[wormman@thehub.com.au: Not-so-clever ways to raise money in museums #1]

[bz050@freenet.carleton.ca (Ben S. Roesch)]

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    From: wormman@thehub.com.au (Peter Darben)
    To: forteana@lists.primenet.com
    Subject: Not-so-clever ways to raise money in museums #1
    Date: Sat, 30 Mar
    
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    (from the Courier Mail 30/3/96, p29)
    
    FOSSIL FIRE FURORE
    
    BEIJING : A northern Chinese museum is suing for negligence over
    the destruction of a 65-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton in a
    night club fire, Xinhua reported yesterday. Heilongjiang museum
    wants $A190,000 in compensation from the Jilin city museum after
    the latter leased some of its space to a karaoe bar which caught
    fire
    
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    *sigh*
    
    petes