by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
Next Saturday, the 28th of February, stargazers will have the chance to spot Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all clustered together in the sky. Called a planetary alignment, they occur when the planets, which orbit atop the same horizonal...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
The state of São Paolo in Brazil recently passed a law in honor of a famous loyal dog that will allow residents to have their pets buried in family cemetery plots. Bob, nicknamed Bob Gravedigger, was an orange dog who spent 10 years living next to the grave of his...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
For the first time in the country’s history, a detailed analysis of Armenia’s “dragon stones” has been conducted with the hope of solving the mystery of these large Neolithic monuments. Raised between 4200 and 4000 BCE, in concert roughly with the megaliths of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
An English thrift shop that found itself buried under mountains of old donated clothes has gotten a helping hand from a talented designer. Recent fashion and design graduate Victoria Ford approached the shop and offered to transform some of its unwanted rags into...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
22 massive granite blocks that once formed the Great Lighthouse of the Alexandria have been hauled up from the bottom of city’s ancient harbor. The blocks weighed dozens of tons each and consisted of upright pillars, frames, and crossbeams called lintels that once...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
A Good Samaritan said he thanked the Good Lord that he was close at hand when a mother, driving with her kids, suffered a seizure and hurtled off the road into a canal. What started as a calm Sunday drive turned into anything but when a glance into his review mirror...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
China’s multi-decade long, successful effort to plant a ring of trees around one of the world’s most hostile deserts has sprouted an unexpected benefit to humanity. Along with protecting the nation’s grasslands and agriculture from the spreading sands of the dismal...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
On February 9th, SeaWorld in Orlando received a call that there was an exhausted manatee stuck in a storm drain that needed immediate help. Arriving on scene, rescuers quickly confirmed that the juvenile male had entered a storm drain and didn’t know how to escape....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
A police officer and self-described “dog guy,” hooked his own instincts up to those of a local dog to find a missing 3-year-old in Kentucky. There was a drone and helicopter in the air and a half-dozen officers from the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
Decades of underinvestment in mining and refining across Europe and North America has landed the manufacturing sector in a problem, which a group of scientists believe can be helped by mushrooms rather than excavators. One must have been living under a rock not to...
