Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free webzine compendium, read weekly by 7,400 readers in more than 156 countries *** "As far as I am concerned it is the best source for museum professionals in search of employment " *** Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org 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: ** Vintage Collector Cheated By Counterfeit Wines The FBI is investigating whether inferior bottles of wine were passed off as rare vintages worth more £50,000 a bottle, including some portrayed as belonging to American founding father Thomas Jefferson's collection ** Humans Caught Pubic Lice From Gorillas Three Million Years Ago In collaboration with scientists who collected lice from primates in Ugandan wildlife sanctuaries, Reed and his colleagues extracted DNA from the parasites and used fossil data from humans and gorillas to estimate how long ago these two kinds of lice shared a common ancestor ** Feds Seize F-14s From Museum Federal agents seized four retired F-14 fighter jets that authorities said were improperly transferred from the Navy to two air museums ** More Connery than Craig Psychologists Rob Jenkins, from the University of Glasgow, and Richard Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, created the image which was unveiled at a free event Science Museum's Dana Centre ** Physicist's Nobel Prize stolen from UC museum University of California-Berkeley police say that the coin-like 1939 Nobel Prize in physics was displayed with other artefacts from Lawrence's life and work in the sprawling E.O. Lawrence Memorial Room at the science museum ** Iran's priceless antiquities lie in line of fire In his quiet office at the British Museum in London, among portraits of dead explorers and 3000-year-old inscriptions, one of the greatest experts on the archaeology of the Middle East has a series of maps of Iranian nuclear installations spread out across his desk ** Museum fire damage costs £100,000 A fire that swept through a museum in Cornwall has an caused an estimated £100,000 in damage ________________________________________________________________ **** GREAT FARES & DEALS FOR 2007! **** MUSEUM-TRAVELLER.COM - Global Museum's Travel Service For Business and Pleasure - the leading provider of online museum travel, established in1998. 40,000 in over 8,000 cities worldwide. Discounts up to 65% off. Rooms for sold-out dates. Group Reservations. CLICK HERE http://www.museum-traveller.com Airfares, Car Rentals, Accommodation, Destination Guides, Condo's and Cruises! Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** Argentine team finds fossil of South America's oldest horse A team of Argentine palaeontologists from a small museum on the outskirts of Buenos Aires found the fossilized remains of South America's oldest horse, which lived in the region some 500,000 years ago ** Ladybugs cause evacuation at Los Angeles museum A crowded surrealism exhibit in L-A got slightly more surreal after an unattended bag set off an evacuation ** Spiky creature prowled ocean half billion years ago Scientists say a spectacularly quirky creature with long, curved spines protruding from its armoured body prowled the ocean floor 500 million years ago near the dawn of complex life forms on Earth ** How Vikings Might Have Navigated on Cloudy Days A team sailed the Arctic Ocean aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden and found that sunstones could indeed light the way in foggy and cloudy conditions ** Stolen art found in Spielberg collection The FBI in Los Angeles recovered a Norman Rockwell painting - stolen more than 30 years ago - from the collection of movie director Stephen Spielberg ** Is it Blackbeard's ship? Archaeological booty says aye A shipwreck off the North Carolina coast believed to be that of notorious pirate Blackbeard could be fully excavated in three years more ** Research Grant Blown Wooing Research Assistant University of Montana wildlife biologist and Herbert R. Braithwaite Foundation research grant recipient Dr. James Neuthom has spent his entire $275,000 grant - intended for the study of whirling disease on rainbow trout - on such items as a 15-foot sailboat, scented stationery, and several dozen boxes of chocolate ** Computer archive used to find stolen art The request was simple enough, Lloyd's underwriters had been approached to insure the movement of seven paintings, including one by Cezanne, from Russia to London for valuation and sale ________________________________________________________________________ GLOBAL PANDEMIC NEWS - New Blog Format, Live News Feeds & Information on the spread of Bird Flu' http://www.pandemic-news.info ________________________________________________________________________ ** Great cultural leap forward The $126 million Shanghai museum is generally recognised as China's first world-class museum in terms of standards of display and preservation, and is now regarded as something of a standard bearer for change ** Spy Caused British Nuclear Fears Stunned by the revelation that a British scientist was passing American nuclear secrets to the Soviets immediately after World War II, diplomats feared the scandal could result in Britain's exclusion from U.S. atomic weapons programs ** Pirates who got away with it by sailing closer to the wind Barbary pirates raided villages along the Devon and Cornwall coast, setting up a base on Lundy Island ** Italian cultural world feuds over loan of Leonardo painting to Tokyo museum The government may be wobbling, the economy sputtering, but there's nothing like a good art feud to get Italians really riled up ** The International Child Art Foundation will host the World Children's Festival ** Contemporary Botanical Art ** Museum Education Roundtable Reception at AAM ** Open Source History: Making History Public All this and more for you at Global Museum - See the latest museum JOBS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, PODCASTS, HOT JOB TIPS, great people posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable WORLD TRAVEL, Podcasts, Museum Accredited Courses, Products & Services. http://www.globalmuseum.org First published on the Web in 1998 and going strong! 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