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** Mouse eats scorpions and howls at the moon
In the dark expanses of the Sonoran desert in the US, a terrifying creature
stalks the night, searching for fresh meat; anything will do - crickets,
rodents, tarantulas - the nastier the better
World War II soldier's duffel bag returned 7 decades later
William Kadar, 92, opened a carefully wrapped package at his Merrillville,
Ind., home and found his drab green duffel bag inside, still stenciled in
black with his name and serial number
Vikings set to invade the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh
The idea of boatloads of bloodthirsty marauders in horned helmets, pillaging
up and down Britain and Ireland, sounds pretty dramatic; the reality is, of
course, a bit more nuanced than that
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** Down the Drain: Lost Items Reveal Roman Bath Activities
Unsurprisingly, the doctoral candidate in archaeology found strong evidence
of objects related to bathing, such as perfume vials, nail cleaners,
tweezers and flasks for holding oils and other pampering products
** Killing the Museum
The museum business teaches one many things but none more important than the
value of storytelling; and that the end is seldom the end
** Making Scrimshaw a Sea Companion
The carvings are the products of men "deprived of family, church, school and
normal female companionship, while compelled to obey the sometimes arbitrary
orders of often unreasonable bucko mates and tyrant captains, entirely
without any right to complain or any realistic hope of escape or reprieve"
** Early Pirate Bay server now in a museum
The Computer Museum in Linköping, Sweden has a "50 Years of File-Sharing"
exhibition on that includes a machine characterized as the first Pirate Bay
server, though there's some nuance to that description
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** Portrait of Mozart discovered
Researchers at Salzburg's Mozarteum museum announced Friday that they have
definitely identified the wigless person in the picture as the musical
genius
** How American history made in Hollywood tortures the truth and reopens
old wounds
The message in many of these films is that the means justifies the end, from
combating terrorism and slavery to winning political victories. Will their
popular version of history endure long after the textbooks have disappeared?
** Gay couple behind effort to open LGBT museum in D.C.
Organizers, led by former Smithsonian researcher Tim Gold and his husband,
North Carolina furniture magnate Mitchell Gold, are raising money and
collecting artifacts to open a national history museum to tell the stories
of LGBT Americans at a time when gay rights were frequently a matter of
political and cultural debate
** Farmer leads Burma archaeology team in search for buried World War II
spitfires
Experts have arrived in Burma for an excavation on a field which is expected
to find dozens of World War II spitfires, concluding a 16-year hunt by a
Lincolnshire farmer intent on solving one of aviation history's greatest
mysteries
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** Guy the Gorilla voted National History Museum's number one treasure
Guy was voted as such by the general public who have visited the Treasures
exhibition showcasing 4.5bn years of nature, 70 million specimens and 22
objects
** Amazing or catastrophic? First official portrait of Duchess Kate divides
critics
One critic called the photo-realistic portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge
"rotten," another said the face was "dour" and a third that the Duchess had
been transformed into "something unpleasant from the Twilight franchise"
** Kaman's museum an attraction for Japanese tourists
A museum, established in the Anatolian province of Kirsehir's Kaman district
with support from the Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry, saw 30,000 foreign
and Turkish tourists, most of whom were Japanese, walk through its doors
** North Korea to open museum near Angkor Wat
According to reports, North Korea spent US$10 million to build a museum near
the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, and it will begin its operations in April
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** Oakland museum hit by 2nd burglary
A burglar made off with valuable Gold Rush artifacts in the Oakland Museum
of California's second break-in in less than two months
** Getty Museum to Return Ancient Artifact to Sicily
The museum took the initiative to investigate the piece's origins after
seeing fragments in a publication that could join to the head, which dates
to about 300 or 400 B.C.
** First fossil bird with teeth specialized for tough diet
A study of the teeth of a new species of early bird, Sulcavis geeorum,
published in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,
suggests this fossil bird had a durophagous diet, meaning the bird's teeth
were capable of eating prey with hard exoskeletons like insects or crabs
** Abu Dhabi Starts Constructing Louvre Museum Branch After Delays
Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich sheikhdom that's transforming itself into a business
and cultural hub, awarded a contract to build a branch of the Louvre museum
on an island off its coast after a property crash resulted in delays
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Leo - You thought true love would last forever, but you're shocked to
discover an expiration date printed on the back, just below the consumer
warnings
** Perot Museum Visitor Injures Hand At Interactive Exhibit
An interactive exhibit at the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in
Dallas is closed after a visitor suffered an injury to his hand
** Giant Squid Caught On Camera
A giant squid has been captured on camera amidst the pitch black of the deep
ocean in waters south of Tokyo
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** Environments and the visitor experience - Visitor Studies Group
Conference
The Visitor Studies Group is holding its 2013 Conference and AGM on 4th and
5th February at London Wetlands Centre, Barnes.
** A Flying Start for Classic Breakfasts
Classic car owners will get a get a real boost if they turn up to Brooklands
Museum for breakfast on Sunday February 10th
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