Banská Bystrica, Wrocław (Breslaw), Gdańsk (Danzig), Kraków, and Łódź are cities in Euro Truck Simulator 2’s “Going East” expansion pack which are all very difficult for non-Polish people to pronounce or spell.
The History of Poland is rooted in the arrival of the Slavs in the 5th century.
In the Brave New World expansion pack for the video game Civilization V, the ruler of Poland is Casimir III, who ruled Poland from 1333 to 1370.
Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, was well known for his use of psychedelic drugs.
the phrase “brave new world” comes from The Tempest, when Miranda sees Ferdinand for the first time:
“O brave new world / That has such people in 't.”
Motor Trend magazine’s Car of the Year was the Pontiac Tempest. In 1961.
"Now, in the '60’s, there were only two other cars made in America that had Positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could *never *be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest. "
The above quote is from one of my favorite comedies, My Cousin Vinny, starring Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, and Fred Gwynne.
(If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. However, make sure it’s not the cleaned-up-for-TV versions. This is one movie where the F bombs truly enrich the dialog.) 
The scary thing is, I didn’t have to look that up. I posted that from memory.
Fred Gwynne went to Harvard and was president of the Harvard Lampoon. He was also an accomplished artist, with a series of children’s books that he wrote and illustrated starting with A Chocolate Moose for Dinner.
Fred Gwynne stood 6’ 5" tall, and he was 66 when he died in 1993 of pancreatic cancer. One of his wives was a granddaughter of a NYC mayor.
(ETA: not posted from memory.)
Pancreatic cancer is almost universally fatal – the few famous survivors include Charlotte Rae, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and (former UVa basketball coach) Debbie Ryan.
According to Steve Jobs’ biographer, Walter Isaacson, the Apple mastermind eventually came to regret the decision he had made years earlier to reject potentially life-saving surgery in favor of alternative treatments like acupuncture, dietary supplements and juices to treat his pancreatic cancer. Though he ultimately embraced the surgery and sought out cutting-edge experimental methods, they were not enough to save him. By then it was too late.
Jobs’ cancer had been discovered by chance during a CT scan in 2003 to look for kidney stones, during which doctors saw a “shadow” on his pancreas. Isaacson told CBS’ 60 Minutes last night that while the news was not good, the upside was that the form of pancreatic cancer from which Jobs suffered (a neuroendocrine islet tumor) was one of the 5% or so that are slow growing and most likely to be cured.
Jobs was lucky to have caught the tumor early. Had Jobs immediately sought the standard treatments for his pancreatic cancer it is highly likely he would still be alive today.
London’s St. Pancras station, which is adjacent to King’s Cross Station and the British Library, was built in the Victorian style to serve the Midland Railway. When it was built, its arched roof was the largest single span in the world.
At 1,699 feet, the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville WV is the longest completed arch bridge span in the US. However it is only the fourth longest in the world and the other three are all in China.
The Confederation Bridge, linking Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick, is the longest bridge over water that ices over.
I drove that bridge a few months ago on vacation! A long one.
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The toll for a car on that bridge, round trip and regardless of the user’s point of entry, is $45. That is the toll for any 2-axle vehicle except motorcycle, and then for each additional axle it is $7.50.
For motorcycles the toll is $18.00.
http://www.confederationbridge.com/tolls-fees/tolls-fees.html
The Confederation Bridge replaced the year round ferry service which the federal government was constitutionally required to provide to the Islanders. Once the bridge was in place, there was an constitutional amendment, repealing the obligation to provide ferry service.
Criminal asset forfeiture cases in the Federal courts are brought by the United States Attorney for that district. They are captioned United States v. [property description], so you will sometimes see reported cases such as United States v. $14,509.03 in U.S. Currency and United States v. One 2011 Cadillac Escalade.
The Confederation Bridge (French: Pont de la Confédération) spans the Abegweit Passage of Northumberland Strait. It links Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick. Before its official naming, Prince Edward Islanders sometimes referred to the bridge as the “Fixed Link”. Construction took place from October 1993 to May 1997 and cost C$1.3 billion. The 12.9-kilometre (8 mi) bridge opened on 31 May 1997.
Tolls only apply when leaving Prince Edward Island.
All bridge components were constructed on land, in purpose-built staging yards located on the shoreline at Amherst Head, fronting on Borden Harbour just east of the town and ferry docks, and an inland facility located at Bayfield, New Brunswick about 3 km (1.9 mi) west of Cape Tormentine. The Amherst Head staging facility was where all large components were built, including the pier bases, ice shields, main spans, and drop-in spans.