The German invasion of Poland was dramatic, and drew the attention of the entire world, but fighting had actually begun even earlier as Germany sought to press its territorial ambitions. Often overlooked, actual combat occurred six months earlier, and not far from the Polish border with Czechoslovakia, in a tiny, autonomous region with several names, including, for a time, the Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine.
On September 22, 1953 a new kind of construction was fully opened for the first time in Los Angeles. The Stack is an LA icon that changed the way the world builds its highways.