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week's edition include:
** When Desmond Paul Henry Traded His Pen for a Machine
Henry remembered those computers from his wartime service as a technical
clerk for the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and bought this one
for the then-princely sum of £50
** The mummies at the Penn Museum say a lot about humanity's spread
Digging up human remains and displaying them in museums has always struck me
as macabre, not to mention disrespectful
** The CIA's antique spy kit
A remote controlled dragonfly, a stomach-mounted drill and a camera designed
to reduce documents to the size of a full stop; the contents of the CIA
museum in Langley, Virginia make fascinatingly odd exhibits, not least
because until very recently no one had actually been allowed to see thems
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** Morgan's cannon found
The cannon were prised from the reef a week ago amid fears they might be
plundered by treasure-hunters and could be the only physical evidence tying
Morgan to the region upon which he had such an impact more than 300 years
ago
** Looting of King Ramses II's colossus thwarted
On the night of the 23rd. looters sneaked into the southern quarry of the
upper Egyptian city of Aswan in an attempt to cut and remove the statue of
King Ramses II
** Lord's Lover Icon Turns 100
Montagu had earlier commissioned a friend, sculptor Charles Sykes, to create
a mascot for his Silver Ghost - and Sykes used Eleanor as a model
** Remains of ice-age child discovered in Interior Alaska
Fairbanks researchers say they've uncovered the oldest cremated human
remains ever discovered in northern North America at a site near the Tanana
River in central Alaska
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** Train museum in West Texas suffers fire vandalism
A West Texas train museum has been damaged by vandals who set fire to a
caboose on display at a century-old depot
** Italy denies U.S. export license to Baroque painting looted by Nazis
The first time Philippa Calnan saw the Nazi-looted painting of St. Catherine
of Alexandria by Bernardo Strozzi that had once belonged to her family was
"an extremely moving moment
** Archive of WWII codebreaker Alan Turing preserved
Papers relating to codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing will go to a
British museum after the National Heritage Memorial Fund stepped in to help
buy them for the nation
** Mexico's struggle to stem looting of historic sites
There are an estimated 200,000 archaeological sites in Mexico - among them,
the Mayan ruins and pyramids in the country's south, the Paquime mud-based
constructions in the northern state of Chihuahua and the huge complex of
Teotihuacan, north of Mexico City
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** ACLU museum exhibit criticized
The lawmakers are displeased with the recent exhibit at the State Historical
Building on the history of the American Civil Liberties Union and its role
in racial justice, women's equality, gay rights and reproductive freedom
** JFK Library invites scrollers to try out president's desk
Atop President Kennedy's desk sat the tools of the trade: a trusted diary, a
green phone for critical calls, and a button that secretly recorded
discussions on such hot topics such as Vietnam, space, and civil rights
** Neanderthals Wore Colorful Feathers, Study Suggests
After digging down to layers that existed at the surface 44,000 years ago,
the researchers discovered 660 bones belonging to 22 species of birds, with
evidence of cut, peeling and scrape marks from stone tools on the wing bones
of birds that had no clear practical or culinary value
** From The Blogs - Museums Trash Their Books
The very non-profit institutions whose raison d'etre is the preservation of
knowledge about art, anthropology, zoology, botany - a vast range of
subjects - have decided that, while books are a necessary evil, they are an
unprofitable and embarrassing holdover from a time when the economic life of
museums was less complicated
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** Thieves hit museum in historic Columbia, rip off gold
The museum's burglar alarm failed and the suspects smashed a display case
and took 0.75 ounces of gold flakes and pieces, and several historic
artifacts
** Kelly's armour bound for National Museum
The complete set of Kelly gang armour will form a key attraction at an
exhibition exploring the history of Irish immigration at the National Museum
of Australia
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries - Your fear of change means that spending the next few centuries in a
block of ice will be extremely soothing, at least until the New Reformed
Xalfraxian Alliance thaws you out
** Stolen History
Among the items known to be missing are Lincoln telegrams from the Civil
War, patents for Eli Whitney's cotton gin and the Wright brothers' flying
machine, target maps for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the
"only known copy" of the Potsdam Declaration signed by President Harry
Truman at the end of World War II, and more
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** Museum reaches agreements to resume Snowmass fossil dig
Museum crews will spend seven weeks between May 15 and July 1 continuing the
excavation of "an exceptionally preserved series of Ice Age fossil sites"
that were first discovered last October by a bulldozer operator working on
the expansion of the reservoir
** FKMAC Offers Print-Altered Textiles Workshop for Adults
Louisville, KY - The Education Department of the Kentucky Museum of Art and
Craft
** 3rd International Archaeology Student Conference
Human activities, Crafts and Artisans in Pre- and Protohistory
** 17th Annual Legacy Oral History Workshop
Museum of Performance & Design, San Francisco - August 4-6
** Sixth Triennial Conference on Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life
in Water
Registration and abstract submission is now open for the Sixth Triennial
Conference on Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water, June 6-10,
2011, San Diego, CA
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