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The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine) in this
week's edition include:
** Kobe museum official leaps to death
An assistant director at a museum on Chinese history in Kobe on Monday
jumped off a building housing the museum
** Fakes In Peru's Gold Museum
In fact, since the 1980s Indecopi has been suspicious about the authenticity
of the collections in the Gold Museum
** Museum chick exhibit brings genetics to life
The chickens have come back to hatch at the Museum of Science and Industry
as part of the nation's first permanent genetics exhibit
** A major exhibition on the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War, which began in 1936, inspired a generation of
workers, artists and intellectuals
** When the Going Gets Tough, Some Go Shopping at Museums
The success of this kind of high-end merchandise, inspired by the dazzling
opulence of the special exhibition "Jeweled Arts of India in the Age of the
Mughals," offered a small dash of comfort
** Saudis demolish fort in 'act of Taliban vandalism'
Turkey accused Saudi Arabia yesterday of behaving like the Taliban in
demolishing an ancient Ottoman fortress in Mecca
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** European archaeology project seeks to safeguard shipwrecks
British expertise has been called on to help protect four important European
shipwrecks through a new project
** The Children's Museum increases admission fees
On the heels of price hikes at the Indianapolis Zoo and the Indiana State
Museum, the Children's Museum announced it will raise admission prices
** Search for "Lost" Atlantis Centers on Strait of Gibraltar
It was Plato, around 360 B.C., who first described an ancient, exotic island
kingdom catastrophically buried beneath the sea
** City officials inspect historic hotel
In August of 1913, Sun was on his second visit to Taiwan to meet local
revolutionaries and Japanese supporters to discuss a plan to overthrow Yuan
Shi-kai
** Moustachioued Lisa leaves Paris
Communist Party President Robert Hue said he had turned down many requests
to loan out the picture to various exhibitions around the world
** Piecing Together Polynesia's Past
Tongatapu, Mr. Burley concluded, "probably served as the initial staging
point for population expansion" to other islands of Tonga and into Samoa .
** Farts And Burps 'Gross But Good'
Burping, barfing, breaking wind and body odour are not to be sniffed at -
according to the organisers of a bizarre museum in Singapore
** Queen Victoria statue covered in human skin goes on show
A 3ft naked statue of Queen Victoria covered in what is believed to be human
skin is on display in Derby
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** Egypt Eyes Antiquities Museum
Egypt opened an international design competition Wednesday for a new
antiquities museum that officials say would be the world's largest and would
be built near the pyramids.
** V&A launch terracotta first
More than eighty items are coming from 38 lenders in eight countries in a
project which has taken six years to organise
** Grateful Dead settle guitar dispute
The band has plans to open a museum in San Francisco with Mr Garcia's
guitars as a cornerstone exhibit
** Finns leave Norwegians in their dust in culture comparison
The comparative study paints a very flattering picture of Finland as a
promised land in terms of culture on offer
** WTC platform tickets debut
The tickets were to be available beginning today at the South Street Seaport
Museum, about seven blocks from the trade center site
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** Dossier on the Spoliation of Jewish Properties
** Partnerships Fund: Funding for Digitization of Cultural Collections
** The National Museum of Health and Medicine celebrates Black History
Month
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** Major Henry Moore Exhibition: Journey Through Form
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