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http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/23/475291416/in-shakespeares-day-hunger-tore-through-england-his-plays-tell-the-tale?sc=17&f=1008


… and what the audiences actually were eating:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/21/475128109/snacking-in-shakespeares-time-what-theatregoers-ate-at-the-bards-plays?sc=17&f=1008

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/apr/21/snacking-in-shakespeares-time-what-theatregoers/


… and other food mentions in Shakespeare:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/20/475000625/cooking-with-the-bard-we-suss-out-shakespeares-forgotten-foods?sc=17&f=1008

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/18/474409705/in-shakespeare-s-plays-mealtimes-were-a-recipe-for-drama

… and his ‘racy’ use of food:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/19/474716940/50-shades-of-shakespeare-how-the-bard-used-food-as-racy-code


… what they’ve found in his classroom:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-36084844 http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/20/shakespeares-school-to-open-to-visitors-to-celebrate-400th-anniversary


… on his use of the supernatural in his plays:

http://theconversation.com/suppd-full-with-horrors-400-years-of-shakespearean-supernaturalism-57129


… and philosophy:

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/20/shakespeare-thinking-philosophy-jonanthan-bate


… on the importance of a name:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36035748

… and some timely advice from his characters:

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000199266/400-years-after-the-bard-s-death-here-are-dozen-shakespearean-rules-for-living


… and why his writing is so great:

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/23/475146489/shakespeare-saw-360-degrees-of-humanity-and-that-s-why-he-endures?sc=17&f=1008

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36114485

… and why he’s more popular than Cervantes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36083495 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36055236

… and words/phrases he invented:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160422-spot-the-real-shakespeare-words-and-the-fakes


… his economic legacy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36084631

… and what he’d think of Brexit:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/21/how-love-eu-count-william-shakespeare-remain-brexit


… and whether the Merchant of Venice is anti Semitic:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-scholars-still-debate-whether-or-not-shakespeares-merchant-venice-anti-semitic-180958867/

… what happened on the 300th anniversary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/theater/shakespeare-dead.html

… and other miscellaneous observations (all different):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36101455 http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/23/475392480/worldwide-celebrations-on-the-400th-anniversary-of-shakespeares-death?sc=17&f=1001
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36111591 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36120772 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/21/russia-celebrates-shakespeare-british-literature-400-anniversary

… bringing Shakespeare to Compton:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36085018

… and, of course, an app has to be mentioned:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-app-aims-shakespeare.html

… and if you read all that, this quiz should be easy:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/20/theater/shakespeare-quiz.html

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Sicily:

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/24/sicily-culture-and-conquest-review-british-museum

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2016/04/20/british-museum-opens-sicily-culture-and-conquest-show_e669c616-3d7b-463b-91cd-10a9fd58725f.html

Pergamon:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-show-about-the-hellenistic-one-per-cent


Modigliani:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36082551

Ancient Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/204212/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/The-art-of-the-pyramidbuilders-on-display-in-Senda.aspx

Egypt in Pompeii:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/italy/2016/04/19/a-voyage-into-egyptian-splendour-at-pompeii_a77af99a-42d7-487d-8a01-31fd49546440.html


Underwear:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/fashion/fashion-underwear-victoria-and-albert-museum.html


Disguise:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/arts/design/disguise-of-masks-and-global-african-art.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign


Flemish Tapestry:

http://www.telegram.com/article/20160422/entertainmentlife/160429773

Job cuts coming to the Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/arts/design/metropolitan-museum-of-art-plans-job-cuts-andrestructuring.html


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Latest 3d printing project was Oetzi:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-replica-year-old-iceman-3d-printer.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3550737/Otzi-iceman-comes-life-Incredibly-accurate-3D-printed-models-5-000-year-old-mummy-set-tour-US.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

http://m.france24.com/en/20160420-replica-5000-year-old-iceman-made-3d-printer


More on scanning the pyramids:

http://www.space.com/32606-cosmic-ray-tech-may-unlock-pyramids-secrets.html?cmpid=514648


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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
A project to check out the Beringia Standstill Hypothesis:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-team-americans-descendants-modern-humans.html


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
What Craig Lee is up to:

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/montana_state_university/msu-archaeologist-to-lecture-on-global-warming-s-threat-to/article_aea9c0b5-6d1d-5408-99b2-78718f3367e9.html


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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
In the footsteps of Gertrude Bell:

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/apr/22/turkey-istanbul-gertrude-bell-pat-yale-why-i-love


Ascension Island:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36076411

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CRIME BEAT
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A statue of Lord Byron was stolen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-36119892

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/04/culture-crime-news-11-17-april-2016.html



conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
A family is trying to reclaim the Bird’s Head Haggada:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/21/jewish-family-claims-prized-passover-manuscript/83325494/

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-jewish-family-prized-passover-manuscript.html

France returned some items to China:

https://www.iiconservation.org/node/6333

Some Nazi-looted paintings were recovered in Milan:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/04/18/italian-police-recover-nazi-looted-paintings-in-milan/


The BM offered to lend the Gweagal (not sure how that should be spelled) warrior items back to his descendents (they didn’t like it, obviously):

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/gweagle-warriors-descendants-insulted-british-museum-refuses-to-return-shield-20160422-gocp56.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3553879/Family-disgusted-British-Museum-offered-loan-Aboriginal-artefacts.html


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NUMISMATICA
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Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the American 20 dollar bill:

http://www.dw.com/en/harriet-tubman-to-replace-andrew-jackson-on-20-bill/a-19202169

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36096151 http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/04/20/actualidad/1461172106_807682.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36099448 http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2016/04/harriet_tubman_on_the_20_bill_auburn_welcomes_the_news.html

… for comparanda, maybe:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36111975 http://newsdaily.com/2016/04/bank-of-england-picks-artist-turner-to-feature-on-new-banknote/

Big expectations for a 1933 penny at auction:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3554776/Yours-50-000-1933-penny-Rare-coin-set-fetch-record-price-auction.html


Feature on the history of money:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36056401

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n16.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n17.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
A medieval plainsong discovery:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/rare_medieval_plainsong_is_discovered_in_norfolk_1_4498650?utm_content=buffercc867&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Richard III (in China):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-36080236

A world tour of Hamlet is heading home:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36111225

Reconstructing a medieval tune:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3554539/The-song-not-heard-1-000-years-Listen-Middle-Ages-melody-reconstructed-using-stolen-manuscript-lost-142-years.html


A Dickens series didn’t quite work out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36101651

York Theatre Royal reopens:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-36104463

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http://archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2415-audio-news-from-archaeologica-10-apr-2016-16-apr-2016
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

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http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

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