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week's edition include:
** Man might lose finger after attack by museum raccoon
The day after the Jan. 31 attack, Smith, a trained kick-boxer, described a
bloody five-minute battle with the raccoon that had escaped from its cage at
the museum
** Sixth Floor Museum releases amateur footage of JFK's Dallas arrival
The Sixth Floor Museum has announced that it had obtained what is being
called the best home movie known to exist of President Kennedy's arrival in
Dallas on the day he was assassinated
** 3,000-year-old shipwreck shows European trade was thriving in Bronze Age
The vessel, carrying copper and tin ingots used to make weapons and
jewellery, sank off the coast near Salcombe in Devon and is thought to date
from 900BC
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** Royal Palace of Ebla, Living Archive of Syria's History
The importance of the Royal Palace of Ebla lies in that it includes a room
for cuneiform manuscripts, known as 'Ebla Archive' which stressed its
importance as a political and economic metropolis in Bilad al-Cham besides
that the Palace dates back to the Early Bronze Age 2400 BC
** Save, don't bulldoze, Haiti's heritage
"The priority of priorities" is restoring the historical centre of Jacmel, a
17th- century coastal town once home to wealthy coffee merchants, with a
turquoise bay and a serene reputation that attracted tourists and
expatriates
** BBC to reveal unseen Henry Moore
Sixty-year-old films of Henry Moore, Britain's most famous sculptor, working
in his studio are to be released later this month as part of a project that
could transform the experience of visitors to museums and galleries across
the country
** Goblets for that magic elixir
Irish folklore says it's a cure for a hangover; American folk wisdom says
that if you mix it with chopped garlic and drink it, you will be protected
from poison ivy and poison oak; and pioneer women swore by it as a face wash
to ensure a soft smooth complexion
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** It was a stunning work of art - so why is the Wall hanging in a Las
Vegas loo
The rough stone and cement blocks of earlier Berlin walls had
offered little opportunity for anything but slogans, awkwardly lettered
with a broad brush, and the odd wobbly sight joke
** Lisbon's museums open doors to Portugal's rich culture
For the past five centuries, the city has believed in a trinity of vivid
traditions: its sailing ships, its iconic ceramic tiles, and the grand, sad
music of fado, the music that makes Lisboans happy to cry
** 4,000-year-old strands of hair unravel human travels
All that is left of him are four tufts of hair and four fragments of bone,
yet the DNA of an Eskimo who died 4,000 years ago in Greenland has shed new
light on human history
** For Rembrandt, it is all about face
Print dealers mass produced large editions of prints honouring important
military men, theologians and politicians for the public to purchase and
collect, similar to President Obama posters today
** Professor donates Handcuffs To Smithsonian Black History Museum
Gates' arrest last July by police investigating a report of a possible
break-in at his home near Harvard University sparked a national debate over
racial profiling
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** Abu Dhabi to permanently make its mark on the cultural map of west Asia
The Cultural District, the cultural component on Saadiyat Island, will
comprise the Zayed National Museum, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi,
the Performing Arts centre, the Maritime museum, and the Manarat Al Saadiyat
** Did This Man Sink The Mary Rose?
There are many theories about why the ship sank, but evidence from the wreck
itself suggests the ship put about with its gunports open, was hit by a
squall and sank like a stone
** Why Humans Walk 'Flat-Footed'
Our ancestors were hunter gatherers, so anything that improved walking would
make a lot of sense to hang on to
** New Rule on Cargo Is Shaking Art World
Those responsible for safeguarding art will soon have a new category of
anxiety, the stuff of real nightmares: the possibility that airline
employees could open carefully crated works of art to search them the way
checked baggage is sometimes searched now, poking around Picassos instead of
sweaters and socks
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus Apr 20 - May 20 Remember: The sum of the pleasure of any two sides of
a right-angle love triangle is equal to the underlying jealousy of the
hypoteneuse
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** Quirky museum reveals the Seychelles' rich history
The Seychelles' National Museum of History is roughly the size of the
British Museum's cloakroom; it is a single gallery divided into sections,
with a narrative that seems to finish around the second world war, which
brought airmail and telephones to the islands
** Italian judge orders Getty Museum to return prized bronze statue
An Italian judge has ordered the seizure of the J. Paul Getty Museum's
iconic statue of a bronze athlete, citing the museum's "grave negligence" in
its acquisition of the piece in 1977
** Disaster Relief for Museums - Haiti
It is certain that even in the less damaged building - such as, apparently,
the National Museum, the Parc historique de la Canne ą Sucre or the storage
facility of the Voodoo Museum, collections suffered, sometimes lightly, from
the earthquake
** AASLH Historic House Museums Issues and Operations
Scheduled for Atlanta, GA
** ICOM Europe Tour and Conference 2010
Topic:Respecting Cultural Heritage for Our Common Future
** 2nd Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision in Archaeology ACVA'10'
Vision, Visualization, and Computational Methods for Cultural Heritage Needs
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