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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:

**  Tribute to fallen heroes dedicated at museum
Cliff Puckett carried a notepad around with him at ground zero, to record
the stories of people he encountered in the days that followed the attacks

**  Chinese, German design selected for National Museum
The structure will be located to the eastern side of Tian'anmen Square in
central Beijing, where the existing museum to be pulled down is situated

**  Italian Mummy Source of 'The Scream'?
An Inca mummy kept in a Florentine museum might have been a source of
inspiration for Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream"

**  Museum security check after theft of rare coins
The coins, known as "Nobles", were taken from the coin room at the Oxford
Road museum, where they were on display as part of a collection

**  Divers Find Ancient Skeleton in Mexico
Most coastal settlements by early Americans now lie deep beneath the sea,
which during the Ice Age was hundreds of feet lower than now
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**  Fund blamed for manuscript sale
Britain's largest arts charity has blamed the Heritage Lottery Fund for
enabling a 14th Century English manuscript to be sold to a US museum

**  Foster's Gherkin tipped for architecture prize
The Stirling prize is Britain's foremost architectural award, given to "the
building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in
the past year"

**  Cannibal museum to show what tickled the prehistoric tastebuds
A grisly showcase documenting a macabre chapter of West prehistory is taking
shape in Somerset with the creation of the world's first cannibal museum

**  Revolutionary War-Era Items Found At Conn. Museum
Historians have found antique flints, shoe buckles and cornhusks under some
floorboards at the Ward-Heitman House Museum

**  Museum is world class
A £64m Museum of Liverpool, which would show the city's 800-year history,
has been discussed by regeneration leaders

**  'Amazing' Viking cemetery found
The location, containing the bodies of four men and two women, was found
outside the village of Cumwhitton, near Carlisle by local metal enthusiast
Peter Adams

**  Indian Museum May Help Heal Cultural Split
The Smithsonian's newest museum will help heal the "long and often troubled
past relationship" between American Indians & nonnatives

**  Seminal School-Portrait Photographer Dies At 92
Anszczak is credited with having invented the classroom composite, in which
many small, rectangular portraits are arranged in rows for display
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**  National Museum unveils flag from Ground Zero
New York policeman Patrick McGee found the flag soiled but intact, in the
basement of tower three

**  Cossacks Look to Make Over Image
Cossacks are first mentioned in the 15th century as freedom-loving ex-serfs,
Tatars and descendants of Scythian warriors

**  Veterans focus anger on Warhol photo exhibit
Some local veterans are outraged over the Andy Warhol Museum's upcoming
exhibit that will feature the infamous photographs depicting the abuse of
Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

**  A Famed Raphael Will Cross the Sea
Raphael's sensual portrait of the baker's daughter who is said to have been
the artist's lover, is heading to the United States for the first time

**  Curators on the prowl for convention goodies
Every four years, they prowl the conventions, politely inquiring whether
delegates might consider parting with their political paraphernalia

**  Rare books in German library fire
Workers forming a human chain managed to retrieve some 6,000 valuable
works - including a 1534 Bible owned by Reformation-era monk Martin Luther

**  Viking Ship Replica Bound for Britain and Ireland
Following ancient Norse tradition, the Danish monarch poured water from a
creek on the stern of the 99ft longship - billed as the world's most
ambitious Viking ship reconstruction

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**  The 11th annual San Jose State University Art History Symposium

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