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Tilikum is not a first-time offender. In 1991 - eight years after he was captured off the coast of Iceland - he and two other killer whales drowned a trainer during a performance at Sealand of the Pacific in Vancouver. In 1999, a man who trespassed in SeaWorld after hours and apparently jumped in the whale tank was found dead the next morning, lying across Tilikum's back. Is the big whale a bad seed? At least one marine-mammal expert thinks that yes, that's at least part of the answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer-Whale Tragedy: What Made Tilikum Snap? | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...president, was recently in the Adams House courtyard, decked out with a costume of colorful pajamas and stilts, and accompanied by Shivvers in street clothes, juggling implements in hand, to celebrate the beknighting of Corey M. Rennell ’07-’08 to the Principality of Sealand, a micronation off the coast of England. They did not attend the fancy dress festivities on Club duty, but were instead there as friends of the new aristocrat. “They are cool dudes,” Rennell said while dancing, turkey leg in hand, in a costume reminiscent...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Defying Gravity and Harvard Norms | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...Honduras, an American engineer is about to start building a huge steel float called Freedom Ship, intended as a home for 50,000 people who will make their own laws and form a country unto themselves. In Britain's North Sea, an old gunnery fort called the Principality of Sealand is attracting investors who hope to make it a digital utopia, storing people's electronic secrets free from any government interference. How do these brave new seaworlds stack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: B.Y.O. Life Jacket | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...SEALAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: B.Y.O. Life Jacket | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...Atlantic. "I don't think we can honestly say we were lost," Post said later, "but we just didn't know where we were" when they found themselves over land next morning. They spotted an airport, landed, asked: "Is this England, Scotland or Wales?"* It was Sealand Airdrome near Chester, England, 16 hr. 17 min. from Harbor Grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Two Men in a Hurry | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

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