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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Roisin finds sword lost in the sands of time
Experts now believe it may have been an artefact destined for a wealthy
collector's home which was aboard a ship that sank in the Forth
** Slave had a hand in statue of Freedom
Attaching a rope to Freedom's head, Reid used a block and tackle to tug
gently upward until hairline cracks in the plaster began to reveal the
statue's separate pieces
** Amsterdam's hash museum
The Museum of Hash, Marijuana and Hemp, to give it its full title, is to be
found on one of the canals running through the city's red light district
** Angkor Wat Map reveals ancient urban sprawl
The large-scale city engineered its own downfall by disrupting its local
environment by expanding continuously into the surrounding forests
** Rings stolen from museum
Police are hunting thieves who made off with two historically important
rings from Somerset County Museum, in Taunton
** Pluck of the Irish
It has been called the greatest jail break in Australian colonial history,
yet few know the story of John Boyle O'Reilly and the remarkable rescue in
1875 of six Irish political prisoners who had been transported to Australia
** Museum's slavery tale seeks a closing chapter
It is a gruesome story, well told, but also providing a sense of achievement
and dignity for the descendants of victims
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** French museums agency established to progress Louvre Abu Dhabi
A powerful new agency, represented by some of the most prominent cultural
personalities in France, has been formed to steer the development of the
planned Louvre Abu Dhabi, which is to be built in the Cultural District of
Saadiyat Island just 500 metres offshore the capital of the United Arab
Emirates
** Peanuts Museum Kicks Off a Yearlong Charlie Brown Celebration
Sparky said he would end "Peanuts" when he finally wore a hole in the
drawing board he used for 50 years
** Married to the museum
Both also love objects - the ones that populate their museums and the stuff
they have a passion for collecting
** A Museum to Get Lost In, and How Israel Is Fixing It
The Israel Museum is one of the finest in the Middle East - if you can
figure out how to get in and find the art
** This Week's Horoscope
Gemini May 21 to June 21 - It's easy to lose one's sense of perspective in
life, especially with no vanishing point, horizon line, or transversal plane
to help gauge distance
** Cagayan de Oros lost treasure
Among the few who did find a treasure were archaeologists and
anthropologists who, after an extensive study of the site, declared it to be
a significant archaeological discovery
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** Steam engines & super expresses
The Edo-Tokyo Museum in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, is offering a chance to look
back at that golden age through an exhibition titled The Great Railway
Expo - Riding the Train Back to the Showa Period
** Medieval Cross Turns Up in Trash
A medieval cross that was hidden from the Nazis and ended up in the trash
has been found to be worth more than a half-million dollars
** Staff trained before warriors stampede
Psychologists have been training British Museum staff in people management
before tens of thousands visit its exhibition of the Chinese terracotta
warriors
** Banksy caught in the act with Marilyn Monroe
In the past, he has placed a painting of a can of Tesco value tomato soup
and a woman wearing a gas mask in galleries in New York
** Double-nosed dog not to be sniffed at
There is a chance that these dogs came from a breed with double noses that's
known in Spain as Pachon Navarro, which were hunting dogs at the time of the
Conquistadors
** Giant statue of Hadrian unearthed
Parts of a huge, exquisitely carved statue of the Roman Emperor Hadrian have
been found at an archaeological site in south-central Turkey
** Facing Impermanence: Exploring Preventive Conservation for Textiles
** Andy Warhol's Endangered Species and Vanishing Animals
** Between Reform and Revolution - The Spanish Contribution to the
Independence of the United States
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