Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your free webzine and museum compendium read weekly by 6,000+ readers in more than 105 countries . 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: ** New shots in Marbles battle An ICM poll found a big majority - 77% - in favour of at least a prolonged exhibition of the marbles in Greece, but it avoided such words as "restitution" and "give back" ** Museum raising $5 million to save Saturn V moon rocket While President Bush is pointing America toward Mars, an Alabama museum is trying to save a nearly 40-year-old Saturn V moon rocket ** Tax Museum Tries to Cheer Up Israelis At the Museum of Taxes, anecdotes about tithing in the Holy Land are meant to amuse Israelis buckling under some of the highest taxes in the world ** Fossils from the Golden Age Of Spam Bottles of p*nis-enlargement pills, bank statements detailing the failures of work-at-home schemes, pseudo love letters and dioramas of deposed dictators - this is just some of the art on display ** Statue of Liberty Foundation Seeks $5 Million in Donations If the Statue of Liberty could move, she would have her 16-foot hand outstretched, asking for money ** Cat's out of the bag: First lion mummy found For the first time, archaeologists have discovered a preserved lion skeleton in an ancient Egyptian tomb ______________________________________________________ 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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Discover more at http://www.drwilderness.com/id3.htm ______________________________________________________ ** Family Tracks Down Father's Car after 40 Years Motoring enthusiast and museum curator Richard Atwell tracked down the rare 1951 Austin A125 Sheerline and was amazed to find it was still on the road ** Gold fever There were many features common to both the Iraqi campaign and the Afghan conflict: American hi-tech weaponry, vigorous anti-war protests all over the world, the sudden collapse of opposition forces - and, less obviously, archaeological catastrophe ** Spy Gadgets Out In The Open The part of the CIA that's in charge of science and technology is showing off some never before-seen-devices that have been used in the cloak-and-dagger game over the years. ** Kerouac's 'On the Road' scroll begins museum tour Like the trip that inspired it, the first draft of author Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is a wandering narrative, told in a continuous block of text ** Rare copy of Hitler's book lifted from museum Thieves stole a rare leather-bound copy of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf from the Dutch National War and Resistance Museum ** When archaeology gets bent Adolf Hitler was so fond of archaeology that he gave the SS special archaeological units, so that they could dig to prove a Nazi ideological bond of soil and nationhood ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** Designing and sustaining a fee-based after school program _____________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Join Art World Excursions at TEFAF Maastricht, March 6-13, 2004 Fine dining and fine art, what could be better? 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