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address http://www.globalmuseum.org ) in this week's edition include:
** Legendary City of El Dorado Exists
El Dorado, the fabled city of gold, did exist and was even evangelized by
Jesuit missionaries
** Couple Claims Sept. 11 Flag
Couple Says Flag Raised on Sept. 11 Came From Their Yacht, Docked at Trade
Center
** Davy: Product of the wild frontier
It is an arguable position, but at the Bob Bullock Texas State History
Museum in Austin, a new exhibit could sway the most ardent objector
** Barcelona's Going Gaga Over Gaudi
Antonio Gaudi was so shabby-looking at the end of his life that when he was
run over by a tram as he crossed a busy Barcelona street in 1926, taxi
drivers thought he was a vagrant
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** Anger at museum's ban on cinema petition
Film buffs, who have organised a petition calling for the 260-seat cinema to
be kept open, were left furious after museum management refused permission
to circulate the petition
** Excavating the collection
Like an archaeologist on a dig in rarely visited territory, Regine Schulz is
combing the exhibition cases at the Walters and exploring its storage vaults
** Survivors honour the Lancaster's big debut
There was general praise for the Lancaster's speed, maximum altitude and
lifting power, which was unmatched at the time
** Cold War Museum Could Rise Atop Old Bunker
Francis Gary Powers Jr., son of one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold
War, is eyeing the former missile site as a permanent home for a Cold War
museum
** Ancient Egyptian Makeup Varied, Colorful
The findings suggest that Egyptians had more color and texture in their
makeup than previously thought
** Washington statue cover-up has left little to imagination
People joked that he was lunging for his clothes, on display at the Patent
Office several blocks away
** Argentina Turmoil Halts Lichtenstein Exhibit
Concerns over possible damage to the exhibits from volatile political
protests forced the postponement of a planned show in a prestigious new
Buenos Aires museum
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** Museum will post warning sign on Lego model of concentration camp
A controversial Jewish Museum art exhibit that includes Nazi imagery,
including a concentration camp built from Lego blocks, will carry a warning
sign
** Conservators of suspected Blackbeard ship may move from coast
The conservation lab examining artifacts from what's believed to be
Blackbeard's pirate flagship may move inland for more space
** As presidents go, Bill Clinton was a pack rat .
The gifts are personal and priceless, including a gold, silver and
jewel-encrusted Bahrani Horse presented to Clinton by the Amir of Bahrain
** Chinese to America before Columbus?
History books may need to be rewritten in the light of new evidence that
Chinese explorers had discovered most parts of the world by the mid-15th
century
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** British scientists extract DNA from dodo's remains
Cooper took the DNA from the head, leg and foot remains of a dodo donated to
the university's Natural History Museum in 1683
** Laundry mark on a hankie dropped during a botched robbery
A permanent display of Wells Fargo artifacts, like the restored stagecoach
and other period items, helps explain its place in civilizing the Old West
** Revealed: nuclear bunker plan for old masters
The order was to be given at midday, the troops and museum staff would be
deployed and then the lorries would begin arriving
** Museum visitors invited to throw eggs at paintings
A local battery farm is supplying the eggs to hurl at the artwork
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** Chacmool 2002 Conference: "Apocalypse Then and Now: A Conference about
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** Designing Domesticity: Decorating the American Home Since 1876
** Scholarly symposium "For Which It Stands: The American Flag Since 1777."
** Building Creative Economies: The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable
Development in Appalachia
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