Australia’s longest stretch of straight road is 90 miles (146.6km) long along the Eyre Highway across the Nullarbor Plain.
Missed the edit window. Here’s a NASA space picture of the Nullarbor Plain.
The Australian state with the longest border is New South Wales, with 4,635 km. It adjoins Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay.
The California county with the longest border is San Bernardino County. San Bernardino County is the largest county in the USA, and it is larger than the nine smallest US states: RI, DE, CT, NJ, NH, VT, MA, HI, and MD).
The smallest of the six Australian states, Tasmania, with an area of 68,401 sq km, is larger than each of the ten smallest US states.
The largest of the six Australian States, Western Australia, with an area of 2,529,875 sq km, is larger than each of the fifty US states.
The highest point on the Australian continent is Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 m / 7,310 ft), a mountain in Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales.
Mount Kosciuszko was named by the Polish explorer Paul Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of the Polish national hero and hero of the American Revolutionary War General Tadeusz Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków.
Having watched The Castle, I am now an expert on Australian eminent domain, er, “compulsory acquisition” law. Apparently the Tasmanian Dams case and the Mabo case (“He’s the Aboriginal fellow what told them where to stuff it”) are the key precedents.
“Tell him he’s dreaming”. 
Lajos Nagy (Louis the Great, 1326-1382), whose uncle built the famous ad beautiful Wawel Castle in Kraków, inherited the Kingship of Hungary from his father and the Kingship of Poland from his mother. He was also a claimant King of Naples (his great-uncle was Robert the Wise).
Lajos had no sons and split his Kingdoms between his two surviving daughters. Mary, who got Hungary, married a future Emperor. Hedwig, who married the Grand Duke of Lithuania, got Poland.
Verslo centras „1000“ (Business center “1000”) is a modern office building located in Kaunas, Lithuania. The ten-story building has an irregular round shape. And, the building’s facade denotes a twisted view of the former 1,000 litas banknote.
The second-tallest building in the City of London is the pickle-shaped 30 St Mary Axe, “The Gherkin"”, designed by Norman Foster, Lord Foster of Thames Bank. It sits on the former site of the Baltic Exchange, which was heavily damaged by a Provisional IRA bomb.
King George VI mulled over naming Winston Churchill Duke of London after World War II, but Churchill declined, as he did not wish to join the House of Lords. Instead, the wartime prime minister was named a knight of the Garter.
‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody, who rode for the Pony Express at age 14, received his Medal of Honor for gallantry in action while serving as a scout for the Third Cavalry in 1872. The Medal was revoked in 1917 – as civilian scout, Cody was ineligible under new retroactive rules. However his Medal was restored in 1989.
Cody became a famous showman, even entertaining Queen Victoria in London.
Despite beating out heavy favorite Wicked for the 2004 Best Musical Tony, Avenue Q was not given a foreign production until 2006, when Cameron Mackintosh produced it in London’s West End at the Noël Coward Theatre, it was late transferred to the Gielgud and then to the Wyndham’s Theatre, ending up with a five year run.
Winged Victory, a wartime Broadway play by Moss Hart about life for recruits in the US Army Air Forces and starring a huge cast of later-famous actors who had enlisted in it, is the biggest Broadway hit never to have a second production run anywhere.
Alexander P. de Seversky was an strong advocate for the use of strategic bombing to help win wars. His book, Victory Through Air Power, was a best seller in 1942, and led to a Walt Disney animated feature of the same name.
A Seversky (later Republic) P-35 served as the “Drake Bullet” in the Clark Gable / Myrna Loy / Spencer Tracy / Lionel Barrymore classic Test Pilot. Wiki:
Myrna Loy was born Myrna Adele Williams in Helena in 1905. Her first name was derived from a whistle stop near Broken Bow, Nebraska, whose name her father liked. Her father was also a banker and real estate developer and the youngest man ever elected to the Montana state legislature.
The Loy Yang power station, located near Traralgon in Victoria, is the largest in Australia.
The world’s largest power station is at Three Gorges Dam in the Hubei province of China, in terms of installed capacity.
Nikola Tesla designed the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls. This was the final victory of Tesla’s Alternating Current over Edison’s Direct Current.