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Lela McCracken <[log in to unmask]>
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Am I the only person who cannot get this page http://www.globalmuseum.org
to connect???



>    GLOBAL MUSEUM
>http://www.globalmuseum.org
>
>This  week's international Museum News. In your FREE Ezine now read in 69
>countries:
>
>**  History is for sharing **
>Never underestimate the  Russians. This summer the sleeping giant of St
>Petersburg will awaken and amaze  us  all
>______________________________________________________________________________
>
>HAVE  YOUR SAY!           MUSEUM  VISIONARY 2000 AWARD NOMINATIONS IN
>FORUM  SECTION
>______________________________________________________________________________
>
>**   They will furnish her Museum **
>Hundreds of precious items belonging to  famous Taiwanese author San Mao
>have been shipped to the Zhoushan archipelago,  her ancestral home off
>China's Zhejiang province.
>
>
>**  Tests  Trace Ancient Emeralds **
>Some stones thought to be from ancient mines in the  Middle East turned
>out to have been brought back from South America by Spanish  explorers
>
>
>**  Rudy Voodoo Doll Joined by Hillary **
>Last  month a New York artist created a Mayor Rudolph Giuliani voodoo
>doll. Now David  Freeman's giving equal time to foes of Hillary Rodham
>Clinton
>
>
>**  Museum Refunded for Fake O'Keefees  **
>An  art gallery has agreed to refund $5 million to a Kansas City museum
>for 24  watercolor paintings once thought to be early works of Georgia
>O'Keeffe.
>
>
>**  How Eastern art deco symbolized modernity   **
>An exhibition titled "Art Deco and the Orient" could find no better venue
>than the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, a former residence of Prince
>Asaka, the Empress Dowager's uncle, that was turned into a museum nearly
>20  years ago.
>
>
>**  Sleepy port's big dream  **
>New York,  Venice, Berlin, Bilbao - and Geelong? The name of this sleepy
>Australian coastal  town, an hour west of Melbourne, doesn't quite roll
>off the tongue in the same  way as the sites of the five existing
>Guggenheim museums
>
>
>**   Museum of sex makes it to the city  **
>Liu Dalin has long had to hide  his treasures from the public eye. The
>respected professor was able to invite  only scientists, friends or
>journalists to his small house on the outskirts of  Shanghai
>
>_____________________________________________________________________________
>
>In  the Year 2000            Eurorail passes, hotel reservations, airline
>discounts, weather forecasts, car  rentals                  GLOBAL MUSEUM
>TRAVEL   in association with  TRAVELNOW.COM
>______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>**   Belfast remembers  **
>A new museum planned for Belfast will challenge  visitors to recognise and
>confront their most closely held
>
>
>**   Museum lockt mit Dinos im Internet  **
>Die Naturkundemuseen in Stuttgart  und in Karlsruhe wollen über eine
>neuartige Präsentation im Internet zusätzliche  Besucher für ihr Angebot
>begeistern und ins Museum locken.
>
>
>**  A  Revolutionary look at George  **
>George Washington's famous false teeth  arrived in Chicago Wednesday, and
>though they're not wooden at all, they are not  very pretty, either
>
>
>**  Dinosaur hunters put Net to use   **
>A real-life Jurassic Park is not likely to open--ever.    A  single comet
>did not kill off all the dinosaurs.    And only  another dinosaur--not the
>experts who study them--can tell the difference  between the males  and
>females
>
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>__
>
>   JOIN THOSE USING THE NEW MUSEUM RESUME POSTING SERVICE - JOBS  SECTION
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>__
>
>
>**   Stolen Space Artifact Recovered  **
>A Soviet-made electric space razor  stolen along with a horde of space
>artifacts from an Oklahoma City museum found  its way into the possession
>of a city junk dealer and landed him in  jail
>
>
>**  Dallas JFK Museum Gets Rights to Zapruder Film   **
>The heirs of Abraham Zapruder, the Dallas man who captured the
>assassination of President John F. Kennedy on a home movie camera, have
>donated  the film rights and a copy to a Dallas museum on the site of the
>shooting.
>
>**  Paintings by Chiang Kai-shek's widow, 102, shown   **
>Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, the 102-year-old widow of China's wartime
>generalissimo, is now an exhibiting artist.
>
>
>**  Patagonia  Vulture Valley Yields New Top Dinosaur  **
>Herdsman Raul Avelas was  nonplused when he spied huge bones on his patch
>of Argentina's badlands a decade  ago, seeing them as just another
>protrusion for his flock to stumble over en  route to his adobe homestead.
>
>
>**  NEW AND EXPANDED MUSEUMS TO  OPEN IN BRITAIN **
>
>
>**  AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS LAUNCHES WEB  SITE  **
>
>
>**  Something Else Funded **
>
>
>**   Ashmolean Museum Charges - Patrick Boylan sheds light on user-pays   **
>___________________________________________________________________________
>
>All  this and much more in GLOBAL MUSEUM       http://www.globalmuseum.org
>
>The  award-winning ezine read in 69 countries.  New items, postings,  exhibit
>news are welcome from contributors.  Just email
>[log in to unmask]   with your article or  item.
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>_

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