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      <title>Palaeontologists use rotting fish to reveal the secrets of our ancestors</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:46:57 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fish-like fossils from half a billion years ago are recognised as being part of our evolutionary history because they possess characteristic anatomical features, such as a tail, eyes and the precursor of a backbone]]></description>
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      <title>New light on Ancient Mariner</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:46:33 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The man behind the Ancient Mariner, the unsettling character who holds a wedding guest spellbound with his "glittering eye" in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, has been unearthed by a writer from Shropshire, England]]></description>
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      <title>Mengele's journal bought by Holocaust survivor's grandson</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:46:03 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jewish groups slam auctioning off of journal apparently written by Auschwitz's 'Angel of Death', in which he wrote of genetic purity and staining of superior bloodlines by 'morons' and 'idiots']]></description>
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      <title>Native Americans First Tamed Turkeys 2,000 Years Ago</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:44:56 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/turkey.jpg"><br/>More than 1,500 years before Christopher Columbus and his crew sailed to the New World, Native Americans had already domesticated turkeys twice: first in south-central Mexico at around 800 B.C. and again in what is now the south-western U.S. at about 200 B.C., according to a new study]]></description>
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      <title>Follow Us OnTwitter</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:44:25 +0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Ancient croc kin likely food for largest ever snake</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:44:24 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A 60-million-year-old croc kin was a likely food source for Titanoboa, the largest snake the world has ever known]]></description>
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      <title>Int'l Civil Rights Museum Grand Opening</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:43:59 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[February 1, 2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the sit-in of four NC A&T students. Ezell Blair, Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil and Franklin McCain sat at a segregated lunch counter at Woolworths in downtown Greensboro]]></description>
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      <title>Early copy of the Gospel of Mark is a forgery</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:43:29 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/mark3.jpg"><br/>Although speculation as to the authenticity of the Archaic Mark codex has been rife for more than 60 years, prior to this definitive research many believed it was an early record (possibly as early as the 14th century) of the Gospel of Mark and the closest of any extant manuscript to the world's oldest Greek Bible-the fourth-century Codex Vaticanus]]></description>
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      <title>Could museum's gold be from ancient Troy?</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:42:58 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The scientist had travelled from Germany to examine the ancient items that lay before him on the University of Pennsylvania laboratory table, and he was dazzled]]></description>
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      <title>After the Putti, the Baby Calamari</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:42:35 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[After a morning of being guided through the paintings and sculptures of the great masters, everyone would head for the basement cafeteria, where you would stand in line, plastic trays in hand, waiting to be treated to a lunch of rubbery chicken and gooey tapioca pudding]]></description>
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      <title>Join the Global Museum Social Network Now</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:43:10 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Join the Global Museum Social Network and blog, share files, contribute to the Wiki and more.
More than 453 people have joined and we would like to welcome you.]]></description>
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      <title>A WWII air hero enlivens Willow Grove museum</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:42:09 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Not all of the relics are made of metal, however, and surely none is as charming and beloved as Lap, who has lived the history the museum celebrates and flown many of the planes on display]]></description>
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      <title>Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:41:41 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Abbaworld, scheduled to open in London, will offer 25 rooms and more than 30,000 square feet of Abba-related fare, chronicling the ascent of Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anna-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Faltskog from their teenage years to the present day]]></description>
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      <title>Ambassador or slave?</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:41:14 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This appears to be the first time that a skeleton with an East Asian ancestry has been discovered in the Roman Empire]]></description>
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      <title>Questions Over Fixing Torn Picasso</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:40:45 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[It can be found in a new, temporary home, the Met's conservation laboratory, where experts there are trying to determine the best course of action for this 105-year-old painting's brand-new feature: an irregular, six-inch tear running vertically along the lower right-hand corner]]></description>
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      <title>Important new fossils found in Abu Dhabi</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:40:20 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[It should be noted that more sites were discovered, all belonging to a period between six to eight million years ago, containing high-quality fossils from the many types of animal that lived at that time, including 
elephants, hippopotamuses, antelopes, giraffes, monkeys, rodents, large and small carnivores, ostriches, turtles, crocodiles and fish]]></description>
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      <title>This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:40:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.globalmuseum.org</link>
      <author>director@globalmuseum.org</author>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/weird_superbed.jpg"><br/>Who's the winner?]]></description>
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      <title>Museum digs up South Seas treasure</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:39:49 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A lost collection of exotic artefacts from the Pacific expeditions of Captain James Cook and the Scottish explorers who followed him to the South Seas has been rediscovered]]></description>
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      <title>The Museum For The Study of Money</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:39:21 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is no better place than a bank to obtain information about money, and now the Bank of Thailand has opened a museum to tell the history of Thai banking and display a complete collection of Thai money through the ages]]></description>
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      <title>British Museum in battle with Iran over ancient 'charter of rights'</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:38:56 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The discovery of fragments of ancient cuneiform tablets - hidden in a British Museum storeroom since 1881 - has sparked a diplomatic row between the UK and Iran]]></description>
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      <title>Experts may have found bones of English princess</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:38:31 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[An international team of scientists say they think they've found the body of  Princess Eadgyth (pronounced Edith) - a 10th-century noblewoman who has been compared to Princess Diana]]></description>
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      <title>Top ten passions of Ancient Rome</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:37:44 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[By the time of the emperors, the Romans had created the world's first global empire stretching from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, and from Scotland in the north to Egypt in the south. See also Ancient Roman cuisine]]></description>
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      <title>Family con that fooled the art world</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:37:18 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A talented forger who created fake masterpieces in his council home and then sold them to museums and art collectors with the help of his elderly parents is behind bars]]></description>
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      <title>Fear, Force, and Leather</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:36:46 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA["Fear, Force, and Leather: The Texas Prison System's First Hundred Years, 1848-1948" is a new online history exhibit from the Texas State Library and Archives]]></description>
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      <title>Museums Australia 2010 National Conference 28 Sep-2 Oct 2010</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:36:14 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[On behalf of the Program Committee of the 14th annual Museums Australia National Conference, we invite you to submit an abstract in response to our call for papers]]></description>
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      <title>And More..........</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:35:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>director@globalmuseum.org</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Discover the Globe's freshest Museum stories at Global Museum!]]></description>
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