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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:
** Smithsonian to Display Sept. 11 Artifacts
The exhibition will be the first to include artifacts from all three crash
sites and items like a piece of twisted metal from the World Trade Center
and a charred, damaged bit of concrete from the Pentagon
** Cross-dressing eunuch unearthed
Remains of a cross-dressing eunuch found at an ancient burial site reveal an
exotic new side of life in Roman Britain
** An aardvark at Buckingham Palace
How to house this gloriously oddball collection was the problem set to a
small number of architects invited to compete for the £20m redesign of the
Queen's Gallery five years ago
** Fossil thieves use diggers and dynamite to wreck sites
Throughout Britain a boom in collecting fossils has turned the one-time
passion of amateurs into big business for commercial collectors
** Mother lode of jade comes to light in Guatemala
For half a century, scholars have searched in vain for the source of the
jade that the early civilizations of the Americas prized above all else
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** Books Missing From French Library
The suspect had been entering the locked library through a secret passageway
he reportedly learned of in a book about the monastery
** Museum's Hack Art Piece Pulled
An art-hacking project at the New Museum of Contemporary Art was pulled
offline last Friday in response to security concerns raised by the art
** Tribute to a Chinese man who saved Jewish lives
Although no one knows exactly how many people Ho saved from the gas
chambers, it's safe to say several thousand were able to escape such a fate
due to his stamp
** Museum donates over NT$4 million to help rebuild Bamiyan Buddha statues
Experts say the reconstruction will cost US$25 million and take four years
** Renewed financial crisis at British Museum raises question of blame
Some museum observers suspect that the British Museum comes nowhere near the
tight financial ship of, for example, the Tate
** Britain's biggest children's museum goes green
Eureka Children's Museum, the biggest of its kind in Britain, is opening a
gallery which it says will take it into the new age of environmental
awareness
** China's Dino-bird Fossils Arrive in London
The fossil arrived with 12 others of Dino-Bird, which was the 120
million-year-old bird believed to have derived from meat-eating dinosaurs
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** Elvis is Alive Museum
A red carpet and roped-off, satin-lined coffin with an Elvis dummy inside
invoke a reverent, if macabre, note at the back of the room
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus: (April. 20-May 20) The gods will punish you for your hubris and
arrogance by introducing you to someone who makes richer, creamier mashed
potatoes than you
** King opens Royal Car Museum
A 400-metre-long `Historical Passageway' charting the history of Jordan
through photographs, pictures and carvings is also slated for construction
** Row rings out over final home for Dampier's bell
Artefacts recovered from English explorer William Dampier's ship HMS Roebuck
will be returned to Ascension Island where they were found
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** Museum of Spanish Colonial Art to Open July 21
The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art will showcase the cultural heritage of
the Spanish Empire that once stretched from Madrid to the Americas and the
Philippines
** Art of sustained attention span
According to a recent study, the average museum-goer looks at a painting for
between six and 10 seconds
** Historic cricket letters up for auction
Three historic letters to and from the first English cricket team to tour
Australia in 1862 are to be auctioned off in London next month
** 14th-century jars hold clue to S'pore's past
Four jars dating back to the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) have been found intact
at the site of the old Parliament House
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** Call For Papers First International Conference on Information
Technology & Applications (ICITA2002)
** North West: Adult and Community Learning Seminar
** Bridges - 2002 Washington Heritage Conference & Washington Trust for
Historic Preservation's Annual Meeting
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