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Thanks!" - User Feedback *** Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org [1] The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this address http://www.globalmuseum.org [2] and click on the news links) in this week's edition include: ** Rare Napoleonic museum opens in Cuba Napoleon never set foot in Cuba but his physician, Corsican-born Francesco Antommarchi, who treated him during his last days in exile on Saint Helen, moved here after the emperor died in 1821, bringing with him the French icon's death mask ** National Gallery visitor attacks Gauguin painting Screaming "This is evil," a woman tried to pull Gauguin's "Two Tahitian Women" from a gallery wall Friday and banged on the picture's clear plastic covering, said a visitor from New York, who witnessed the event ** Curator returns from earthquake Corrigan, a curator at the Peabody Essex Museum, had just entered the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, located on a hilltop a few hours from Tokyo, when the 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck ___________________________________________________________________ **** HAPPY TRAVELLERS - BEST FARES & DEALS FOR 2011! **** MUSEUM-TRAVELLER.COM - Global Museum's Travel Service 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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Traces of a chemical found in cacao - the main ingredient in chocolate - were found in several drinking vessels from various sites in Pueblo Bonito, a complex of sandstone "great houses" in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico ** Museum of London collecting cuts protest placards Art students from a London college are asking people marching in the anti-cuts protest to donate placards and costumes for an exhibition ** Nuclear scare halts major French show An exhibition of 84 impressionist masterpieces due to open at the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum on 5 April, with around 50 works loaned from French museums, has been abruptly postponed _____________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 656? Join the Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos "It's never been a part of our collection," he said. "Someone dropped it off." ** Remembering Hurricane Katrina at New Orleans museum Galleries and connecting areas move visitors through four major presentations at the permanent exhibit, which opened in the fall: New Orleans' relationship to storms; firsthand accounts of people and predicaments of survival they found themselves in; a forensics gallery exploring the paths Katrina and Hurricane Rita took that year and the science of how the levees failed; and a final section on recovery and the technologies emerging since to combat the destructive forces of nature _________________________________________________________________________________ TWEET TWEET - Follow Us On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum [5] 36,104 News Tweets, 1,581 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** For 9/11 Museum, Dispute Over Victims' Remains A dispute over what to do with those remains is simmering between some of the victims' families and the officials planning the National September 11 Memorial and Museum underneath where the twin towers stood ** Evolutionists refute evolution? Since Charles Darwin's monumental book 'The Origin of Species' (which ironically did not reveal the origin of any species at all) in 1859, evolutionists have searched in vain to try and prove that over a period of billions of years, pond scum gradually turned into humans, as well as every other species such as ants, elephants, armadillos, giraffes and eagles ** Iran Freezes Ties with Louvre Museum A top Iranian official announced on Monday that the country has put on hold all its ties and cooperation with the Paris Louvre Museum after the latter refrained from holding up its end of the bargain in accordance with the understandings and agreements signed between the two sides ** Fake bombs at Balloon Museum The guard called police and when an officer looked in the car, he saw nearly a dozen devices that looked like pipe bombs, a suicide vest, car bombs and wires _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a FAN - Join 956 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574 [6]? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Audio of Eisenhower speech at Met found As commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower explicitly ordered his troops to safeguard objects of cultural and historical importance whenever possible - even while fighting a war of devastating destructiveness ** Polar Bear Lovers Protest Potential Display of Knut's Body at Museum A condolence book on the Berlin Zoo's website is filled with angry messages, and a letter to the zoo director says, "Nobody wants to look at a stiff, dead Knut" ** Italian museum contamination studied Mysterious blue pigments found on relics in Verona, Italy, have experts on conservation of archaeological artifacts saying they're concerned ** Virginians share fragile relics for Civil War's 150th anniversary Hope's ancestor soon penned "sad tidings," "melancholy facts" and "heart-rending news" as the conflict raged and the carnage mounted for four terrible years ______________________________________________________________________________ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. 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