by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
If there were one place in America where you’d decline a glass of tap water it would be Flint, right? Wrong. A decade after lead-contaminated water was found in the Michigan city’s water system, the legal battle to replace lead water pipes is nearly finished. Homes...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the coast of Madagascar springs a story of pirates and sunken treasure, as an American research team believe they have identified a famous shipwreck. Nossa Senhora do Cabo (Our Lady of the Cape) was a 700-ton Portuguese warship captured by an infamous French...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Using a vacuum and some plastic tubing, rescuers Macgyvered a device to rescue two baby hedgehogs who had tumbled down a storm drain. While the vacuum didn’t work, the tube did, and can perhaps became a standard-issue rescue device for these little critters who “love...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
A little-known Coast Guard officer has been hailed as a hero after rescuing 165 people from the Texas hill country floods. Petty Officer and rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan, a native of New Jersey, was on the scene when the Guadalupe River rose dramatically, causing...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
There are so many other ways it could have happened: they could have thrown away the sticky note containing Wayne Corprew’s phone number; they could have tilled the ground three inches to the left, they could have taken the ring they found to a pawnshop. But because...
