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** Black teddy that mourned Titanic sells for £91,000
A rare black teddy bear made when Britain was in mourning after the sinking
of the Titanic fetched £91,750 at an auction in London
** Greek snub to British Museum over marbles
The Greek ambassador has snubbed the opening of the British Museum's new
£100m Great Court by the Queen
** Ancient scrolls were new
Police agents posing as buyers of ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls found to
their amazement the scrolls were brand new
** Tomb Discovery May Shed Light on Vietnam's Bronze Age
Vietnamese archaeologists have discovered ancient burial tombs outside the
capital which may shed further light on the country's bronze age culture
** Fonteyn's fans in fight for collection
Friends and supporters of the ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn are scrambling
to raise funds to save a unique collection of her personal and professional
effects from going under the hammer
** What's in a Label? Museums struggle with how much information to provide
viewers
We have all seen -- and probably been -- people in museums who dash to read
wall labels after only the briefest glance at the art objects they identify
** Treasure From Shipwrecks on Offer
Treasure recovered from shipwrecks on the reefs of the Cape Verde Islands
will be offered for sale Dec. 19 at Sotheby's London
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** Want to buy a bit of Dome?
The Millennium Dome's most potent symbol - both of its promise and its
failure - is up for grabs along with just about everything else under the
vast 100,000-square-metre span
** Man's oldest relative
French and Kenyan scientists claimed on Monday to have found fossils of a
human ancestor from 6 million years ago
** Gettys Settle Over Mural 'Whiteout'. Their lesson on state law may keep
other art safe
Their first project is to remind us that when you decide to "upgrade" an
artist's work, you may want to call the artist before getting in touch with
your inner Monet
** Bond may have sunk an Aust II comeback
Mr Jones said he was staggered by the incompetence and resistance he had met
in trying to get low-level museum staff in WA to complete the necessary
documentation
** Callas fans shell out $1.25 million at sale
A Pyrex measuring cup sold for $938, while a French museum paid about $5,000
for a sea-green Christian Dior girdle
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** U.S. returns stolen masterpiece to Germany
U.S. Customs Commissioner Raymond Kelly turned over the masterpiece, a
portrait of Christ by Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari, to officials of
the Weimar Museum during a brief ceremony
** Eccentric bequeaths reputed `spy' house
June Drees left behind more than just a reputation as an eccentric;
specifically, she left a house built by a top Nazi spy. Or so it is said.
** Museum Lets You Experience Early 1900s Christmas
Schoolmarms in traditional dress will greet visitors inside the museum's
schoolhouse, where there will be a brief history lesson on Victorian
Christmas traditions
** Roll-up zebra crossing features in failed inventions exhibition
An exhibition that features failed inventions, like the see-through suitcase
for easy customs checks, the roll-up zebra crossing and the walking stick
with rollers, has opened in Austria
** Circus alive: Victoria exhibit shows what makes Big Top tick
The 30-year-old owner of Victoria's Edge of the Wedge pizza parlor had all
but given up hope of finding a place to indulge his passion for the trapeze
** Priceless treasures threatened in a climate of fear
The failure of The Hague conference has increased fear in Italy that
climatic change will damage its monuments, art and archaeology, estimated at
60 per cent of the Western world's heritage
** First passenger plane being restored for anniversary
The world's first passenger airplane, designed and built by the Wright
brothers, is being restored in preparation for the centennial anniversary of
powered flight in 2003
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and Technologies in the Third Millennium
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