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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** New shots in Marbles battle
An ICM poll found a big majority - 77% - in favour of at least a prolonged
exhibition of the marbles in Greece, but it avoided such words as
"restitution" and "give back"
** Museum raising $5 million to save Saturn V moon rocket
While President Bush is pointing America toward Mars, an Alabama museum is
trying to save a nearly 40-year-old Saturn V moon rocket
** Tax Museum Tries to Cheer Up Israelis
At the Museum of Taxes, anecdotes about tithing in the Holy Land are meant
to amuse Israelis buckling under some of the highest taxes in the world
** Fossils from the Golden Age Of Spam
Bottles of p*nis-enlargement pills, bank statements detailing the failures
of work-at-home schemes, pseudo love letters and dioramas of deposed
dictators - this is just some of the art on display
** Statue of Liberty Foundation Seeks $5 Million in Donations
If the Statue of Liberty could move, she would have her 16-foot hand
outstretched, asking for money
** Cat's out of the bag: First lion mummy found
For the first time, archaeologists have discovered a preserved lion skeleton
in an ancient Egyptian tomb
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** A model-ship collector and a small Illinois town are setting sail
The nearest body of water, the Kaskaskia River, is a mile outside of town
and little more than a ditch.
** National museum website to offer users a personal museum online
Users will be able to customise and personalise their online experience and
create their own unique 'mini-museum' from the National Museum's extensive
online exhibitions and collections
** Revised WTC site memorial adds museum with artefacts
It includes an underground museum displaying twisted steel beams, a crushed
fire truck and other artefacts from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks
** Typo Results In 10,000-Acre Wyoming Skate Park
By the time the error was identified, state officials had already spent $43
million integrating the skate park's numerous ramps, rails, pipes, and
inclines into the natural topography
** Man Fights for Name, Image of Dillinger
Among other things, Scalf has sued a museum housing $400,000 in Dillinger
memorabilia, and a gangster-theme restaurant called Dillinger's in Hudson,
Ind
** Civil War Relic Returns Home to Annapolis
The 37-inch-long ceremonial sword, designed by Tiffany & Co. with a silver
hilt depicting Neptune, the Roman god of the sea, and a gold scabbard with
an inscription praising Worden's "gallantry and skill," was stolen from the
academy's memorial collection in 1931
** Making the old new again
His predecessor was not so lucky and found himself being stung and bitten by
every creature known to mankind - and plenty still yet to be taxonomically
described
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** Family Tracks Down Father's Car after 40 Years
Motoring enthusiast and museum curator Richard Atwell tracked down the rare
1951 Austin A125 Sheerline and was amazed to find it was still on the road
** Gold fever
There were many features common to both the Iraqi campaign and the Afghan
conflict: American hi-tech weaponry, vigorous anti-war protests all over the
world, the sudden collapse of opposition forces - and, less obviously,
archaeological catastrophe
** Spy Gadgets Out In The Open
The part of the CIA that's in charge of science and technology is showing
off some never before-seen-devices that have been used in the
cloak-and-dagger game over the years.
** Kerouac's 'On the Road' scroll begins museum tour
Like the trip that inspired it, the first draft of author Jack Kerouac's "On
the Road" is a wandering narrative, told in a continuous block of text
** Rare copy of Hitler's book lifted from museum
Thieves stole a rare leather-bound copy of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf
from the Dutch National War and Resistance Museum
** When archaeology gets bent
Adolf Hitler was so fond of archaeology that he gave the SS special
archaeological units, so that they could dig to prove a Nazi ideological
bond of soil and nationhood
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** "Making the Means Transparent: research methodologies in heritage
studies" conference
** Theft - Wilson's Creek National Battlefield
A reward of $1,000 is being offered by the National Park Service for
information leading to the recovery of stolen Civil War firearms and the
arrest of the persons involved.
** A new exhibition at Israel Museum presents a selection of rare frames,
mostly from the Israel Museum's collections
** Call For EDCOM Award Nominees - Deadline Feb. 2, 2004
** Joint U.S.-Romanian archaeological excavations welcome students and
interested avocational volunteers to 2 sites
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