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(ANSAmed) - PARIS, JULY 17 - A "luminous and liberated" veil, in the spirit of Islam's poetics, will cover but not hide, thanks to a light transparent structure, the Visconti Court of the Louvre Museum in Paris, in the right wing, to host the new museum of Islamic arts, to be established in 2010. ¿It is a political museum¿, as explained to ANSA by Rudy Ricciotti, of Italian origins, one of the two architects, with Mario Bellini from Milan, who designed the project, selected among 52 applicants. "In the sense that it recognises all the peoples in a lay state,...

FEIGNIES, France (AP) — A museum in northern France has opened a permanent exhibit on an American fighter pilot whose remains were found 56 years after he went missing during World War II. The exhibit reconstructs the career of Lt. William Wyatt Patton Jr., a Missouri native whose remains, along with parts of his plane, were found in a nearby field last year. The exhibit opened last month. The Patton room of the Fort de Leveau museum, housed in a 19th century military fort, displays pieces of the fighter plane and a silk parachute found in it. Patton's career is...