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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:
** In a pickle over museum exhibits
A Devon museum has trawled its stores to put on show some of the most
bizarre exhibits in its collection
** 1,500-Year-Old Byzantine Port Discovered
Like Romans, Athenians and residents of other great historic cities, the
people of Istanbul can hardly put a shovel in the ground without digging up
something important
** Museum director to seek return of Lexington's skeleton
The bones of Lexington, an American icon as the most famous racehorse and
sire of the 19th century, may eventually be returned to Kentucky if a museum
director in Lexington can convince the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C., that the horse's remains should be exhibited near his
Bluegrass birthplace
** Islamic Art Dazzles in New Gallery at London's V&A Museum
Instead of languishing, the 11th-century, rock-crystal ewer from Cairo - one
of the handful of these fragile vessels to survive - now glitters in a pool
of light
** Art replaces suffering at new Chilean museum inside former torture
centre
It's hard to tell that this two-storey white house in the Chilean capital
was once a secret police station where security forces tortured dissidents
under the 17-year military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet
** Indians claim Sultan invented rocket technology
The 250-mm-long rocket filled with two kg gun powder and guided by a sword
blade for a range of 1.5 km to 2 km was the first rocket used in a war and
this was made by the ruler and his men
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** Rembrandt's work still has lessons to teach the postmodern world
The show placed paintings, drawings and prints by Rembrandt van Rijn
alongside similar works made by his pupils, emulators and forgers
** Scientists look to DNA to crack the Neanderthal Code
A multimillion-dollar project to decipher the genetic code of Neanderthals
may help explain not only why humanity's closest cousin became extinct but
also which genetic features have made Homo sapiens so successful
** Broken Hearts museum goes on tour
The world's first museum dedicated to broken hearts has become so popular
that it is about to set out on a world tour
** In a Berlin museum, under surveillance
The microphone is someplace in a mock-up of a typical East German apartment,
picking up people's conversations when they are "at home."
** Cam Catches Bears in the Wild
During the afternoon, an interpreter at the Pratt Museum in Homer controls
the solar-powered camera to get the best views
** Pipeline to bypass worms
Robert Jones, from Wildlife Wonderland in Bass, which runs the Giant
Earthworm Museum in the town southeast of Melbourne, said the creatures were
very sensitive and their numbers had significantly declined over the past 30
years
** Legend of SAS parachutist dog was 'hoax'
As history tells it, Rob parachuted from countless planes during the height
of the war, and famously licked the cheeks of commandos on duty in Italy and
North Africa to wakes them at signs of danger.
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** Storm rips museum roof
Strong thunderstorm winds ripped off the roof of the Virginia Museum of
Transportation and dumped it onto Norfolk Avenue in downtown Roanoke. Museum
head steps down after roof issues
** No Bomb Found After Museum Of Science Evacuation
Members of the Miami Police Bomb Squad detonated a package in the museum
auditorium, but it turned out to be a student's lunch
** Rumours of giant planet a hoax
Astronomers at the Manitoba Museum's planetarium have been fielding calls
about an internet-based rumour that the planet Mars will appear as large as
the moon this summer
** The South Bank show -
The gallery has been left reeling after a nine-month investigation by the
Charity Commission delivered a hard-hitting reprimand on the way it
purchased some of its art
** Divers discover World War One sub off Lothian coast
Divers from Edinburgh and South Queensferry were part of an expedition that
found the wreck virtually unscathed despite lying 200ft down on the floor of
the North Sea for more than 85 years
** Carved stone still mystifies scholars
In 1872, so the story goes, workers digging a hole for a fence post near
Lake Winnipesaukee in the central part of this New England state found a
lump of clay that seemed out of place
** Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin, and Intangible Cultural
Heritage
** Museums and a 'Sense of Place' Reykjavik, Iceland, 30 August to 3
September 2006.
** 24th EuroCHRIE Congress - The University of the Aegean is hosting and
organising the prestigious 24th EuroCHRIE
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