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week's edition include:
** Thieves raid Greece's Ancient Olympia Museum
Two masked gunmen stormed into a small museum at the birthplace of the
ancient Olympics in southern Greece on Friday, smashing display cases with
hammers and making off with dozens of antiquities up to 3,200 years old
** Vienna art museum looks for 'Worst of Klimt' kitsch
A Vienna museum launched Monday an unusual contribution to celebrations
marking 150 years since Gustav Klimt's birth with an online search for the
kitschiest objects adorned with the artist's work
** New Museums to Shine a Spotlight on Civil Rights Era
Collectively, they also signal an emerging era of scholarship and interest
in the history of both civil rights and African-Americans that is to a
younger generation what other major historical events were to their
grandparents
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** Woodrats: How the Desert's Smallest Librarians Contributed to Scientific
Discovery
With each midden surveyed, paleontologists get another chunk of extremely
detailed data on the ecological history of the surrounding fifth of an acre
** Fossilized Pollen Unlocks Secrets of Ancient Royal Garden
Using a unique technique for separating fossilized pollen from the layers of
plaster found in the garden's waterways, researchers from Tel Aviv
University's Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology have now been
able to identify what grew in the ancient royal gardens of Ramat Rahel
** New museum shines light on Darwin's wartime history
Territory Chief Minister Paul Henderson said the truth about the scale and
magnitude of the bombings was covered up during World War II on the grounds
of preserving national morale
** Palace Museum suspect on trial
"I found a power switch in a power distribution room, and I turned it off
just out of curiosity," he told the court, according to China National
Radio. "I didn't know the entire alarm system would stop working if you
switched it off"
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** Antiquities issue rears head with Getty leaders Potts, Cuno in place
But come September, when Timothy Potts starts as director of the Getty
Museum with Getty Trust CEO James Cuno as his boss, the institution will be
led by two men who opposed the adoption of some of those recently looted
antiquities reforms
** Kermadec - Nine artists explore the South Pacific
Kermadec showcases a diverse collection of artworks from nine leading South
Pacific artists inspired by their voyage to the Kermadec region of New
Zealand in May 2011. More
** Photographer to the Queen
A Scottish immigrant who arrived in Montreal in 1856 harbouring a secret,
Notman became the first Canadian photographer of international renown
** New website window into two world wars
Wartime Canada is an online database that preserves historical Canadian
documents from those wars and makes them accessible to the public
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** What Happened at Those Happenings?
It is now known as the first Happening, a mythical event that knocked
painting and sculpture from their previously unassailable perches and paved
the way for performance art
** Baghdad wax museum offers window to Iraq's eventful past
Baghdad's wax museum features famous historical figures from Iraq's past,
but it remains unclear whether the facility will include a replica of Saddam
Hussein
** Springsteen gets museum exhibition
Fans of The Boss can view archival performance footage, personal artifacts
such as his 1952 Fender guitar, iconic jeans and T-shirts, his Harley
Davidson motorcycle, lyric sheets, notebooks, handbills and posters from
tours over his 40-year career
** Holocaust museum tries to keep major exhibition
In the late 1980s, when organizers of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
were searching for Nazi-era artifacts, they sought to tell a story that was
industrial in its magnitude and horrifying in its detail
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** French police investigate allegedly fake early photographs
At issue is a catalogue of 83 lots that supposedly came from the family of
Charles Edouard de Crespy Le Prince (1784-1850), a minor painter and
engraver (the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Museum in Montmorency has one of his
works)
** Acropolis of forgotten kingdom uncovered
Numerous archaeological excavations are underway at a huge site in Anatolia
which will uncover an ancient and rich yet forgotten kingdom known as Tuwana
from the darkness of history, which will be featured in an open-air museum
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus - While you admire his technical execution and admit he had a nice
gimmick going, you have no idea who Michelangelo's target market was
supposed to be
** British artist Damien Hirst to build 500 eco-homes
The properties are meant to set the standard for Britain's eco-blueprint,
featuring green touches such as hidden rooftop wind turbines, photovoltaic
solar panels and state-of-the-art insulation
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** From Mars to London, With a Few Stops Along the Way
The biggest chunk of the meteorite flew from Morocco to Paris to New York,
where the collector who bought it bicycled around town with it in his
backpack
** Making snakes less scary
The Venomous Reptile Museum opened its doors this month inside the House of
Reptiles pet store on Pacific Highway, offering visitors the chance to see
something they've likely never seen before
** Museum's Vachon Collection of outstanding significance
The Canadian Museum of Civilization has earned a prestigious certification
for its Vachon Collection of heraldic objects.
** 2012 Archaeological Field Schools
The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at Indiana University is
co-sponsoring two archaeological field schools in 2012 at the Angel Mounds
State Historic Site and in Hoosier National Forest.
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** ICOMAM Conference 2012 Oman
ICOMAM, the International Committee of Museums and Collections of Arms and
Military History, is pleased to announce that its next annual conference
will be hosted by the University of Nizwa and the Baitar Rudayah Historic
Small Arms Centre of Excellence,Birkat Al Mauzin Oman on October 6th to
October 10th 2012.
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