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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Anne Frank's life in letters at Amsterdam museum
After this pretend correspondence with a real person she decided to start
her diary and send letters to an imaginary girl she called Kitty
** China declines to return ancient Japanese tributes
A Chinese government official says China will decline any request for the
return of ancient Japanese treasures given in tribute to past Chinese rulers
** Lying Through Their Teeth
The press wasn't biting on their tech-art project - the concept of a cell
phone implanted in a tooth, which they were about to exhibit at the Science
Museum in London
** Ancient Pyramid Discovered in Mexico
Built on a hillside by the mysterious Teotihuacan culture, the pyramid was
abandoned almost 1,000 years before Christians began re-enacting the
Crucifixion there in the 1800
** Korean War museum wages uphill battle to raise conflict's profile
For years, efforts to mark the Korean War-era service with a museum have
been met with meagre donations and public neglect
** China embarks on museum building binge
The museum mania is part of a quiet revolution that has swept over the lives
of millions of urban Chinese since the introduction of capitalist-style
economic reforms in 1979
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** Capturing the conqueror
When Ottoman ruler Mehmed II asked Venice for a 'good painter', he was sent
Gentile Bellini, whose portrait of him brought a lasting touch of the
Renaissance to the east
** Is One Museum Honouring Cheese Really Enough?
Budget watchdogs and journalists were taken aback when it was revealed that
a sliver of state funds had recently been directed to something called the
Cuba Cheese Museum from a pool of cash controlled by Mr. Pataki
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** £95,000 for shoe heritage scheme
A project to record the experiences of workers in the once thriving shoe
industry in Northants has been awarded a grant
** New Take on Maps
From ancient charts to computerized navigation systems, people have always
relied on maps to tell them where they are and where they can go
** Who Paid $35.8 Million for J. M. W. Turner's View of Venice?
Despite tight lips on Christie's executives, the secret was out within hours
after J. M. W. Turner's "Giudecca, La Donna Della Salute and San Giorgio"
sold to a mystery telephone bidder
** Pentagon Plans "Cyberbug" Warrior and Spy Army
Entomology expert Dr. Brad Bughead of the Yale University Museum of Natural
History said the harebrained idea appeared "inane and absurd"
** Artist's cold call cuts off phone
The unorthodox exhibit, apparently bleeding, was placed in a street in Soho,
central London on Wednesday but was removed by Westminster Council
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** Three years after looting of Iraqi National Museum
" It is simply inconceivable that, during the planning of the military
action in 2002-03, the Pentagon did not turn up the detailed
heritage-protection rules and maps applied so relatively successfully in the
first Gulf War."
** War museum hopes to stop destruction of 19th-century musket
The Canadian War Museum is hoping to acquire a rare, 19th-century British
musket before it's destroyed along with other firearms submitted to police
during a recent gun amnesty in Hamilton
** Sophia Loren Archive Opens in Rome Museum
An exhibit of Sophia Loren's family photos, dresses, jewels, awards and
career memorabilia has opened at the Vittoriano museum in Rome's historic
centre
** Islamic art showcased at museum
An exhibition of Islamic artworks, many of which have never been seen
outside Russia, will be staged at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh in July
** Holocaust Museum restoration expert saves ghetto diary
Working with the precision of a jeweller and at the speed of an Andy Warhol
film, Emily Jacobson slowly and methodically pieced together the charred,
coffee-colored wisps of paper
** Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation
** George Stubbs: A Celebration
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