Welcome to this week's edition of GLOBAL MUSEUM, your FREE international Museum Ezine Go to http://www.globalmuseum.org for the full stories and more! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- This is a SPECIAL edition of Global Museum for two reasons. Firstly the change of seasons ( winter in our case! ) and secondly as publisher I have 'taken the plunge' and decided on to dedicate myself full-time to the Ezine and Global Museum International consultancy work. In the case of the latter occurrence, I shall either lose a lot of weight very quickly or be able to count on the support of advertising and project work to keep things bubbling along!. At the very least I shall now have the time to enjoy the sea view from my study and develop the ezine further-based on your suggestions and feedback. Email me at [log in to unmask] There is a new FORUM article this week and our top international headlines include: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- ** WWI film to tell how Irish soldier spent four years in cupboard The extraordinary story of an Irishman who spent most of World War I hiding from German soldiers in a French farmhouse is to begin filming in the autumn ** Asteroid meant sudden death for Dinos Researchers studying fossils found in Montana and North Dakota say an asteroid hit 65 million years ago and almost immediately wiped out the giant reptiles that once ruled the earth. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- ADVERTISEMENT: SAVE 30% Walking with Dinosaurs DVD. When the first episode of the six-part BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs originally aired, an estimated one out of every four Britons tuned in THIS WEEK'S PICK- A DVD WITH 'BITE'! on sale in the Global Museum NEWS SECTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- ** Millennium domes people WANT to visit The rain falls steadily but the queue shuffles along in sunny mood. With the "Eighth Wonder of the World" lurking just around the corner, who would complain about a 20-minute wait ** Last stand in battle for the body of Jesse James The legend of Jesse James has taken a bizarre new twist with the hoisting of a coffin from its grave ** Untold story of darkest hour: Lancastria story The worst tragedy in British maritime history claimed more victims than the Titanic and Lusitania combined ** Ancient Petra was a Rich and Sophisticated Center of the Incense Trade The ancient city of Petra, Jordan's archaeological jewel, is known today mostly for the magnificent tombs and temples carved directly into barren, sandstone mountains ** Remains Found in Czar Killing Site Archeologists discovered two sets of human remains at the site where communists gunned down Russia's last czar and his family, but the corpses were unlikely to be those of two missing royal children ** Dam Destroying Ancient Mosaics A group of archeologists is racing against time as a newly built hydroelectric dam floods a huge and priceless historical site in Belkis, Turkey ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- ADVERTISEMENT " I DISCOVERED THE TRAVEL SERVICE BY ACCIDENT. 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George Flavel and wife Mary Christina originally furnished their 1885 mansion ** Museum visitors, by their sheer numbers, are Going round Tate Modern with 10,000 other people is a devalued experience which destroys intimate contact with art. ** Sewage equipment is saved for the nation museum There are some things most people would simply rather flush away and forget. But waste not want not. In Yorkshire, a new museum is preparing to save for prosperity the intriguing world of sewage treatment. ** 'I get strange requests' Just the other day we had requests for women in 1920s costume, traditional English foods and pictures of pale ale breweries in London. ** VW launches auto theme park It's not often a theme park with its own five-star hotel proudly overlooks a steaming industrial complex, where sweaty workers bend iron into autos and towering smokestacks belch skyward. ** Money pit The Basketball Hall of Fame vowed its $100 million expansion was not in jeopardy, even though it asked its employees to take pay cuts if private financing for construction is not secured by the end of June ** Website of the Week The Zepplin Museum in Friedrichshaven. The Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen presents the world's greatest repository of objects on the history of airship flight and technology and its well designed website proves that it is more than hot air! ** Over-budget museum to open in December Overdue and over-budget, Melbourne's new museum will open 12 months late at a cost of $291.8 million, the Auditor-General said yesterday ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Affiliates and Advertisers ensure that GLOBAL MUSEUM ezine remains free for you, and thousands of others. Please support them in return. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Show of support for Brit designs The exhibition Inside Out, exploring the British obsession with underwear, is on at the Design Museum in London. Using knickers hanging from washing lines and huge legs stuffed with bras, the exhibition aims to showcase the talent of British designers ** Atrocious poetry celebrated in Michigan Putting pen to paper recently, Espinoza churned out a wrenched parody of renowned poet T.S. Eliot and managed to beat 60 other terrible poets to be crowned the worst of the worst ** Leatherback turtles on verge of extinction The turtle colony that nests on this crescent-shaped, white-sand beach will decline to an unrecoverable low of 50 nesting females by 2003 to 2004 unless protective measures are taken immediately ** A sense of remoteness? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- All this and more in GLOBAL MUSEUM now read in over 72 countries http://www.globalmuseum.org +++++PLUS+++++ Chat in real time, the latest museum JOBS, BOOKSHOP, great people posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable world TRAVEL, MALL, Museum Accredited Courses, and..... a new HEALTH STORE, Toy Store, Classical Music store, and a Jazz Emporium ALL FREE AND AVAILABLE AT http://www.globalmuseum.org ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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