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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:
** Five million-year-old fossil teeth may be from very early prehuman
primate, study says
Six fossil teeth found in an Ethiopian desert and dated at about 5.2 million
years may be from a previously unknown type of prehuman primate
** Inside Job Suspected in Jeddah Museum Robbery
Police are already looking for a suspect, a janitor who also cleans and
maintains the museum's cars
** Curator commits suicide
Yoav Dagon, 53, director and curator of Tel Aviv's Nahum Guttman Museum,
committed suicide late Wednesday night in the museum
** Offbeat museums attract visitors via the Web
Offbeat museums, nevertheless, are making a bigger push to attract visitors
through the Internet, because they see cyberspace as the perfect place to
promote themselves without spending a lot of money
** Smithsonian Presents Dresser Exhibition
The show takes its name from such works as the sleek, geometric tea sets
Dresser designed for manufacturer James Dixon & Sons
** Fresh Bronze Age treasure find
An "exceptional" hoard of buried treasure has been found in Wrexham just two
years after another major find of Bronze Age treasure there
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** Coverage eyed for damaged art on loan
The threat of international terrorism and the effects of the Iraq war have
reportedly caused art insurance premiums to shoot up and made it
increasingly difficult for Japanese museums to bring in masterpieces from
abroad
** Reservation resident sentenced for theft at archaeological site
The sentencing of a Kayenta man last week for stealing archaeological
artefacts on the Navajo Reservation may be a first
** Shabby Men, Giant Names
In fact, there's little Picasso and even less Pollock in an exhibit filled
with works you can't believe are right in front of you
** The original boxed lunch
In a gallery of 75 vintage lunchboxes that go on display to the public this
Saturday at the National Heritage Museum, the truest explanation of lunchbox
longevity can be seen on a slightly battered yellow and pink Miss America
lunchbox from 1972
** Drawn to da Vinci
He dissected 30 bodies, kept about 20,000 pages of notes and seldom finished
what he started
** Museum in appeal for military paraphernalia
The museum says it already has an outstanding collection of Irish martial
heritage but they are seeking donations to make it even better
** Giant moth is lord of the wings
George Hurst's first thought was "it's a flying mouse". It was only on
closer inspection that he realised he had no idea what it was
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The melange of cultures and races that built the city still gives it its
heart; not "easy," exactly, but quite unlike anywhere else in the States -
or the world.
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** Rare coin stolen from du Pont collection recovered
A rare silver dollar that was part of an extensive coin collection stolen at
gunpoint from a member of the du Pont family more than 35 years ago has been
recovered
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries: (March 21-April 19) You have greatly angered the God Of Floral
Wallcoverings, but it's unclear whether this will affect you in anyway
** Inland Revenue Accused over Museums
The Inland Revenue encouraged museums to use a tax break to boost funds and
then decided to close it as a "loophole", MPs protested
** Egyptian Masterworks make their Canadian debut at the ROM
Roberta Shaw said Eternal Egypt complements the ROM's already-impressive
Egyptian collection, which at 20,000 ranks as Canada's largest
** Man Who Bought Painting for $5 Sells It for $1 Million
The unidentified 29-year-old actor found Joseph Decker's "Ripening Pears"
wrapped in a blanket at a Los Angeles garage sale three years ago
** Socialist museum looking to maximise profits
Soviet-made busts of communist icon Vladimir Lenin have become so scarce a
museum dedicated to him is looking for cheap knock-offs to keep up its
profits
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** International Conference on Archaeological Heritage Management and
Eduction in the Mediterranean.
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** Are You Coming To Vienna? ICA Wien 2004
** Shelling Out in Australia
** Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature at Georgia Tech
** On Both Sides Of The Wall: Preserving Monuments and Sites of the Cold
War Era
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