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Keep Your Eye on Gibraltar!

  • by John Ross Schroeder
The Rock is back in the news. But why has this small narrow peninsula been such a bone of contention between Britain and Spain for nearly 300 years? Clearly the current promise of a solution is not good news to everyone involved.

World News and Trends: British rule over Gibraltar threatened

  • by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
At the beginning of 1947 most of the British Empire was still intact, but the next 40 years saw a rapid unraveling of the empire on which it once could be said the sun never set. Threatened now are its vestiges.