by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Travel teaches many lessons, and for famous American travel writer Rick Steves, one of those is that “Love thy neighbor” need not depend on proximity. The biblical phrase has been on Steves’ mind of late, following his philanthropic rescue of a community hygiene...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
When family medical troubles seemed to have struck down a top student’s hopes for university, the administrators took action to lift them back up again. Now the holder of a doctorate and a successful entrepreneur, she has given back to the school that did so much for...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
An endangered small wild cat native to Thailand’s wetlands has been sighted for the first time in 30 years, the country’s wildlife authorities have said. The flat-headed cat has long been feared extinct in the tropical kingdom, where it inhabits peatlands, mangrove...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
It was the day before Christmas Eve, and recent homemakers Rob and Dianne Parsons were surprised with a knock on the door. Opening it, Rob looked upon a rather strange sight. A man stood there with a wheeled garbage bin containing his possessions, and a frozen chicken...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Canadian researchers have figured out how plants make a rare natural substance—mitraphylline—with its potential for fighting cancer and becoming a sustainable new medicine. Mitraphylline is part of a small and unusual family of plant alkaloids, molecules that are...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
A surprised fisherman hooked an unlikely catch the day after Christmas when he netted a lost seal 20 miles up river from the coast. The angler was in a row boat on the River Bure in Norfolk when the grey seal went after his day’s catch of fish. The hungry seal looked...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
On her 95th birthday, Pat DeReamer received a greeting card that was already 81 years old. It all started in 1944, when the Kentucky resident first received the card for her 14th birthday, after her family moved to Indianapolis during World War II. The “new girl”...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
University researchers in Texas and Korea have collaborated to developed an eco-friendly water purifier that captures—and destroys—toxic “forever chemicals” (PFAS) more than 1,000 times better than current methods. Their study marks a major milestone in addressing one...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
More than twenty-four hours had already passed with frigid temperatures outside. Gina Manfredi’s five-month old puppy was lost. The American Bully mix named Shade was headed out for a walk with Gina when a sound startled the pooch and he took off into the cold New...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Suspended 30-feet in the air, a Christmas beacon hangs in Washington, DC—a 10-foot bundle of greenery and ribbons that locals are calling the National Mistletoe. It served as the perfect setting to herald a ‘Merry Kiss-mas’ and break a world record for holiday...
