Welcome back to Global Museum, your free webzine read in more than 91 countries each week. We are posting a little earlier this week so that you can enjoy the stories as we welcome in 2002. Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine) in this week's edition include: ** Discovery of 400 long-abandoned suitcases at a former asylum She came to the asylum in the summer of 1930, sent with a suitcase stuffed with hand-stitched baby booties and quilts ** State fights to buy more of Lincoln Kim Bauer's job is to try to buy Lincoln artifacts in a robustly competitive marketplace, where prices can often seem as overwhelming as Grant's army at Appomattox ** Tiniest Tasmanian tiger was probably just a pussy cat It was the size of a small cat or a ringtail possum and would have been an ankle biter compared to Thylacinus potens, which lived 8 million years ago ** Shrine to legendary Egyptian diva A museum devoted to the famous Egyptian singer Umm Kalthoum, whose voice brought the streets of Cairo to a standstill, is opening in the capital ** Dangerous fish Up until now the Natural History Museum has kept the find a secret, but a second sighting earlier this year has prompted curator Dr. Wolfgang Sterrer to release the information in the interest of public ** The art of survival Like Mr Bean, whom he resembles, Kennedy is accident-prone but an expert at last-minute survival ** City Art Permit Plan Gets Brush in Court Vendors who sell artwork outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other public spaces got a bright green light yesterday from the state's highest court ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________ Advertisement: Hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals. . 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NEW TRAVEL SITE DESIGN ! ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ ** Antiquities' museum opens soon Hosni said this week that construction would begin sometime in January on what he dubbed the world's largest antiquities' museum ** Celebrating Elizabeth I Lothian museum experts are appealing for quirky Queen Elizabeth coronation memorabilia with a Scottish twist ** Studying Ancient Ruins With the Eye of a Poet At the beginning of the 20th century, when few women pursued advanced university studies, Esther Boise Van Deman did not merely become the first woman with a doctorate in Latin from the University of Chicago ** Comedy museum dream is no joke Although there's been a lot of seltzer under the bridge since some of the museum's organizers were the city's hottest tickets, the names are near the top in New York nightclub lore ** The Story of Islam's Gift of Paper to the West It was through Islamic culture in North Africa that paper arrived in medieval Europe, where it took on an explosive life ** London museum to host exhibition of 'men in skirts' The Victoria And Albert Museum in London is to host an exhibition showing how designers have re-invented the skirt for men ** Science Museum decides to think big The hangars of a former RAF airfield are to be transformed into a branch of the Science Museum, allowing the public to see more of its unrivalled collection than can be displayed at its London premises ** Museum investigating ancient burial site The grave at an undisclosed beach in west Galway may be part of a more extensive burial site dating to around the 6th century ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________ Advertisement: THE DR. 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