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week's edition include:
** Thief disguised as guard robs Italy museum
The thief showed up at the Pitti Palace, a grandiose renaissance
construction in central Florence and one of Italy's best known museums,
wearing the same uniform used by employees of the security firm which every
day collects the institution's takings
** World's first underwater museum launched
Some 2,016 years later, the ancient port of Caesarea - along the
Mediterranean coast of Israel - was inaugurated again last week, this time
as the world's first underwater museum
** UCLA Egyptologists to Launch New E-Encyclopaedia
In cooperation with an international team of scholars, UCLA is launching the
world's first comprehensive online encyclopaedia dedicated to all aspects of
ancient Egypt and its legacy
** The Japanese spy network in Brisbane
Australian intelligence reports revealed that Ichikawa had been active as a
spy shortly after his arrival in Australia in 1939 and one of his close
contacts was a Brisbane-based oil technologist, Harry William Woodfield
** Burglar makes off with historical artefacts from Fort Davis museum
The stolen guns were never actually in use at the fort, but were
representative of the time period and displayed in the historical site's
museum as examples of the rapid developments in firearm technology during
the 19th century
** A Heritage For The Future
It is the only museum in the world able to present the 120-year history of
the automotive industry from day one
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** State Museum director ousted after two years on the job
The New Jersey State Museum executive director has been fired by its board
of trustees, who cited differences about the direction of the museum's
future
** Ancient relics under ant disaster in Xi'an
Wooden structure relics in the ancient city of Xi'an famous for its
Terra-cotta warriors and Tang Dynasty(618-907) buildings in northwest China
are in danger of falling victims to white ants
** Harvard Author Blames Literary Theft on Acid Reflux
A native of India, Ms. Viswanathan also blamed her "unintentional"
plagiarism on her photographic memory and the American educational system
** Three found guilty in robbery of Oslo's Munch Museum
Three of the men charged in the bold daylight robbery of two famed paintings
by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch were found guilty on Tuesday
** Up in arms over Madrid cutting down museum trees
A project that would increase motor traffic at the cost of cutting down
trees hundreds of years old that adorn the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in
Madrid has enraged Baroness Thyssen, owner of one of the world's most
important art collections
** Underwater museum under construction
The underwater museum is being built at the site of the Baiheliang, meaning
"white crane ridge" stone, which carries 18 fish figurines and over 30,000
characters of poems carved by ancients over the past 1,200 years to measure
the water level in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in low water
seasons
** Alaska moves to protect wreck sites from looters
None is more significant that the Sophia, the sinking of which was
particularly tragic for the Yukon and British Columbia, and which prompted a
decades-long controversy over why passengers from the ship weren't rescued
before she finally sank three days after being stranded on Vanderbilt Reef
** Beauty in the eye of the billionaire
Pinault, owner of Christies, Gucci, Yves St Laurent and a retail fortune
that ranks him 74th richest man in the world, turned his back on plans to
build a museum in Paris for his private art collection and bought the
Palazzo Grassi in Venice instead
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** Professor shares Andean discovery
In the 33-foot high Andean temple, Benfer's team found the earliest known
astronomical alignment and sculptures in the New World
** Historians Protest Smithsonian's Deals
The latest criticism follows a month of public debate over partnerships the
Smithsonian made with commercial businesses and the change in policy about
access to its archives
** Te Papa `propaganda' under fire
National is labelling an interactive Te Papa display a blatant propaganda
tool because it congratulates role-players for choosing to join Labour.
** China's 17th-century porcelains on show in UK
The exhibition, named Dragons and Immortals, features a collection of bowls,
incense burners, brush pots and other objects for the scholar's desk from
the late Ming Dynasty (1488-1644), when the country witnessed a transition
into the Qing Dynasty (1614-1911)
** Rat tracks tell story of Pacific
Rats are playing an ever more important role in the understanding of the
early human travels through the Pacific
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** Inventing America: The Interplay of Technology and Democracy in Shaping
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** Exhibition introduces DNA technologies for authentication of Chinese
herbs
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