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**  History is for sharing **
Never underestimate the Russians. This summer the sleeping giant of St
Petersburg will awaken and amaze us all
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**  They will furnish her Museum **
Hundreds of precious items belonging to famous Taiwanese author San Mao have
been shipped to the Zhoushan archipelago, her ancestral home off China's
Zhejiang province.


**  Tests Trace Ancient Emeralds **
Some stones thought to be from ancient mines in the Middle East turned out
to have been brought back from South America by Spanish explorers


**  Rudy Voodoo Doll Joined by Hillary **
Last month a New York artist created a Mayor Rudolph Giuliani voodoo doll.
Now David Freeman's giving equal time to foes of Hillary Rodham Clinton


**  Museum Refunded for Fake O'Keefees  **
An art gallery has agreed to refund $5 million to a Kansas City museum for
24 watercolor paintings once thought to be early works of Georgia O'Keeffe.


**  How Eastern art deco symbolized modernity  **
An exhibition titled "Art Deco and the Orient" could find no better venue
than the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, a former residence of Prince
Asaka, the Empress Dowager's uncle, that was turned into a museum nearly 20
years ago.


**  Sleepy port's big dream  **
New York, Venice, Berlin, Bilbao - and Geelong? The name of this sleepy
Australian coastal town, an hour west of Melbourne, doesn't quite roll off
the tongue in the same way as the sites of the five existing Guggenheim
museums


**  Museum of sex makes it to the city  **
Liu Dalin has long had to hide his treasures from the public eye. The
respected professor was able to invite only scientists, friends or
journalists to his small house on the outskirts of Shanghai

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**  Belfast remembers  **
A new museum planned for Belfast will challenge visitors to recognise and
confront their most closely held


**  Museum lockt mit Dinos im Internet  **
Die Naturkundemuseen in Stuttgart und in Karlsruhe wollen über eine
neuartige Präsentation im Internet zusätzliche Besucher für ihr Angebot
begeistern und ins Museum locken.


**  A Revolutionary look at George  **
George Washington's famous false teeth arrived in Chicago Wednesday, and
though they're not wooden at all, they are not very pretty, either


**  Dinosaur hunters put Net to use  **
A real-life Jurassic Park is not likely to open--ever.    A single comet did
not kill off all the dinosaurs.    And only another dinosaur--not the
experts who study them--can tell the difference between the males and
females

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**  Stolen Space Artifact Recovered  **
A Soviet-made electric space razor stolen along with a horde of space
artifacts from an Oklahoma City museum found its way into the possession of
a city junk dealer and landed him in jail


**  Dallas JFK Museum Gets Rights to Zapruder Film  **
The heirs of Abraham Zapruder, the Dallas man who captured the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy on a home movie camera, have donated the film
rights and a copy to a Dallas museum on the site of the shooting.

**  Paintings by Chiang Kai-shek's widow, 102, shown  **
Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, the 102-year-old widow of China's wartime
generalissimo, is now an exhibiting artist.


**  Patagonia Vulture Valley Yields New Top Dinosaur  **
Herdsman Raul Avelas was nonplused when he spied huge bones on his patch of
Argentina's badlands a decade ago, seeing them as just another protrusion
for his flock to stumble over en route to his adobe homestead.


**  NEW AND EXPANDED MUSEUMS TO OPEN IN BRITAIN **


**  AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS LAUNCHES WEB SITE  **


**  Something Else Funded **


**  Ashmolean Museum Charges - Patrick Boylan sheds light on user-pays  **
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