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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Anne Frank status campaign fails
A bid to grant Dutch citizenship to Holocaust victim Anne Frank some 60
years after her death has been rejected by the country's justice ministry
** Clandestine explorers roam ancient Paris tunnels
The so-called cataphiles, equipped with waders, torches and rucksacks, drop
in through manholes to explore disused medieval quarries and catacombs,
spray graffiti and throw parties
** Lice may reveal early human interaction
The story of modern humans' final interactions with the extinct Homo erectus
may have been revealed by research into the evolution of lice
** Ceramics stolen from V&A museum
A cabinet containing the nine antiques, which date from the 15th to the 19th
Centuries, was smashed at the central London museum
** Uniform of murdered British policeman removed from museum for new tests
Blakelock's uniform - minus his helmet, which has never been found - is kept
in what is dubbed the "Black Museum", which contains weapons and other items
from notorious crimes investigated by Scotland Yard
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** Treasures of the Silk Route
"Someone told me I had a bit of a nerve doing an exhibition on Central Asia
when I hadn't even been there," she says. "So I went".
** Femininity inspires world's only environmental art museum
The world's first environmental art museum, inspired by one man's veneration
of femininity as the heart of nature and the source of life, comes into
being amid the tropical vegetation of a Venezuelan mountain overlooking the
Caribbean Sea
** Six Iraqi artefacts retrieved
Jordanian authorities say more than 1500 pieces of antiquities have been
seized at the country's border with Iraq and they are being kept for
safekeeping
** British Whaling Shipwrecks Believed Found
In what is being called a "mind-blowing" discovery, divers have found
anchors, cauldrons and cannonballs near a remote Hawaiian atoll where two
British whaling ships were lost nearly two centuries ago
** Academy's army ants lose the battle to a lowly beetle
The meat-eating army ants of Trinidad and other tropical locales are such
fierce predators that they're known as "the Huns and Tartars of the insect
world.''
** Museum director arrested in prostitution sting
The director of McAllen's International Museum of Arts and Sciences is
accused of soliciting from an undercover cop
** Japanese Museum remembers Hearn
Author Lafcadio Hearn, known in Japan as Yakumo Koizumi (1850-1904), who
spent the last eight years of his life in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, is to be
remembered at an exhibition to be held at the Shinjuku Historical Museum,
commemorating the 100th year since his death
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** Data: Columbus Might Be Buried in Spain
Researchers studying DNA from 500-year-old bone slivers say that preliminary
data suggests Christopher Columbus might be buried in Spain, rather than in
a rival tomb in the Dominican Republic - but for now they cannot be sure
** 5-legged frog no mystery, museum curator explains
While these so-called "Franken-frogs" can live, they usually have shorter
life-spans and have difficulty reproducing
** Museum keeps visitors in the dark
The latest exhibition at Thinktank is The Dark - a pitch black space
inhabited by the echoes of virtual ghosts
** Sweet memories: Landmark candymaker inspires museum exhibit
A love for confections, however, is just part of the show's emotional draw
** Walk-through heart restarts after makeover
For Philadelphia-area baby boomers, annual class trips often meant visits to
the Liberty Bell or the Franklin Institute heart, whose narrow passages and
thumping audio (buh-BOOM, buh-BOOM) both frightened and delighted those who
entered.
** New Dixie Cups Modelled on Holy Grail
In a bizarre modern twist to an old legend, the Georgia-Pacific paper goods
conglomerate has apparently obtained the Holy Grail and plans to use the
relic to launch a new line of Dixie brand paper cups
** A virtual rail locomotive-driving experience
Visitors to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania can climb inside a 140-ton
locomotive and drive the train down the tracks from Lancaster to
Harrisburg - at least virtually
** Blue Toon World War II Secret
The involvement of a century-old Scottish-built steam yacht in a top-secret
World War II spy operation in Peterhead, is the subject of an article
published by the Maritime Museum of San Diego
** Sir Edmund Hillary: Everest & Beyond
** The Public Meaning of Archaeological Heritage - A Seminar in Archaeology
and Interpretation
** Masterpieces in Enamel and Ivory - Pietro Bagatti Valsecchi and the
d'après Miniature
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