Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online compendium, read weekly since 1998 by 8,000+ readers in more than 201 countries. <http://www.globalmuseum.org/> http://www.globalmuseum.org ** Tiny golden clue turns $30,000 painting into masterpiece worth $30m A tiny golden cross provided the clue that enabled art historians to piece together two halves of an oil painting by an Italian Renaissance master, in a discovery that has multiplied by 1000 times the value of one of the pieces. ** A gothic space rocket to a secret realm The Westminster Abbey history lesson continues inside, where a stepped corner of the abbey's ancient raft foundation has been revealed, built from 11th-century blocks of stone from Caen in France. ** Museum of film history opens in Kent town with no cinema Behind a domestic front door in a narrow street in the Kent seaside town of Deal, a museum is celebrating two centuries of cinema - or, as the founders insist, 35,000 years. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,350? 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