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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:
** Indian Group Blasts Meteorite Sale
The meteorite belongs to the Museum of Natural History, which swapped with
Pitt the small piece up for sale in return for his half-ounce piece of a
meteorite from Mars
** Museum pays $10 million for Degas work
Degas often explored milliners - working-class women who made or sold
women's hats - starting in the late 1870s and into the early 20th century
** Curse of the $500 million sunken treasure
It's a wonderful drama, straight out of a Clive Cussler thriller - precious
metals, races against time, undersea robots, and international intrigue
** Nazi dagger is stolen from museum
The distinctive weapon was taken from the Preston Hall Museum in
Eaglescliffe and is the latest in a series of thefts during the summer
** Fear and fury among the Marbles
The film reconstructs one of the metopes - the 92 carved fight scenes that
ran around the outside wall - using computer technology
** Aprons evoke nostalgia
Throughout history, aprons have played an important part in women's lives,
from the simpler everyday aprons used for workday chores and everyday
cooking, to the fancy hostess aprons worn for holidays and other special
occasions
** Kenya wants US museum to return man-eating lions
Kenya is demanding that a US museum returns the remains of two lions that
killed at least 140 Indian workers in the 1890s before being shot by a famed
British railway engineer. More
** Viking ship 'buried beneath pub'
A 1,000-year-old Viking longship is thought to have been discovered under a
pub car park on Merseyside
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra September 23 to October 23 - You will earn the hatred of scientists
worldwide when a team of creationists uses you to definitively disprove the
theory of evolution
** Taking Aim at Jesse James & History
The criminal rise of James paralleled the backlash against Reconstruction,
that period when there was an attempt to grant blacks equal rights in the
South
** Museum planned at Saar settlement
The Saar settlement is one of Bahrain's most important archaeological sites
and dates back to the Dilmun period
** Lincoln's bloody clothes moved into storage
The square-toed, goatskin boots Abraham Lincoln had on that night at Ford's
Theatre were worn down at the heels
** Statue Has 1 Arm Too Many
The swashbuckling sea captain who helped found America's first permanent
English settlement lost his right arm in battle nearly two decades earlier -
but you wouldn't know it to look at the two-armed statue on the campus of
the university named for him
** Chinese treasures on display at Bowers Museum
Three robes from the recent Qing Dynasty are splendid examples of informal
and semi-formal court attire during that final regal period
** Teenage girl was frozen sacrifice
Museum-goers gasped at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden which is
on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face from
hundreds of years ago when she froze to death in the Andes
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** Museum scientists crack oyster mystery
In a major biosecurity breakthrough, Queensland Museum researchers have
identified a tiny marine worm as the carrier
** Flag survived 9/11 to act as a reminder of attack
The Australian National Museum's senior curator of collections and
development says the resilience of the cloth was a powerful symbol of
Australia's own resilience to terrorist attacks
** Director sentenced in tax fraud case
The head of a Los Angeles-area cultural organization has been sentenced to a
year and one day in federal prison for orchestrating a tax fraud involving
inflated tax deductions on donated art
** Gold museum hit as EU ministers meet
Armed men wearing wigs robbed a famous gold museum in Portugal's Viana do
Castelo despite the city being full of police guarding a meeting there of EU
foreign ministers
** Shake it Up: Museums Activate and Innovate
** Executive Powers during Wartime: What the Founding Fathers Had in Mind
** Networking Event - Heritage Link in partnership with the Council for
British Archaeology and the West Yorkshire branch of the Victorian Society
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