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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:
** A quirky museum of the real and unreal
Behind an unassuming storefront is the Museum of Jurassic Technology, which
has nothing to do with either the age of dinosaurs or the cool, bright
multimedia favoured by other museums
** Aliens take over Fort Myers museum
Far from the New Mexico desert - by airplane at least - an exhibit on the
Roswell incident draws big crowds of believers and naysayers to a normally
quiet history museum
** Maritime museum hopes fade after tsunami reclaims sea treasures
The collection of priceless artefacts - including spoons, jars, jugs,
bottles, cannons and leather belts - were to be exhibited to showcase the
maritime heritage Sri Lanka shared with European invaders and Arab traders
** Egyptian art stolen
Thieves have taken GBP15,000 worth of ancient Egyptian figurines and a human
skull from Bagshaw Museum, Wilton Park
** Skeleton in museum is identified as Egypt queen
Scientists using forensic investigative techniques to uncover the history of
the woman, who has been part of the National Museum of Scotland collection
since 1909, also examined the skeleton of her daughter, which was found at
the same site
** Gold treasures 'lost' in Cairo's rambling Egyptian Museum return to
spotlight
A collection of Roman-era gold treasures has spent centuries hidden from
view, either concealed by thieves in a clay jar, buried under the desert or
languishing in a dusty corner of Cairo's rambling Egyptian Museum
** Unique Permafrost Museum turns 40
They began to establish the permafrost museum in March 1965 on the basis of
the Igarka research station's numerous underground chambers
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** Village's Civil War cannon sold to museum, raising ruckus
Driving down to the village on a weekend errand, Colin Zimmerman did a
double-take as he drove past tiny Greenwood Cemetery: The 816-pound cannon
that had adorned the graves of Civil War veterans for more than a century
was gone
** Frozen mammoth unveiled in central Japan
A frozen mammoth dug up from the Siberian tundra was unveiled in central
Japan in a preview of the six-month World Exposition which is expected to
draw millions of tourists
** One-eyed dragon in Tran Dynasty dig
Its two eyes were two round and deep holes in front of the temple, and the
hole on the right is always wet with water be it dry or wet season, while
the other is always dry
** The Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius: (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) You'll be able to trace your lineage all
the way back to the War of the Roses, thanks to the Royal Society for
Keeping Track of Drunken Syphilitic Half-Wits and Their B#stard Offspring
** War museum on track for opening
When it is open, the Canadian museum will house one of the biggest military
collections in the world comprising more than 500,000 artefacts including
vehicles, artillery, uniforms, medals, memoirs, works of art and an
extensive military archive
** Austrian Museum Questioned on Sphinx
An opposition politician on Wednesday promised a thorough investigation into
whether Vienna's famed Kunsthistorisches Museum acted legally when it bought
an ancient sphinx
** Children's Museum is $7 million short of its goal
A deadline is looming for the San Diego Children's Museum to achieve its $21
million fund-raising goal or risk losing the land in downtown San Diego
where a new museum building is planned
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** 108 and still going strong
One of the displays at the museum - built on the site of an old fish curing
factory only a few hundred yards from where the first Zeppelin bombs
dropped - tells the story of Ft Lt Egbert Cadbury, who won the Victoria
Cross after taking off from Yarmouth and shooting down a Zeppelin in a later
attack
** Smithsonian to Exhibit Rare Pearls
The objects, dating from the 13th century BC include swords, rapiers, an
adze, a gold bracelet, the head of an axe and the handle of a cauldronA
pearl once owned by the builder of the Taj Mahal, another on loan from
actress Elizabeth Taylor and the Hope Pearl - a former partner to the Hope
Diamond - are among a dozen of the world's rarest pearls going on display at
the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
** Armed to the teeth in fight against crime
The national museum has entered into an innovative partnership with a
private sector organisation to develop a state-of-the-art facility for the
forensic and ballistic examination of firearms at the Leeds-based museum
** This Week's Strange website - International Fainting Goat Association
Their origin has been sought after by a number of people but it only traces
back to the early 1800's when a farm worker appeared in Marshall County,
Tennessee, with three does and a buck that fainted
** Dutch family claims painting from Montreal museum
The museum says the work, called The Deification of Aeneas, will remain on
its walls until it can be determined whether it was sold legitimately
** BBC's troubling look at Iraq museum
"Raiders of the Lost Art" is an intriguing, off-the-cuff documentary that
goes looking for answers and finds "terror among the staff" of the museum,
along with evidence of Baath party loyalties
** Ancient knife proof of longer Chinese astronomical history
A recently unearthed 5,000-year-old stone knife with designs of
constellations will extend China's history of astronomical observation by
1,000 years, Chinese archaeologists have claimed.
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** National Park Service's 2005 Archaeological Prospection Workshop
** Museum workshops highlight spectacular local wildlife
** American Drawing Biennial 8
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