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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** The Enemy Within
Nine historical events and times in which the United States was threatened
within its own borders will be examined in a new exhibit opening January 27
at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
** Google Earth tracks journey of Ramses statue
Google Earth mapped the route for a colossal statue of ancient Egypt's
powerful warrior king, Ramses II, from congested Cairo to a new home near
the pyramids
** British Government under fire over plans to slash museum budgets
Government plans to slash museum and art gallery budgets will set
institutions back a decade, leading art-world figures have claimed
** Hermitage employee walked out with tsarist treasures
Polite and hardworking, Mrs Zavadskaya even volunteered to work at
weekends - a rare step for a low-paid curator at Russia's world famous
Hermitage museum
** Lawsuit says former head defrauded port museum of $2.4 million
A city maritime museum has filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts seeking to
freeze assets of its former president and accusing him of defrauding the
museum of $2.4 million
** Former Khmer Rouge photographer seeks redemption through museum
A former chief photographer at a torture centre run by Cambodia's Khmer
Rouge wants to set up a museum, featuring pictures of the notorious group's
leaders, as his way of apologizing for the death and destruction they caused
** Thieves steal museum's model ship
A 5ft-long (1m 52cm) model ship worth thousands of pounds has been stolen
from a museum in Merseyside
** Whiff of new in art museum expansion
Along with the sharp odour of fresh paint and recently poured concrete, the
foyer and soaring main room are permeated with the rich scent of cloves,
cumin, ginger, black pepper and turmeric emanating from a maze of white
Lycra sacks filled with spices and suspended from the ceiling beams by the
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto
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** Iraqi artists poisoned by arsenic
Some Iraqi artists may have literally died for their art, suggests new
analysis of stucco fragments from the 9th century
** Thames whale captivates Londoners once again
The whale's 39 vertebrae are encased in a specially designed casket made by
the same firm that pickled Damien Hirst's shark
** Categorized, Compared and Displayed - Social Ills as Museum Specimens
If I ever need to be committed, I could do worse than end up someplace like
the Medfield Insane Asylum of a century ago
** Grave-Robbers' Cache Yields Roman Gladiator Illustrations
Italian police have unearthed the hidden cache of a group of grave robbers,
recovering ancient Roman marble reliefs depicting stunningly lifelike
gladiators locked in mortal combat
** Dazzling exhibit of colourful croakers
The army of about 150 frogs in Frogs - Chorus of Colours will get their own
rain-forest habitats, and their meals will be catered
** Parched Australians flood ancient Egypt exhibit
A note on display at a blockbuster exhibit of Egyptian antiquities in
Canberra explains the importance the sun to the people of the pharaohs, who
themselves were blighted by the Nile's cycles of flood and drought
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus - (April 20 - May 20) Your new Civil War novel would have made a
welcome addition to the corpus of American historical fiction if its main
storyline hadn't already been used in an episode of Knight Rider
** Poe toaster visits writer's grave for 58th year
The curator of the Poe House and Museum said 55 people braved a chilly
morning to catch a glimpse of the annual ritual, in which a mysterious
visitor known as the Poe toaster visits the writer's grave
** $10 Million Donation for Toronto Museum's Expansion
Teck Cominco Ltd. gave the largest corporate donation to Toronto's Royal
Ontario Museum with a C$10 million gift that will double the museum's
mineral and gem collection
** Dutch Police Detain Two Men in Rodin's `Thinker' Theft Inquiry
They were exhibited in the garden of the museum, which was founded in 1956
by the wife of William Singer, an art collector and artist and the son of a
steel magnate from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
** Treasure hunters - the new heroes of national heritage
Members of the public unearthed 57,566 ancient objects last year, according
to the British Museum - an increase of 45 per cent on 2005
** Collections Camp: Caring for Furniture
** DC-2007 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata
Applications - 27-31 August 2007, Singapore
** The Holocaust in Ukraine: New Resources and Perspectives
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