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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Museum Created for Germans Who Hid Jews From Nazis
Barbara Preusch vividly remembers the day the Nazis searched her Berlin home
for hidden Jews - and left without finding the mother and daughter her
family was sheltering
** Two artefacts lost in space museum fire
Two artefacts at the U.S. Space and Rocket Centre were destroyed Monday when
a fire started in the building where they were being restored
** Live explosives removed from LI museum
Don Fisher saw the amber-colored liquid trickling from a half dozen
containers filled with gunpowder at the Railroad Museum of Long Island
** King Herod's tomb discovered in hilltop palace
The discovery was made in Herodium, a flattened hilltop in the desert east
of Jerusalem, by Professor Ehud Netzer, one of the world's leading experts
on Herod
** Tour of Supa Ngwao Museum is revealing
At the entrance to this building, the curator, 28-year-old Kamogelo Mapila
of Mochudi, warmly welcomes local and foreign visitors to the museum
** Heritage lovers up in arms to protect 16th century structure
Goan heritage activists are fighting a battle to save Asia's first gun
powder factory in Ribander village which is a 16th century structure
** Behind the scenes at the British Museum
He is the most flawlessly fragrant arts boss we have, the most politically
adept and, giggles notwithstanding, the most serious
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** Real Pirates exhibition world premiere at Cincinnati Museum
Sunk in a fierce storm off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., in April 1717, the
Whydah was located by underwater explorer Barry Clifford in 1984, becoming
the first fully authenticated pirate ship to be discovered in American
waters
** Boy falls 17 feet at children's museum
A 2-year-old boy fell 17 feet from the second floor of the Grand Rapids
Children's Museum, suffering potentially serious head injuries
** Mummy's secrets still under wraps at Carnegie Museum
Like expectant parents squinting at an ultrasound, doctors and
anthropologists puzzled over CT scans of a 2,300-year-old Egyptian child
mummy at UPMC Presbyterian hospital
** Designer unveils Vision For Human Rights Museum
Upon entering the museum, visitors will be given a "human rights key" that
will provide a digital recollection of their experiences that they can later
take home
** Scientists plan 300 million page website on all life on Earth
In a whale-sized project, the world's scientists plan to compile everything
they know about all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on
one Web site, open to everyone
** US museum showcases low-cost solutions for world's poorest
From smart latrine lids to biodegradable emergency shelters, low-cost
solutions to long-standing problems in the developing world are the focus of
a new exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
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** Marco Polo pearl surfaces in Abu Dhabi auction
It used to belong to Kublai Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, and he gave it
to Marco Polo as a present ... I have the certificate
** Art's great hope left hanging
Its director, Edmund Capon, has done a great job keeping the place free of
charge, expanding galleries here and there to house his collection of
Chinese pots, but like a suburban home owner who has successfully put on a
couple of extensions to the house, the only thing left to do now is tend the
garden
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius, January 20 to February 18 - You'll take a long night journey over
water accompanied by a dark stranger while starting new projects both at
work and in your love life after every star in the sky somehow winds up in
your sign this week
** Ancient Bronze Horse on Display in Rome
A bronze horse, possibly the work of the Parthenon sculptor, went on display
Friday at a Rome museum after a decades-long restoration
** Queen tours America's first English settlement
The 104 men and boys who founded the New World's first permanent English
settlement in 1607 set in motion the creation of the United States, but also
brought unrivalled bloodshed to Native American tribes
** Gladiators' graveyard discovered
Two pathologists at the Medical University of Vienna have spent much of the
past five years painstakingly cataloguing and forensically analysing every
single bone for age, injury and cause of death
** Webby Winners
** The World of the Model T Conference
** Stella Exhibitions at the Met
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