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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A community of southeast Massachusetts on Nantucket Sound on the southwest part of Cape Cod. It is a popular summer resort.

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  • At a campaign rally today in Hyannis, ThinkProgress caught up with Brown for comment on why he voted against the measure:

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  • I will mail it out to you -- unless you expect to be in Hyannis or on the Cape sometime soon in which case I will meet you somewhere.

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  • (CNN) – A close family associate confirms to CNN the storied Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port could be given into a non-profit organization to be made into a museum/educational center project.

    Kennedy compound could become museum 2009

  • Over the next year, he missed many senate votes and he died from his illness at his home in Hyannis Port.

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  • At a campaign rally today in Hyannis, ThinkProgress caught up with Brown for comment on why he voted against the measure:

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  • Make sure you take a stop at the steak house near the docks in Hyannis .... great food (and only a boat ride in the fog over).

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  • Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who carried aloft the torch of a Massachusetts dynasty and a liberal ideology to the citadel of Senate power, but whose personal and political failings may have prevented him from realizing the ultimate prize of the presidency, died at his home in Hyannis Port last night after a battle with brain cancer.

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  • Oh, it looks like I'll be at the Massachusetts Library Association conference on April 30 in Hyannis, and also the Tucson Festival of Books March 13-14, with, well, most of the rest of Shadow Unit -- Will Shetterly, Emma Bull, Leah Bobet, and Amanda Downum.

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  • (CNN) - Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle with brain cancer.

    Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy dies after cancer battle 2009

  • He was assigned to the Boston Field Office and, according to his family, was stationed at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.

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