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    <copyright>Global Museum 2013</copyright>
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      <title>There's WHAT at the museum?</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:47:58 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Inside a glass case at the Brigham City Museum of Art and History is the prosthetic leg of former Mayor Jonah Mathias and the Farmington Historical Museum has a pair of giant metal folk art heads]]></description>
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      <title>18 years and counting to finish Spanish royal painting</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:47:44 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The artist famous for his realistic style has been ordered to stay in the royal palace and complete his portrait of the Spanish royal family that he began 18 years ago ]]></description>
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      <title>Medieval crown jewels on display at Prague castle</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:47:29 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The medieval works of art consist of a gold crown decorated with 96 precious stones including rubies and sapphires, along with a sceptre, royal orb and other precious objects]]></description>
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      <title>A job for the maggot squad</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:47:07 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Few museums can boast staff with the specialist skills of Amoret Whitaker, a motorbike-riding zoologist who is one of its two forensic entomologists – experts whose craft is focused on helping police in murder investigations, principally by examining maggots and other insect life found in and around a corpse to determine a time of death]]></description>
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      <title>Follow Us On Twitter</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:46:45 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Join Us - 998,299 Museum News Tweets and 3,330 Followers]]></description>
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      <title>Piles of stolen Ai Weiwei sunflower seeds grow as Couriers of Taste exhibition idea succeeds</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:46:44 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The curators were looking for anyone who had pocketed one of the millions of porcelain sunflower seeds that made up Ai Weiwei’s artwork at Tate Modern in 2010 to lend them their souvenirs for the show]]></description>
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      <title>Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:46:31 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[To help solve this mystery, scientists investigated ancient DNA from the teeth of 19 different sixth-century skeletons from a medieval graveyard in Bavaria, Germany, of people who apparently succumbed to the Justinianic Plague]]></description>
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      <title>U.S. museum defends plan to honor Hamas-linked journalists killed in Gaza</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:46:17 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Since 1996, the Newseum, the Washington D.C. journalism and media museum, has been holding an annual ceremony in which it honors journalists killed while reporting]]></description>
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      <title>'Circle' Us on Google+</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:46:02 +1300</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[359 have already added us to their circles, 299 in Community]]></description>
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      <title>A museum to showcase farmers’ innovations</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:46:01 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The late Mr. Joseph, a primary school dropout with several inventions and patents to his credit, was the inventor of the coconut climbing machine, widely being used in many Indian states today]]></description>
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      <title>Family album of Tsar Nicholas II resurfaces in museum exhibition</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:45:24 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://hosting.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/Tsar.jpg"><br/>Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution, Russia’s last Tsar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of his family into an album which has now come to light in a Russian provincial museum]]></description>
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      <title>Google Earth fuelling ‘armchair archaeology’</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:45:09 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The detail in many of the images is astonishing and allows archaeologists to investigate sites without leaving the safety of their offices]]></description>
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      <title>The Global Museum store - shop online</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:44:35 +0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.zazzle.com/super_museum_chick_trucker_hat-148957464739960861</link>
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      <title>Getty Museum buys 'Rembrandt Laughing'</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:44:34 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://hosting.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/Gett_rembr.jpg"><br/>The exact price could be revealed when the Getty applies for an export license from the British government, which gives museums there a chance to match the price for an artwork of “outstanding significance” historically or artistically and keep it in the country ]]></description>
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      <title>8 Famous People Who Missed the Lusitania</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:44:20 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[On the day the Lusitania set sail from New York, the German Embassy ran ads in U.S. newspapers, warning travelers to avoid liners flying the British flag]]></description>
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      <title>Museum prostituted for populism</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:44:05 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Powerhouse Museum has been prostituted in pursuit of misguided populism, says one of Australia's leading arts figures]]></description>
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      <title>Join the Global Museum Social Network Now</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:43:34 +0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927</link>
      <author>director@globalmuseum.org</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Join the Global Museum's LinkedIn Network
2,028 people have joined on the LinkedIn platform and we would like to welcome you.]]></description>
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      <title>Mobster With Suspected Links To Boston Museum Heist Gets 30-Month Sentence</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:43:33 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[It also was disclosed in court that a government polygraph examiner concluded there was a 99 percent chance that Gentile, whose arrest record begins in the late 1950s, was lying last year when he denied having knowledge of the unsolved Gardner heist]]></description>
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      <title>To Raze or Not? MoMA Rethinks Plan</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:43:16 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[One person involved in the plans, who was not authorized to comment and therefore spoke on condition of anonymity, said that MoMA was still likely to arrive at the same conclusion]]></description>
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      <title>New Gettysburg exhibit features 8 flags recovered from battlefield</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:42:30 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://hosting.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/Gett_Flag.jpg"><br/>Among the swords, the wrenching letters home and the haunting photographs in the Museum of the Confederacy’s new exhibit on Gettysburg, few artifacts embody the ferocious battle more than the eight battle flags recovered from the bloodied fields where Pickett’s Charge was fought]]></description>
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      <title>Join Us On Facebook</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:42:18 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[2,154 of us have Liked Global Museum on Facebook. Why not join us!]]></description>
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      <title>Canada's museums could learn from Greece</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:42:17 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In early morning, when dishevelled revellers stumble home after another all-night bacchanal, the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki is open]]></description>
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      <title>Princess Diana museum to close, contents to go to sons</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:42:01 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Diana's brother, Charles Earl Spencer, quoted as saying the museum at the family estate, Althorp, would close next August and the contents would be transferred to the custody of her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry]]></description>
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      <title>9/11 museum admission fee plan angers some victims' families</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:41:47 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some families of 9/11 victims are outraged over the National September 11 Memorial Museum's decision to charge admission for visitors]]></description>
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      <title>This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:41:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>director@globalmuseum.org</author>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://hosting.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/weird_kitten.jpg"><br/>Who's the winner?]]></description>
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      <title>Beijing museum window vandalized</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:41:34 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The breaking of a window and damage to an antique clock at the Palace Museum in Beijing has prompted authorities to speed up the upgrading of security measures]]></description>
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      <title>XV International Museum Festival INTERMUSEUM</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:41:18 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[May 31 - June 4, 2013. Russia, Moscow, Central House of Artists]]></description>
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      <title>2013 Indian Summer Showcase</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:41:01 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The National Museum of the American Indian]]></description>
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      <title>Navigating Freedom: The War of 1812 on the Chesapeake</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:40:41 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new major exhibit entitled “Navigating Freedom: The War of 1812 on the Chesapeake” opened May 11 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD. ]]></description>
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      <title>And More..........</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Discover the Globe's freshest Museum stories at Global Museum!]]></description>
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