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Amateur Photographer Captures 'Holy Grail' of Lightning [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsDuring a violent thunder and lightning storm yesterday, one New Yorker brought a camera and tripod out onto her terrace to capture amazing footage of lightning striking the Empire State Building, NBC reports. ...
'French Spider-Man' Scales World's Tallest Tower
By David Moye - AOL NewsClimbing up the outside of the world's tallest tower is a tall order for most people, but not for Alain Robert, the man known as the "French Spider-Man." Since 1994, when he climbed the Empire State Building, Robert has climbed more than 70 skyscrapers and major landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower and both of the 1,483-foot Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. But he really topped himself on Monday when he climbed the 2,717-foot-tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which is currently the tallest building in the world. ...
'UFO Phil' Wants to Put a Pyramid on Pikes Peak
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsPhil Hill is a man with a dream -- a big dream. Maybe even an impossible dream. But this Don Quixote of the ET set is asking the U.S. government to allow him to build a giant pyramid on top of Pikes Peak in Colorado -- to be used by both humans and aliens. Lots of questions spring to mind: Who exactly is this guy? Why does he want to do this? How does he plan to achieve this monumental vision? And is this a particularly slow day for UFO and extraterrestrial news? Hill, a 39-year-old comedy songwriter and filmmaker from Colorado Springs, Colo., who also goes by the moniker "UFO Phil," claims ...
UN Problems: Sudan, Gaza Flotilla ... Bedbugs
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Oct. 28) -- New York City's bedbug epidemic has gone global, striking the United Nations with an onslaught of the creepy, crawly creatures. After biting their way through other Big Apple landmarks, from the Empire State Building to the Metropolitan Opera House, the tiny insects have made it to the U.N. A U.N. spokesman acknowledged this week at a briefing that there is a problem. In between questions about the Gaza flotilla and human rights in Sudan, Martin Nesirky, spokesman for the secretary-general, said the organization takes "any incursion into the U.N. compound very seriously." He ...
The Trillion-Dollar Deficit of 2010: How Huge Is It, Really?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 15) -- If you stacked the number of dollar bills in this year's federal deficit -- 1,290,000,000,000 written out -- you would be nearly a quarter of the way to the moon. But that's not as stratospheric as last year, when the red ink amounted to $1.4 trillion. Still, despite over a $100 billion decrease from 2009's record breaking year, the federal deficit remains an issue of massive concern as well as proportions. So we know the deficit is big -- to state the obvious -- but how does one visualize a trillion dollars? It's going to take a lot Monopoly money to figure this one out. In ...
NFL Goes Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Sept. 30) -- Would watching NFL games still be considered as manly if all the players were wearing pink, down to their cleats? It's a risk worth taking for the NFL, which beginning this Sunday is outfitting players with pink cleats, wristbands, chinstraps and towels to mark National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Goal posts are being padded with pink, and footballs emblazoned with a pink ribbon symbol. They're even using pink coins in games' opening coin toss. The campaign, in conjunction with the American Cancer Society, is dubbed "A Crucial Catch: Annual Screening Saves Lives," to ...
Mother Teresa Skyscraper Protest: Lots of Anger but Few Demonstrators
By David Gibson - Politics DailyTurnout was lower than expected at a rally to protest the decision of the Empire State Building's owner not to light the famed tower in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Mother Teresa of Calcutta. But speakers at the Thursday evening protest, organized by Bill Donohue's Catholic League, compensated by making full-throated and occasionally vulgar blasts against the skyscraper's owner, Anthony E. Malkin, and by tying their grievance to anger over the Islamic center proposed for Lower Manhattan two blocks from Ground Zero. "If she was a Muslim, they would put up a mosque ...
Mother Teresa's Birthday: Commemoration and Protest at the Empire State Building
By David Gibson - Politics DailyIt's hard to imagine anything more sensitive than the sacred memory of the fallen of 9/11 -- witness the controversy over the proposed Islamic center near ground zero. Now, another controversy with elements of religion and location has erupted in New York City. On Thursday, on what would have been the 100th birthday of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, more than 100 protesters converged on the Empire State Building, the Associated Press reported. The reason: the skyscraper's owners rejected a request by Bill Donohue, president of the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, to ...
New Skyscraper to Compete With Empire State Building
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Aug. 25) -- The Empire State Building is by far the tallest, most iconic building in the New York skyline. But soon, it will have some competition. City officials voted today to approve plans for a new skyscraper to be located just blocks away from the Empire State Building. At 1,216 feet, 15 Penn Plaza will stand just shorter than the 1,250-foot Empire State Building. It would be located near Penn Station, the city's biggest transit hub. Anthony Malkin, an owner of the Empire State Building, has voiced objection to the project, which he calls a "monstrosity." Getty Images A proposed ...
Bedbug Misery Spreads to Empire State Building
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Aug. 21) -- Tourists flocking to the Empire State Building this weekend could find themselves encountering a whole other New York experience: bedbugs. Staff at the iconic skyscraper discovered a minor infestation of the blood-sucking critters in the building's basement, according to The New York Daily News. Exterminators were promptly called on. "That makes me think they're not cleaning when they should be," Phalyn Kazmaerczak, 23, of Buffalo, N.Y., told the Daily News. "You would think that for $20 a ticket, it should not be infested with bugs." Bedbug infestations are a growing problem ...
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