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week's edition include:
** 'Spy' Found Stuck In Museum Shaft After 'Secret Mission' Fails
He insisted he was a on a secret mission to "defuse and confiscate" a
Soviet-made nuclear warhead that was supposedly hidden inside a blue plastic
cow sculpture he maintained was hidden in the museum's basement
** Scientists discover 120 million year-old ant
Researchers from Karlsruhe's Natural History Museum found the
3-millimetre-long insect in the Amazon rainforest in 2007, and hope it will
shed light on the early evolution of ants
** Dutch police recover stolen 17th-century paintings
The Golden Age works, worth millions of dollars, were found after an
18-month investigation by Dutch police who used undercover agents to crack
the case and worked closely with Britain's Serious and Organized Crime
Agency
** 1784 shipwreck discovered
The wreck of a treasure-laden ship that sank more than two centuries ago
claiming the life of a famous British opera singer has been found
** Markets Slide, But Hirst Auction Breaks Records
But really, what's a measly $18 million in exchange for the chance to
display a formaldehyde-soaked bull in your living room?
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** Has ABBA museum met its Waterloo?
A new museum devoted to the pop supergroup ABBA will not open as planned
next year, although organisers say the project will definitely still go
ahead
** Legs Propelled Whale Ancestor
A Palaeontologist at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, has found
evidence that an early species of whale, Georgiacetus, used to swim using
the power of two hind legs
** National Endowment For The Arts Funds Construction Of $1.3 Billion Poem
America's metaphors have become strained beyond recognition, our nation's
verses are severely overwrought, and if one merely examines the internal
logic of some of these archaic poems, they are in danger of completely
falling apart
** ATO investigates art donor scams
Rich benefactors of art galleries are coming under scrutiny from the tax
office amid concerns that wealthy Australians are abusing tax breaks
designed to encourage philanthropy
** Excavations stopped at ancient city in Turkey
The dispute began when one of a series of columns that Ozgan's team had
restored and raised collapsed during a storm in January 2007
** Antiquities smuggling - Growing problem at US ports
Three years ago, an elderly Italian man pulled his van into a South Florida
park to sell some rare, 2,500-year-old emeralds plundered from a South
American tomb
** Spy Museum - Learn to duck terrorists
As part of the museum's ongoing effort to offer the public a glimpse into
the lives of the intelligence community, the museum's manager of adult
education designed a special anti-terrorist driving course
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** Displaying full measure of the man
The pinched, at times resentful response of several influential critics to
the J.M.W. Turner exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, due to
close in just over a week, hints at a new kind of negative sensibility in
the art world: a suspicion of undisguised ambition, an impatience with
virtuosity, and a dread of the full-blown sublime
** Million-year-old camel bone unearthed in Syria
Scientists have unearthed a camel jawbone in the Syrian desert that they
think may be a previously unknown tiny species of the animal and say dates
back a million years
** Unknown Mozart Fragment Found in French Library
The single manuscript page, long hidden in a provincial French library, has
been verified as the work of Mozart, the apparent underpinnings for a Mass
he never composed
** Greece unearths treasures at Alexander's birthplace
Archaeologists have unearthed gold jewellery, weapons and pottery at an
ancient burial site near Pella in northern Greece, the birthplace of
Alexander the Great
** Thieves pinch 'priceless' Goya engraving from Colombia museum
Thieves stole a "priceless" engraving by Spanish master Francisco de Goya
from a temporary exhibition in Colombia
** Grisly history of Yarmouth jail revealed
As part of this week's National Heritage open days programme, staff at
Yarmouth's Tolhouse Museum have opened the wooden ladder down into the dank
basement of the town's medieval jail
** Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in
the Middle East and North Africa Region
** Dia de Muertos "Day of the Dead" Festival
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
** Seen But Not Heard (Feictear Ach Ní Cloistear) - A Century Of Childhood
In Ireland
The Donegal County Museum
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