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week's edition include:
** Court drops case in nude photo shoot at NYC museum
A New York judge dismissed public lewdness and other charges against a model
who posed for a nude photo shoot at a museum while visitors looked on
** Study Paints Sabertooths as Relative Pussycats
Though their long teeth look fearsome, male sabertooth cats may have
actually been less aggressive than their feline cousins, a new study finds
** Museum's Gems Go for a Spin
Last year, Dr. Simeone opened the museum in a former engine manufacturing
plant near the Philadelphia airport to display his collection of more than
60 sports cars - to celebrate the spirit of competition, as he says
** Original King Kong model skeleton for auction
The bristling rabbit fur pelt and latex muscles have long since rotted away,
but the 22in metal skeleton that remains was the star of one of the most
famous scenes in cinema history
** Hello, China, here's our new rayguns
The "weapons" are the collectible (and non-working) retro-futuristic rayguns
of concept artist Greg Broadmore, whose paintings will also feature in The
Exceptional Exhibition, which opens next week at the Sichuan Provincial
Museum in Chengdu
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** Plan for bloody attack on Istanbul's Koç Museum was part of action plan
The prosecutors examined the submarine at the museum and reached the
conclusion that it was not possible for the commandos to forget a large
amount of explosives in a submarine
** German court orders return of ancient vessel to Iraq
A German court has upheld Iraqi claims over a miniature gold vessel that for
the past three years has been at the centre of a tangled dispute involving a
Munich auction house, German customs, the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, an
archaeologist, and a museum of classical antiquities
** Log book's discovery reveals how Navy caught up with Bounty mutineer
A naval officer's logbook containing a brief account of the rediscovery of
Pitcairn Island, where the mutineers led by Fletcher Christian had taken
refuge, has turned up in a house clearance in Cambridge
** Hubble instruments sent to museum
Washington DC's National Air and Space Museum is the new home for the WFPC-2
and Costar, which once served as the telescope's eyes and its spectacles
** A Case in Antiquities for 'Finders Keepers'
These gestures may make immediate pragmatic sense for museum curators
worried about getting excavation permits and avoiding legal problems; but is
this trend ultimately good for archaeology?
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** Ex-Winterthur Staffer Stole Lavishly Via Credit Card
A former Winterthur Museum employee has voluntarily turned himself into
Delaware State Police after a theft investigation revealed he had spent more
than $100,000 of the museum's money
** National Football Museum move to Manchester Urbis sparks uproar
It would be ludicrous to spend £8m of public money on moving a public museum
that is well catered for here in Preston, 35 miles down the road, just to
fill the white elephant of a glass building that is Urbis
** Pacific Aviation Museum adds jets
The two F-86 Sabres, a MiG-15, an F-4 Phantom, and an F-102 Delta Dagger,
from the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, were delivered to the Ford Island,
Pearl Harbour
** Latest Queen Anne's Revenge findings
Workers with the Queen Anne's Revenge conservation project on Friday
revealed their latest findings from the wreckage of a ship presumed to be
that of the pirate Blackbeard
** Extinction of Giant Mammals Changed Landscape Dramatically
The last breaths of mammoths and mastodons some 13,000 years ago have
garnered plenty of research and just as much debate; what killed these large
beasts in a relative instant of geologic time?
** LACMA loses 23% of its investments in meltdown year
No arts non-profit is apt to show a rosy balance sheet for the year of the
great economic meltdown, unless by rosy one means red ink
** Collector finds teeth, fingers of Galileo Galilei
The body parts, along with another finger and a vertebrae, were cut from
Galileo's corpse by scientists and historians during a burial ceremony held
95 years after his death in 1642
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** ROM's 'Crystal' listed among world's ugly buildings
A tourism website has put an addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto
on its second annual list of the World's Top 10 Ugly Buildings
** Google puts thousands of ancient artefacts from Iraq museum online
The internet search giant Google is putting thousands of images of ancient
artefacts at Iraq's National Museum online
** British food from the past
As she stokes the embers and stirs a pot of "Roman army lentil stew" (a
delicious mix of green lentils, red wine, onion, cumin, dill, thyme, oregano
and parsley) hanging in a cauldron over the fire, she explains why we should
remember our ancestors when we tuck into the foods we eat in Britain today
** Biodiversity in China - An Exhibition on China's Wildlife Specimens
Special Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Science Museum
** Vintage cigar boxes open the lid on award-winning teaching project
The Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching
** Guardians of World Treasures Sign Salzburg Declaration on the
Conservation and Preservation of Cultural Heritage
59 cultural heritage leaders from 32 countries, including representatives of
Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia, unanimously passed the
Salzburg Declaration on the Conservation and Preservation of Cultural
Heritage.
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