by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
A train-crazy couple have spent the last 30 years restoring a derelict railway station in England to its former glory. Mark and Carol Benson spent tens of thousands to transform Ebbertson Station in North Yorkshire, after purchasing the property in 1996–four decades...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
It was a bold request for an 11 year old. Kevin Nazemi wanted to interview the President of the United States. Kevin didn’t seem to care about his age or that he recently immigrated to America from Iran and his English skills were still developing. The boy, who lived...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
A wildlife lover shared her heart-warming encounter with a robin last Monday. Photographer Fay Wadsworth from Sheffield, England, was visiting a park in Doncaster when the friendly bird came over and nestled right atop her camera near the warmth of her jacket. “I was...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
A British war veteran who lost both his legs in Afghanistan has become the first above-the-knee double amputee to reach the summit of the highest peaks on every continent in the world. On Tuesday, 46-year-old Hari Budha Magar summited the highest mountain in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
Once a year, stuffed animals take flight inside an arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania, flying through the air in a cavalcade of color creating ‘sweet cuddly mayhem’ on the ice. For a quarter century, the Hershey Bears, a minor league team in the American Hockey League,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 10, 2026 | 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 | Jan 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Clever canines that have a talent for learning vocabulary can pick up new words by simply overhearing their handlers’ conversations, say scientists. Parents and dog owners know that some words should not be spoken, but only spelled, to prevent small ears from...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Remains of an early human ancestor from a critically important period in our evolutionary history have been found in Morocco. Dated back 700,000 years using precise geo-magnetic methods, the assemblage of jawbones and teeth may come from the epoch during which African...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
A Los Angeles woman recently celebrated the first Christmas with her baby boy, Ryu, born to truly remarkable circumstances. Ryu developed outside his mother’s womb, and remained hidden for months behind an ovarian cyst that grew to be the size of a basketball. It was...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
If government is supposed to be a bureaucracy that operates on behalf of the citizens, one couldn’t hope to find a better example than a yearly tradition at the state treasury of Iowa known as the “Great Iowa Treasure Hunt.” That makes it sound like there’s a big...
