Portal:Gibraltar/Did you know
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- ... that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel's former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British?
- ...that the Gibraltar Football Association had their UEFA membership application blocked by Spain due to their claim on the territory?
- ...that Gibraltarian degree level students studying in a UK university receive a full scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar?
- ...that Gibraltar passports are full British passports which are particularly issued to Gibraltarians and only differ in some wording?
- ...that the cuisine of Gibraltar includes Maltese, Genoese and Portuguese culinary influences?
- ...that Horace Walpole called John Trumbull's oil-on-canvas The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789 (pictured) "the finest picture [he] had ever seen painted on the northern side of the Alps"?
