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week's edition include:

**  Giant dog turd causes havoc
A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy has blown away 
from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power 
line and breaking a greenhouse window before landing again

**  FBI seeks owners of 137 artworks
The curious case of William Milliken Vanderbilt Kingsland, a threadbare 
eccentric and an amateur genealogist of New York, began in the summer of 
2006, when, a few months after he died (at the age of either 58 or 62), it 
was discovered that his birth name was Melvyn Kohn, that he resided not on 
Fifth Avenue but in a small apartment on East 72nd Street, and that he had 
not - counter to his claims - attended Groton or Harvard, nor had he once 
been married to a French royal

**  Norwegian National Museum head quits
A damning report about the working environment at the new mega-museum turned 
out to be the last straw

**  Ancient city uncovered in Afghanistan
Centuries-old shards of pottery mingle with spent ammunition rounds on a 
wind-swept mountainside in northern Afghanistan where French archaeologists 
believe they have found a vast ancient city
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**  Imperial mansion along Beijing's scenic lake to receive public
The grand mansion, located along the scenic Rear Lake north of the Forbidden 
City, was built in 1776 as the residence of Heshen, a privileged minister 
favoured by Emperor Qianlong

**  Smithsonian tries cell phone ads to draw tourists
The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery are 
trying out a system that sends messages to cell phones with Bluetooth 
technology

**  Scientists use technology to help detect fake van Gogh paintings
The 23 authentic van Gogh paintings were used by a computer system as a 
training database for van Gogh's brushstroke styles

**  Lawsuit over Lizzie legacy
Fall River's Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast and Museum is suing a 
yet-to-be-opened Salem attraction dedicated to the infamous woman acquitted 
of the 1892 axe murders of her parents

**  150 years since North America's first paying oil well
Hundreds gathered for a boisterous parade to celebrate the 150th anniversary 
of the digging of one of North America's first commercial oil wells in a 
tiny community in Ontario

**  Beautiful but lonely - not all of Italy's museums get crowds
Federculture, a national organization that offers management advice to 
Italy's network of about 4,000 museums, last month published a ranking of 
the country's 15 least-frequented attractions, part of a campaign to urge 
the state to take better advantage of its cultural resources
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**  Erotic Heritage Museum
Actually, given the controversial topic and graphic displays, Henkel was a 
little surprised if not a tad disappointed that the Las Vegas museum had 
drawn no protesters

**  Unabomber objects to cabin display at Newseum
Unabomber and ex-University of Michigan math student Theodore Kaczynski has 
written a letter to a federal appeals court complaining about a museum 
exhibit of the tiny cabin where he plotted an 18-year bombing spree

**  Why are key Iraqi records at Stanford?
A lot worse things have happened in Iraq, but the removal of the Baath Party 
archives from the country - 7 million pages that undoubtedly document 
atrocities of the Saddam Hussein regime - is significant

**  Icon bathes in centenary glory
The Bath House was built by the Government of the day as a "Great South Seas 
Spa" and, in its heyday, gave up to 80,000 baths annually and 30,000 special 
treatments such as "vibratory massage" and "radium emanation"

**  This Week's Horoscope
Aquarius - January 20 to February 18. Avoid any and all mirrors, reflecting 
pools of water, and photographic cameras this week. Trust the stars on this 
one

**  Around Africa in a Phoenician boat
On Arwad Island off the coast of Syria, a group of 20 sailors-to-be are 
preparing for a voyage their captain believes has not been undertaken for 
two and a half millennia

**  Repairing Art Damaged By Natural Disasters
The daunting work amid the mold occurred two weeks later, when the rescue 
crew was readmitted to the building to remove the remaining art

**  Shakespeare's First Theatre Found
Archaeologists from the Museum of London have unearthed what they believe to 
be the remains of one of London's earliest playhouses and Shakespeare's 
first

**  The Lost Buddhas Chinese Buddhist sculpture from Qingzhou
Art Gallery of New South Wales

**  Slavery Remembrance Day events 2008
Details of this year's programme of commemorative events, which take place 
at locations across Liverpool

**  Putting Humpty Together Again
A call for papers for a session at the forthcoming Theoretical Archaeology 
Conference 2008 (University of Southampton), entitled: Putting Humpty 
Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the Middle Ages.

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