Gibraltar
About Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean. It has an area of 6.8 km2 (2.6 sq mi) and is bordered to the north by Spain. The landscape is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar, at the foot of which is a densely populated town area. Gibraltar is home to around 34,000 people, primarily Gibraltarians.
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On the day the border between Spain and Gibraltar opened, the key to the gate did not work and they had to call a locksmith to let people through.
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When they came to open the Gibraltar border gate, the Spanish had laid two coats of tarmac on their side, jamming it shut, so a workman with a pneumatic drill had to remove it.
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General Franco closed the border with Gibraltar as a political power move, because he was pissed off with Gibraltar.
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Gibraltar is the site of the longest ever siege in British history, the Great Siege of Gibraltar, which ran from 1779 to 1783.
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The army appointed a non-commissioned officer to be in charge of Gibraltar's apes, a role held by Sergeant Alfred Holmes for 38 years.
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A cave on Gibraltar was set up so that if the island was overrun, six soldiers could stay behind to spy, with a year's food, water and exercise bikes to power their radio.
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Before the Second World War Gibraltar was Spanish in character, everyone spoke Spanish, and Franco's blockade only hardened Gibraltarians' British attitudes.
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In a late 1960s referendum, with 96% turnout, 99.6% of Gibraltarians voted to stick with British sovereignty.
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Gibraltar's airport runway crosses its busiest main road, Winston Churchill Avenue, so they stop all traffic to let a plane land.
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The first Neanderthal skulls were found in Gibraltar, but found too early to be recognised, so Neanderthals were almost named after Gibraltar.
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Tourists watching the final Franco-Spanish assault on Gibraltar assumed it would be a walkover and applauded as the attackers took their places, yet the siege still failed.
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The plan for the six soldiers hidden in the Gibraltar cave was that if one died they could not remove the body, and could not use formaldehyde as it would use up supplies faster.
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