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week's edition include:
** Arsenic killed Chinese emperor
Guangxu ascended to the Chinese throne in 1875, around age 4, and he ruled
in the shadow of his biological aunt, the Empress Dowager Cixi, who adopted
the boy just before he became the emperor
** Museum stung by temporary closure
A Glasgow museum was forced to close its top floor to visitors for almost a
fortnight because of a wasp invasion
** Turn of the screw
It must have taken the collective imagination of some very twisted
individuals to invent some of the gruesome instruments on display in one of
Europe's largest torture museums
** Dig finds camp of 'real Crusoe'
The evidence uncovered at Aguas Buenas corroborates the stories of Alexander
Selkirk's stay on the island and provides a fascinating insight into his
existence there
** Vatican returns Parthenon fragment to Greece
The ancient marble head of a youth was fitted into place Wednesday at a
museum in Athens in a deal that Greek officials hope will serve as a model
for returning other treasures
** National Taiwan Museum celebrates 100-year history
The National Taiwan Museum's centennial milestone invites a flipping through
the pages of its history; the oldest museum on the island is actually
retelling its fascinating story through three ongoing exhibitions
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** Welsh art treasures are US-bound
Art patrons and spinster sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, from mid
Wales, gathered an impressive collection, ranging from Old Masters to the
work of contemporary British artists, which they later bequeathed to Wales'
national museum
** Hitler's Austrian 'culture capital'
Exhibits at the Castle Museum show some of the detailed designs commissioned
by Hitler: A series of grandiose buildings, including a monumental theatre,
an opera house and an Adolf Hitler Hotel, all surrounded by huge boulevards
and a parade ground
** Do you know this idol?
If somebody can prove that the sculpture of Ganesha, a revered deity in
South and Southeast Asia, was stolen from them or illegally exported out of
their country, the Portland museum will return it
** Museum gives brush-off to old art storage methods
The museum's deputy director has been charged with the task of developing
the digital media strategy with the aim of showcasing collections and
exhibitions on the internet
** Palestinians protest at Israeli plan to build museum on Muslim graveyard
The Museum of Tolerance is intended to promote understanding in a city
divided by ethnic and religious rivalries, but protesters say building it
over gravesites does anything but
** Recovered clocks to go on display at Islamic art museum
Many of the stolen items have come home after one of the greatest unsolved
robberies in the capital was finally cracked - the great clock heist, which
took place on a Friday night in mid-April 25 years ago
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** Berlin tribute to the Germans who saved Jews
The Silent Heroes Memorial Centre is the first of its kind dedicated to
individuals who helped to hide, feed and care for people who otherwise would
have gone to the gas chambers
** Archaeologist says he found oldest Hebrew writing
An Israeli archaeologist has discovered what he believes is the oldest known
Hebrew inscription on a 3,000-year-old pottery shard - a find that suggests
Biblical accounts of the ancient Israelite kingdom of David could have been
based on written texts
** Unveiling a Museum, a Pennsylvania Town Remembers the Smog That Killed
20
By the time a rain cleared the air, 20 people in Donora had died, and nearly
half the town became ill in one of the worst air pollution disasters in the
nation's history
** The Weeks Horoscopes
Taurus. April 20 to May 20 - Strange impulses you can neither describe nor
explain impel you to take your life savings, drive to Vegas, and put it all
on red
** Dutch museum confirms authenticity of 2 Van Goghs
A review of physical and historical evidence showed Van Gogh painted them,
probably in the spring of 1886 while he was studying under the painter
Fernand Cormon in Paris
** War Museum recreates life in the trenches
Two periscopes offer views above the trench line, vintage black-and-white
movie footage that shows battle scenes Canadian troops would have witnessed
during the 1914-18 carnage that swept Western Europe
** Museums in Conversation: Fresh Perspectives for New York State Museums
March 29-31, 2009 at the Doubletree Hotel in Tarrytown, NY
** Getting Up and Running After a Disaster
Announcing Fall 2008 NEA Educational Workshops
** Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield
Founding Conference of the Association of National Committees of the Blue
Shield (ANCBS) will be held in The Hague on the 7th, 8th and 9th of December
2008.
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