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94th Scripps National Spelling Bee
The 94th Scripps National Spelling Bee was a spelling bee that was held at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. The finals were held on June 2, 2022, and televised on Ion Television and Bounce TV, marking the first time in 27 years that the Bee was not televised on an ESPN network. The winner of the bee was Harini Logan, an 8thgrade girl from San Antonio, Texas, who won with 21 words spelt correctly during the Bee's first spell-off round. Field There were 234 contestants in the field for the 2022 edition of the spelling bee, which was a modest increase over 209 spellers that competed in the year before. This year marked a return to normalcy for the bee after the past two years were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The youngest speller in the bee was 7year old Matthew Yi, and the most experienced speller was 13year old Akash Vukoti. 12 spellers from ages 11 to 14 made the final round, which was held on June 2, 2022. Competition Actor LeVar Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
The Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center is a hotel and convention center located at National Harbor, Prince George's County, in the U.S. state of Maryland. The hotel is situated along the shores of the Potomac, downriver from Washington, D.C., and across the river from Alexandria, Virginia. It is owned by Gaylord Hotels, a division of Ryman Hospitality Properties (formerly known as Gaylord Entertainment Company), and operated by Marriott International. The hotel opened April 1, 2008, as part of a new mixed-use (office, residential, and retail) development in National Harbor. It is one of the largest non-gaming hotel and convention centers on the East Coast of the United States. It cost $870 million to build. The center was originally named the "Gaylord Potomac Resort & Convention Center"; the name was changed in the planning stage. The hotel contains 2,000 guest rooms, 95 event rooms, of meeting space, seven restaurants, and a spa. It employs 2,000 people. It features ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drimys
''Drimys'' is a genus of about eight species of woody evergreen flowering plants, in the family Winteraceae. The species are native to the Neotropics, ranging from southern Mexico to the southern tip of South America. They are primitive dicots, associated with the humid temperate Antarctic flora of the Southern Hemisphere, which evolved millions of years ago on the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana. Members of the family generally have aromatic bark and leaves, and some are used to extract essential oils. ;Accepted species Seven species are currently accepted.''Drimys'' J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. ''Plants of the World Online'', Kew Science. Accessed 24 April 2022. *'' |
Mispel
Spelling is a set of conventions that regulate the way of using graphemes (writing system) to represent a language in its written form. In other words, spelling is the rendering of speech sound (phoneme) into writing (grapheme). Spelling is one of the elements of orthography, and highly standardized spelling is a prescriptive element. Spellings originated as transcriptions of the sounds of spoken language according to the alphabetic principle. They remain largely reflective of the sounds, although fully phonemic spelling is an ideal that most languages' orthographies only approximate, some more closely than others. This is true for various reasons, including that pronunciation changes over time in all languages, yet spellings as visual norms may resist change. In addition, words from other languages may be adopted without being adapted to the spelling system, and different meanings of a word or homophones may be deliberately spelled in different ways to differentiate them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clitocybe
''Clitocybe'' is a genus of mushrooms characterized by white, off-white, buff, cream, pink, or light-yellow spores, gills running down the stem, and pale white to brown or lilac coloration. They are primarily saprotrophic, decomposing forest ground litter. There are estimated to be around 300 species in the widespread genus. ''Clitocybe'' means ''sloping head''. A few members of the genus are considered edible; many others are poisonous, containing the toxin muscarine among others. Distinguishing individual species of ''Clitocybe'' is generally prohibitively difficult to non-experts, requiring the analysis of microscopic characters. Therefore, with the exception of a few charismatic and readily identified members, ''Clitocybe'' mushrooms are rarely collected for consumption. Taxonomy ''Clitocybe'' was originally proposed by Elias Fries in 1821 as a tribe in the genus ''Agaricus''. Friedrich Staude elevated it to generic status in 1857. Recent molecular work has shown the genus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colleter
Colleter or Colléter may refer to: * Colleter (botany) or Colletor, one of the mucilage-secreting hairs on certain plants * Colleter (company), a company in France * Patrick Colleter Patrick Colleter (born 6 November 1965) is a French former professional footballer who played as a full-back. Career Early career Colleter begin his football career with his local team Brest in 1986. After some impressive performances, Colleter ..., a professional football player * Solenn Colléter, a French novelist {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helxine ''
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Helxine may refer to: * a genus of plants in the nettle family Urticaceae containing a single species, ''Helxine soleirolii'', a synonym of '' Soleirolia soleirolii'' * a genus of plants in the knotweed family Polygonaceae, including the following species ** ''Helxine convolvulus'', a synonym of '' Fallopia convolvulus'' ** ''Helxine multiflorum'', a synonym of '' Reynoutria multiflora'' ** ''Helxine scandens'', a synonym of '' Fallopia scandens'' ** ''Helxine saggitatum'', a synonym of ''Persicaria sagittata ''Persicaria sagittata'', common names American tearthumb, arrowleaf tearthumb, or arrowvine, is a plant species widespread in the eastern half of North America as well as in eastern Asia. It has been found in every state and province from Texas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerine
''Nerine'' (nerines, Guernsey lily, Jersey lily, spider lily) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family (biology), family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. They are bulbous perennial plant, perennials, some evergreen, associated with rocky and arid habitats. They bear spherical umbels of lily-like flowers in shades from white through pink to crimson. In the case of deciduous species, the flowers may appear on naked stems before the leaves develop. native plant, Native to South Africa, there are about 20–30 species in the genus. Though described as lilies, they are not significantly related to the true lilies (Liliaceae), but more closely resemble their relatives, ''Amaryllis'' and ''Lycoris (plant), Lycoris''. The genus was established by the Revd. William Herbert (botanist), William Herbert in 1820. Nerines have been widely cultivated and much Hybrid (biology)#Hybrid plants, hybridized worldwide, especially ''Nerine bowdenii'', ''Nerine masoniorum, N. m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedile
In church architecture, sedilia (plural of Latin ''sedīle'', "seat") are seats, usually made of stone, found on the liturgical south side of an altar, often in the chancel, for use during Mass (Christianity), Mass for the officiating priest and his assistants, the deacon and sub-deacon. The seat is often set back into the main wall of the church itself. Not all sedilia are stone; there is a timber one thought to be 15th century in St Nicholas' Church at Rodmersham in Kent. When there is only one such seat, the singular form ''sedile'' is used, as for instance at St Mary's, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire or at St Agatha's, Coates, West Sussex. The first examples in the catacombs were single inlays for the officiating priest. In time, the more usual number became three, although there are examples of up to five sedilia. The custom of recessing them in the thickness of the wall began about the end of the 12th century; some early examples consist only of stone benches, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
