Word: gibraltarism
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Eighteen years from now an old curtain will rise to expose a production that will pave the path for African and European unification once again. The deep blue color of the Mediterranean Sea will not lose a twinkle, the Strait of Gibraltar will still separate Spain from Morocco, but the underlying sea bed—and possibly Spanish-Moroccan relations—will never be the same again. No, it isn’t a miscalculation of a Pangea Ultima configuration; the governments of Spain and Morocco just agreed to construct an underwater tunnel to connect their rail systems...
...announcement in December of 2003, former Spanish Development Minister Francisco Álvarez Cascos likened the project to those of the Suez Canal in the 19th century and the Panama Canal in the 20th century. But unlike those grand feats of engineering and technological prowess, the building of the Gibraltar Tunnel seems more like a symbolic endeavor that the world can do without...
...advantages purported in building the Gibraltar Tunnel include increases in trade and cooperation as well as development of communications. But attempts by both governments to solicit part of an estimated $10 billion budget from the European Union are not reassuring. Since the completion of the English Channel tunnel, shares of stock that funded the project lost a great percentage of their value and operator Eurotunnel is limping with minimal hope that freight and passenger train traffic will increase...
Once a palatial private home built around a series of two-story courtyards, the hotel boasts magnificent views across the mountains, down to the Málaga coast and, on clear days, as far as Gibraltar and even Morocco (hence the name). Each of the nine bedrooms is different and all are romantic, though not luxurious. There's a pool and a hot tub. And a cool restaurant with a shaded terrace...
...species, at least in Europe and western Asia--or whether, bizarre as it seems today, they would both survive indefinitely. The Neanderthals held out for hundreds of thousands of years. A discovery published online by Nature last month suggests Neanderthals may have made their last stand in Gibraltar, on the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, surviving until about 28,000 years ago--and possibly even longer...