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.
On the show — 41 mentions total
The airport runway intersects with their busiest main road, Winston Churchill Avenue.
from 382: No Such Thing As A Waiter Made Of Potatoes, 2021-07-16 at 00:30:01 · read transcript
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Huge majority, both equally valid. Yeah, only 44 people voted to have. have a Spanish sovereignty against 12,138 who voted to be British. Franco was kind of pissed off and he got more and more hardline in terms of who could cross the border and when and trade between the border between Gibraltar and Spain. Then he just shut it down, a little big fence. Literally, it's amazing when you hear about it.
No Such Thing As A Waiter Made Of Potatoes, 2021-07-16 · listen
Everyone applauded as the French and Spanish took their places to start the bombardment, and yet it withstood that. It occupied this big space in the imperial imagination, I guess. As a... As we said, this place, Gibraltar has just constantly been under siege. There's always been attempts to take it over and shift the ownership around. One of those times was in World War II. This was a point where Winston Churchill had his eye on Gibraltar and wanted to make sure that we, as the Brits, kept hold of it.
No Such Thing As A Waiter Made Of Potatoes, 2021-07-16 · listen
Maybe he just Except hang on he was in the 1920s and Velcro had been invented at the time so maybe he is the unrecognized inventor of Velcro and We are giving him his moment of glory excellent. Our Wilson. Congratulations Gibraltar named after Jabel Al Tariq Who was the general who brought the Islamic army from North Africa into Spain? When Spain became an Islamic country in Whenever that was the 8th century or whenever it was But he was in charge of the whole army.
391: No Such Thing As A Sausage Swingboat, 2021-09-17 · listen
You think your brain would have come up with something better than that. That. Yeah. Idiot. One of the names that the Neanderthal could have had was Gibraltar. I'm a Gibraltaris or whatever. Because the first, I think the first skulls were found in Gibraltar, but they were found too early. They were found by, I think, a soldier and geologist. He said, I think this might be something new, but he didn't really get anywhere, you know.
No Such Thing As Rivets On A Tombstone, 2023-06-15 · listen
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