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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:

**  Space ride at museum plunges leaving 3 girls injured
The children where inside the "space experience capsule" at the Joetsu
Science Museum when it suddenly malfunctioned, sending the capsule falling
seven or eight meters

**  First nation building
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is the last word on how to
exhibit Indian artefacts in the 21st century

**  Aquarium installer encounters rough waters at City Museum
He suffered a broken nose, black eyes and a gash in his forehead when a
freight elevator collided with a boat

**  Hurricane Preparation List
The Pangea Institute has prepared a Hurricane Preparation Checklist (pdf)
for the convenience and safety of its members and supporters

**  Bow the latest piece of Mary Rose puzzle to emerge from Solent?
The latest excavations at the Mary Rose wreck site have added yet further
pieces to the puzzle of the Tudor flagship, including what archaeologists
believe are sections of its previously lost bowcastle
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**  Charley Doesn't Chase Everyone From Keys
At the city's top tourist attraction, the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum,
a carpenter fitted plywood to cover stained glass windows

**  Sudan treasures at British Museum
The British Museum has unveiled plans for a major new programme about Sudan,
featuring an exhibition of the country's cultural treasures

**  U.S. investigates sale of Hawaiian artefacts
The artefacts had been in the possession of the Bishop Museum until the late
1990s when they were repatriated to a Native Hawaiian group - Hui Mälama I
Nä Küpuna O Hawai``i Nei.

**  Antiquities on display in Athens
Antiquities featuring runners, wrestlers and chariot racers from ancient
Greece will be on display at the National Archaeological Museum in downtown
Athens throughout the Olympics.

**  Ex-museum official convicted of selling armoured car
The former chief of collections at the U.S. Air Force Museum was convicted
Wednesday of selling an armoured car from the museum

**  Are we past caring?
Ireland is alone among the main European countries in not having a proper
national transport museum, yet official indifference and decades of neglect
looks likely to continue

**  Mystery of Iron Age woman with rings on her toes
She was laid to rest in one of the most unusual burial sites known to
archaeologists: beneath the floor of a busy Iron Age workshop
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**  Museum remembers 'Great Man' Deng
Chinese visitors take a look at photos on a exhibition devoted to Deng
Xiaoping in commemoration of his 100th birthday at the National Museum of
China Tuesday in Beijing

**  Ancient Hanoi City May Get Heritage Tag
More than 2 million artefacts including terracotta dragons, phoenix statues
and ceramic urns have been uncovered in the 57,408 square yards site layered
with antiquities from four dynasties

**  Hiring fair shows way we worked
Wanted: Boys and girls as apprentice blacksmiths, bakers, grooms, shepherds,
scullery maids, nursery maids and dairy maids

**  Museum brings Anglo-Saxon princess back to life
Members of the public will come face to face with Anglo-Saxon royalty when
the reconstructed head of a sixth century princess goes on display at
Cirencester's Corinium museum

**  Boy's Wal-Mart Telescope Shames Hubble
A 14 year old amateur astronomer from Dumas, Texas, has captured a stunning
image of a four-nebula cluster he nicknamed "Face of God."

**  Museum prepares treat for loco fans
National Railway Museum, in Shildon, County Durham, are preparing to welcome
the engines, which were built during the golden age of steam.

**  Voters to decide Dali museum move
Museum director Hank Hine says the museum has outgrown its converted
warehouse

**  Family-proud museum adds shrimp boat
The Louisiana-built, wooden boat will become one of the centrepiece exhibits
at the Louisiana State Museum-Baton Rouge

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