The Maya civilization is famous for its architecture. Many city-states built large palaces, pyramids, and other public buildings that are still standing today. The buildings were covered with carvings and statues to honor their gods as well as to commemorate their kings.
Brother of Paris Suspect Salah Abdeslam Urges Him to Turn Himself In. The brother of Salah Abdeslam â a suspected accomplice to the deadly Paris attacks, who has been on the run for a week â on Sunday urged him to turn himself in and face jail rather than a grave. Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French national, is the subject of a massive international manhunt.
Dirtie Bertie: the Royal PLAYBOY who took Victorian Paris by storm. HIS MOTHER thought him a waste of space but in France he was a social and sexual sensation. Queen Victoria's eldest son Bertie - the future Edward VII - was the most fashionable person in Paris during the city's 19th-century heyday and the man every woman wanted to seduce. 02:25, Sat, May 17, 2014.