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week's edition include:
** Deerskin map for British Museum
The collection, which also has a war shield made of buffalo hide, a smoking
pipe depicting the US bald eagle crest, and one of the earliest native
American cradles in existence, was brought to Stonyhurst College,
Lancashire, by 16-year-old Bryan Mullanphy in 1825
** Dorothy's Ruby Slippers on display for Summer
Founded in l975, the Judy Garland Museum houses the world's largest
collection of Judy Garland and Wizard of Oz memorabilia
** Revisiting the Silk Road
Nearly 800 years after the Polos made their epic journeys along the Silk
Road, the romance of this historic trade route has hardly dissipated
** Bacon triptych emerges from Tehran storeroom
The work did not remain in store merely because of its overtly sexual
content, though that may have been a factor
** Former WWII warship arrives to begin new life
Etched with rust, its flags fluttering wanly in the westward breeze, Miami's
newest museum docked Thursday at Terminal Island
** Rocket Restoration Under Way in Texas
A green leafy plant grows from one of the red boosters of the rocket's
escape module, along with an unknown yellow-orange spongy material sprouting
from its side
** Insect enjoys warmer UK climate
Its arrival in Britain is a clear sign of climate change, claim experts from
the Natural History Museum, London
** Fossil treasure trove stuns detectives
Representing 130 million years of life on earth, the fossils are worth
millions of dollars, the haul described as the biggest in Australia and one
of the biggest worldwide
** Cyber tests for paintings
His team, with the Van Gogh Museum, have been using the computer, dubbed
Authentic, to look at paintings on slides or on X-rays, scanning them for
patterns in colour, brushstrokes or material, which can then be used to
build up information on how an artist works
** Cowboys' language was as dirty as their boots
Jerry Bryant, a researcher at the Adams Museum in Deadwood, S.D., says old
Badlands newspaper stories refer to swearing and laws being passed against
it
** Guatemalan Art That Survived Sept. 11 Going Home
Centuries-old Guatemalan pottery and other pre-Columbian artworks found in a
safe that survived the destruction of the World Trade Centre on Sept. 11,
2001, were returned
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** Texas A&M Researchers Find WW II Subs
"It's sort of an underwater museum of Japanese submarines," Phaneuf said.
"It's a time capsule down on the sea floor."
** A Celebration of Mississippi River's role in American music
A new museum features clips and thousands of other exhibits showing how the
musical styles of America's Heartland are woven over and around the same,
watery thread
** Memorabilia men do battle over dead dictator
The museum brochures have done more than just wounded Pompignoli's fascist
pride - they have threatened his position as the town's pre-eminent purveyor
of Mussolini kitsch
** 2nd ID storing trophies for safekeeping
Col. David Clark, the 1-506th commander, held Hitler's walking stick - which
has the names of all of Clark's predecessors on it - one last time before
entrusting it to the museum
** Stonehenge: Built by Welshmen?
At least three of the builders of Stonehenge were from Wales, according to
archaeologists who found the builders' grave close to Stonehenge site
** U.S. Signs Treaty to Protect Titanic
The wreck of the legendary liner is under assault from natural forces of
decay - and the human impacts of a growing tourism and salvage industry that
has remained largely unregulated
** First-ever sci-fi museum opens in Seattle
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen built the
13-thousand-square-foot museum next-door to his "Ex-perience Music Project."
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** Odd Feature of the Week: Russian Museum Exhibits Rasputin's Private
Parts
The museum is founded by Igor Knyazkin, the chief of the prostate research
centre of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
** National football museum treasures left gathering dust
More than 200,000 rare items of Scottish football memorabilia are lying
uncatalogued in storage because of staff shortages at the game's national
museum
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