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week's edition include:
** Russia approves $177M to renovate Pushkin museum
The museum, in a Beaux Arts building dating from 1912, will be converted
into a major complex with two exhibit areas, a concert hall, library,
archive and underground parking lot. It is expected to quadruple in size
** Pieces of Viking sword discovered
The most decorative part of a Viking sword was usually the handle - or
hilt - and it is part of this that has survived over 1,000 years in the soil
** Vancouver Maritime Museum forced to close
For half a century volunteers have looked after and cherished the Maritime
Museum, accumulating a collection to make it one of the best museums of its
kind in North America
** Ancient Egyptian Necklace Stolen from Ohio Museum
The necklace, made from carnelian gems, was donated in the 1940s, but it is
believed to be several thousand years old
** Superhero fashion soars in New York exhibition
Armani, who says that he once fought with his brother over Flash Gordon
comics, brought a childlike enthusiasm to his tour of the exhibition,
claiming that he wanted to take home the crouching model of Spider-Man and
marvelling over John Galliano's priapic fantasies
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra, September 23 to October 23 - Like the beetle that lays its eggs atop
a mound of dung, so too will you hand in months of hard work to your
supervisor this week
** Babbage's Mechanical Calculator Comes to Life
His Difference Engine #2 was so complicated, with more than 8,000 separate
parts, that it was never built during his lifetime
** Supremes costumes to go on show
Their performance costumes will go on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum
later this month, with interviews with group member Mary Wilson
** Correcting a Colour-blind View of the Treasures of Antiquity
Over the past five years, audiences in Amsterdam, Athens, Basel, Boston,
Copenhagen, Istanbul, Munich and Rome have been treated to a bright new
image of Greek and Roman art
** You can't have your stuff back
Antiquities are the cultural property of all humankind, evidence of the
world's ancient past, and not that of a particular modern nation
** Dior museum celebrates dandies
Legendary dandy Oscar Wilde once declared "One should either be a work of
art or wear a work of art," a sentiment endorsed by designer Christian Dior,
who acknowledged dandyism as a significant influence on his fashion
** Design's role in cold war paranoia
The so-called "kitchen debate" between the two Presidents at the American
National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959, which occurred in the middle of a
model US kitchen set up for the fair, is one of the subjects to be explored
in the Victoria and Albert Museum's autumn exhibition on design during the
cold war era
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** UN says Buddha statue remains safe after explosion nearby
A controlled explosion of old ordnance found near remains of the famed
Bamiyan Buddha statues has not caused further damage to the 1,500-year old
ruins, the United Nations says
** The Battle of Berlin and the fight to keep memories of the heroic airmen
alive
It was the titanic battle of wills that started the Cold War - thousands of
airmen flying round the clock,under constant attack by Soviet fighters, to
stop Stalin starving Berlin into submission
** Spain claims $500 million in sunken treasure from Florida deep-sea
explorers
Spain argues that the entire treasure should be returned because naval
vessels remain the property of the nation that flagged them, regardless of
where they lie, under the principle of sovereign immunity
** Museum planned as lasting tribute to boat people
Slated for completion in 2010, the Vietnamese Boat People Museum will be the
crown jewel of Ottawa's Vietnamese Canadian community, a vibrant monument to
the difficult circumstances of their settlement in Canada
** Chrysler making museum independent
Chrysler LLC is spinning off the Walter P. Chrysler Museum as an independent
organization, filing paperwork with the federal government for the museum to
become a nonprofit organization as part of an effort that Chrysler says will
bring new life to the facility
** Works collected by German eccentric Rau to be sold
The German industrialist, who sold the family auto parts business, trained
as a doctor and spent 20 years working in what is now the Democratic
Republic of Congo, was seen as a scruffy eccentric who wore hiking boots to
London's auction rooms
** Missing Map Index
Recently, the Missing Map Index of the International Antiquarian Mapsellers
Association has been completed.
** A Space Odyssey: Storage Strategies for Cultural Collections
presented by the Conservation Centre for Art and Historic Artefacts
** For you the war is over
It is a little known fact that over 34,000 German prisoners of war were sent
to Canada during the Second World War.
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