Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was mistakenly sent 2,000 pints (950 liters) of beer when one of her royal residences was confused with a nearby pub it emerged last week.
Royal staff had no record of any such order when a truck turned up at Windsor Castle, west of London, with 12 barrels of lager ahead of England’s football World Cup qualifying match with Croatia in Zagreb.
A quick telephone call revealed the mistake — the booze had been destined for the Windsor Castle pub 8km away in Maidenhead in Berkshire county.
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“We have received mail for the royal household here before but I think this is the first time they have received anything meant for us,” said pub manager Misko Coric, who had ordered the beer for the football match.AFP
英國女王伊麗莎白二世上週「意外」收到兩千品脫(九百五十公升)的啤酒,原來是送貨商把女王行宮和附近一間酒吧的地址搞混了。
世界盃足球賽英國隊與克羅埃西亞隊在札格拉布市展開資格賽前夕,一輛載滿十二大桶啤酒的送貨卡車出現在倫敦西部的溫莎堡,但皇室人員並沒有任何訂購啤酒的紀錄。
送貨商趕緊打電話聯繫後才發現這場烏龍──這些酒是要送到八公里外的波克夏郡麥登海德市的「溫莎堡酒吧」。
為了世界盃足球賽訂購這些啤酒的酒吧經理米斯可.柯瑞克說:「我們曾收到寄給皇室的信件,但我想這是他們第一次收到寄給我們的東西。」(法新社�翻譯:袁星塵)
The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years killed at least 16 people and damaged dozens of buildings, but the destruction was largely contained thanks to decades of preparedness work. Taiwan sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity along the Pacific Rim, and — much like neighboring Japan — has a long history of catastrophic quakes. How does April 3 compare with other recent quakes? The April 3 earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, was felt across Taiwan. It was the most severe since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1999 killed
A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
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