by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
An antique dealer who bought a stained glass window in a Scottish thrift shop for $25 says it belonged to King Robert I, popularly known as Robert the Bruce from the 1300s. Richard Drummond spotted the colorful glass for sale in Moffat, Scotland, and was told it had...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
The red helicopter was dropping steadily into a collision course with Highway 50, an 8-lane interstate dotted with commuters and travelers near Sacramento, California’s capitol city. Fortunately, when the REACH Air Medical Services chopper with three passengers did...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Not all heroes wear capes, some, well, blink confusedly. That’s been the story to some degree of the last 12 years of Drew Scanlon, a man who would come to be known as “Blinking Guy,” but who used that fame to raise money for charitable causes. Scanlon’s life would...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the rare occurrence that police actually looked into the case of a woman who had her phone stolen in London, it turned into the crumbs on a bread crumb trail which led to a huge organized crime effort. The sirens quiet now, and the London Met. Area Police report...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
With a pioneering procedure, a nature center in New York made sure that a broken wing wasn’t the end of one monarch butterfly’s journey. Famous for migrating from Mexico up to Canada, a Deer Park resident found one of these orange beauties stranded with the upper...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Renewable energy sources like solar and wind produced more electricity during the first half of the year than any other energy resource, including coal. To bullet another massive accomplishment in the clean energy transition, of the cumulative demand for new power...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
For nearly 3 centuries, Scotland’s western isles were ruled by men who considered themselves kings equal to those in Edinburgh or London. The island of Islay was the seat of the Lordship of the Isles, but evidence of a castle from an earlier period, as well as finds...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
A performance unlike any other just wrapped up in New York City, where an audience of a few lucky hundred were encircled by 50 pianos. The pianists played out a piece called “11,000 Strings,” named for the number of strings in 50 pianos, each of which was tuned...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
A new discovery has revealed that relationships between fish and sea anemones are more diverse than those portrayed in Finding Nemo. It suggests that there the former may use the latter as a tool of self defense, while the latter uses the former as transportation....
