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The Christians gradually captured and annexed the former bastions of Moorish rule; in 1236, Córdoba fell to James the Conqueror, followed by Sevilla in 1248.
Lew Miller's decision had been a practical one: he felt it foolish to sacrifice the sales of many thousands of copies of the dictionary in the Bible Belt and other puritanical bastions of conservatism like Texas and California merely for the sake of a “couple of four-letter words.”
Inside, there’s more art: all the major department stores project themselves as bastions of culture, maintaining their own galleries and mounting frequent world-class exhibitions of prints, painting, pottery, and sculpture.
Huge round bastions topped by ornate 14th-century minarets of Al-Muayyad Mosque (1420) frame the tiny gate, which was used as a permanent scaffold to hang criminals in years gone by.
Its strong bastions and high ‘curtains’ were never taken by an enemy.