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Camilla McArthur, 15, of Stuttgart, Germany has earned the Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout Award. She was recognized in a ceremony held on Nov. 6 in the Panzer Barracks

OXON HILL, Maryland: One speller ran off the stage in the middle of her time at the microphone, saying she needed to pee. Another tried to walk back to her seat after spelling her first word correctly, only to be reminded she had a vocabulary word next. During one particularly brutal stretch, 10 consecutive spellers heard the bell that signals elimination. The Scripps National

From the blog of Phyllis Zimbler Miller at The Times of Israel