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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:
** Titanic newsreel found in a shed
The film - shot just a few days after the voyager sank on April 14, 1912 -
shows the rescue ship Carpathia returning to port carrying 705 exhausted
survivors of the disaster
** Historic buildings open up - for free
It's part of English Heritage's Open Days event when visitors will be
allowed free access to interesting places
** Human ancestors quickly found their feet
Hominids started walking on two legs six million years ago, shortly after
diverging from chimpanzees
** Royal Academy plans Turkish show
The exhibition, which opens in January, will hold artefacts of Turkic
culture from 600 AD to 1600
** Science oddities revealed to UK public
One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show in
London
** Sub puts down anchor as museum centrepiece
The Razorback will not only mark U.S. history, but will also serve in
international relations, speakers noted. Turkish flags flying from the
ship's sail honoured the more than 30 years in the Turkish navy
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** Yo-Yo Museum worker faces five to 30 years in federal prison
Investigators have said Ishaq's methods and patience are a virtual case stud
y in how child molesters work in an Internet age
** A marble haul Unique Roman collection to be restored to view
A private collection of classical sculpture, said to be the biggest in the
world, is to go on public view after being hidden for 40 years in a Roman
basement.
** Owner of Liberty Artefacts Says Auction Was Not Authorized
A company that acquired artefacts salvaged from renovation of the Statue of
Liberty and Ellis Island did not authorize an online auction of the items
** Colombia looks to build drug crime museum on slain drug kingpin's former
property
A sprawling hacienda once owned by Pablo Escobar, emblematic of the drug
lord's excesses, may soon house a museum highlighting the evils of drug
trafficking
** Genetically Modified "Marathon Mouse" Strain Escapes into Wild
Faced with the virtual impossibility of recapturing the enhanced mice, the
Salk Institute has reluctantly agreed to begin breeding cats capable of
keeping up with the marathon mice
** Museum for Mandela office
Nelson Mandela's former law offices in a dilapidated downtown Johannesburg
building are to be renovated and turned into a museum
** Docent's Devotion part of the Museum Experience
Berry and museum officials say the only problem with the docent program is
attracting enough volunteers, or attracting volunteers who can stick with
the training and then give the hours
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** What women go through to look slim and busty
The exhibit includes straitjacket-like corsets used to squeeze waists and
create cleavage - that sometimes ended up deforming spines and bruising
organs
** Group opposes museum plan
Native Hawaiians stood on the front lawn of Bishop Museum & reiterated their
call for the resignation of the museum's director
** Bis*xual Viking idol marks ancient circle
An ancient wooden carving of the bis*xual Viking god Odin has been linked to
a prehistoric timber circle monument excavated in Britain, according to U.K.
archaeologists
** Wedding exhibition at Malay Museum
It aims to reintroduce wedding traditions and customs, deliver educational
information, and highlight the ethnic differences
** Feature Site: The Turks and Caicos National Museum
The museum was fortunate enough to miss the effects of Hurricane Frances and
its site features The Molasses Reef Shipwreck, Lucayans, Space Race & plants
in the Museum Garden
** Divers discover British ship wreck after 111 years
The wreck of HMS Victoria, once the flagship of the British Mediterranean
Fleet, has been discovered off the coast of Lebanon, 111 years after she
sank with the loss of 358 officers and men when she was rammed by another
British battleship during manoeuvres
** Secret chamber may hold key to mystery of the Great Pyramid
Using architectural analysis and ground-penetrating radar, two amateur
French Egyptologists claim to have discovered a previously unknown corridor
inside the pyramid
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