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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** All you need is love at Japanese museum
Twenty three couples were so touched by John and Yoko's love story that they
even got married at the museum
** Detroit Art Gallery Wins Van Gogh Case
A family that claimed a Vincent van Gogh painting at a Detroit museum
rightfully belonged to them since it was sold during the Nazi era lost their
case because they waited too long to sue
** Tensions Flare Over Auschwitz Museum
Museum officials object to Russia's insistence that prisoners who came from
areas of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union be referred to as Soviet
citizens
** After-lives of celebrated organs
In 1969, the London auction house Christie's included in its catalogue an
item enigmatically described as a "shrivelled object" about an inch long and
looking like a shrivelled eel, which they failed to sell
** 17th century oil painting attacked by Milwaukee museum visitor
A man pulled a 17th century oil painting from the wall at the Milwaukee Art
Museum and kicked it repeatedly because he was disturbed by the image
** Smithsonian scrambles to change course
Over the next few months the Smithsonian will be grappling with fundamental
questions far beyond just issues of governance and oversight
** BC not PC at museum
Melbourne Museum has been accused of political correctness for dropping
traditional date references of BC and AD at an exhibition
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** Prado Museum Unveils Spacious Extension
The sober addition completes the first phase of the planned expansion of the
Prado, which is considered to have the world's richest store of
pre-20th-century masters, including Velazquez, Rubens, El Greco and Goya
** Museum releases letters by 'Papa'
Ernest Hemingway, the self-appointed "Papa" of the literary world, liked
calling his women friends "daughter," among them Marlene Dietrich, according
to letters that suggest their bond was steadfast, passionate and likely
platonic
** Intern admits thefts from U.S. archives
An intern with the National Archives has pleaded guilty to stealing 164
Civil War documents, including an official announcement of President
Lincoln's death, and putting most of them up for sale on eBay
** Llama dung mites track Inca fall
Scientists believe they have found a new way to track the rise and fall of
some ancient civilisations - by studying fossilised mites that thrive in the
dung of their livestock
** Boomerang joke falls flat
Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda walked into the lions' den Thursday and
got bit - or, to be more precise, bonged by a boomerang
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** Egyptians head to France to fetch stolen mummy hairs
Egypt sent an archaeological team to France on Thursday to retrieve
3,200-year-old strands of hair from the mummy of Pharaoh Ramses II, who
presided over an era of great military expansion in Egypt
** Jarring discovery for earliest European contact
Boustead's previous claim to fame was in 2002, when he won the World
Barefoot Mud Crab Tying Competition in Darwin
** Beware of the hi-tech lover
About one in three of those questioned in the survey, commissioned by the
Science Museum in London, for its Science of Spying exhibition, said they
covertly listened in on their partner's conversations
** 3 Convicted, 3 Acquitted in Munch Thefts
An appeals court Friday convicted three men and acquitted three others of
involvement in the 2004 theft of the Edvard Munch masterpieces "The Scream"
and "Madonna"
** N.Y. gallery cancels naked chocolate Jesus exhibit
A Manhattan art gallery cancelled on Friday its Easter-season exhibit of a
life-size chocolate sculpture depicting a naked Jesus, after an outcry by
Roman Catholics
** Seattle Art Museum gets massive donations
The Seattle Art Museum said it's received gifts of 1,000 works from more
than 40 collections that are valued at a reported $1 billion
** Cavemen Preferred Full-Figured Ladies
Thin may be in now, but prehistoric men 15,000 years ago preferred
full-figured gals, suggest dozens of flint figurines excavated from a
Palaeolithic hunting site in Poland
** Einstein, Electricity and Dinosaurs: There's More to New Jersey Than the
Sopranos
** How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970-1975
** The International Conference on Upholstery
** National Park Service's 2007 Archaeological Prospection Workshop
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