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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:
** Audio tape may solve JFK mystery
A cleaned-up new copy of an audio tape of John F Kennedy's assassination may
prove whether killer Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
** Gun that killed Mussolini is found
For the past 47 years it has lain in the obscurity of a Tirana museum,
gifted to Albania's Stalinist leaders by the man who pulled the trigger
** Giant jade boulder to be housed in underground museum
A Myanmar gems company has started building an underground museum to display
what it claims is the world's largest jade boulder
** Fairy Queen parts were in bushes
A brass rod and four copper pipes of the piston were found hidden in some
bushes at the museum in Chanakyapuri
** Kentucky Cemetery Probed for 1812 War Remains
Archaeologists with radar equipment have probed a cemetery for something
that has eluded generations of historians: the unmarked mass grave of 15
Kentuckians killed during the War of 1812
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** Colombian police recover 84 ancient artefacts
A spokesman said the artefacts, which include vases and necklaces of various
materials, were going to be smuggled into the U. S. and Europe
** U.S. Scholar Pleads Guilty in Iraq Looting
An expert on Iraq's post-war reconstruction has pleaded guilty to smuggling
4,000-year-old artefacts looted from the country's national museum after the
U.S. invasion
** Hidden treasures spark international search
"One of the quirky things about being the director of a museum and art
gallery is that you have these things within your collections that defy all
logic as to why they are here"
** German Chancellor's artist friend convicted over s*x and drugs o*gy
A German artist who was short-listed to paint Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's
official portrait received an 11-month suspended jail sentence after a
cocaine-fuelled o*gy.
** Crocs, prawns and primates in the wilds of Borneo
In the clutter of the quaint and musty old Sarawak Museum I admire a
taxidermied wild pig with plastic flies glued to its rear
** Cincy Underground Railroad museum opens
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Centre took a decade of planning
and more than two years of construction at a cost of $110 million
** Sunken treasure exhibit opens at museum
The sunken treasures of Brunei were discovered in 1997, 500 years after
their cargo ship sank
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** Exhibitions Offer Opportunities But Also Legal Problems
Current economic conditions and the reluctance of governments to provide
blank chequebook to museums and galleries mean they can no longer rely on
their permanent collections to make money
** Bike museum on course
The National Motorcycle Museum is still on schedule to officially re-open in
December as the last stages of the multi-million pound renovation are
completed
** Strangelove's Nuclear Librarian
Las Vegas is full of quirky little museums, ranging from the Elvis-O-Rama to
the Atomic Testing Museum
** Inscriptions Museum putting some life into its image
The usually solemn home of the dead suddenly came alive under the full moon
when around 20 guests gathered in a garden party, surrounded by the museum's
collection of 1,734 sepulchres
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius: (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) - Very few of your monetary problems will be
over when you win the record-low lottery jackpot of $.0000017 million
** Over GBP1.1 million cash boost for museums and galleries in London
UK Arts Minister announces the award of over GBP1.1 million to six London
museums and galleries to help improve the quality of their displays, access
and environmental controls
** Master of the decisive moment
Seldom can an artist's creative life be summed up so succinctly as Henri
Cartier-Bresson's can be by three words: The Decisive Moment
** Ancient Brewery Discovered on Mountaintop in Peru
Predating the Inca Empire by at least four centuries, this Wari brewery was
used to make chicha, a fermented beverage similar to beer that played an
important role in ritual feasting and drinking
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** Make New Friends, But Keep the Old: Preservation Strategies for
Electronic and Paper Records
** Managing Audiovisual Collections: An Introduction to Moving Images and
Sound Recordings " Workshop
** The Care and Preservation of Agricultural and Industrial Machinery and
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