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**  Unitas hands off to Ruth Museum
Johnny Unitas has donated his personal collection of football memorabilia=
 to
the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore

**  Longitude clock comes alive
One of the most famous clocks ever built is running again this week - the
first time it has done so in over a decade
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**  Freighting a precious cargo
One regular passenger flight from Italy to Australia in recent days carri=
ed
an irregular passenger

**  Gaining insight into the Great Auk
Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum's Centre for Biodiversity and
Conservation Biology have been extracting DNA from the bone of the Great =
Auk

**  Innovative building to show dinosaur stampede
A $2 million building in western Queensland is set to break new ground in
the display and preservation of the world's only recorded dinosaur stampe=
de

**  Whew! Stealth asteroid nearly blindsides Earth
A sizable asteroid zipped near our planet this month without anyone notic=
ing
because it travelled through an astronomical blind spot
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**  Museum problems are closer to home
Its excessive caution in rejecting the opportunity last year to exhibit t=
he
Dead Sea Scrolls did its credibility no favours

**  World trade in bodies is linked to corpse art show
As shock art it's hard to beat but behind the controversial travelling
corpse show, Body Worlds, just opened in London , lies a morbid
international trade in cadavers

**  Copper ingots from wreck return to Cornwall
Five ingots of Cornish copper are returning to their home county after ly=
ing
on the seabed for 120 years

**   Clamour over Il Duce's Bed
Part of Benito Mussolini's private compound in Rome was opened up as a
museum and is already ruffling feathers in a country still trying to come=
 to
terms with its fascist past

**   This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST

**  "Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America" opens at The Center For Ma=
ine
History Museum at Maine Historical Society

**  Australian Archaeology Conferences 2002

**  Archaeology and Heritage in Flanders, Belgium: A Multi-Cultural Europ=
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Past

**  Midwest Archives Conference spring meeting

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