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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
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** Museum chief's body found on beach
Police have insisted there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the
death of a museums boss whose body was washed up on a Dorset beach. See also
FORUM section
** Pounds 40,000 Burrell Theft
Police are probing the theft of a pounds 40,000 tapestry from the Burrell
Collection in Pollok Park on Tuesday
** Dutch art fair draws top dealers
At $37.5 million, the Rembrandt portrait may be too pricey even for a big
spender
** Legion is puzzled why beautiful site for war museum is being rejected
The rumour of a possible relocation has raised the concern of many veterans.
What is the advantage in moving to a downtown location such as LeBreton
Flats?
** Light-fingered visitor takes museum's hand
The British Museum has been forced to review security after the theft of a
marble hand from a 400 BC Greek frieze
** Tale Of The Teeth: Archaeologists Find Unusual Bone Collection In
Chinese Cave
A team of researchers, including Lynne Schepartz, assistant professor of
anthropology at the University of Cincinnati, has discovered an unusual
collection of animal and human teeth dating back over 200,000 years deep
inside a southern China cave
** UK signs art theft convention
The UK government has signed up to a UN convention banning the illicit trade
in cultural property, including art works and antiques
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** Timely Donation Saves Washington Portriat
What may be the most important portrait of George Washington ever painted
will remain in the U.S. after all, thanks to a foundation established by an
Oklahoma City newsboy turned billionaire newspaper tycoon
** Row erupts over Bluebird's final resting place
A row has erupted over the final resting place of the crumpled remains of
Donald Campbell's speedboat Bluebird
** Sotheby's to Auction Photographs From the Museum of Modern Art
A highlight of the sale is Edward Steichen's gelatin silver print ``Heavy
Roses, Voulangis, France,'' 1914
** Trivial pursuit of our museum
It's not nice to pour scorn on other people's hard work, especially when
$155 million of taxpayers' money went into it
** Westminster row after legal threat to charity's collection
A plan to open one of London's least known art collections to the public is
in danger of collapse in a legal dispute over the charitable status of the
collection and its owners
** 'Deepest hell' awaits destroyers of statues
There is a tradition that when the Buddha went to heaven to preach to his
late mother, the king so missed his presence that he had artisans create a
replica in sandalwood
** Dan Breen gun stolen from gaol
Thieves have reversed the tradition of centuries by breaking into Kilmainham
Gaol Museum to steal priceless historic firearms used in the War of
Independence and the Civil War
** Ex-Smithsonian Chief Is Dead
S. Dillon Ripley, 87, who led the Smithsonian Institution through its period
of greatest growth, died Monday in a hospital here.
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** Hundreds give firearms to museum
Firearms worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and dating back as far as
1776 have been handed to the Canadian War Museum
** Skulls of the ancient Egyptians used to spot neurological illness
Researchers studied the faces of 200 colour portraits of mummies housed in
the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
** Beetles eat museum exhibits
The most greedy insect is the Anthrenus museorum, named after its favourite
eating habitat
** Experts transcribe Van Gogh's letter to Gauguin
Museum experts have transcribed part of a letter which Vincent Van Gogh
wrote to his friend Paul Gauguin but later crossed out
** Starbucks To Begin Sinister 'Phase Two' Of Operation
Though the coffee chain's specific plans are not known, existing Starbucks
franchises across the nation have been locked down with titanium shutters
across all windows
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