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**  Museum Buys 400-Year-Old Soccer Book  **
The Football Museum in Preston, northern England, said Wednesday it had
bought what is said to be the world's oldest book about the game


**  Los Angeles museum wonders, is painting Nazi loot?  **
One of California's best-known museums, the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, said Wednesday that it was investigating whether a 15th-century Madonna
and Child was stolen from Holocaust victims, since it was sold by a known
Nazi art dealer


**  Custody battle over TV puppet Howdy Doody heats up  **
A battle over Howdy Doody, a television puppet from the 1950s, intensifies
this week as a Detroit museum and the family of his puppeteer ask a federal
judge to throw out the other side's case


**  Garbo's love letters to be viewed after 70 years  **
Secret love letters from screen goddess Greta Garbo to female playwright and
reported lover Mercedes de Acosta are to be shown for the first time at a
U.S. museum next month


**  Hadrian got credit for work of others  **
Rome: Architectural triumphs credited to the Emperor Hadrian were built by
opportunistic property developers, according to a British archaeologist


**  Tests Said to Link Turin Shroud to Israel, Jordan  **
New scientific tests on the Shroud of Turin, revered by some Christians as
Christ's burial shroud, link the relic to the area of Israel or Jordan, a
church committee said Monday


**  Buried in the dunes ... the search for a maritime legend deepens  **
The Mahogany Ship, thought to have been wrecked off the coast near
Warrnambool in 1522, was first sighted by sealers in 1836 but had
disappeared beneath the sands by the 1880s


**  Tullamore distilling tradition celebrated  **
Located on the western side of the town, the centre not only has a quality
museum but also contains a bar, restaurant, tourist office and conference
rooms. It is also home to the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society,
which is one of the finest in the State


**  Smithsonian 'Too Shabby'  **
The Smithsonian's museums in Washington are "shabby, dingy and falling
apart," the institution's new secretary, Lawrence Small, said yesterday in
his first appearance before Congress


 ** Extinction Recovery Takes 10M Years  **
It takes about 10 million years after a plant or animal becomes extinct
before anything resembling it reappears, according to a sobering study in
today's journal Nature.


**  Piano lessons: exhibit traces 300 years at the keys  **
'Practice, practice, practice' - a dreaded refrain to the millions who
toiled over an instrument that began as elite entertainment and became a
20th century symbol of prosperity and gentility for America's middle class:
the piano


**  Letters reveal Rupert Brooke's secret lover  **
The details of a hitherto unknown love affair conducted by Rupert Brooke
have been laid bare with the discovery of a sealed envelope in the British
Library.


**  Pledge by Duke as Apsley House goes independent  **
The Duke of Wellington pledged yesterday that any new arrangements for
Apsley House, home to the Wellington Museum, would ensure that the
collection and building are preserved for the benefit of the public


**  Arts tax plan faces hard fight  **
Proponents of a tax to raise $36 million annually for the arts in Wayne and
Oakland counties are firing up lobbying efforts to get the measure on the
August primary ballot


**  ICME 2000 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK  **

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