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Neanderthal skulls were found in 1848 and 1928, and Gibraltar is considered one of the final bastions for this species.
The English-speaking world, expecially Great Britain, Canada, the U.S.A., and even India claim to be the bastions of democracy, which clearly should not recognize caste or class distinctions.
However, in New York and Chicago--the largest bastions of organized crime--Jewish and Italian gangs (not Sicilian Mafiosi) dominated.
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.
Once a vast fortification of 49 turrets, it ranked alongside Osaka and Nagoya as one of the country’s greatest impregnable bastions.