Attention was paid to Japan and China, of course, but places like Persia, Turkey, the Middle East and India were considered dimly lighted outposts with little real significance in the history of art.
As dawn approached on Sunday, the last trucks began to cross the border into Kuwait at an outpost lighted by floodlights and secured by barbed wire.
After only a few minutes, the lights of the Lamanai Outpost faded into velvety darkness and the only light was a brilliant shaft from the halogen lamp at the front of the boat.
Now that all of the managers have returned to South Korea, they are shedding light on the sprawling outpost of capitalism in the impoverished Communist state.
Taliban fighters equipped with heavy and light weapons attacked security outposts outside of Bala Murghab District, killing eight members of an Afghan commando unit.
For years, various reporters have shed light on hush-hush outposts -- most of them built, upgraded, or expanded since 9/11 -- dotting the continent, including so-called cooperative security locations (CSLs).
With magnesium flares fired by militia outposts lighting the night sky outside Kufa, the man, who said he was 40 and a technical college graduate, explained how he had had spent two years in prison under Saddam Hussein for belonging to a banned Shiite religious party.
Getting here can be an adventure in itself, but some agencies can arrange light-aircraft flights to the outpost of Loiyangalani.
I try my hardest, but even on a clear tropical night I can't make out the bright lights of America's southernmost outpost of Key West.
The company command element began patrolling back to its small outpost in the dimming light, listening to an intense firefight between the Taliban and Third Platoon in the distance.
