Founded by a former British army major named Paddy Roy Bates in 1967, the Principality of Sealand occupies an abandoned anti-aircraft tower in the English Channel.

1967年，一个名叫帕蒂·罗伊·贝茨的前英国陆军少校在英吉利海峡占据了一个被人遗弃的防空塔，就此成立了锡兰公国。

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Every spring the Amazon dolphins get to leave the confines of their river channel for a taste of their former habitat.

每年春天，亚马逊河豚离开所属河道的范围，到从前的栖地去晃一晃。

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On Aug. 25, 1875, Captain Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old former English naval officer, accomplished a feat many thought impossible: swimming across the English Channel.

1875年4月25日，27岁的前英国海军军官马修·韦伯上尉完成了一项许多人认为不可能实现的壮举：游泳横渡英吉利海峡。

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The channel was struggling to find television shows as popular as its former series, "The Sopranos."

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"These are the right kind of folks to do this, " says Bruce Rose, a scientific consultant to the Weather Channel and its former principal scientist.

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The diverse judging panel includes TV presenters Ruby Wax and Dermot O'Leary, comedian and actress Nina Wadia, advertising boss Matthew Freud and former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade.

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Using icons that predict wet weather more often than it occurs has been standard practice in meteorology, said Bruce Rose, a scientific consultant to the Weather Channel and its former principal scientist.

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