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Even then, Chicago represented the center of African-American life in the state, but Centralia was a major outpost for the Illinois Central Railroad, which drew black migrants from the South.

Victor Blanco, a Puerto Rican astronomer who helped build a major outpost for American science, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and shepherded it through 14 years of revolution, counterrevolution and economic turmoil, died on March 8.

It is the last major outpost of Republican strength in a state that has had Democratic governors for the last 16 years and a Democratic majority in the State Assembly even longer.

Once, this was a major outpost of Catholicism, with the country's first cathedral west of the Allegheny mountains.

The Shanghai entertainment and vacation complex, Disney's first major outpost in China, is expected to open in late 2015.

Fallujah, in Anbar province, is the terrorist group's major outpost closest to the capital Baghdad.

At the Snake River, Wyeth built a post, Fort Hall, in Idaho (near present-day Pocatello), which was later bought by the Hudson's Bay Company; it subsequently became a major supply outpost for future emigrants.

In practical terms, several specialists on the region said the end of the Dubai deal will likely have little impact on UAE's willingness to continue serving as a major Middle East outpost for U.S. warships, spy planes and combat aircraft.

Puerto Rico, he said, represents a major market for American products, an outpost for American military bases and "a blood tribute" paid by the Puerto Ricans who fight America's wars.

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HONOLULU — Hawaii should be a happy outpost for the Democratic Party.