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Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this week's edition include: ** Gator swallows curator's arm It is thought to have mistaken Goodman's splashing for that of a duck or wading bird, its natural prey ** Britain keeps Bligh's coconut cup The world's most expensive coconut, on which he carved his initials and wrote, "The cup I eat my miserable allowance out of", had been expected to fetch up to £50,000 ** Manhattan sends sex to the museum But this time it comes with an inescapable aura of scholarly earnestness, a decidedly unseedy souvenir shop, and numerous panels of informative and educational text ** Bug Blast will give families plenty to chew on Sunday is a day for walks in the park, spending time with loved ones and eating bugs ** Love of sends Malcom off the deep end Jewels, priceless treasures and historical artifacts which help reconstruct world history have been excavated, restored and presented to the public to scrutinize ** New Website Offers Virtual Museum The virtual museum is structured around time periods of importance to the development of the telephone and will show the evolution of the telephone ** Bottled Baby Octopuses Turn Out to Be Pygmies They noticed rows of small, alcohol-preserved specimens, some of which sat unstudied for more than 100 years on the back shelves. ** Kelly gang will steal attention Mr Bracks said a definitive Ned Kelly exhibit that included official documents, letters, the bushranger's deathmask, gun and armour, reward posters, clothing, photographs and paintings would "be a major drawcard for the state". ** Poet Lorca's lost voice is found, says collector The Argentine has not asked the museum for money, but at the same time boasts of big offers received from international collectors. ** Historical Museum Has Exhibit on Tsarist Hunt Occupying six halls of the museum, it documents four centuries- from the 16th to the early 20th - of kingly fox chases, bear hunts, pheasant shoots and more ** DNA clues to Neanderthals And there is no evidence to indicate that Neanderthals interbred with modern humans, something that has always been a bone of contention among experts ** Pickled weasels and elephant foetuses: museum relies on the 'urghh factor' The air is lightly perfumed with fishy methylated spirit as rows of exotic beasts - from an egg-laying hedgehog to an aquatic dinosaur - stretch out in a line of giant pickle jars ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ Advertisement: THE DR. 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The Audubon Society ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ ** Search for the Missing Amazon Meteor The Araona people wanted $1 million before they would let the NASA scientists pass through their territory in the remote Bolivian Amazon ** Ancient Shipwreck Treasure Theft In Sicily Four Germans have been arrested for stealing ancient amphorae from a third century BC shipwreck off the coast of the southern Italian island of Sicily ** Barnes Foundation Seeks Move to City Barnes, who disliked Philadelphia's upper crust, set up the foundation to benefit working-class people ** Holy Sikh Work Older Than Thought The British Library said its copy of the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy work of the Sikh faith, is far older than previously thought, making it the most ancient copy held outside India ** Missile Site to Become Museum "Popular mythology talks about pushing a button, but it's actually a key, actually two keys" ** Britain's Tate Gallery Too Broke to Buy Art Even more galling had been the Tate's failure to raise the funds to buy Georges Bracques "Atelier V" which had been hanging on its own walls for four years on loan ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ Advertisement: New Coins from the Perth Mint - 4 Dinosaurs and a FREE dinosaur encyclopaedia http://www.perthmint.com.au/gc/dinosaur.asp ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ ** Great collection returns to Britain When Walpole, by now the 1st Earl of Orford, died in 1745, he was found to have debts amounting to more than £40,000 ** Secret Birdman writings up for bid For years, prison officials tried to suppress Stroud's secret writings, fearing public exposure of his allegations of prison guards' brutality & his graphic depictions of sex behind bars ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** The Harriet Tubman-William Still Underground Railroad Journey ** Frieze! 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