" General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Poland's wartime government in exile, died 65 years ago this month when his plane plunged into the sea off Gibraltar. A British inquiry in 1943 found that the crash...
I visited Gibraltar when I was about 7. The only thing I remember from the visit is the apes. Gibraltar is famous for their apes. There is a theory that if the apes were to ever leave Gibraltar, then the territory...
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A burning question finally answered... but when they counted thrusts, did they record the acts and count off video playback, or was a white-coated scientist standing there with a clicker, counting in...
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"Black hiding $60-million offshore, court told
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From Thursday's Globe and Mail
August 2, 2007 at 4:01 AM EDT
CHICAGO — Conrad Black's legal saga took a new twist...
After three years of research, the early summer of 2007 will see the publication of an entirely revised version of Double-Edged: a Change of Heart, ISBN: 978-1-84753-471-2, a novel written by Tony Harris,...
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"Up to a billion dollars worth of gold and silver on a sunken 17th-century English warship may soon be recovered following an agreement with Spanish authorities."
Michael Perham, an ambitious and very talented young sailor has gone at it alone, that is the Atlantic. He has become the youngest person to sail across the ocean by himself. Read his blog here."Michael,...
"TETOUAN, Morocco, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A Moroccan seaport 3,000 miles from Iraq has become one of the world's most fertile recruiting grounds for jihadists, U.S. officials say.
In the past eight months a group of young men, all worshippers at the same mosque, have left their...
"Spain and Britain have reached a historic deal to resolve side issues stemming from their 300-year-old dispute over Gibraltar, but sidestepped the main one — their claims to the Rock's sovereignty."
"Small bands of them took refuge now and then in a massive cave near the southern tip of Spain. Now a study says charcoal from their fires indicates that Neanderthals were still alive at least 2,000 years later than scientists had firmly established before."
In a football tournament for the nation-less, Hamburg on Saturday hosted the final of the FIFI Wild Cup. Five teams from regions not recognized by the United Nations competed. And a part of Hamburg seceded from...