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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 Sphinx Poses New Riddles
After almost 140 years of excavation at the Kerameikos site, nobody dreamed
that we would one day find another piece done by the Dipylon master
** Iceland Museum Is - Ahem - Members Only
Which is as good a reason as any to pledge to bequeath your privates to the
Icelandic Phallological Museum
** Spies need a little nurturing, cash
The man who spent more than 20 years stealing government secrets for the
Soviet Union and Russia needed a little stroking.
** Curiouser and curiouser
The Surrealists are not the only weirdos on show in the French capital
McConnell honours pair hanged for the freedom of Scotland
Their crime was to agitate for voting rights for working class people and to
campaign for a Scottish parliament
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** Genius vs genius
In 1906, an august French painter was suddenly challenged by a precocious
Spanish brat 12 years his junior
** New museum pays tribute to NASCAR legends, history
For decades, the best museum of the early years of stock car racing was
Gordon Pirkle's Dawsonville Pool Room
** American Indian art from 17th to 20th centuries showcased at Stanford
The Peabody Essex Museum now has more than 20,000 pieces in its Native
American collection
** Auckland Museum gets $26.5m for redevelopment
The Government has given the Auckland Institute and Museum the best possible
present for its 150th birthday - a grant of $26.5 million for its
redevelopment project
** This Week's Horoscopes
Pisces: (Feb. 19 - March 20) A Japanese fishing boat will catch you off the
Philippine coast this week, astonishing scientists who thought you'd been
extinct since the Pleistocene era.
** British Museum welcomes Iraq library project
Iraqi archaeologists and academics are planning to recreate the earliest
library of the ancient world and want to use material held in London
** It's a Twang Thang
With the opening of the gleaming new Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
last May, it's a good time to visit
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** This is the world's most expensive sculpture
A world record auction price for a sculpture has been set with the sale of
an 11-inch-tall bronze head for £12.3 million
** It's life, but not as we know it
However, he said, the traces would not resolve the issue of when the first
animals appeared
** Stench Fills Jesus' Birthplace After Siege
The church is no stranger to conflict. Samaritans destroyed much of the
original church during a revolt in 529
** Stolen human head returned to museum
A shrunken human head stolen from a Texas museum has been found dumped at
the side of a road
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** Artist's fury over dumped sculpture
An internationally acclaimed artist has accused a rail company of "corporate
vandalism" after one of his £60,000 sculptures was destroyed
** 'Oldest' ape-man fossils revealed
The creature is said to be six million years old, double the age of the
previous record holder, an australopithecine skeleton commonly referred to
as Lucy
** Smithsonian History Museum Evaluated
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is unfriendly to
tourists and historians alike because exhibits are not organized along a
clear timeline
** St. Petersburg unveils World War II loudspeaker
More than one million people are estimated to have died during the 1941-1944
siege of the city, which was then called Leningrad
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** "The Best in Heritage" S, Dubrovnik 19-21 September 2002
** Deakin University: Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Seminar
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** Big Fabricators Week 2002
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