The two suspects accused of climbing the Empire State Building and unfurling a massive banner are escorted by police during a perp walk in New York City. Authorities say Netflix stars Angelina Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov scaled the iconic skyscraper before hanging the banner from the top of the building, prompting an emergency response and drawing crowds below. Both were taken into custody and are facing charges in connection with the high-profile stunt.

Most medieval kings desperately wanted sons. Sons inherited thrones but before they could they also had an awkward habit of rebelling against their fathers. History is full of kings brought down by ambitious sons. But Genghis Khan looked at the problem differently. Rather than treating his daughters as political afterthoughts, he married them into strategically important neighbouring kingdoms, required his sons-in-law to make them their chief wives, and then sent the sons-in-law off to fight in

Proposed on Top of a 1,454-Foot Building [Two People propose on NYs Empire State Building Antenna]

Una pareja de escaladores llegó a lo más alto del emblemático Empire State Building en Nueva York y con una propuesta de matrimonio desde las alturas le dieron la vuelta al mundo. Las autoridades investigan cómo la pareja de origen ruso logró burlar todas las medidas de seguridad. Ambos fueron arrestados y por la mañana del jueves se presentaron ante un juez, que los dejó en libertad bajo supervisión. La dupla que protagoniza un documental, en el que escalan rascacielos de todo el mundo, tiene u

During the Roman siege of Ambracia in 189 BC, the defenders deployed what is one of the earliest recorded uses of a chemical weapon in history — and they used it underground. Rome was besieging the Greek city, held by the Aetolian League. When the walls held and the siege artillery failed, the Romans turned to mining — digging a tunnel beneath the walls, concealed behind a two-hundred-foot covered walkway, worked in relays day and night. For days the defenders didn't notice. Then the pile of exc