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Conch Republic

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The Conch Republic is a micronation declared as a tongue-in-cheek secession of the city of Key West, Florida, from the United States on April 23, 1982. [1]

68 relations: Admiral, Aid, Airline, Associated Press, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Camouflage passport, Card Sound Bridge, Conch (people), Cuba, Cuban bread, De facto, Declaration of war, Dennis Wardlow, Dry Tortugas National Park, Eastern Air Lines, Eastern Time Zone, English language, Estimation, Fireboat, Florida City, Florida, Forgottonia, Fort Jefferson (Florida), Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park, Illegal immigration, Illinois, Injunction, International vehicle registration code, Jeb Bush, Jet aircraft, Joe Haldeman, Kevin Sullivan (wrestler), Key West, Key West International Airport, List of national independence days, Miami, Miami Herald, Miami International Airport, Miami–Dade County, Florida, Micronation, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, Mohamed Atta, Monroe County, Florida, Narcotic, Pitts Special, Prime minister, Refugee, Republic, Secession, September 11 attacks, Seven Mile Bridge, ..., Smithsonian Institution, Spider Robinson, Summits of the Americas, The Mouse That Roared, The Palm Beach Post, Tongue-in-cheek, Tourism, U.S. Route 1 in Florida, United States, United States Army Reserve, United States Border Patrol, United States Department of Defense, United States dollar, United States federal government shutdowns of 1995–1996, UTC−04:00, UTC−05:00, Wet feet, dry feet policy, World Championship Wrestling. Expand index (18 more) »

Admiral

Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies, and in many navies is the highest rank.

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Aid

In international relations, aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, foreign aid or foreign assistance) is – from the perspective of governments – a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.

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Airline

An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

In the fictional universe of Spider Robinson, Callahan's Place is a bar with strongly community-minded and empathic clientele.

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Camouflage passport

A camouflage passport is a document, designed to look like a real passport, issued in the name of a non-existent country or entity.

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Card Sound Bridge

Card Sound Bridge is a high-rise toll causeway connecting southern Miami-Dade County and northern Monroe County.

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Conch (people)

Conch, was originally a slang term for native Bahamians of European descent.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Cuban bread

Cuban bread is a fairly simple white bread, similar to French bread and Italian bread, but has a slightly different baking method and ingredient list (in particular, it generally includes a small amount of fat in the form of lard or vegetable shortening); it is usually made in long, baguette-like loaves.

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De facto

In law and government, de facto (or;, "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, even if not legally recognised by official laws.

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Declaration of war

A declaration of war is a formal act by which one state goes to war against another.

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Dennis Wardlow

Dennis Wardlow (born c. 1954) is a former Mayor of Key West, Florida, having served on three separate occasions.

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Dry Tortugas National Park

Dry Tortugas National Park is a national park in the United States about west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Eastern Air Lines

Eastern Air Lines was a major American airline from 1926 to 1991.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Estimation

Estimation (or estimating) is the process of finding an estimate, or approximation, which is a value that is usable for some purpose even if input data may be incomplete, uncertain, or unstable.

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Fireboat

A fireboat is a specialized watercraft with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires.

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Florida City, Florida

Florida City is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States and is the southernmost municipality in the South Florida metropolitan area.

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Forgottonia

Forgottonia, also spelled Forgotonia, is the name given to a 16-county region in Western Illinois in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Fort Jefferson (Florida)

Fort Jefferson is a massive but unfinished coastal fortress.

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Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park

The Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park, better known simply as Fort Taylor (or Fort Zach to locals) is a Florida State Park and National Historic Landmark centered on a Civil War-era fort located near the southern tip of Key West, Florida.

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Illegal immigration

Illegal immigration is the illegal entry of a person or a group of persons across a country's border, in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country, with the intention to remain in the country, as well as people who remain living in another country when they do not have the legal right to do so.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Injunction

An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts.

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International vehicle registration code

The country in which a motor vehicle's vehicle registration plate was issued may be indicated by an international licence plate country code, formerly known as an International Registration Letter or International Circulation Mark. The distinguishing sign of the country of registration must be displayed on the rear of the vehicle.

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Jeb Bush

John Ellis "Jeb" Bush Sr. (born February 11, 1953) is an American politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007.

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Jet aircraft

A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by jet engines (jet propulsion).

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Joe Haldeman

Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author.

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Kevin Sullivan (wrestler)

Kevin Francis Sullivan (born October 26, 1949) is an American professional wrestler and booker, perhaps best known for his role in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as "The Taskmaster" and his leading of the "Dungeon of Doom".

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Key West

Key West (Cayo Hueso) is an island and city in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent, at the southwesternmost end of the roadway through the Florida Keys in the state of Florida, United States.

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Key West International Airport

Key West International Airport is an international airport located in the City of Key West in Monroe County, Florida and two miles east of the main commercial center of Key West.

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List of national independence days

An Independence Day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state; more rarely after the end of a military occupation; and in the unique case of Singapore, expulsion from Malaysia.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of downtown Miami.

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Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport, also known as MIA and historically as Wilcox Field, is the primary airport serving the Miami area.

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Miami–Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Micronation

A micronation, sometimes referred to as a model country or new country project, is an entity that claims to be an independent nation or state but is not recognized by world governments or major international organizations.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a variable-geometry fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union.

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Mohamed Atta

Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta (محمد محمد الأمير عوض السيد عطا; September 1, 1968 – September 11, 2001) was an Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks in which four United States commercial aircraft were commandeered with the intention of destroying specific civilian targets.

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Monroe County, Florida

Monroe County is a county in the state of Florida.

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Narcotic

The term narcotic (from ancient Greek ναρκῶ narkō, "to make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with sleep-inducing properties.

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Pitts Special

The Pitts Special (company designations S1 and S2) is a series of light aerobatic biplanes designed by Curtis Pitts.

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Prime minister

A prime minister is the head of a cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.

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Refugee

A refugee, generally speaking, is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely (for more detail see legal definition).

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Republic

A republic (res publica) is a form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers.

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Secession

Secession (derived from the Latin term secessio) is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity, but also from any organization, union or military alliance.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Seven Mile Bridge

The Seven Mile Bridge is a bridge in the Florida Keys, in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Spider Robinson

Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian science fiction author.

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Summits of the Americas

The Summits of the Americas (SOA) is a series of international summit meetings bringing together the leaders of countries in the OAS.

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The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared is a 1955 Cold War satirical novel by Irish American writer Leonard Wibberley, which launched a series of satirical books about an imaginary country in Europe called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

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The Palm Beach Post

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Tongue-in-cheek

The phrase tongue-in-cheek is a figure of speech that describes a statement or other expression that the speaker or author does not mean literally, but intends as humor or otherwise not seriously.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

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U.S. Route 1 in Florida

U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) in Florida runs along the state's east coast from Key West to its crossing of the St. Marys River into Georgia north of Boulogne, and south of Folkston.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army Reserve

The United States Army Reserve (USAR) is the federal reserve force of the United States Army.

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United States Border Patrol

The United States Border Patrol (USBP) is an American federal law enforcement agency.

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United States Department of Defense

The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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United States federal government shutdowns of 1995–1996

The United States federal government shutdowns of 1995 and 1995–96 were the result of conflicts between Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress over funding for Medicare, education, the environment, and public health in the 1996 federal budget.

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UTC−04:00

UTC−04:00 is a time offset that subtracts 4 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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UTC−05:00

UTC−05:00 is a time offset that subtracts five hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Wet feet, dry feet policy

The wet feet, dry feet policy or wet foot, dry foot policy is the name given to a former interpretation of the 1995 revision of the application of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 that essentially says that anyone who fled Cuba and entered the United States would be allowed to pursue residency a year later.

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World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling, Inc. (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion, historically based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_Republic

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