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museum visitor trips, lands on ancient vases

updated wed 1 feb 06

 

Mr Frank M Gaydos on tue 31 jan 06


oops! Sorry. :>)

Museum visitor trips,
lands on ancient vases
=E2=80=A2 A visitor to a British museum tripped on his shoelace, stumbled d=
own=20
a stairway, and fell into a display of Chinese vases, shattering them=20
into "very small pieces," officials said yesterday. The three Qing=20
dynasty vases, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, had=20
been donated to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 1948 and were=20
among its best-known artifacts. They sat on the windowsill=20


Frank Gaydos=20
From Philly Inquirer.


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Frank Gaydos
Art Depat.
Community College of Philadelphia

"Supermarket automatic doors open for=20
me; therefore, I am."=20
Craig Bruce