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week's edition include:
** Scott of Antarctic letters go on display
The last letters written by Antarctic explorer Robert Scott to his wife and
young son before the adventurer died on his South Pole expedition are to go
on display for the first time
** Dracula's Castle Goes Up for Sale
The link to the Dracula story has turned the Gothic fortress, perched on a
rock and surrounded by mountains, into a popular tourist destination
** Mummy, you're purr-fect
They have been stored in a cardboard box - labelled `dim sims' - since at
least the early 1980s, with the gallery having no known record of when they
were acquired
** Flood threatens historic St Petersburg
The historic centre of Saint Petersburg was under threat Wednesday as flood
waters broke the banks of the River Neva in places, spilling into streets
near the world-famous Hermitage art museum
** Fresh fossils are best for DNA
New research has found that the DNA in fossils cleaned and preserved in
museum collections degrades about 70 times faster than in bones left buried
in the ground
** Bonnie Prince Charlie leads the charge at exhibition
Rarely-seen items linked to the Glencoe Massacre, the Highland Clearances
and the Battle of Culloden will all feature in Land and Legacy, which will
open in the Capital in the summer at the National Museum of Scotland
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** Ringo's childhood home may be preserved as part of new museum in
Liverpool
Negotiations are under way to dismantle the condemned Liverpool row house
and rebuild it as part of a major new museum in the north-western English
city
** Bacon work unseen for 40 years to sell for £12m
It is a painting that has not been seen in public since 1963 and it may
disappear again after it is sold next month for what is anticipated to be a
world record price for the artist
** Spy offered to kill Hitler with suicide bomb
A British double agent offered to assassinate Adolf Hitler in a suicide
mission but his plan was rejected by MI5, archive papers reportedly have
revealed
** Thousands visit Natural History Museum after Ben Stiller Movie
New York's American Museum of Natural History has seen a 20 percent jump in
attendance over the holidays
** Museum plans for Abu Dhabi stirs row in France
Plans to export a version of the most famous museum in France to a resort in
the oil-rich city of Abu Dhabi has sparked accusations the French government
is sacrificing cultural standards for profit
** Field Museum researcher says he discovered new bat species
A biologist at Chicago's Field Museum said he has discovered a new species
of sucker-footed bats that are thriving in deforested areas of western
Madagascar
** Lawyer Took Part In Talks That Secured Return Of Munch Paintings
A lawyer representing the alleged ringleader of a 2004 bank robbery played a
key role in the safe return of two paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard
Munch
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** 100 Monkeys on Typewriters Demand Personal Computers
For almost a century one hundred chimpanzees have been pounding away on old
style typewriters trying to recreate, at random, the works of William
Shakespeare
** Climate shift helped destroy China`s Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty, seen by many historians as a glittering peak in China's
history, was brought to its knees by shifts in the monsoon cycle, according
to a study recently published
** Exhibit examines history of bark cloth
Distinct cultures from Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and Oceania all
developed the same response to the need for textile coverings in an extreme
environment
** Rare Flower On Verge Of Blooming At Maine Discovery Museum
Despite the stink, people gather whenever one blooms, since they open only
once every two to three years
** Columbia Professor Investigates Possible Michelangelo Forgery
When art historians heard the suggestion recently that a famous statue
believed to be the work of classical sculptors was in fact a forgery by the
Renaissance artist Michelangelo, they were sceptical
** Easter Islanders wonder how many statues are enough
Our elders ask what possible reason can there be to restore more moai, when
we can see that those that have been restored are deteriorating more rapidly
than those that are broken and still lying on the ground
** Open Source History: Making History Public The American Association for
History and Computing (AAHC)
** IMLS Announces Registration for 2007 WebWise Conference
** NYCMER Annual Conference - Spaces for Learning
** Registration for the 2007 Volunteer Management Conference is now open
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