzentakata City Museum
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** Tate Modern: We're missing the big pictures
Despite producing a handful of artists of real international status -
Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Richard Hamilton to name three - Britain
remained largely on the margins of the great artistic movements of the 20th
century
** New broadcast museum to open - minus historic blue dress
After a decade of fits and starts - and financial troubles overcome by a
state bailout - the Museum of Broadcast Communications finally has new digs
on State Street
** Terror from the deep: Nazi dive bomber hoisted to the surface after 70
years
German military divers are working to hoist the wreck of a Stuka dive bomber
from the floor of the Baltic Sea, a rare example of the plane that once
wreaked havoc over Europe as part of the Nazis' war machine
** Largest group of fossil humans are Neanderthals after all
The world's largest known sample of fossil humans has been classified as the
species Homo heidelbergensis but in fact are early Neanderthals, according
to a study by Prof Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum
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** Stolen memorials: melted down means lost for ever
The last five years have seen a doubling in cases of metal looting, driven
partly by economic hardship and partly by a thriving Chinese scrap market
** Canadian railway's iconic silver spike joins museum's collection
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, the Marquess of Lansdowne and the governor-general
of Canada from 1883 to 1888, carried the silver spike west in his pocket
** Greek Antiquities, Long Fragile, Are Endangered by Austerity
A jarring public-awareness ad that has appeared recently on Greek television
news shows a little girl strolling with her mother through the National
Archaeological Museum in Athens, one of the country's cultural crown jewels
** Behind-the-scenes museum tour allows public to see restoration of famed
Memphis Belle
The buffed silver fuselage of the Memphis Belle now belies the famed B-17
bomber's six punishing months of World War II air combat and the subsequent
decades of neglect that left the plane battered by the elements and stripped
by souvenir hunters while on public display in its namesake city
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** Mars on the Upper East Side
As the name suggests, "Space Program: Mars" is Sachs's vision of a Mars
expedition, turning the drill hall of the armory into the Red Planet with
varying degrees of verisimilitude
** Graffiti thanking Hitler found at Israel Holocaust museum
The graffiti was denounced as "a callous expression of burning hatred" by
Yad Vashem director Avner Shalev, who pointed the finger at ultra-Orthodox
extremists adamantly opposed to the existence of the modern state of Israel
** 150 years after Civil War, enigma endures about 2 girls' photos plucked
from the battlefields
The names of the two little girls are an enduring mystery, their images
found among crumpled bodies on Civil War battlefields
** Public's aid sought in '90 Gardner Museum heist
Federal officials investigating the 1990 Gardner Museum heist plan to launch
a public awareness campaign similar to the one that led to last year's
arrest of James "Whitey'' Bulger, in the latest sign that officials have
sharpened their probe into the notorious theft
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** Mammoths wiped out by multiple killers
Woolly mammoths were apparently driven to extinction by a multitude of
culprits, with climate change, human hunters and shifting habitats all
playing a part in the long decline of these giants
** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo - Jealousy will rear its ugly head in your life next week, look around,
blink, burst out laughing, and then tell Envy, Lust, and Greed to get a load
of how pathetic you are
** The Social Construction of Religious Knowledge
Call for Papers and Posters
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** Abel Tasman 370th Commemoration: 2012
Remembering 1642 and the meeting of two worlds
** Innovative War Museum exhibition, 1812, explores four perspectives on a
pivotal war
The War of 1812 was a dramatic event in Canadian history
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