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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** The Getty Museum's Italian job
It is unfortunate that a chief target of the prosecution is the Getty
curator who has done the most to clean up the practices of her institution
in this murky trade, Marion True
** The Divine Sarah
Sarah Bernhardt, one of the most famous actresses of her time-or any
time-will once again receive the royal treatment she was accustomed to in
life, when The Jewish Museum in Manhattan devotes an entire exhibition to
her and her art
** Lennon's cousin visits Hastings Beatle museum
A stern, but loving disciplinarian, Mimi used to admonish Lennon, telling
him he would never make a living from his guitar
** Natural History Museum Is Too Crowded, Naturally
Whenever I visit a Chicago museum, I am always left wondering if the
directors of the museum boards actually visit the shows they set up, or do
they only see them at special previews?
** New National Museum of Singapore to reopen next year
The National Museum of Singapore will reopen again at Stamford Road next
year and the new building will showcase the best of old and modern
architecture
** The First Laugh
New study posits evolutionary origins of two distinct types of laughter
** Hundreds of artworks still in storage waiting restoration from
Florence's 1966 flood
Hundreds of frescos, paintings, statues and antique furniture damaged in a
flood nearly 40 years ago are still hidden away in the attics and storerooms
of Tuscan villas awaiting restoration
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** Exhibit reveals the other weapons of war
Weapons of Mass Dissemination: The Propaganda of War, on display at the
Canadian War Museum until April, focuses on visual propaganda from the First
and Second World wars as well as the Spanish Civil War
** Argentine museum recovers art stolen 25 years ago
Three paintings by French masters Paul Cezanne, Auguste Renoir and Paul
Gauguin that were stolen a quarter-century ago have again been returned to
this city's National Museum of Fine Arts
** Baltimore Museum of Oddities to Close
An unusual museum featuring bizarre exhibits that celebrated freakish things
seen in circus sideshows is closing at the end of the year
** Art collector sues museum for millions
The battle between the school canteen worker and the museum, which has the
biggest collection of Van Goghs, has been going for 12 years
** Flints give Cyprus oldest seafaring link in Med
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the earliest evidence
yet of long distance seafaring in the eastern Mediterranean, undermining
beliefs that ancient mariners never ventured into open seas
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** Renovated Jewish museum opens in Rome
The new Jewish Museum hosts one of the richest and most ancient collections
in Europe
** Decoding da Vinci
The Wax Rider is a finely detailed little statue, height and length about 20
centimetres, of a horse and rider, modelled in beeswax and powdered marble
** Best-Laid Plans Of Mice Mostly Cheese-Related
Animal-intelligence researchers at Sandia National Labs have found that the
best-laid plans of common laboratory mice are overwhelmingly directed toward
the acquisition of cheese
** Seminar on Iranian civilization opens at Japan's Matsudo Museum
A few Japanese researchers from various institutions and universities
participated in the event and gave lectures about the historical monuments
unearthed at Iran's Chakhmaq and Jalalieh mounds, development process of
pottery in Iran as well as the achievements made in the country during
Ashkanid and Sassanid eras
** Gangsters close diamond exhibition
The world's biggest exhibition of priceless diamonds has been forced to
close after police uncovered a plot to steal the jewels
** Museum is looking for a few good women
When he opened the hatch, he expected to find radio gear; instead, he
discovered that four or five women had written their names and addresses
** Smithy Built at Borg Viking Museum
The construction of a replica Viking smithy at the Lofotr-Viking Museum at
Borg in Lofoten, Norway, got a big economical boost when Norwegian-American
Asmund Asmundson donated 50,000 kroner
** Mass Graves Reveal Massacre of Maya Royalty
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe was the gruesome scene of a
royal massacre in the ancient city of Cancuén, once one of the richest
cities in the Maya empire
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** Call For Papers: IS - Internet e Storia (Internet and History) 4th Forum
15 January - 15 March 2006.
** European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP)
** The Midwest Archaeological Conference
** Free Celebration Day will herald the opening of Queensland Museum's new
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures Centre, Dandiiri Maiwar
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