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...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Noemi Oberhauser was never a fan of soccer despite living in the country that invented it. And she never had any intention of falling in love with the global game either, even after she toured a $1,550-a-month apartment in West London and marveled at the almost...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Australia’s Gold Coast comes the story of an honest young man who handed over $3,500 he found at a gas station and was repaid manifold. 17-year-old Josh Pache was the first to notice a wad of Australian dollars sitting on the cement outside Fox’s Pantry. The...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Governments and conservation NGOs celebrated the passing of a resolution to create the world’s most ambitious marine sanctuary. Cleverly-named “Macronesia,” the area in the northeastern Atlantic would protect 32 species of whales and dolphins, making it one of the...
