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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
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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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