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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:
** Nelson's Catalogue of War Wounds
A waxwork model of Lord Nelson is having part of the right eyebrow removed
to make it accurately reflect an injury uncovered by historian Dr Ann-Mary
Hills
** Archaeologist buried alive seeking relics
An Austrian archaeologist has been buried alive and killed after the pit he
was working in collapsed in Salzburg, Austria
** Belgians wake up to the horror of colonial past
The museum has existed for more than 100 years, but never has it enjoyed the
popularity it has gained since a new exhibition opened there last month,
exposing - for the first time for many Belgians - the extraordinary
brutality meted out by their forefathers in their only African colony
** Nomadic Museum is wandering wonder
Here is how things usually work in the museum world: The museum stays in one
place, and the exhibitions change
** Egypt Unveils Plans to Move Ramses Statue
The Egyptian government Monday unveiled plans for the delicate task of
moving a granite statue of the Pharaoh Ramses II, 3,200 years old and
weighing 83 tons, from central Cairo to a new site near the Pyramids
** Three Works by Edvard Munch Stolen From Norwegian Hotel
Three works by Edvard Munch were stolen from a hotel south of Oslo, the
second theft of the renowned Norwegian's art in less than seven months
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** Alamo flag on display in Mexican museum
The only flag known to have survived the Battle of the Alamo has been found
on display at a museum in Mexico, more than a decade after Mexican officials
said they had lost it
** Tsunami museum 'gross'
The brother of a New Zealander killed in the Boxing Day tsunami says plans
to include a Hollywood-style simulated tidal wave in a victims' memorial
museum are "gross"
** Coco Chanel to get Met Museum accolade
The announcement came five years after a very public tiff between the museum
and the House of Chanel over Lagerfeld's insistence on combining Chanel's
clothes with the work of contemporary designers in an exhibit proposed for
the spring of 2000
** Experts to free woman of 'cursed' stone
Plans are being made to free a Paarl woman of a stone-carved scarab from the
tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, which she believes has cast a curse on
her family
** New Graceland Historical Exhibit Focuses on Elvis's Life In Memphis
Vintage Black & White photos by famous Memphian photographer Don Newman help
tell the story of where Elvis lived, worked, shopped & performed
** Mild-Mannered Boa Missing From Toronto Museum
A 3-1/2 foot long, mild-mannered boa constrictor has vanished from a Toronto
science museum and its keepers suspect a theft rather than an escape into
the sub zero temperatures outside
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** Russia refuses to return Baldin jewellery
Russian Culture Minister Alexander Sokolov said that while the collection
would not be returned to Germany, Russia will hand over silver that belonged
to the German Prince of Anhalt
** Archaeologists make important fossil find
Archaeologists studying human origins in eastern Ethiopia have discovered 12
fossils that appear to be older than the famous fossil "Lucy", the team
leader says
** Yangzhou to build 10 museums
The 10 expected museums on basis of ancient architecture include a folk
collection exhibition hall, a traditional Chinese medical science museum, a
city industry museum, a Yangzhou-style potted landscape exhibition hall, an
animal specimens museum, a Yangzhou cuisine museum, a canal culture museum,
a Buddhism museum, a bridge museum and an art exhibition centre
** No Butter for Bubba
Wholey gave the 22 pound lobster to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, which
will send him to an aquarium at a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum. Update:
Buba Dies enroute
** Coal mining tourism going animatronic
Three decades after the historic coal mine in this Appalachian town played
out and shut down, state officials are hoping to revive old Portal 31 as a
Disney-like tourist attraction with animatronic miners and underground tours
** United Nations to Reintroduce Snakes to Ireland
These noble reptiles, which for millions of years coexisted peacefully with
the rodents, humans and other vermin on the island, were driven out by
religious fanatics around 440 AD and the ecology of Ireland has been
unbalanced ever since
** Peabody accused of stealing from Sioux
In addition to his lifelong rivalry with fellow palaeontologist E. D. Cope,
the latest Marsh controversy involves dinosaur fossils he may have stolen
from Native American lands in the 1870s
** Giant figures found in Peru
Archaeologists working in the hills of Peru's southern coastal desert have
discovered a group of giant figures scraped into the earth
** Sunken schooners at risk in fight over 1812 relics
Two well-preserved U.S. warships lying at the bottom of Lake Ontario are at
the mercy of looters, ravaging mussels and natural degeneration as the
federal government, the City of Hamilton and private organizations wrangle
over what to do with them
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** DEMHIST, ICOM's International Committee for Historic House Museums
(12-14 October 2005) in Lisbon, Portugal
** Potteries of Trenton Society - New Jersey Historical Society present the
Second New Jersey Ceramics Symposium
** American Association of Museum's Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo 2005
** UMAC 2005 - Awareness and Action - University Museums Today
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