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Mammoth problem with door size, Lice aren't nice, Cezanne not insured, King Tut's new wardrobe



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**  Mammoth Stuck Outside New Museum
A life-size bronze sculpture of an Ice Age mammoth is proving to be a
mammoth headache for the University of Oklahoma, which has been unable to
fit the beast through the doors of the country's newest natural history
museum.

**  Recreational use for N.Y.'s former military island
Governor's Island, 170 acres (69 hectares) of prime real estate off
Manhattan in New York Harbor, will be developed into a major civic, cultural
and educational destination

**  Oxford University Says Stolen Cezanne Not Insured
Britain's Oxford University said Thursday that a $3.3 million Paul Cezanne
canvas stolen during New Year celebrations was not insured.

**  Purple heart museum boss squandered funds
After spending nearly $620,000 of public and private money, the organizers
of the National Purple Heart Museum have nothing to show but a $33,000 set
of blueprints, according to a report by the state's Attorney General.

**  Old railroad shop may get new life
There's not much left to the old carpentry shop at the Central of Georgia
Railroad Complex

**  Revamped museum impresses visitors
The newly revamped Akaroa Museum is giving visitors the opportunity to learn
about New Zealand by tracing Akaroa's history

**  Te Papa may be 'punished'
The Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, might have to stop objecting to
Wellington waterfront development proposals if it wants another $10 million
from the city's ratepayers

**  New Exhibit Recreates the Wardrobe of King Tutankhamen
By displaying re-creations of tunics, jackets and underwear found in
Tutankhamen's 3,300-year-old tomb, creators of a museum exhibit are hoping
to breathe some life into the legendary Egyptian king

** The Long-Entrenched Notions of Art
As the dwindling of art supplies forces onto the auction scene the less
conventional works that were hitherto conveniently ignored, the neat
labeling we had become accustomed to becomes increasingly irrelevant

**  Pubic Vermin Tortured Brits for Millennia
The endlessly irritating pubic louse (aka the crab louse) turned up in
archaeological excavations at an 1,800-year-old Roman fort in Carlisle,
England .

**  Satellites Explore the Hidden Wonders of Egypt
It is reasonable to suppose that, despite some 200 years of archaeological
explorations, some pyramids remain to be discovered in in the desert on the
Nile's west bank

**  Last Crewman From Sunken Confederate Sub Found
Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of the last missing
member of the first crew of the historic Confederate submarine Hunley buried
in a shallow grave under a South Carolina football stadium
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