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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** 64-Year-Old Hershey Bar Returns Home
It's a ration bar frozen in South Pole ice since World War Two, made to keep
an explorer alive -- but not to taste too good
** Oracle of Delphi was powered by gas
The ancient Greek Oracle of Delphi made her prophecies because she was high
on gas
** Greece offers deal to get its marbles back
Britain offered loan of hundreds of newly discovered treasures in an attempt
to persuade it to return the disputed Elgin Marbles in time for the 2004
Games
** Endangered Manatee Struggles To Make Self Understood To Congress
The manatee, one of only 3,000 left in the U.S., arrived unexpectedly in
Washington after a long journey from its Florida home
** Motown museum planned for label's hometown
The £14 million museum will include interactive exhibits and live shows
** Nazis Seized Top Violins
During the Holocaust, the Nazis seized top-quality violins in a secret
operation to collect the world's best musical instruments
** Museum display gives electric shock to young visitors
Two young children have received an electric shock after pressing a button
on a museum display
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** Returning the spoils of war
Ralph Peyton was just 20 and temporarily lost in the jungles of Guam that
summer day in 1944
** 100-pound concrete angel stolen
One of the city's guardian angels isn't around to watch over things after
disappearing from the front of the Angel Museum.
** Museum Ahead of Schedule
Sweaty officials of the Smithsonian Institution donned hard hats to stand on
a dusty field at the southern end of Dulles International Airport
** Celebrity shrunken heads feature in new exhibition
A spokeswoman for the museum says: "It's one of our more unusual
exhibitions"
** Armstrong's Cornet to Be Auctioned
The cornet on which Louis Armstrong learned to play as a child is hitting
the Internet auction block.
** Stolen Chagall 'is ransom for peace'
The painting was missed by a janitor, who was vacuuming the carpet the
morning after a museum party
** Swiss Find Ancient Jewish Ring
Swiss archeologists have found what they believe is the oldest evidence of a
Jewish presence in the country
** Man wants to know if rock in garden is fossil or not
"Look right there, a beak and an eye and there's the shape of the head,"
Reid said. "As soon as I dug it out, I said that's something special"
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** Cartoon Museum Leaving Boca Raton to Clear Debt
The museum houses a collection of over 160,000 comic strips, classic cartoon
films and other works
** Tombs near birthplace of Genghis Khan - more detail
The tombs were discovered this summer, during the expedition's second season
of surveying sites associated with the life and activities of Genghis Khan
** Museum snub for Labour's leading lady
Trustees of the British Museum have indicated that Suzanna Taverne should
not be appointed to the top job.
** Experts show how Elvis would appear on his OAP bus pass
The latest technology has been used to produce an image of how Elvis Presley
would look if he were alive today
** Austria mourns loss of historic hall
Austrians are mourning the destruction of a festival hall where composer
Johann Strauss once staged concerts
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** Exhibit Commemorates Gypsy Victims
** Selecting and Planning for Traveling Exhibits
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** The GIOVE project
** Reading Clio's Compass:Assessing Where We Are with History and
Information Technology
** The Interested Insurers are offering a reward of up to US$400,000 for
information leading to the recovery of 3 paintings
** Museums Australia (Qld) 2001 State Conference "The New Museum"
** "The Tribe of Bland Island"
** IASA/ARSC joint conference, London, England, September 23-27, 2001
** ARSC Santa Barbara, California, May 8-11, 2002
** Unveiling Egypt: Clothing and Textiles From Sinai to Siwa
** The Bibliotheca Alexandrina
** The fifth International Conference on Biodeterioration of Cultural
Property (ICBCP)
** 28th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
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