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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:
** Skeleton Keys
To get to their offices, follow the twisting back hallways of the Museum of
Natural History, stacked with floor-to-ceiling shelves containing the bones
of 30,000 human skeletons
** JFK's Sunken WW2 Boat Found Off Solomons
The remains of wooden boat PT-109 was found on the seabed of the Blanket
Strait off Gizo Island
** Police Search For Clues About Racially-Charged Note
The America's Black Holocaust Museum received a deeply disturbing and
racially charged note Tuesday morning, and it talks about missing 7-year-old
Alexis Patterson
** Lord Nelson's battle plan found on back of letter
The jottings were found at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich during
research for celebrations of the bicentenary of the battle in 2005
** Museums matter..
One of the great joys of regional museums is that they are extremely quirky:
the stuffed birds and Roman mosaics all lie together with the Palaeolithic
tools
** New York's Museum of Sex to Open in September
NYC Sex begins with the murder of courtesan Helen Jewett and the ensuing
trial, spurring the city's first media sex scandal
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** Spaniard new head of Tate Modern
He won the Tate job, which is thought to pay about £90,000 a year, from a
four-strong shortlist that included two unnamed Britons and a North American
** Mata Hari's Hometown Wants Museum to Her Spirit
The exquisite body of the exotic dancer who scandalized and seduced Europe
in the decade before World War One was dissected by medical students until
not a fragment of flesh remained
** A curator of lost art and recovered memories
Many provenances were deliberately changed to disguise the whereabouts of
paintings during the critical 1933-to-1945 period
** Fossil museum visitors can join quest for past
Because there is virtually nothing known about the first animals with legs,
the Blue Beach site gives researchers a chance to solve more of what is
known as the "tetrapod enigma"
** Blessed biscuits 'as good as new after 50 years'
The biscuits are remarkably well preserved and they have now been offered to
a museum in Calcutta, where they were produced
** OJ's murder trial evidence becomes an historical artefact
Watershed DNA evidence from the OJ Simpson murder trial has been given to
America's leading museum
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** Experts defer Buddhas' rebuilding
The experts decided some of its many cultural treasures required more urgent
attention than others
** Mural at Sakharov Museum Vandalized
Anti-Semitic and obscene slogans were spray-painted over a mural of Soviet
dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov at a Moscow human rights museum
** Grey matter a grey area for insurance evaluators
What value do you place on a brain removed from the skull of an ancient
woman?
** Extinct Tasmanian Tiger One Step Closer to Cloning
The scientists from the Australian Museum in Sydney said they hoped to clone
a Tasmanian Tiger in 10 years
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** British Museum to weigh claim that four of its works were looted by
Nazis
The British Museum said Monday it is considering a claim that four of its
old master drawings were stolen from a Jewish family in Czechoslovakia
** Faces from the Ice Age
What could be the oldest lifelike drawings of human faces have been
uncovered in a cave in southern France
** Whale for lunch? Not on my plate
The company that donated the museum in 1958, a year when whaling supplied
one-third of the meat consumed in Japan, has changed hands.
** Man waits to see if elastic ball is world's biggest
Tony said: "It's been a labour of love, but the wife hasn't been keen on it
being in the garden"
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Seminar for Professors of Theology, Ethics, and Religion
** Seminar on Literature and the Holocaust
** Recording and communicating oral history in a digital environment
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