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News From Thursday, July 08, 2010
11:00:44 PM Art Trial Reveals Clash of Russian Cultures
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY MOSCOW — Two prominent intellectuals, facing a verdict of up to three years' imprisonment over a museum exhibition in 2007, ... [more]

9:01:00 PM A visitor's guide to the Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Helium - Andover,MA,USA

One of the more historic cities of Spain, Bilbao has developed many museums and attractions to keep tourists and visitors interested, with the Fine Arts ... [more]

7:19:34 PM Cyber Command Secret Cracked
PC World - USA

.... the choice of a free t-shirt or a ticket to the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC to the first reader who could turn the hash into plaintext. ... [more]

4:10:58 PM Museums part with the past in collections revamp
BBC News - E,UK

For decades museums around the UK have been adding to their collections and putting disused exhibits in to storage. But now they are running out of storage ... [more]

3:48:55 PM Big Roman coin hoard found in Britain
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum, Roger Bland, said the hoard has "a huge amount to tell about the coinage and history of the ... [more]

11:50:58 AM Madonna film seeks museum help for Wallis Simpson film
BBC News - E,UK

A wedding outfit on show at a Scottish museum is to take a starring role in a film being directed by Madonna. She has asked for the dress for her ... [more]

9:41:49 AM UK treasure hunter finds 52000 Roman coins
The Associated Press

The British Museum and the Portable Antiquities Scheme announced the find on Thursday. Dave Crisp located the coins in April in a field in southwestern ... [more]

6:23:33 AM Colesville pinball museum going to Georgetown
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By Jeanette Der Bedrosian A Colesville man who owns about 900 pinball machines finally is realizing his dream of opening a museum devoted to the quirky ... [more]

2:28:16 AM Getty Museum ready to buy JMW Turner masterpiece for $44.9 million -- if
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Los Angeles Times (blog) [Story updated at 3:21 pm] The J. Paul Getty Museum is poised to pay $44.9 million for this JMW Turner 1839 painting, "Modern Rome -- Campo Vaccino," but ... [more]

12:53:00 AM Tools Offer Record of Earliest Northern Europeans
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By NICHOLAS WADE The last time the British Museum claimed that the earliest known human was British, some 98 years ago, its evidence was the Piltdown skull, ... [more]



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