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Whoever said history is boring and not all fun and games, probably didn't play enough board games as a kid. "When people speak of heritage, they usually refer to monuments or statues. Nobody thinks of games as part of our culture, yet it's the most fun part of history," says Raamesh Gowri Raghavan. Chenne Mane He ought to know; as an associate at the India Study Centre (INSTUCEN), Raamesh has spent the last two years hunting down ancient board games played across the ages in India. "Most of the best games across the world originated in India centuries ago," says the scholar, who has tried h...

Seemingly unfazed by the stage lights and television cameras, one gifted adolescent after the next approached the microphone on Thursday night and without a hint of timidity correctly spelled daunting words like “erysipelas” and “aiguillette.” In the end, after 20 rounds had distilled a group of 562 competitive spellers to just eight, those who were left remained in a merciless logjam. Shortly after midnight, after the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee announced that it was running out of challenging words, each was crowned the winner in an eight-way tie. It turned out the winners had more...

Seemingly unfazed by the stage lights and television cameras, one gifted adolescent after the next approached the microphone on Thursday night and without a hint of timidity correctly spelled daunting words like “erysipelas” and “aiguillette.” In the end, after 20 rounds had distilled a group of 562 competitive spellers to just eight, those who were left remained in a merciless logjam. Shortly after midnight, after the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee announced that it was running out of challenging words, each was crowned the winner in an eight-way tie. It turned out the winners had more...

Seemingly unfazed by the stage lights and television cameras, one gifted adolescent after the next approached the microphone on Thursday night and without a hint of timidity correctly spelled daunting words like “erysipelas” and “aiguillette.” In the end, after 20 rounds had distilled a group of 562 competitive spellers to just eight, those who were left remained in a merciless logjam. Shortly after midnight, after the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee announced that it was running out of challenging words, each was crowned the winner in an eight-way tie. It turned out the winners had more...

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The winners of the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee had more in common than an aptitude for spelling: six of the eight used the same coaching program.

The winners of the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee had more in common than an aptitude for spelling: six of the eight used the same coaching program.

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