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** Under One Picasso, Another
For years conservators and art historians have known that hidden beneath the
surface of "Woman Ironing," long considered an example of his Blue Period,
is the upside-down ghost of another painting - a three-quarter-length
portrait of a man with a mustache that was first seen in images taken with
an infrared camera in 1989
** Smash It: Who Cares?
Nonetheless, there are some who believe that historic preservation has
gotten out of hand and thwarts innovative architecture and city planning
** Exhibit looks to debunk myth of Maya calendar
Visitors will walk darkened halls lined with pottery, jade carvings and
black-and-white rubbings of jungle monuments, all tied in some way to the
sophisticated Maya calendar
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** 2,000-year-old bison bone site mired in controversy
About the time Christ was born and Roman legions marched on much of the
known world, hunters honed by millennia of experience trapped a snorting,
terrified herd of bison in a narrow drainage near what is now Hardin,
Montana
** Rare 18th century hat recovered from cottage wall revealed at Museum
The fragile 18th century lady's hat, which is only one of four of its kind
in the world, has been carefully treated for pests to limit further damage
to the hat itself and also to rule out any risk of contaminating other hats
in the museum's collection
** "Taliban motorbike" goes on show at Imperial War Museum
A Honda motorbike captured by British soldiers in Afghanistan during a chase
with Taliban insurgents last summer will go on show to the public as part of
a display at the Imperial War Museum aiming to present first-hand accounts
of life for service personnel
** Scare after box labelled 'bomb' unearthed in museum archive
They found three clay balls packed with gunpowder with wicks sticking out of
them, and Bob Davies, vice-chairman of the Dereham Antiquarian Society, took
them home with him
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** Engaging Children With the Siren Call of the App
Each summer for several years, a two-week seminar at the American Museum of
Natural History has allowed 25 youngsters to use technology to resurrect a
prehistoric marine animal by designing realistic 3-D models and sea
environments
** Museum conservators behind glass
Conservators at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra are themselves
being put on display, working on delicate photograph albums and textiles,
including shoes and period costumes, as part of a new interactive exhibition
** London's Wellcome Collection unveils ambitious £17.5m redevelopment plan
The Wellcome Collection, one of London's newest and most popular museums,
has unveiled an ambitious redevelopment plan that will transfrom its
building and provide a wider and deeper engagement with the issues around
medicine, life and art
** Bully! Museum Restores Its Shrine to Roosevelt
With the reopening of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial at the American Museum
of Natural History on Roosevelt's birthday, with the museum's remounting of
celebratory murals honoring him, its creation of a new exhibition devoted to
his achievements, and its restoration of one of the museum's finest spaces -
the Hall of North American Mammals - our perspective is shifting yet again
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** Soundtrack to history: 1878 Edison audio unveiled
The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable
recording of an American voice and the first-ever capturing of a musical
performance, thanks to digital advances that allowed the sound to be
transferred from flimsy tinfoil to computer
** Modern Alamo Battle Over Plan to Display Letter
The letter has become one of the most revered documents in Texas history,
and one of its phrases - "Victory or Death," which Colonel Travis underlined
three times - has endured as an unofficial Texas slogan, turning up on flags
and, occasionally, in the speeches of politicians
** Field Museum and Oriental Institute launch bird exhibits
Resting amid a larger exhibition comprising mostly artistic representations
of birds, is a mummified eagle, stripped of its swaddling, laid out on its
back in a display case
** Tsunami motorcycle comes to Harley-Davidson Museum
Ikuo Yokoyama lost everything when a tsunami hit Japan in March, 2011: three
family members, his home, and his beloved Harley-Davidson Softail Night
Train
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** Smithsonian gets Cuba pilot's suit from 1962
A flight suit worn by an American pilot who flew a reconnaissance mission
over Cuba in 1962 that photographed nuclear missile sites under construction
by the Soviet Union was donated Tuesday to the Smithsonian's National Air
and Space Museum
** New York gets first museum on famed magician Harry Houdini
Leave it to legendary magician Harry Houdini to make a museum suddenly
appear in a midtown magic shop 86 years after his death
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius - Either the whole thing is just one big coincidence, or they named
a deadly species of bloodsucking parasite after you for a reason
** The United States sends 4,000 looted artifacts home to Mexico
More than 4,000 looted artifacts, many of them made by ancient
hunter-gatherers in what's now northern Mexico, were returned to Mexican
cultural authorities, to be studied, then distributed to Mexican museums
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** Penn Museum unwraps mystery of mummy conservation
The Penn Museum is unwrapping the mystery of mummy conservation, giving the
public an unusual close-up of researchers' efforts to preserve relics from
ancient Egypt
** Rotterdam Museum Says Deactivated Lock Helped Thieves
The Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, facing strong criticism over its security
measures after seven valuable paintings were stolen last week, on Monday
issued a statement explaining that the thieves were able to snatch the
artworks swiftly after an alarm briefly deactivated a rear door's electronic
lock
** World War II, Nazi Crimes, and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union
December 7-9, 2012, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Moscow, Russia
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** Unsung Heroes - Dr Sun Yat-sen's Singapore Comrades
After founding the Tong Meng Hui (Chinese Revolutionary Alliance) in Japan
in 1905, Dr Sun Yat-sen proactively established branches overseas to promote
the revolution and raise funds for uprisings.
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