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week's edition include:
** Riveting Rosies take off
She weighed barely 90 pounds, but was scrappy and brave enough to climb into
the air ducts of fighter planes in order to carry out her rivet work
** Big Mac creator stars in a museum for the hamburger
Not only will displays hold examples of the sandwich's original packaging
and other Big Mac collectibles, but the restaurant will also house a bronze
bust of the creator. More
** Museum hosts Munro's bike
One of two working replicas made at the Britten Motorcycle factory in
Christchurch, the 'Munro Special' starred in Roger Donaldson's film, 'The
World's Fastest Indian'
** Indonesia to build tsunami museum in Aceh
Indonesia will build a US$7.5 million tsunami museum in Aceh province to
commemorate the 216,000 people who died when towering waves crashed into
Asian coastlines nearly three years ago
** Museum focuses on slavery
The murdered black teenager Anthony Walker features in the International
Slavery Museum, which opens this week in Liverpool
** China's 1st postal museum opens
The China Museum of Postal Services and Stamps will house almost 10,000
exhibit items in a four-story exhibition hall with a floor space of 7,500
square meters
** Hezbollah showcases 'Divine Victory' over Israel in war museum
Welcome to "Spider's Web," a war museum south of Beirut that has become
Hezbollah's latest propaganda tool - showcasing what it says was a divine
victory over Israel in last summer's war
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** Was Mumtaz really buried at Taj Mahal?
In India the mystery surrounding Mumtaz Mahal's burial at the Taj Mahal has
deepened with several Mughal historians asserting that her body was not
mummified
** Canadian War Museum turns off 'insulting' flag exhibits
After months of protest from a group of Japanese-Canadians, the Canadian War
Museum has turned off part of two exhibits that allowed visitors to walk
over images of flags
** Hidden history that lies undiscovered
What attracted Marion Campbell to Auchindrain, or Achadh an Droighinn -The
Field of the Thorntree - were the 22 historic buildings and the agricultural
land that represented the last complete surviving example in Scotland of a
unique and ancient arrangement of traditional farming and land tenure
** Presley-Owned Handgun Taken From Museum
A handgun once owned by Elvis Presley was stolen from a museum as fans
converged on Memphis to mark the 30th anniversary of the singer's death
** Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not
There's a moustache drawn on the photo of Marcel Duchamp, the font size
keeps changing, and halfway through, the type starts going in a circle
** Student dig unearths ancient gum
A 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum has been discovered by an archaeology
student from the University of Derby
** Straight, Curly, Flaxen, Waxen and 80 Feet Long
These two pieces are the 25th and 26th of his hair installations, which he
has done starting in 1993 in 16 different countries on six continents
incorporating the hair of some four million people
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** Behold the Mighty Qin
Crowds will soon be queuing round the block at the British Museum to see a
platoon of recruits from the Terracotta Army, but a trip to China to see the
entire battalion of 6,000 figures is awe-inspiring
** Shanghai's first maglev museum opens
Shanghai's first Maglev Museum has opened where visitors can explore the
history and technology behind the magnetic levitation train and play
interactive games
** Stonehenge, Eiffel Tower 'disappointing'
British visitors have put the boot into some of Britain and the world's
best-known tourist attractions, branding the likes of Stonehenge and the
Eiffel Tower dismal let-downs
** Laser scans verify Lincoln's lopsided face
Everybody has a good and bad side, but when it comes to Abraham Lincoln's
face the bad side was more evident
** Feature Site - The Fort la Reine Museum
The Fort la Reine Museum, Pioneer Village & Tourist Bureau Inc. tells a
fascinating story about the settlement, cultivation, and development of the
Canadian Prairies
** Working Digital Assets - This day-long symposium will explore the
current state of managing, sharing, and preserving digital assets.
** Pleasure Gardens, Past, Present, and Future - The Holburne Museum,
Bath, Monday 10th September 2007
** Historical Re-enactments. Should we take them seriously? - The History
Council of NSW presents the 12th Annual History Lecture
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