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In your free International Museum EZINE this week:
** The World's Best-Preserved Giant Squid **
It may have arrived in New York in a box labeled ``seafood,'' but this squid
isn't your ordinary calamari.
** Australian death machine set for British museum **
The designer of a ``death machine'' used in the world's first legal mercy
killings said on Wednesday it would be exhibited in London after political
pressure ended moves for a permanent display in Australia.
** Dave fished out of 110 million-year slumber **
A Barramundi fisherman has stumbled across the remains of a 110
million-year-old, long-necked sea monster in north Queensland
** Trial over $2.7 billion trust opens in Bermuda **
Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kaszon, patriarch of one of
Europe's wealthiest families, began on Monday a court battle with his eldest
son to regain control of the family's $2.7 billion business empire.
** Mummy takes its curse to Paris **
An Egyptian mummy, complete with a suspected curse, was on its way yesterday
from Tyneside to the Louvre Museum in Paris
** Building the impossible **
The dome of Florence Cathedral is the result of an untried architect's
refusal to accept the wisdom of his time
** Europeans Are Sitting Ducks For Yankee Birds **
They're overfed, oversexed, and over here. But this time it's not American
soldiers fanning out in Europe. It's American ducks
** Art Buyer Nets Hockney Gem With Old Kitchen Blind **
The man who owns James Bond's Aston Martin, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the
Batmobile, Wednesday bought an old kitchen blind covered in pictures by
David Hockney for $18,200
** Millennium Discovery Centre loses £27m grant **
PLANS to build a national museum of discovery collapsed yesterday when the
Millennium Commission withdrew its offer of a £27 million grant, saying that
the scheme was unviable
** WYLAND paints 84th Whaling wall **
The New Zealand National Maritime Museum in Auckland is the site of the
latest WYLAND whale mural. The artist and his team completed the project
within a week
** Relics of Iraqi Queen On Display **
Some experts doubt the authenticity of the house in the ancient ruined city
of Ur, sometimes called the birthplace of the patriarch Abraham, that Pope
John Paul II wants to see next year on a pilgrimage to Iraq.
** Benezra To Leave Hirshhorn **
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's Assistant Director Neal Benezra
surprised museum trustees and staff yesterday by announcing he will leave
Washington at the end of the year for the Art Institute of Chicago
** Discovery & Science museum garners praise, $750,000 **
It began in 1977 as a small children's museum that leased space in a
historic downtown hotel.
** Mother of all dinosaurs discovered in Moroccan mountains **
A Dinosaur skeleton found in Morocco has been identified as the previously
unknown ancestor of giants of the Jurassic age
All this plus the latest Museum JOBS and Forum in GLOBAL MUSEUM. Now read
and 'dissected' in 64 countries each week ! http://www.globalmuseum.org
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