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Happy Year of the Dragon, Saddam's cigars, Time capsule prank, Dead hand of Dome, World's oldest bike rack



In the Chinese New Year edition of your international museum ezine
GLOBAL MUSEUM

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We welcome the YEAR OF THE DRAGON - and a Golden Dragon at that!  PLUS the
latest international Museum News:


**  1873 Time Capsule Holds Prank  **
A prankster pulled a fast one back in 1873 when the city buried a time
capsule filled with seed catalogs, maps and coins: a century-old condom was
found among the items during an inventory last week

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**  Dead hand of Dome stirs millennium lottery crisis  **
Figures out today will confirm that the Millennium Dome's eager employees
spent a dull and drafty January. Visitor numbers have been disappointing,
whatever the Dome's spin machine has to say about numbers picking up in the
summer.


**  The world's oldest bike rack  **
It is the kind of archaeological find that might delight Indiana Jones - a
long-lost statue of an Ancient Egyptian king who is mentioned in the Bible


**  U.S., Indians at odds over skeletal remains  **
Federal officials in charge of the bones of Kennewick Man want to perform
DNA tests to determine his cultural affiliation


**  Visions of a bygone era  **
In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in what is now Tokyo Bay demanding
the Tokugawa shogunate open the country to trade.


**  Des paléontologues « pêchent » en Chine les plus vieux vertébrés connus
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Découverts dans des sédiments datant du précambrien, les fossiles de deux
petits « poissons » fournissent quelques éléments pour étayer les théories
sur l'apparition des premiers vertébrés, l'une des questions les plus ardues
et les plus anciennes posées à la biologie


**  The grand old lady of royal art  **
She has the distinction of being the first lady graduate of the J J School
of Arts and has also earned the rare prestige of being commissioned to paint
for Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad of the erstwhile Baroda State and the
Maharaja of Chhota Udepur


**  Expressions of an ancient art in the flesh  **
Piercing our skins. Deforming our bodies. Painting parts (every part) of our
anatomy. Why on earth do we do it?

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**  Art World Nightmare: Made-to-Order Theft  **
The intruder smashed a skylight and lowered himself down a rope, the police
say, before tossing a smoke canister onto the floor of the Hindley Smith
Gallery. In an instant the room filled with smoke, obscuring the view from
the security cameras


**  Theme of International Museum Day, 18 May 2000.  "Museums for peace and
harmony in Society" **


**  Hitler's limousine may finance new Canadian museum  **
A Mercedes-Benz that once belonged to Adolph Hitler could help finance
construction of a new war museum in Canada's capital city, according to the
existing museum's director


**  Globe Stages World's Largest Shakespeare Exhibit  **
Britain's Globe Theater is to stage what is billed as the world's largest
exhibition dedicated to William Shakespeare


**  Saddam presents his cigar-holders to museum   **
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a long-time aficionado of Cuban cigars, has
donated seven of his cigar holders to a Baghdad museum


**  Science Week **

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