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The Principality of Sealand (/ ˈ s iː ˌ l æ n d /) is a micronation on HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower), [2] an offshore platform in the North Sea.It is situated on Rough Sands, a sandbar located approximately 11 kilometres (6 nmi) from the coast of Suffolk and 13 kilometres (7 nmi) from the coast of Essex.
In addition, both Sealand and Seborga have their own national association football teams. The Sealand national football team was founded in 2004 [ 154 ] and became an associate member of the N.F.-Board , a federation made up of unrecognised states, stateless peoples , regions and micronations that are not allowed to join FIFA , in 2006. [ 155 ]
At the time, the fort was international waters. In 1978, Germany sent a diplomat to Sealand to negotiate with Bates for the release of a German citizen who claimed to be Sealand's prime minister, and had led a failed attack on the fort. Bates would thereafter claim that the dispatching of the emissary constituted recognition of Sealand by Germany.
In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there's something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in miniature — that somehow endures.
In 1978 a German court ruled that Sealand was not a valid nation: "A man-made artificial platform, such as the so-called Duchy of Sealand, cannot be called either 'a part of the earth's surface' or 'land territory' and only structures which make use of a specific piece of the earth's surface can be recognised as State territory within the ...
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Mistakes happen on live TV, and Cher’s Today show flub was nothing short of hilarious. Cher, 78, accidentally dropped an F-bomb on air while chatting with Hoda Kotb about her new book, Cher: The ...
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