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Va. man plants flag, claims African country, calling it ’Kingdom of North Sudan’ 維吉尼亞州男子插旗建立非洲國 名為「北蘇丹王國」

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Jeremiah Heaton was playing with his daughter in their Abingdon, Va., home last winter when she asked whether she could be a real princess.

去年冬天，耶利米．希頓在位於維吉尼亞州艾賓頓的自宅與女兒玩耍時，女兒問他，她能否成為真正的公主。

Heaton, a father of three who works in the mining industry, didn’t want to make any false promises to Emily, then 6, who was "big on being a princess." But he still said yes.

有3個小孩、任職礦業的希頓，不想對當時6歲、「真的很想當公主」的艾蜜莉，許下虛假的承諾，但他還是答應女兒了。

Within months, Heaton was journeying through the desolate southern stretches of Egypt and into an unclaimed 800-square-mile patch of arid desert.

用好幾個月的時間，希頓穿過埃及南部的廣袤荒地，來到一塊面積800平方英里的無主不毛沙漠。