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this week's edition include:


**  15th-century letter raises doubts about Columbus legacy
There's another Columbus letter - this one received by the famed explorer in 
1498 and stumbled upon just 50 years ago in a Spanish archive - that 
continues to confound and tantalize historians, some of whom believe it 
contains evidence English sailors reached Canada a decade or more before 
Columbus discovered the New World, and that the Santa Maria's captain knew 
about it all along

**  Search for India's ancient city with Roman connections
Much-recorded in Roman times, Muziris was a major centre for trade between 
Rome and southern India - but appeared to have simply disappeared

**  Saskatchewan fossils on move to new home
A rhino-like Megacerops and a pig-like Entelodont that roamed the Cypress 
Hills 35 million years ago will have new digs when they debut in October at 
the new fossil gallery in Ottawa's Canadian Museum of Nature

**  Che sera sera
An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum, intelligently celebrates 
the life of Che's portrait, tracing its romantic beginnings, right through 
to its co-option by the forces of corporate capitalism

**  Williamsburg uses 21st-century technology as link to 18th century
Thomas Jefferson isn't about to start listening to an iPod, with telltale 
earbud wires dangling from beneath his three-cornered hat as he walks the 
streets of Colonial Williamsburg
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**  Auditor hits out at museums body
The body representing Northern Ireland's museums and galleries has been 
criticised for its standard of record-keeping and storage

**  Dig planned at Donner Party site
Archaeologists planning a major dig at the lake campsite of the Donner Party 
hope they will find remnants of history going back thousands of years

**  JFK papers, photos to be put on the Internet
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is launching a massive 
project to post 48 million pages of documents, 400,000 photos and 1,200 
hours of video on the Internet

**  Tactics mar museum election
Never mind the primary results, the most bitterly contested election in town 
this week was for the governing board of the Union City Historical Museum

**  Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method
Armed with only with a Bunsen burner, a modest supply of chemical compounds, 
and a balance scale - the last of which Hapner has "yet to find any good 
reason to use" - this controversial nonconformist defies every standard 
definition of what a scientist should be

**  Germany opens literature museum
Friedrich Nietzsche's death mask and Franz Kafka's manuscript of "The Trial" 
are among more than 1,300 exhibits featured at the new Museum of Modern 
Literature in Marbach, which opened this week in the native town of German 
writer Friedrich Schiller

**  Scientists probe 2,000-year-old Greek computer
A bronze Greek device constructed in around 80BC could be the world's oldest 
computer, joint British-Greek research seems to suggest
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**  Papers, items related to sale of Jumbo the elephant to be auctioned
Papers and items related to the controversial 1882 sale of Jumbo the 
elephant to American circus owner P.T. Barnum will be auctioned in London

**  150 frogs from 15 countries
Frogs in the show include the Vietnamese mossy frog, the waxy monkey frog 
and the Chinese gliding frog

**  Denver Art Museum Reports Loss Of $5.7 Million This Year
The museum said the loss is the result of declining revenue with the closing 
of some galleries

**  Fake Coins Found on Display at Kahramanmaras Museum
An inspection at Kahramanmaras Museum has revealed 545 coins dating back to 
333 and 361 B.C. have been stolen and replaced with copies. Museum's 
storehouse manager arrested

**  Michelangelo fever keeps British Museum open til midnight
The Michelangelo exhibition at the British Museum is proving so popular that 
the institution is to stay open until midnight for the first time in its 
247-year history

**  China salvages 60,000 relics of shadow play
The one-dimensional leather puppets, tools for making them and rendition 
paintings will be preserved in a museum for the protection of shadow 
puppetry in Chengdu, capital northwest China's Sichuan Province

**  Idaho museum to open Bigfoot exhibit
Included in the exhibit is the Patterson-Gimlin film that shows a large 
creature striding away before turning and looking directly at the camera

**  Volvo Vikings are coming

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