by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Having been called “Britain’s Loneliest Sheep,” and later the “World’s Most Famous Sheep,” Fiona is now pregnant with twins 2 years after her harrowing rescue. GNN reported in 2023 that rural Scotsmen were planning a daring, cliffside extraction of a sheep that had...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Ancient Indian stepwells are being restored to modern water storage facilities to help cure modern water shortages. Recently, an Indian environmentalist and editor was invited to share his incredible work restoring hundreds of natural and man-made water sources all...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
A slender North American predator not seen in parts of Ohio for 200 years has started returning to its former habitat. The fisher was extirpated from the state in the 19th century due to fur trapping. Back in 2013, it was spotted again for the first time in northern...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Louisiana comes the story of a corporate dream fulfilled, as a man succeeded his father as CEO of the family business, invested in innovation which paid off, and guided the business through a big sale. But there was something else that Graham Walker had in his...
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...
