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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. [1]

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Porter House, Dry Tortugas, Dry Tortugas National Park, Duval Street, Dwight D. Eisenhower, East Coast Greenway, Eastern Time Zone, Eduardo H. Gato House, Elizabeth Bishop, English language, Environmental protection, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway House, ESPN, Fantasy Fest, Federal government of the United States, Federal Information Processing Standards, Fidel Castro, Finca Vigía, First language, Fleming Key, Florida, Florida City, Florida, Florida East Coast Railway, Florida Keys, Florida Keys Community College, Florida Keys Keynoter, Florida State Road A1A, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ford Model A (1927–31), Ford Motor Company, Fort Jefferson (Florida), Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park, Franklin D. Roosevelt, French language, Geographic Names Information System, George Mira, German language, Gibraltar, Guinness World Records, Gulf of Mexico, Harry S. Truman, Harry S. Truman Little White House, Havana, Havana Harbor, Headland, Henry Flagler, Hoi polloi, Hurricane Georges, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Wilma, Immigration, Islamorada, Florida, Island, Italian language, James Merrill, Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy Carter, John Dewey, John Dos Passos, John F. Kennedy, John Geddes (politician), John James Audubon, John Patterson (infielder), John Rodgers (1772–1838), John Wilkes Booth, José Martí, Juan Ponce de León, Judy Blume, K–8 school, Köppen climate classification, Keith Strickland, Kelly McGillis, Key Haven, Florida, Key Largo, Key West Aquarium, Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory, Key West Cemetery, Key West Citizen, Key West High School, Key West Historic District, Key West International Airport, Key West lighthouse, Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden, Khalil Greene, Lexington Herald-Leader, List of colonial governors of Cuba, List of counties in Florida, List of extreme points of the United States, List of mayors of Key West, Florida, List of sovereign states, Los Angeles Times, Mallory Square, Marathon, Marathon swimming, Marathon, Florida, Mariel boatlift, Marine salvage, Marquesas Keys, Marriage, Martial law, Matthew C. Perry, Mayor–council government, Mel Fisher, Miami, Miami Herald, Michel Tremblay, Mike Leach (American football coach), Military, Mobile, Alabama, Mole (architecture), Monroe County School District (Florida), Monroe County, Florida, Motto, MS Majesty of the Seas, MTV, Naples, Florida, National Hurricane Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, National Weather Service, Native Americans in the United States, Naval Air Station Key West, Naval aviation, Neighborhoods in Key West, Florida, Norwegian Cruise Line, Nude beach, Old Town (Key West), Overseas Highway, Overseas Railroad, Pan American World Airways, Paul Cotton (musician), Pauline Pfeiffer, Pegasus-class hydrofoil, Penny, Per capita income, Piracy, Polydactyl cat, Population density, Poverty threshold, President of the United States, Quincy Perkins, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Randy Sterling, Roadster (automobile), Robert Fuller (actor), Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Saffir–Simpson scale, Salt evaporation pond, Samuel Mudd, Sandy Cornish, Santa Cruz del Norte, Sea level, Seagrass, Shane Spencer, Shel Silverstein, Shipwreck, Sigsbee Park, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, Sloppy Joe's, Smith Thompson, Solares Hill, Sonic boom, South Carolina, Southeastern United States, Southernmost point buoy, Spaniards, Spanish Empire, Spanish language, Spanish Navy, Spanish–American War, St. Augustine, Florida, Stephen Mallory, Stepin Fetchit, Stock Island, Florida, Straits of Florida, Stuart Woods, Sunset Key, Susie Maroney, Tampa Bay Times, Ten Years' War, Tennessee Williams, The B-52's, The Bahamas, The Boston Globe, The Meadows (Key West), The New York Times, The New York Times International Edition, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Real World: Key West, The Rose Tattoo, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story), The Studios of Key West, Thomas Sanchez (writer), Time (magazine), To Have and Have Not, Tom Corcoran (writer), Trade winds, Tropical climate, Tropical cyclone, Tropical savanna climate, Truman Annex, Trumbo Point, Turtling (hunting), U.S. Route 1, U.S. Route 1 in Florida, U.S. state, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Border Patrol, United States Census Bureau, United States Coast Guard, United States Geological Survey, United States Navy, United States Secretary of the Navy, USS Maine (ACR-1), USS Shark (1821), VFA-101, Vic Albury, Wallace Stevens, War of 1812, West Indies, West Martello Tower, Wet season, White Street Gallery District, Winslow Homer, Wisteria Island, World War I, World War II, ZIP Code, 1876 Atlantic hurricane season, 1935 Labor Day hurricane, 2010 United States Census. 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A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant ("tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army.

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A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams that received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Afro-Bahamian

Afro-Bahamians are an ethnicity originating in The Bahamas of predominantly African descent.

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Alison Lurie

Alison Lurie (born September 3, 1926) is an American novelist and academic.

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Amber McDonald

Amber McDonald is an actress from Key West, Florida.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.

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Area codes 305 and 786

Area code 305 is the area code for all of Miami, Florida, Miami-Dade County, and the part of Monroe County in the Florida Keys in the United States.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Audubon House and Tropical Gardens

The Audubon House & Tropical Gardens is located at 205 Whitehead Street, Key West, Florida.

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Bahama Village

Bahama Village is a neighborhood in the City of Key West, Florida, Monroe County, United States.

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Ballast Key

Ballast Key is an island in the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Baseball park

A baseball park, also known as a ballpark or diamond, is a venue where baseball is played.

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Blockade

A blockade is an effort to cut off supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally.

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Boca Chica Key

Boca Chica Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys, about a mile east of the island of Key West at its closest point.

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Boog Powell

John Wesley "Boog" Powell (born August 17, 1941) is an American former professional baseball first baseman and left fielder.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Bronson Arroyo

Bronson Anthony Arroyo (born February 24, 1977) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.

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Buoy

A buoy is a floating device that can have many purposes.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to paying subscribers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fiber-optic cables.

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Calusa

The Calusa were a Native American people of Florida's southwest coast.

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Calvin Klein (fashion designer)

Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968.

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Car dealership

A car dealership or vehicle local distribution is a business that sells new or used cars at the retail level, based on a dealership contract with an automaker or its sales subsidiary.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo (April 18, 1819, Bayamo, Spanish Cuba – February 27, 1874, San Lorenzo, Spanish Cuba) was a Cuban revolutionary hero.

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Carnival Fascination

Carnival Fascination (formerly Fascination) is the fourth of eight cruise ships operated by Carnival Cruise Line.

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Caroline Street (Key West)

Caroline Street is an iconic and historically significant local road on the island of Key West, Florida.

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Cay

A cay, also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city.

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Charter school

A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Comcast

Comcast Corporation (formerly registered as Comcast Holdings)Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, or simply coming out, is a metaphor for LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation or of their gender identity.

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Commercial fishing

Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries.

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Commodore (United States)

Commodore was an early title and later a rank in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard and the Confederate States Navy.

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Conch (people)

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

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.

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Conspiracy (criminal)

In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future.

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Contiguous United States

The contiguous United States or officially the conterminous United States consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. on the continent of North America.

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Council–manager government

The council–manager government form is one of two predominant forms of local government in the United States and Ireland, the other being the mayor–council government form.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Craig Cates

Craig C. Cates (born Key West, Florida) is an American politician, retired businessman and former boat and car racing champion.

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Cruise ship

A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, when the voyage itself, the ship's amenities, and sometimes the different destinations along the way (i.e., ports of call), are part of the experience.

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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 Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962 (Crisis de Octubre), the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

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Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution (Revolución cubana) was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.

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Cubans

Cubans or Cuban people (Cubanos) are the inhabitants or citizens of Cuba.

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David Allan Coe

David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who was popular in the 1970s and 1980s.

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David Porter (naval officer)

David Porter (February 1, 1780 – March 3, 1843) was an officer in the United States Navy in the rank of captain and the honorary title of commodore.

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David Robinson (basketball)

David Maurice Robinson (born August 6, 1965) is an American retired professional basketball player, who played center for the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for his entire career.

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David Wolkowsky

David Wolkowsky is an American developer from Key West, Florida, United States.

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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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Death in the Afternoon

Death in the Afternoon is a non-fiction book written by Ernest Hemingway about the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting, published in 1932.

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Deed

A deed (anciently "an evidence") is any legal instrument in writing which passes, affirms or confirms an interest, right, or property and that is signed, attested, delivered, and in some jurisdictions, sealed.

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Diana Nyad

Diana Nyad (née Sneed; born August 22, 1949) is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer.

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Dick Vermeil

Richard Albert Vermeil (born October 30, 1936) is a former American head coach for the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles (1976–1982), St. Louis Rams (1997–1999) and Kansas City Chiefs (2001–2005).

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Dictator

A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power.

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DirecTV

DirecTV (stylized as DIRECTV) is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider based in El Segundo, California and is a subsidiary of AT&T.

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Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation +1-855-553-9444 is a U.S. television provider.

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Dr. Joseph Y. Porter House

The Dr.

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Dry Tortugas

The Dry Tortugas are a small group of islands, located in the Gulf of Mexico at the end of the Florida Keys, United States, about west of Key West, and west of the Marquesas Keys, the closest islands.

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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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Duval Street

Duval Street is a downtown commercial zoned street in Key West, Florida, running north and south from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, just over 1.25 miles in length.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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East Coast Greenway

The East Coast Greenway is a biking and walking route linking the major cities of the Atlantic coast of the United States, from Calais, Maine, to Key West, Florida.

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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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Eduardo H. Gato House

The Eduardo H. Gato House (also known as the Mercedes Hospital) is a historic home in Key West, Florida, United States.

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Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer.

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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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Environmental protection

Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the natural environment on individual, organization controlled or governmental levels, for the benefit of both the environment and humans.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Ernest Hemingway House

The Ernest Hemingway House, officially known as the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, was the residence of author Ernest Hemingway in Key West, Florida, United States.

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ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

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Fantasy Fest

Fantasy Fest is a street party held annually in the last week of October in Key West, Florida.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.

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Finca Vigía

Finca Vigía (Lookout Farm) was the home of Ernest Hemingway in San Francisco de Paula Ward in Havana, Cuba.

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First language

A first language, native language or mother/father/parent tongue (also known as arterial language or L1) is a language that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

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Fleming Key

Fleming Key is an island off the northwest corner of the island of Key West, Florida in the lower Florida Keys.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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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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Florida East Coast Railway

The Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Florida Keys

The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost portion of the continental United States.

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Florida Keys Community College

Florida Keys Community College (FKCC) is a community college in Key West, Florida.

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Florida Keys Keynoter

The Florida Keys Keynoter is a twice-weekly broadsheet format newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and is a subsidiary of the Miami Herald.

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Florida State Road A1A

State Road A1A (SR A1A) is a north-south Florida State Road that runs along the Atlantic Ocean, from Key West at the southern tip of Florida, to Fernandina Beach, just south of Georgia on Amelia Island.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940.

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Ford Model A (1927–31)

The Ford Model A (also colloquially called the A-Model Ford or the A, and A-bone among rodders and customizers), was the second huge success for the Ford Motor Company, after its predecessor, the Model T. First produced on October 20, 1927, but not sold until December 2, it replaced the venerable Model T, which had been produced for 18 years.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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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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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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George Mira

George Ignacio Mira (born January 11, 1942) is a former professional American football player, a quarterback in eight National Football League (NFL) seasons for four different teams.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Harry S. Truman Little White House

The Harry S Truman Little White House in Key West, Florida was the winter White House for President Harry S Truman for 175 days during 11 visits.

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Havana

Havana (Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba.

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Havana Harbor

Havana Harbor is the port of Havana, the capital of Cuba, and it is the main port in Cuba (not including Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, a territory on lease by the United States).

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Headland

A headland (or simply head) is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water.

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Henry Flagler

Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, first based in Ohio.

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Hoi polloi

Hoi polloi (πολλοί, hoi polloi, "the many") is an expression from Greek that means the many or, in the strictest sense, the people.

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Hurricane Georges

Hurricane Georges was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde Category 4 hurricane which caused severe destruction as it traversed the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in September 1998, making eight landfalls along its path.

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Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and catastrophic Cape Verde hurricane, the strongest observed in the Atlantic in terms of maximum sustained winds since Wilma, and the strongest storm on record to exist in the open Atlantic region.

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Hurricane Wilma

Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, and the second-most intense tropical cyclone recorded in the Western Hemisphere, after Hurricane Patricia in 2015.

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Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.

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Islamorada, Florida

Islamorada is an incorporated village in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.

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Italian language

Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.

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James Merrill

For the South Carolina politician see James Merrill (politician) James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.

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Jimmy Buffett

James William Buffett (born December 25, 1946) is an American musician, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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John Dewey

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

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John Dos Passos

John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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John Geddes (politician)

John Geddes (December 25, 1777March 4, 1828) was the 47th Governor of South Carolina from 1818 to 1820.

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John James Audubon

John James Audubon (born Jean Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.

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John Patterson (infielder)

John Allen Patterson (born February 11, 1967 in Key West, Florida) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman who played from to for the San Francisco Giants.

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John Rodgers (1772–1838)

John Rodgers (July 11, 1772 – August 1, 1838) was a senior naval officer in the United States Navy who served under six Presidents for nearly four decades during its formative years in the 1790s through the late 1830s, committing the bulk of his adult life to his country.

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John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was the American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.

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José Martí

José Julián Martí Pérez (January 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895) was a Cuban National Hero and an important figure in Latin American literature.

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Juan Ponce de León

Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain in 1474.

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Judy Blume

Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman; February 12, 1938) is an American writer known for children's and young adult (YA) fiction.

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K–8 school

K–8 schools, elementary-middle schools, or K–8 centers are schools in the United States that enroll students from kindergarten/pre-K (age 5–6) through 8th grade (up to age 14), combining the typical elementary school (K–5/6) and junior high or middle school (6/7–8).

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Keith Strickland

Keith Julian Strickland (born October 26, 1953) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, composer, and one of the founding members of The B-52s.

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Kelly McGillis

Kelly Ann McGillis (born July 9, 1957) is an American actress.

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Key Haven, Florida

Key Haven is an unincorporated community on Raccoon Key, an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately one mile east of the island of Key West.

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Key Largo

Key Largo (Cayo Largo) is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and is the largest section of the Keys, at long.

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Key West Aquarium

The Key West Aquarium is the only public aquarium in Key West, Florida, United States.

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Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory

The Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory located at 1316 Duval Street, Key West, Florida, United States is a butterfly park that houses from 50 to 60 different species of live butterflies from around the world in a climate-controlled, glass-enclosed habitat.

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Key West Cemetery

The Key West Cemetery is a cemetery at the foot of Solares Hill on the island of Key West, Florida, United States.

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Key West Citizen

The Key West Citizen is a daily newspaper published in Key West, Florida, USA.

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Key West High School

Key West High School is a Monroe County public school in Key West, Florida, USA.

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Key West Historic District

The Key West Historic District (also known as Old Town of the City of Key West) is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on March 11, 1971) located in Key West, Florida.

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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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Key West lighthouse

The Key West lighthouse is located in Key West, Florida.

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Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden

The Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden is a frost-free arboretum and botanical garden containing a collection of trees, shrubs, and palms, including several "champion tree" specimens.

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Khalil Greene

Khalil Thabit Greene (born October 21, 1979) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop.

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Lexington Herald-Leader

The Lexington Herald-Leader is a newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and based in the U.S. city of Lexington, Kentucky.

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List of colonial governors of Cuba

List of Colonial Heads of Cuba Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office.

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List of counties in Florida

There are 67 counties in the state of Florida.

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List of extreme points of the United States

This is a list of points in the United States that are farther north, south, east, or west than any other location in the country.

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List of mayors of Key West, Florida

Mayors of Key West, Florida in the United States have reflected the city's cultural and ethnic heritage including Cuban and openly gay mayors.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Mallory Square

Mallory Square is a plaza located in the city of Key West, Florida, United States.

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Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance race, completed by running, walking, or a run/walk strategy.

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Marathon swimming

Marathon swimming is a class of open water swimming defined by long distances (at least 10 kilometers) and traditional rules based in English Channel swimming.

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Marathon, Florida

Marathon is a city on Knight's Key, Boot Key, Key Vaca, Fat Deer Key, Long Point Key, Crawl Key and Grassy Key islands in the middle of the Florida Keys, in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Mariel boatlift

The Mariel boatlift was a mass emigration of Cubans, who traveled from Cuba's Mariel Harbor to the United States between 15 April and 31 October 1980.

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Marine salvage

Marine salvage is the process of recovering a ship and its cargo after a shipwreck or other maritime casualty.

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Marquesas Keys

The Marquesas Keys form an uninhabited island group about west of Key West, 4 miles (6 km) in diameter, and largely covered by mangrove forest.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Martial law

Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civilian functions of government, especially in response to a temporary emergency such as invasion or major disaster, or in an occupied territory. Martial law can be used by governments to enforce their rule over the public.

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Matthew C. Perry

Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was a Commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War (1846–48).

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Mayor–council government

The mayor–council government system is a system of organization of local government.

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Mel Fisher

Born in Indiana and a dive shop pioneer in California, Mel Fisher (August 21, 1922 – December 19, 1998) was an American treasure hunter best known for finding the 1622 wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha. Diving became a family business: he lost his son and daughter-in-law when their boat capsized and sank in 1975.

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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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Michel Tremblay

Michel Tremblay, CQ (born 25 June 1942) is a French Canadian novelist and playwright.

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Mike Leach (American football coach)

Michael Charles Leach (born March 9, 1961) is an American college football coach.

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Military

A military or armed force is a professional organization formally authorized by a sovereign state to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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Mole (architecture)

A mole is a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater, or a causeway between places separated by water.

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Monroe County School District (Florida)

Monroe County School District is a public school district serving the residents of Monroe County, Florida.

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Monroe County, Florida

Monroe County is a county in the state of Florida.

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Motto

A motto (derived from the Latin muttum, 'mutter', by way of Italian motto, 'word', 'sentence') is a maxim; a phrase meant to formally summarize the general motivation or intention of an individual, family, social group or organization.

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MS Majesty of the Seas

MS Majesty of the Seas is a Sovereign-class cruise ship owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd and operated by Royal Caribbean International.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Naples, Florida

Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States.

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National Hurricane Center

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is the division of the United States' National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting weather systems within the tropics between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th parallel north in the northeast Pacific Ocean and the 31st parallel north in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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National Weather Service

The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States Federal Government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Naval Air Station Key West

*Not to be confused with Key West International Airport Naval Air Station Key West, is a naval air station and military airport located on Boca Chica Key, four miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Key West, Florida, United States.

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Naval aviation

Naval aviation is the application of military air power by navies, whether from warships that embark aircraft, or land bases.

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Neighborhoods in Key West, Florida

The following is a list of the neighborhoods within the city limits of Key West, Florida: Key West Island.

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Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line is a subsidiary of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd, an American-Bermudian company operating cruise ships, headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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Nude beach

A nude beach, sometimes called a clothing-optional or free beach, is a beach where users are at liberty to be nude.

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Old Town (Key West)

Old Town is the name given to the historic district of the island of Key West, Florida.

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Overseas Highway

The Overseas Highway is a highway carrying U.S. Route 1 (US 1) through the Florida Keys.

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Overseas Railroad

The Overseas Railroad (also known as Florida Overseas Railroad, the Overseas Extension, and Flagler's Folly) was an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West, a city located 128 miles (204.8 km) beyond the end of the Florida peninsula.

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Pan American World Airways

Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927 until its collapse on December 4, 1991.

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Paul Cotton (musician)

Paul Cotton (born Norman Paul Cotton February 26, 1943 in Fort Rucker, Alabama) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter, most notable as a member of the band Poco and as the writer of the international hit song from that band, "Heart of the Night".

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Pauline Pfeiffer

Pauline Marie Pfeiffer (July 22, 1895 – October 1, 1951) was an American journalist, and the second wife of writer Ernest Hemingway.

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Pegasus-class hydrofoil

The Pegasus-class hydrofoils were a series of fast attack patrol boats employed by the U.S. Navy.

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Penny

A penny is a coin (. pennies) or a unit of currency (pl. pence) in various countries.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.

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Polydactyl cat

A polydactyl cat is a cat with a congenital physical anomaly called polydactyly (or polydactylism, also known as hyperdactyly), that causes the cat to be born with more than the usual number of toes on one or more of its paws.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Quincy Perkins

Quincy Perkins (born July 16, 1980 in Key West, Florida) is an American director most famous for directing, producing and writing the narrative fiction short film Swingers Anonymous which debuted at the in 2015.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Randy Sterling

Randall Wayne (Randy) Sterling (born April 21, 1951 in Key West, Florida) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

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Roadster (automobile)

A roadster (spider or spyder) is an open two-seat car with emphasis on sporting appearance or character.

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Robert Fuller (actor)

Robert Fuller (born Leonard Leroy "Buddy" Lee, July 29, 1933), is an American horse rancher and retired actor.

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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is an American global cruise company incorporated in Liberia and based in Miami, Florida.

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Saffir–Simpson scale

The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS), formerly the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale (SSHS), classifies hurricanesWestern Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical stormsinto five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.

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Salt evaporation pond

San Francisco Bay salt ponds salar'' is rich in lithium, and the mine concentrates the brine in the ponds Contemporary solar evaporation salt pans on the island of Lanzarote at Salinas de Janubio Solar evaporation ponds in the Atacama Desert Solar evaporation ponds in the Salt Valley of Añana, Spain Solar evaporation ponds in the Salt Valley of Añana, Spain A salt evaporation pond is a shallow artificial salt pan designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines.

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Samuel Mudd

Samuel Alexander Mudd (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

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Sandy Cornish

Sandy Cornish (1793 – 1869) was an African American farmer, businessperson, and civic leader in Key West, Florida.

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Santa Cruz del Norte

Santa Cruz del Norte is a town and municipality in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.

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Seagrass

Seagrasses are flowering plants (angiosperms) belonging to four families (Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae and Cymodoceaceae), all in the order Alismatales (in the class of monocotyledons), which grow in marine, fully saline environments.

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Shane Spencer

Michael Shane Spencer (born February 20, 1972) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.

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Shel Silverstein

Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer known for his cartoons, songs, and children's books.

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Shipwreck

A shipwreck is the remains of a ship that has wrecked, which are found either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water.

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Sigsbee Park

Sigsbee Park, also known as Dredgers Key, is an island about a half mile north of Key West island in the lower Florida Keys; administratively it is within the City of Key West, Florida, United States.

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Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie) is a teaching religious institute founded at Longueuil, Québec, Canada, in 1843 by Blessed Mother Marie-Rose (Eulalie Durocher, 1811- 1849) for the Christian education of young girls.

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Sloppy Joe's

Sloppy Joe's Bar is a historic American bar in Key West, Florida.

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Smith Thompson

Smith Thompson (January 17, 1768 – December 18, 1843) was a United States Secretary of the Navy from 1819 to 1823, and a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice from 1823 until his death in 1843.

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Solares Hill

Solares Hill is the highest point of land on the island of Key West in the lower Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida.

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Sonic boom

A sonic boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created whenever an object traveling through the air travels faster than the speed of sound.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Southeastern United States

The Southeastern United States (Sureste de Estados Unidos, Sud-Est des États-Unis) is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.

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Southernmost point buoy

The Southernmost Point Buoy is an anchored concrete buoy in Key West, Florida, marking the southernmost point in the continental United States, the lowest latitude land of contiguous North American States.

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Spaniards

Spaniards are a Latin European ethnic group and nation.

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Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire (Imperio Español; Imperium Hispanicum), historically known as the Hispanic Monarchy (Monarquía Hispánica) and as the Catholic Monarchy (Monarquía Católica) was one of the largest empires in history.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Spanish Navy

The Spanish Navy (Armada Española) is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world.

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Spanish–American War

The Spanish–American War (Guerra hispano-americana or Guerra hispano-estadounidense; Digmaang Espanyol-Amerikano) was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898.

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St. Augustine, Florida

St.

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Stephen Mallory

Stephen Russell Mallory (1812 – November 9, 1873) served in the United States Senate as Senator (Democrat) from Florida from 1850 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War.

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Stepin Fetchit

Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian and film actor, of Jamaican descent, considered to be the first black actor to have a successful film career.

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Stock Island, Florida

Stock Island is a census-designated place (CDP) & Unincorporated community on an island of the same name in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Straits of Florida

The Straits of Florida, Florida Straits, or Florida Strait (Estrecho de Florida) is a strait located south-southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the Florida Keys (U.S.) and Cuba.

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Stuart Woods

Stuart Woods (born January 9, 1938 in Manchester, Georgia) is an American novelist.

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Sunset Key

Sunset Key is a residential neighborhood and resort island in the city of Key West, Florida, United States.

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Susie Maroney

Susan Jean "Susie" Maroney (born 15 November 1974) is an Australian former marathon swimmer.

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Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Bay Times, previously named the St.

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Ten Years' War

The Ten Years' War (Guerra de los Diez Años) (1868–1878), also known as the Great War (Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright.

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The B-52's

The B-52s (styled as The B-52's prior to 2008) are an American rock band, formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Meadows (Key West)

The Meadows is a neighborhood within the City of Key West, Florida in Monroe County, United States.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New York Times International Edition

The New York Times International Edition is an English-language newspaper printed at 38 sites throughout the world and sold in more than 160 countries and territories.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area of the United States.

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The Real World: Key West

The Real World: Key West is the seventeenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships.

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The Rose Tattoo

The Rose Tattoo is a Tennessee Williams play.

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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway.

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story)

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway.

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The Studios of Key West

The Studios of Key West is a center for the arts in Key West, an island community at the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys.

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Thomas Sanchez (writer)

Thomas Sanchez (born 1943) is an American novelist and film director.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not is a novel by Ernest Hemingway (publ. 1937) about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain out of Key West, Florida.

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Tom Corcoran (writer)

Tom Corcoran is a Florida-based writer of mystery novels.

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Trade winds

The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator.

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Tropical climate

A tropical climate in the Köppen climate classification is a non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures of at least.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".

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Truman Annex

Truman Annex is both a neighborhood and military installation in Key West, Florida, United States.

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Trumbo Point

Trumbo Point is a section of the northwest corner of the island of Key West, Florida in the lower Florida Keys.

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Turtling (hunting)

Turtling is the hunting of turtles.

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U.S. Route 1

U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is a major north–south U.S. Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States.

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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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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.

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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 Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Secretary of the Navy

The Secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory officer and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.

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USS Maine (ACR-1)

USS Maine (ACR-1) was an American naval ship that sank in Havana Harbor during the Cuban revolt against Spain, an event that became a major political issue in the United States.

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USS Shark (1821)

The first USS Shark was a schooner in the United States Navy.

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VFA-101

Strike Fighter Squadron 101 (VFA-101), also known as the "Grim Reapers", is a United States Navy Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) based at Eglin AFB, Florida.

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Vic Albury

Victor Albury (May 12, 1947 – April 18, 2017) was a Major League pitcher for the Minnesota Twins.

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.

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West Indies

The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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West Martello Tower

The West Martello Tower (also known as the Key West Garden Club) is a historic martello tower in Key West, Florida, United States.

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Wet season

The monsoon season, is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.

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White Street Gallery District

White Street Gallery District is a neighborhood within the City of Key West, Florida in Monroe County, United States.

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Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects.

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Wisteria Island

Wisteria Island, also known as Christmas Tree Island, is a federally owned, uninhabited island in the lower Florida Keys 645 yards (590 m) northwest of the northwestern corner of the main island and city of Key West, Florida, Monroe County, United States.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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ZIP Code

ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.

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1876 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1876 Atlantic hurricane season lasted from mid-summer to late-fall.

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1935 Labor Day hurricane

The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall in the United States on record and the most intense Atlantic hurricane until Hurricane Gilbert.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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References

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

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