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Did you know...

• ... that Olympic diver Millie Hudson, who attempted to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar in 1928, was a member of the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club along with Belle White, the first British diver to win an Olympic medal?
• ... that
  people of Gibraltar
  ?
• ... that since 2006, a
  Gibraltarian no longer needs be a Member of Parliament to become Mayor of Gibraltar
  ?
• ... that in 1704 Simón Susarte, a Spanish Gibraltarian goatherd, revealed a concealed path to the Spanish Army which led to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar, so they could surprise the Anglo-Dutch troops based there?
• ... that Gibraltar's St. Michael's Cave, prepared as an emergency hospital during World War II, at present contains an auditorium and receives almost a million visitors a year?
• ... that
  British
  ?
• ...that the
  claim on the territory
  ?
• ...that
  The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789
  "the finest picture [he] had ever seen painted on the northern side of the Alps"?
• ...that Mozart
  composition for voice and piano to celebrate the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary War
  ?
• ...that John Singleton Copley's oil-on-canvas The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain’s largest oil paintings?
• ...that the
  Governor's residence in Gibraltar (pictured) is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a nun
  who was bricked up alive into a chamber wall?
• ...that
  Tongzhou, Beijing
  ?
• ...that Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so that they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock's capture?
• ...that in 2006 Gibraltar was granted a new constitution, giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom?
• ...that news of the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar was reported in the Gibraltar Chronicle a fortnight before it reached England?