gibraltar

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General Ayub Khan swept to power on the back of a coup in Pakistan in the late 60s and promptly embarked on operaton gibraltar, a tactical manouvre that gave birth to insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir.

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  1. A strongly fortified town on the south coast of Spain, held by the British since 1704; hence, an impregnable stronghold.

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  1. location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules

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  • Hounddog, I am old and roughing it down here in the costa del sol, by the way chocolate is crap here have to go gibraltar for anything decent. —  WordPress.com News
  • General Ayub Khan swept to power on the back of a coup in Pakistan in the late 60s and promptly embarked on operaton gibraltar, a tactical manouvre that gave birth to insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir. —  Times Now
  • The most hated man in gibraltar for selling them out to spain, —  Bloggers4Labour
  • We were allowed to take a "small brown" biscuit, or a date, or a fig, or a "gibraltar," sometimes; but we well understood that we could not help ourselves to money Now there was a little painted sugar equestrian in a shop-window down town, which I had seen and set my heart upon. —  A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)
  • Fixed gibraltar III bridge and a quick-change III tailpiece. —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
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