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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: ** RFU launch exhibition to honour war heroes The two world wars cut short the lives of millions of young men and women, many of them first class athletes ** Museum Of Nature & Science Cuts Jobs, Programs The city's Museum of Nature & Science will eliminate 11 jobs and cut programs and services to prepare for reductions in taxpayer funding ** Glasgow pays £1.44m to bring Mackintosh furniture home By any measure, it is a right few bob more than she paid Mackintosh for the gear when she commissioned the four pieces for her home ** Museum launches interactive exhibits The virtual doors of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum opened to the world on Wednesday ** Seeing colour's full beauty For McDonald, the BMA show holds a particular attraction beyond its groundbreaking revelations about the history of colour printmaking ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ GLOBAL MUSEUM TRAVEL - For Business and Pleasure - the leading provider of online museum travel, established in 1998. 40,000 in over 8,000 cities worldwide. 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Weather, Destination Guides and more! http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/travel1.htm ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ ** An angel in disguise 16 years after the rape & murder of Anita Cobby, an exhibition on the crime and its aftermath poses important questions about our humanity ** This Week's Horoscopes Virgo: (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your small town will ban all dancing after witnessing your ungainly attempts at that "Ketchup Song" dance ** Family accuses National Gallery of breaking terms of bequest Some of the National Gallery's most outstanding Renaissance paintings could become the subject of legal action to reclaim them after the gallery was accused of failing to honour the donor's last wishes ** Peru Devotes Museum to 'Tutankhamen of Americas' He was dubbed the "Tutankhamen of the Americas" because of the golden splendour of his tomb, discovered in northern Peru 15 years ago ** In pictures: Woolly rhino find The skull of a woolly rhino unearthed recently at an English quarry in what was described as an "extraordinary" find is unveiled at London's Natural History Museum ** Museum shuns rotting pine tree icon The 2m section of the trunk is lying partially covered in an outside courtyard at the museum, infected with ants, cockroaches and borer ** Golf museum may be built in Russian Tea Room building The Russian Tea Room, the famed former restaurant that once attracted celebrities and socialites, may be converted into a golf museum ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ Advertisement: THE DR. 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MORE ** Lore of shipwrecks, treasure topic in Lewes "I once dived on a wreck and found a small leather shoe and nearby was a porcelain doll's head. " ** Elgin Marbles letter fetches £7,000 The handwritten 19th-Century letter, bought by an anonymous bidder from Athens, fetched seven times its reserve price after frantic bidding ** Scientist Fears Car Thieves Threw Away Rare Fossil A South African scientist said Tuesday he feared thieves who stole his van last month may have thrown away a unique 250-million-year-old fossil that was inside the vehicle ** Northern Qi Tomb Murals Unearthed Intact in N. China The tomb, though suffered many robberies with stones and coffin planks scattered all around, has most of its paintings remain untouched, archaeologists said ** Art, academia and a battle for billions Pleading insolvency, the Barnes Foundation served Lincoln with the equivalent of surprise divorce papers on Sept. 24 ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** ACA 2003 in Toronto! ** Current Archaeological Prospection Advances for Non-Destructive Investigations in the 21st Century ** Explorasian II ** AVICOM - International Council of Museums. 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