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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of extreme southern Florida on the island of Key West, the westernmost of the Florida Keys in the Gulf of Mexico. Named Cayo Hueso by Spanish explorers in 1513, it became a base for US naval operations against pirates in the 1800s and prospered through fishing and salvaging shipwrecks. In the 1870s, Key West became a center of the Cuban independence movement and has since been home to many artists and writers, notably Ernest Hemingway.
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- noun a town on the westernmost of the Florida keys in the Gulf of Mexico
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* The name Key West is a corruption of the Spanish Cayo Hueso, "Bone Key."
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And stay tuned for much more live coverage of the countdown to 2010 from Key West, which is so much fun, to Hawaii.
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That is going to be to -- for Key West, which is much further south from where we are, about 70 to 80 miles.
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He is there in Key West, which is just taking a pounding right now.
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When you look at Key West, which is a place we're really talking about here, if you go all the way into it, by comparison, New Orleans is almost a fortress.
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KURALT: I met a fellow in Key West, which is undoubtedly our most laid-back American community, Clyde Hensley.
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Further, there are held by these same states of the first order two advanced positions, widely separated from the first bases of their power; namely, Key West, which is 460 miles from Pensacola, and
The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future 1877
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Cuba has signed agreements with China and Russia to permit these countries to drill for oil in the Florida Straits within 60 kilometres of Key West - in other words, within sight.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Neil Reynolds 2010
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Cuba has signed agreements with China and Russia to permit these countries to drill for oil in the Florida Straits within 60 kilometres of Key West - in other words, within sight.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Neil Reynolds 2010
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And for one who already misses that wonderful place at the end of the road called Key West, this was a good feeling.
KeysNews.com - admin 2010
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