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** Fight brewing over late millionaire's valuable art collection
The collection of American art was the pride and joy of Daniel Terra, a
multimillionaire whose passion for art won him a post as an at-large arts
ambassador in the Reagan administration
** Nessie Noises?
A sightseeing submarine was reported to have heard "gruntings" in the same
vicinity on their transducers and the Global Underwater Research team 2000
wanted to check if this was a possible "lair" for the unknown animals.
** Cody museum OKs construction
The Buffalo Bill Historical Center board of trustees has approved
construction of a $17 million museum focusing on man's interaction with
natural history
** Shocking Computer Filth Exposed
A new study has revealed the dirty, not-so-little secret behind our modern,
computer-centric culture
** Government Rules `Kennewick Man' Should Be Returned To Tribes
Kennewick Man -- a skull, 380 bones and fragments constituting a nearly
complete skeleton -- were found in the shallows of the Columbia River in
1996 by a pair of college students.
** Museum, author at odds over whether Nazis made soap from victims
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington has refused to allow a
book-signing for an Atlanta man whose memoir tells the story of an uncle who
says the Nazis forced him to make soap from victims at Auschwitz
** Divers discover 114-year-old 'ship of history'
A 114-year-old shipwreck - the scene of one of the State's worst ever
maritime tragedies in which 40 people drowned - has been discovered off the
NSW coast
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** Name Change Makes Atheneum Most Clearly A Museum Of Art
For decades, countless Hartford residents have remained clueless about what
an "atheneum" is, or even how to pronounce the puzzling word in the name of
the city's celebrated museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum
** Gandhi museum at Noakhali ready for inauguration
Bangladesh president Shahabuddin Ahmed will inaugurate a museum dedicated to
Mahatma Gandhi at the Gandhi Ashram in Noakhali on October 2
** New film museum opens in heart of rebuilt Berlin
A new film museum in the heart of rebuilt Berlin highlighting the legacy of
diva Marlene Dietrich in the city where she is buried and tracing 100 years
of cinema history opens to the public on Wednesday
** End hailed to Waikato museum's 4 years 'without rudder'
Artists said that when the Hamilton City Council merged the library and
museum, replacing the directors with one manager in 1996, their spirit was
crushed and the city and museum's hard-earned reputation destroyed
** Oh calamity, Auntie is running low on bloomers
After an extensive spring clean of the Corporation's vast wardrobe and wig
department, staff discovered that stocks of underwear are running low. A
spate of period dramas has led to a dearth of historical undergarments.
** Will they have the stomach for this?
Presumably the staff were up to their eyeballs - quite literally as far as
this show was concerned, for two of Hirst's pieces involve pairs of
ping-pong balls dancing on the airjets that blast through the sockets of
skulls
** Diamonds spellbind curator since boyhood
As a boy was fascinated enough with a scene of Superman squeezing a lump of
coal into a diamond with his bare hand that he ended up majoring in
mineralogy
** Useful? Site of the Week
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phrases your phone number spells. Moving? Pick a new 7 or 8 digit phone
number by typing in an available exchange and see what one-word numbers you
can choose from
** Solved: the riddle of Ned's armor
A criminal barrister has found the real armor worn by Australian bushranger
Ned Kelly.
** 'The master' makes third offer to return the Enigma
A third letter offering the return of the stolen Enigma decoding machine for
£25,000 has been sent on behalf of a man calling himself "the master".
** World Death Rate Holding Steady at 100%
"Those who suffer from death can be highly traumatized by it, often so
severely that it kills them," noted therapist Eli Wasserbaum said
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** Egypt opens up marine treasures
Officials in Egypt say they have agreed to allow tourists to visit newly
discovered underwater archaeological sites in Alexandria
** AAC Fall Symposium - The Northern Periphery of the Hohokam
** Dublin Core Implementation Survey: Call for Participation
** Music in a Belgian Mine Shaft
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** The Application of Recent Advances in Collection Care
** Jingle Jangle
** Thinking outside the Square: Curating for non-gallery environments
** The Balancing Act: The Australian Registrars Committee presents The
Balancing Act: Access and Preservation in Museums
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