by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Three works from Bob Ross’ classic public television show The Joy of Painting raised over half a million dollars for public television. Having relied for decades on endowment contributions and pledge drives of every tact and description, it was brilliant idea that...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
A hockey-loving boy from a hockey-loving family is selling special hockey merch to help other hockey lovers—and he’s loving it. His family took a childhood utterance, as genius as it was random, and spun it into a line of merchandise with the proceeds going to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
What do dark matter, the Roman Empire, and a toxic heavy metal have in common? The answer is Mr. Ettore Fiorini who helped excavate a 2,000-year-old shipwreck whose cargo of Roman lead bars could, he believed, help him unravel the secrets of the universe. If the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
In 2022, an elder Chilean man walked into the Greek embassy in Santiago on a mission: to turn himself in. Not that 77-year-old Enrico Tosti-Croce had done anything wrong, but rather he was putting a small family matter to rest. In the 1930s, a young Italian submariner...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
There’s something truly wonderful about the sympathy we humans have for dogs—such that when a rambunctious stray grinds traffic to a halt in a Massachusetts tunnel, the reaction is just that—to stop and wait for police to rescue it. The wrong-way rover was spotted...
