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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:
** Spectre of closure haunts the Uffizi
Heritage minister lays down gauntlet to Berlusconi by warning he will resign
if spending cuts strike at world-renowned Florence gallery
** Did someone say pie?
There's always room for a little pie, especially when you can blame it on a
worthy cause
** Tudor Royal Correspondents told it how it was
Elizabeth I toured East Anglia in 1578, but for those not able to meet the
monarch, literary accounts kept them up to date with the proceedings
** Massacre proof sent to Nanjing
The diaries and some letters were sent anonymously to Zhu Chengshan, head of
the Nanjing Massacre museum
** Psycho Sequence Stars at Retrospective
The first major retrospective of the work of their creator, Saul Bass, is
being held by the London Design Museum, which calls him "one of the greatest
graphic designers of the 20th century
** Museum to send people's names into space
The New Mexico Museum of Space History will be shipping names to the stars
with the first X-Prize launch into space
** The Last Colonial Museum ?
A nicely suited and cheerful man, he is the new director of one of the last
colonial museums in the world, the Royal Museum for Central Africa, near
Brussels
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** Descendants of Indian warrior donate rare Lewis and Clark document
The certificate of friendship was given by Lewis and Clark to Otoe warrior
Big Ax, 200 years ago.
** Russian artists face trial for exhibit deemed offensive to religion
Yury Samodurov is the chief defendant and director of the Andrei Sakharov
museum, which staged the "Caution: Religion" exhibit last year
** Swedish graffiti group kidnaps cow
The video was shown to police investigating the cow's disappearance last
week from an island housing Stockholm's Modern Art Museum
** Famous in Chile, Forgotten at Home
Serving in the Royal Navy in the late 1800s, he developed a fever on a
voyage from Tahiti and was put ashore in Chile on sick leave.
** 'Dr. Spider' Opens Spider Museum Exhibiting 200 Living Spiders
For Dr. Kim Joo-pil also known as Dr. Spider, they're not only his career
but also his passion
** Amsterdam hopes to recover world's oldest share with help from Hollywood
The Amsterdam archive hopes to recover the world's oldest share certificate,
which was stolen in the 1980s
** King Murder Bathtub Up For Grabs
An eBay spokesman, said the Web auctioneer had at one point cancelled the
bathtub listing to enforce its policy against "murderabilia," or items that
could result in a profit from a murder
** Ireland is not Atlantis, insists museum
The National Museum of Ireland dismissed a Swedish academic's controversial
theory that Ireland is the long-lost kingdom of Atlantis
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** Rare plane arrives at Pensacola museum
Former Marine Corps flight engineer Gary Villiard spent more than a decade
searching for the airplane, recovering it from the lake, losing it to the
Russian government & regaining it
** Operation restoration
They are the unsung heroes who slog for long hours to ensure that the
artefacts retain their sheen and the pictures look fresh
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius: (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Stephen Hawking will revise his controversial
theory on black holes, leaving you stumped about that noisy thing in your
sink that eats garbage
** Alexander the Great's Death Debated
What killed ancient world conqueror Alexander the Great is still a mystery,
pitting scientists who favour West Nile virus against those who lean toward
a death from typhoid
** Curator Gets Death for Stealing Relics
The head of a relics protection department at a former Chinese imperial
palace has been sentenced to death for stealing the artefacts he was meant
to protect
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