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However, in New York and Chicago--the largest bastions of organized crime--Jewish and Italian gangs (not Sicilian Mafiosi) dominated.
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.
A rebuilt stockade of six earth and log bastions connected by a wooden palisade surrounds workshops, hospital, kitchens, and the original 1796 stone powder house.
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.
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.