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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: ** Pest controller stole museum specimens A former pest controller at one of Australia's oldest museums stole more than 2,000 animal specimens for his home collection, an anti-corruption board revealed yesterday ** Museum told artifacts taken to sacred caves cannot be retrieved The Bishop Museum's request to enter burial caves on the Big Island and reclaim dozens of rare Hawaiian artifacts that it loaned to a Native Hawaiian group was denied Tuesday ** Egypt bans new excavations by foreign scholars Southern monuments will be off-limits for the next ten years in an attempt to prevent the destruction of rich archaeological sites ** Museum Takes Exhibit For One Last Dive If you're transporting visitors kilometres below sea level in a virtual submarine, equipment needs to function properly ** Exhibits trace law-enforcement history at Seattle's police museum They carried thumbscrews, billy clubs, saps filled with lead, and twisting bracelets of metal and pain known as "come-alongs." ** Lawmaker Sets Sights on Latino Museum Becerra says now is a good time for serious consideration of a museum about Latino history in America and the contribution of Latinos to American history ________________________________________________________ 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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The museum has been closed since the storm and is hoping to reopen Saturday. ** Rocky justice A German man is sitting in a Turkish jail after his nine-year-old daughter tried to take home a rock, which later turned out to be an antique, that she had picked up on a beach in Turkey ** Not extinct after all: Mystery worm-eater found in Cuba The creature looks like a brownish woolly badger with a long, pink-tipped snout and can measure up to nearly 20 inches ** Arlington Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Protected Artifacts An Arlington County man pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to selling protected Peruvian artifacts, many of which are more than 1,000 years old ** Fugitive pieces It's a tale that might be told over tiffin on the veranda, or more likely in a parlour in the home counties among dusty photographs and leather-bound reports _____________________________________________________________ Advertisement - Fundraising Opportunity: ULTIMATE IMPOSSIBILITIES - Join professional stage magician and science lecturer Khevin Barnes in an astonishing presentation . 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Discover more at http://www.drwilderness.com/id3.htm _____________________________________________________________ ** The order that sent 600 into Valley of Death It is almost 150 years since the 600 rode into the Valley of Death but one look at the hastily scrawled order that launched the Charge of the Light Brigade is still capable of eliciting an involuntary shudder ** Scientists question whether humans caused extinction of mammoths The idea that spear-wielding humans hunted North America's mammoths and other giant animals to extinction has practically no archaeological support ** Auckland Museum angers family Artefacts of Hone Heke have arrived in Canberra amid ground-shaking thunderstorms and the first shots in a new war between Nga Puhi and the Auckland Museum. ** Geologists' work in South America has silver lining The new evidence - uncovered by a pair of geologists rather than archaeologists - suggests that mining and smelting of silver ore was done on a large scale in the Bolivian Andes 1,000 years ago, about 400 years earlier than the well-documented silver industry of the Incas ** Make your own Barnett Newman zip painting! 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