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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) 'Valentine' edition include:
** Museums learn to beware of worshipping false goddesses
Supposedly priceless works of ancient art have been removed from museum
displays in Oxford, Cambridge and America after proving to be forgeries
** Monster of the deep captured
No one has ever seen one alive. Or, if they did, maybe they never lived to
tell the tale
** Museum decides against authentic dinosaur breath
A museum planning to install a model dinosaur smelling of rotten meat has
decided it was too disgusting and shelved the idea
** Norway's First Town
The early history of Norway seems about to be rewritten as new excavations
reveal that a site considered only a seasonal trading center could very well
turn out to be the nation's oldest permanent town
** Museum chief: Bid to scrap entrance fees 'perverse'
The director of the Natural History Museum has warned that the institution
would be plunged into crisis if the Government scrapped museum entrance fees
** Bishop Museum director takes stock
In the Duckworth years, the museum has evoked reams of media controversy --
partly because of personnel difficulties
** Museum of smuggling tricks would try the patience of a narco-saint
Ten hollowed books contain plastic packets of marijuana, and a dried
armadillo is stuffed full of pot by some cunning taxidermist
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** Remains shed new light on human evolution
Teeth, a finger bone, a femur and jaw and arm fragments unearthed in Kenya's
Rift Valley suggest that hominids the size of chimpanzees were modern man's
distant ancestors
** Library discovers Eagle has flown
Dealers and collectors are on alert for 14 bound copies of comics, including
four volumes of The Beano, stolen from the British Library
** Louvre to Give Mona Lisa a Room of Her Own
The Paris museum has devised a $3.6 million project to provide a better view
of the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece and a larger area for other Venetian
Renaissance art overshadowed by the 500-year-old lady
** Divers find Campbell's Bluebird boat
Divers have located the wreckage of Bluebird, 34 years after Donald Campbell
lost his life in the jet-powered boat while challenging his own world
water-speed record
** Art Gallery Online for $30-Million Gift
Two top executives of America Online and their wives have jointly pledged
$30 million to the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design,
the largest single donation in the museum's 132-year history
** "Come One! Come All!
Wisconsin was once better known for its circuses than for its cheese,
claiming to be the birthplace of the greatest number of circuses in the
nation
** Looking for love in all the ROM places
Though there are several organizations in Toronto that organize events aimed
at a sophisticated crowd, the most renowned is the ROM's monthly Connections
evening
** Man Mounts CampaignTo Dig Up Jesse James
An amateur historian has started another legal effort to conduct DNA tests
to solve the mystery over the resting place of 19th century outlaw Jesse
James
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** Museum spy cameras in bid to banish yobs
Youths who rampage around Royston Museum can now be identified on security
cameras
** Egypt: a move to clear homes near Pharaonic tombs
Fears are growing for the long-term future of one of Glasgow's most popular
galleries after it was subjected to stinging criticism by culture minister
Sam Galbraith.
** Archeologists Work To Save Chinese Site With Christian Traces
Passing through this oasis town eight centuries ago, Marco Polo may have met
the owner of this Syriac Bible, dated to the Yuan Dynasty
** Ebony and Ivory: Furniture from British India and Ceylon
Intricate and exceptionally beautiful creations carved from exotic materials
such as ivory, lacquer, tortoiseshell, and Asian hardwoods, the furniture
reflects the intersection of cultures in colonial Indian life
** Finest Opera Singer Of Her Generation Unknown By Her Generation
"Alessandra who?" said Amy Sharper, 23, a self-described "total music freak"
from Reston, VA.
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