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week's edition include:
** Veterans force WWII museum exhibit change
The decision had some historians crying foul that a public outcry could
force a change but others said the exhibit had given an inaccurate
impression of the bombing campaign, which killed 600,000 Germans
** Museum thefts prompt union demand
The Royal Pavilion grew out of a farmhouse in the late 18th and early 19th
centuries, and was extended into a seaside residence for King George IV
** Eat the beetles
Let me state for the record that the two-centimetre-long mealworms we were
chowing on at the Royal Alberta Museum's annual Bug Fair do not taste like
chicken
** Italy's 5,000-year-old Iceman died from head trauma, not arrow
Researchers studying Iceman, the 5,000-year-old mummy found frozen in the
Italian Alps, have come up with a new theory for how he died, saying he died
from head trauma, not by bleeding to death from an arrow
** Tours planned at revamped museum
The grade II listed building was the home of the world's first passenger
railway, which opened in 1842
** Belgian Diplomats Damaged Fossils
Egyptian authorities have accused Belgian diplomats of damaging a 40
million-year-old whale fossil when they allegedly drove over the remains in
a protected desert area
** Old Tea Party museum catches fire...again
A museum commemorating the Boston Tea Party was heavily damaged by fire
Monday, six years after lightning sparked a blaze that forced the museum's
year long closure
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** Military divers work to salvage sunken Russian Sub Museum
Two dozen Army and Navy divers have been sent as part of a Department of
Defense training project to help raise a sunken Russian sub that had been
used as a floating museum
** Apes Exhibition On At Uganda Museum
The executive director of UWA, Mr Moses Mapesa Wafula, said the aim of the
exhibition is to raise the profile of Apes in Uganda through public
awareness of their value, status, current threats and conservation
initiatives
** Israel Museum launches site for works stolen in WWII
The Israel Museum has launched an on-line catalogue of works of art and
Judaica looted during World War II and given to the museum after the war
** Attorney General's Office Arrests Former State Museum Curator, Great
Aunt
These defendants are accused of diverting scarce resources, that should have
been devoted to protecting Alabama's proud history, into their own pockets
** Museum fight bites bureau
The head of the Kentucky Paleontological Society is criticizing local
tourism officials for promoting the Creation Museum using inflammatory
language from the museum's Web site
** Museum gets apt birthday gift
The historic Singapore National Museum celebrates its 120th anniversary this
year and it has received a fitting gift
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** Gods and monsters
Edward Moor had first gone out to India at the age of 11, soon learnt to
speak several Indian languages, and became passionately interested in the
cosmology and beliefs of the Hindus
** DNA from Spit Helps Decode Lives of Early Settlers
The artefacts to which LeBlanc is referring to are called quids - the
technical term for something you chew on, and then spit out
** A museum for the legend
The Brazilian port city of Santos will construct a museum dedicated to
soccer legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pele, who has played for
the Santos football club during his career spanning 18 years
** Beyond Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is widely believed to be the cradle of civilization, but a
growing body of evidence suggests that in addition to Mesopotamia, many
civilized urban areas existed at the same time in an arc that extended from
Mesopotamia east for thousands of kilometres across to the areas of modern
India and Pakistan
** Exhibit pits Houston museum against scientific community
In the Ethiopian language, she's called Dinknesh - a name that means the
wonderful, the fabulous, the precious
** O, Believers, Prepare to Be Amazed!
And yes, along with the fascination comes a kind of unease, a sense that one
is perversely peeping at a natural world immodestly stripped of its
decorousness, or gazing luridly at its oddest human inhabitants
** Building Content, Building Community: 40 Years of Museum Information and
Technology
** Who Else Lived Here? The Historic House Museum Conference
** Nature through Jade - International Symposium at the Art Gallery of NSW
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