Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million individuals and more than 2, 000 businesses turned their lights off for one hour to take a stand against climate change.

“地球一小时”活动首次于2007年3月31日晚间8：30在澳大利亚悉尼市展开，当晚，悉尼约有超过220万户的家庭和企业关闭灯源和电器一小时。

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Even when we started two years back the craft cocktail scene in Singapore was already heating up and it was necessary to find a niche to stand out.

我们在两年前开业的时候，新加坡手工鸡尾酒圈已经在不断升温，所以我们必须找到一个与众不同的定位。

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And dI started this path of stand-up and it was successful and it was great, but it was hard, because I was trying to please everybody and I had this secret that I was keeping, that I was gay.

从此我开始做单人脱口秀，做得很成功，也很辛苦，因为我想讨好每一个人，同时又守着我身为同性恋的秘密。

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He said it all started when Eugene McCarthy was willing to stand alone and change history.

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While shopping, she came down with a fever and started feeling like she didn't have the strength to stand, she said.

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In the twenty-five years since I started studying Arabic and traveling to the Middle East, two ideas stand out.

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Bell started working alongside his father in the 1950s, and had to stand on a milk crate to reach the dough.

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