Congrats & kudos to Kavya Shivashankar

13-year-old Kansas girl wins National Spelling Bee
By JOSEPH WHITE, Associated Press
28 May 2009
WASHINGTON – Cool and collected, Kavya Shivashankar wrote out every word on her palm and always ended with a smile. The 13-year-old Kansas girl saved the biggest smile for last, when she rattled off the letters to "Laodicean" to become the nation's spelling champion.

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Laodicean
adj.

1. Of or relating to Laodicea.
2. Indifferent or lukewarm especially in matters of religion.

n.

A native or inhabitant of Laodicea.

La·od·i·ce·a

An ancient city of western Asia Minor in present-day western Turkey. Built by the Seleucids in the third century b.c., it was a prosperous Roman market town on the trade route from the East and an early center of Christianity.

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Again: Congrats & kudos to Kavya Shivashankar!