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week's edition include:
** A lost world recalled
Many an Irish zoologist discovered a life's vocation here as a child in the
company of parents eager to introduce them to the splendours of the natural
world
** Cologne Museum Sheds Light on Nazi Era
Prisoners were forced to build their own torture cells in the basement of
the building, while Gestapo officers carried out business as usual on the
upper floors
** Books, beer and whisky at new city museum
The rich brewing and printing heritage of the Southside is to be celebrated
with the opening of a new community museum
** A ship possibly dating back to 7th century discovered in Cambodia
Cambodian naval divers discovered the remains of a sunken sail ship and a
range of pottery in 20-to-30-meter- deep waters off the coast of Koh Sdech
island in Koh Kong province
** Galway Man Seeks to Beat Niall's Record
Seamus Patrick Joyce, age 24, of Galway, has stated his intention to be more
fertile than famed Irish king Niall of the Nine Hostages
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** Columbus mystery nearly solved 500 yrs after death
Debate about origins and final resting place of Columbus has raged for over
a century, with historians questioning the traditional theory that he hails
from Genoa, Italy
** Museum employee accused of s*x crimes
Boland was arrested at Discovery Place, where he was recently hired to be a
part-time ticket taker for the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit
** View of Easter Island Disaster All Wrong, Researchers Say
The finding challenges the widely held notion that Easter Island's
civilization experienced a sudden collapse after centuries of slow growth
** Museum Collections Shrink As Tribes Reclaim Artefacts
Pottery fragments, stones, human remains and religious items used in
centuries-old ceremonies are increasingly finding their way back to tribal
lands, mostly through federal legislation passed in 1990 that helps museums
and tribes deal with what is on public display
** Roman coin hoard is largest of its kind
The 621 copper alloy coins, found by a metal detector enthusiast near
Mildenhall in October, may have been buried for safekeeping during times of
political turmoil
** Sunken treasure theft arrests
The antiques were recovered from sunken ships in the sea off Java and the
Bangka-Belitung islands and included thousands of ceramics and pieces of
glassware dating back centuries
** Shop owner key in cracking museum theft case
A downtown photo store operator whose sharp eye led to the recovery of
artefacts stolen from the Bata Shoe Museum is hoping he'll get a $25,000
reward offered for help in cracking the case
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** 2,000 dead birds shown at Toronto museum to urge downtown to turn off
lights
A neatly arranged collection of some 2,000 dead blue jays, sparrows and
woodpeckers made for a graphic display at a Toronto museum as part of an
effort to draw attention to the countless birds that die each year after
crashing into brightly lit buildings
** Belfast Museum had irregular money
Irregular payments of nearly £100,000 were made to prevent shutting down a
Belfast museum where loyalist paramilitaries announced their 1994 ceasefire,
a report has revealed
** Why blokes barbecue: ancient embers reveal all
It is not surprising that even today, some of our behaviour may be
influenced by instincts that developed through our long evolutionary history
** Grandmother opens erotic art museum in Miami
For the last 15 years, Naomi Wilzig has arrived at antique shows with a sign
hanging around her neck: "Buying Erotica."
** 'Yeti crab' found in depths of Pacific
A French biologist reported the find of a bizarre species of hairy
crustacean that lives near hydrothermal vents in the deep Pacific Ocean
** Museums in legal bind as terror victims sue
A Rhode Island lawyer has pioneered a new legal front in the war on
terrorism, turning to the collections of major American museums to seek
compensation for victims of Middle East suicide bombers
** Peru museum has diseases on the brain
Thousands of human brains float in jars of formaldehyde at a unique museum
that gives visitors to Lima an up-close view of brain diseases, from
trichinosis to stroke
** The "Ancient Chinese Weapons" Exhibition opens at the Hong Kong Museum
of Coastal Defence
** UMAC Mexico City 2006 - New Roads for University Museums
** Harpies, Mermaids, and Tulips: Embroidery of the Greek Islands and
Epirus Region
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