Global Museum, your award-winning webzine read in more than 87 countries each week. FREE online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the webzine) edition include: ** Museum chief's body found on beach Police have insisted there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a museums boss whose body was washed up on a Dorset beach. See also FORUM section ** Pounds 40,000 Burrell Theft Police are probing the theft of a pounds 40,000 tapestry from the Burrell Collection in Pollok Park on Tuesday ** Dutch art fair draws top dealers At $37.5 million, the Rembrandt portrait may be too pricey even for a big spender ** Legion is puzzled why beautiful site for war museum is being rejected The rumour of a possible relocation has raised the concern of many veterans. What is the advantage in moving to a downtown location such as LeBreton Flats? ** Light-fingered visitor takes museum's hand The British Museum has been forced to review security after the theft of a marble hand from a 400 BC Greek frieze ** Tale Of The Teeth: Archaeologists Find Unusual Bone Collection In Chinese Cave A team of researchers, including Lynne Schepartz, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Cincinnati, has discovered an unusual collection of animal and human teeth dating back over 200,000 years deep inside a southern China cave ** UK signs art theft convention The UK government has signed up to a UN convention banning the illicit trade in cultural property, including art works and antiques ____________________________________________________________________________ _____ ADVERT: Rail passes, hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals. . 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CLICK http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/travel1.html ____________________________________________________________________________ ____ ** Timely Donation Saves Washington Portriat What may be the most important portrait of George Washington ever painted will remain in the U.S. after all, thanks to a foundation established by an Oklahoma City newsboy turned billionaire newspaper tycoon ** Row erupts over Bluebird's final resting place A row has erupted over the final resting place of the crumpled remains of Donald Campbell's speedboat Bluebird ** Sotheby's to Auction Photographs From the Museum of Modern Art A highlight of the sale is Edward Steichen's gelatin silver print ``Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France,'' 1914 ** Trivial pursuit of our museum It's not nice to pour scorn on other people's hard work, especially when $155 million of taxpayers' money went into it ** Westminster row after legal threat to charity's collection A plan to open one of London's least known art collections to the public is in danger of collapse in a legal dispute over the charitable status of the collection and its owners ** 'Deepest hell' awaits destroyers of statues There is a tradition that when the Buddha went to heaven to preach to his late mother, the king so missed his presence that he had artisans create a replica in sandalwood ** Dan Breen gun stolen from gaol Thieves have reversed the tradition of centuries by breaking into Kilmainham Gaol Museum to steal priceless historic firearms used in the War of Independence and the Civil War ** Ex-Smithsonian Chief Is Dead S. Dillon Ripley, 87, who led the Smithsonian Institution through its period of greatest growth, died Monday in a hospital here. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ Advert: AMERICA'S #1 TOURING SCIENCE MAGIC SHOW THE DR. WILDERNESS SHOW is now booking our "performance exhibit" for FALL 2001 and SPRING/SUMMER 2002. EMMY AWARD WINNING WWW.DRWILDERNESS.COM or [log in to unmask] ____________________________________________________________________________ ____ ** Hundreds give firearms to museum Firearms worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and dating back as far as 1776 have been handed to the Canadian War Museum ** Skulls of the ancient Egyptians used to spot neurological illness Researchers studied the faces of 200 colour portraits of mummies housed in the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ** Beetles eat museum exhibits The most greedy insect is the Anthrenus museorum, named after its favourite eating habitat ** Experts transcribe Van Gogh's letter to Gauguin Museum experts have transcribed part of a letter which Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his friend Paul Gauguin but later crossed out ** Starbucks To Begin Sinister 'Phase Two' Of Operation Though the coffee chain's specific plans are not known, existing Starbucks franchises across the nation have been locked down with titanium shutters across all windows ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** Strategies for Success: Business Planning and Financial Management ** THE CARE AND RESTORATION OF PERIOD FRAMES ** Image and Meaning Envisioning and communicating science and technology ** Celebrating Victoria's Museums ____________________________________________________________________________ Global Museum's extensive site dedicated to the 2001 Conferences: Local History, Travel Reports, Accommodation Options, Airfares, Climate, Newspapers, Radio & Television, Car Rental, Online Maps. 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