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week's edition include:
** Obama-bilia Is Job 1 for Museum Curator
The far-in-the-future National Museum of African American History and
Culture has rushed into the hot collectibles market of President-elect
Barack Obama by salvaging items from his Northern Virginia field office
** Trading on the Street
The Museum of American Finance will open an exhibit tracing the history of
trading on Wall Street from the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement in 1792
to the increasing computerization of trading today
** Relics of Saint Joseph bought by Bulgaria's National History Museum
Though not the first relics that the museum has owned, all that is left,
now, is a silver cross that contains a sliver of the holy cross - many of
the museum's female employees maintain that, when passing by it, their
headache goes away
** Mayan 'highway through hell' found
Legend says the afterlife for ancient Mayas was a terrifying obstacle course
in which the dead had to traverse rivers of blood, and chambers full of
sharp knives, bats and jaguars
** New York Tin Pan Alley 'at risk'
New York's Tin Pan Alley - a group of houses widely considered the
birthplace of American song-writing - is at risk, a group of
conservationists has warned.
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** Installation of 'Monet & the Impressionists'
A series of behind-the-scenes photographs taken during the installation of
the Monet & the Impressionists exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South
Wales
** Google Earth brings ancient Rome to life
Its creator has called it a "virtual time machine" - a digital
reconstruction of ancient Rome that is now available to hundreds of millions
of internet users around the world. Video below
** In praise of that classic kids' toy, the simple stick
When news of the stick's induction into the Rochester, N.Y., hall of fame
broke last week, the rush of playful memories had melancholy on its heels
** WWI exhibit examines role of Asian, African troops
After the guns of World War I fell silent, a young Vietnamese kitchen worker
petitioned the leaders of the victorious Allied powers at the 1919
Versailles peace conference to support independence for his country
** 2,000-year-old gold earring found in Jerusalem
The Israel Antiquities Authority says archaeologists have discovered a
2,000-year-old gold earring beneath a parking lot next to the walls of
Jerusalem's old city
** Myth and Reality at the British Museum
Some treasured myths of Babylon are exploded in the British Museum's new
show, but the truth shines all the more brightly
** Cutting-edge Museum to Open in Southern Seoul Suburb
In the earth lab of the basic sciences hall, visitors can board the motion
simulator to experience an earthquake with magnitude 9.0, which is stronger
than this year's Sichuan earthquake in China (7.9)
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** Museum's 'corpse flower' now unlikely to stink
The Milwaukee Public Museum's titan arum - known as the 'corpse flower' - is
now unlikely to bloom after collapsing on its side
** Museum in US to showcase China's forced labour camps
After languishing 19 years in China's forced labour camps, a Chinese
dissident has set up a museum in Washington to highlight the "horrors and
atrocities" in these secret detention facilities
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer - June 22 -to July 22. Turns out you have no discernible talent for
gardening, and your green thumb is just a ghastly bacterial infection
** All aircraft, and no "froufrou"
The first thing visitors encounter in the main display area of the
Udvar-Hazy Centre, the National Air and Space Museum annex near Dulles
airport in the Virginia countryside, is a huge black spy plane
** Ancient cave yields clues to Chinese history
A stalagmite rising from the floor of a cave in China is providing clues to
the end of several dynasties in Chinese history
** French scientists discover new species of gecko
France's National Museum of Natural History said it was the first time a new
lizard species has been catalogued based on an individual raised from an egg
** The Victoria Cross is Though there is now a wide range of military
awards available to all ranks in the armed services for extraordinary feats
in war, the Victoria Cross remains the most prized and carries with it a
peculiar mystique as the highest such award available
** Costume in the American West: Historic to Modern Times
2009 Symposium
** Living in the past: Histories, Heritage and the Interior - Call for
Papers
The 6th Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference, Kingston University
** CAVEPS 2009 and Darwinian Evolution symposium
12th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and
Systematics, University of New South Wales
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