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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:
** Scientists expose Piltdown Man fraudsters
Professor Chris Stringer and Andy Currant will explain why they think the
hoax of Piltdown Man was actually two frauds committed by two sets of people
** Eat the Invading Alien Crabs, Urge U.K. Scientists
Rainbow, the museum's keeper of zoology, said: "The Chinese love them,
especially when they're full of gonads during the breeding season
** Rare Picasso canvas back on show
The world's largest signed Pablo Picasso canvas, which has not been seen in
public for 20 years, was unveiled in London on Tuesday
** Long arm of love: Expert finds octopus erections
A Field Museum scientist has documented for the first time the presence of
erectile tissue in an invertebrate
** Several hundred looted relics handed over to the Iraqi museum
U-S military police and Iraqi investigators have recovered two important
artifacts looted from Iraq's museum after the fall of Baghdad
** Canterbury museum plans on hold for consultation
Controversial plans to refurbish Canterbury Museum have been put on hold
after intense public criticism, including a damning report from Christchurch
City Council heritage planners
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** What a load of dummies
It might have been decreed the worst museum in Britain but thousands of
visitors each year simply wax lyrical about it
** US fossil spins web of intrigue
The ancient cousins of modern spiders could have been spinning webs 55
million years before the reign of the dinosaurs
** Iron age torc is declared treasure
He said: "I tripped over it! I was loading some hay up that had been
cultivated, and I felt it under my boot
** Franklin Mint to Lay Off 200 Employees
The Franklin Mint, a prominent collectibles maker, plans to lay off
two-thirds of its employees in suburban Philadelphia
** Smithsonian opening its new mammal hall
A spectacular display of the taxidermist's art goes on view to the public
Saturday when the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History opens its
new mammal hall
** That's the wonder of woodlice
Julie works for the Natural History Department at the museum and is an
archaeologist, specialising in bones for the Norfolk Archaeological Unit
** That sinking feeling once more for the 'Mary Rose'
Scientists have detected a significant build-up of sulphuric acid within the
timbers of the Vasa, and they fear the Mary Rose may suffer the same fate
once it too has dried out
** New museum explores and honors the lives of women at work
''Saralie Chucking Chains" is a silver gelatin print depicting a rugged
woman on a natural gas rig throwing a heavy chain under a steel pipe collar
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** 58 years after dropping Hiroshima bomb, Enola Gay ignites new outrage
Controversy is raging over plans to put the restored Enola Gay, which
dropped the "Little Boy" bomb, on public display in a new wing of the
world-renowned Smithsonian Institution next month.
** A bug for everyone
Ironically, in a year that saw the contagion of SARS, mosquitoes carrying
West Nile virus, and mountain pine beetles devouring B.C. forests, the RBCM
has turned to bugs for amusement and maybe even salvation
** Neil MacGregor to be repatriated to Scotland
The international museum and heritage communities are reeling this morning
at the news that the British Museum has decided to repatriate its director
Neil MacGregor to Scotland
** Debbie Reynolds leads auction
Reynolds, 71, who starred in the 1952 musical "Singin' in the Rain," said
Friday she hopes to raise at least $2 million at the Dec. 6 auction to
establish the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum
** Minister Pledges Moves to Return Human Remains
Ministers hope a proposed Human Tissue Bill will relax current statutory
prohibitions, Culture Minister Estelle Morris told the Commons
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** Journey with our Ancestors
** Workshop Proposals for its 17th Annual Visitor Studies Conference
** Toward a Sociology of Archaeology:Class, Gender, Race and Geography
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