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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Te Papa suit cites 'climate of fear'
A former top art curator is taking a half-million dollar employment suit
against Te Papa, claiming its CEO, Dame Cheryll Sotheran, has created a
climate of fear for staff at the national museum
** Museum buys Rosa Parks bus
The documentation that accompanies the bus shows it was driven by James
Blake, the driver who had Parks arrested Dec. 1, 1955
** Museum staff used priceless Egyptian statue as bike stand
The workers at Southampton Archaeological Museum didn't realise what it was,
and parked their bikes against it in a basement
** Giant Uncle Sam sculpture carved in soap
A 6ft head of Uncle Sam has been carved in soap at the National Museum of
American History
** Artifact Theft and Reward
21 prehistoric Native American pottery vessels, stone spear points, and
replicas of painted pebbles have been stolen from the Texas Archeological
Research Laboratory
** Museum's cat faces eviction if he doesn't stop spraying
A Cape Town museum's black cat faces eviction unless his behaviour improves
** Another fine Glasgow mess
They had come prepared to give the newcomers a traditional Glasgow
reception, the shipyard workers with rivets and the children with manure
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** Doyen of art dynasty was drawn into scandal
In total, it is estimated that he made $US3 billion ($5.9 billion) from his
art dealings, money that lavishly funded his other major passion, horses
** Children's museum struggles for survival
The museum, housed next to Chatuchak weekend market, was initiated as an
alternative to computer games and shopping malls for children
** New Theory Offered in Hunley Sinking
Scientists excavating the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley found an open
bulkhead at the rear of the sub
** Christie was film pioneer
A British Museum curator has discovered a reel of film shot by Agatha
Christie that inspired the author to write some of her most famous detective
novels
** Use museums to bridge gulf of understanding: academic
He thinks they should be asking themselves how they might help the world's
people better understand one another
** Canadian researchers name new dinosaur
Paleontologists at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa say it's around
72 million years old
** Abolitionist history is unearthed
She wrote of slaves hidden in her father's house, at a neighbor's across the
street, at a family friend's home.
** Outsiders come in from the cold
Outsider and folk art are under-appreciated in Ireland, and a lifetime's
work in the form of a sculpture garden or decorated cottage is often
destroyed once the artist dies
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus: (April. 20-May 20) You will thoroughly enjoy your study of world
history until you realize it isn't supposed to be funny.
** Ways to keep mum
Given the importance in preserving the body from all manner of destructive
nasties, it seems all the more astonishing that there have been so few
serious studies into the precise organic materials used on pharaonic mummies
** Rare books by Charles Darwin destroyed
Rare nineteenth-century plant books and scientific equipment belonging to
two leading botanists were destroyed in the blaze which raged for more than
3 hours
** US veteran to pick up Ray-Bans from wreck
Kessler also recalled that a crate of bourbon had been on board the plane
and wondered whether it would be still drinkable
** Ministers may scale down silver sale
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** Barnyard Buddies - November 3 - December 2
** See America Day
** Deliberately Concealed Garments
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