Who was the Spelling Bee that we held in 2011 at the hotel along the shores of the Potomac?
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84th Scripps National Spelling Bee The 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held from May 31 - June 2, 2011 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland near Washington, D.C.. The champion was 14-year-old Sukanya Roy, who was the ninth Indian-American champion in the past thirteen competitions.
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Gaylord National Resort &amp; Convention Center The Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center is a hotel and convention center located at National Harbor, in the city of Oxon Hill, 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 the largest non-gaming hotel and convention center on the East Coast of the United States. It cost $870 million to build.
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Miss America 2010 Miss America 2010, the 83rd Miss America pageant, was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts of Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on January 30, 2010. Miss America 2009, Katie Stam from Indiana, crowned her successor, Caressa Cameron from Virginia, at the end of the event.
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Mount Vernon Mount Vernon was the plantation house of George Washington, the first President of the United States, and his wife, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington. The estate is situated on the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Alexandria, across from Prince George's County, Maryland. The Washington family had owned land in the area since the time of Washington's great-grandfather in 1674. In 1739 they embarked on an expansion of the estate that continued under George Washington, who came into possession of the estate in 1754, but did not become its sole owner until 1761.
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Wicomico River (Potomac River) The Wicomico River is a 13.0 mi tributary of the lower tidal portion of the Potomac River located in the U.S. state of Maryland south of Washington, DC. The river empties into the Potomac at Cobb Island and St. Margaret's Island. Its watershed area (excluding water) is 77 sqmi , with 2% impervious surface in 1994. in Charles, St. Mary's, and southern Prince George's counties. The lower section of the river forms part of the boundary between Charles and St. Mary's counties. The Wicomico River was designated a Scenic River under the Maryland Scenic River Act in 1968, and there are Scenic River Commissions for it in both Charles and St. Mary's counties (see links below).
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Hampton Beach, New Hampshire Hampton Beach is a village district, census-designated place, and beach resort in the town of Hampton, New Hampshire, United States, along the Atlantic Ocean. Its population at the 2010 census was 2,275. Hampton Beach is in Rockingham County, about 15 mi south of Portsmouth. The community is a popular tourist destination and the busiest beach community in New Hampshire. Ocean Boulevard, the main street along the beach, includes a boardwalk, many shops and businesses, several seasonal hotels, and the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, which hosts national acts in the summer. Hampton Beach State Park was named one of four "Superstar" beaches in the United States in 2011, for having had perfect water-quality testing results in each of the previous three years.
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Kate Michael Kate Michael (born March 7, 1982 in Lilburn, Georgia) holds the Miss District of Columbia 2006 title. Michael succeeded Shannon Schambeau as Miss D.C. on July 1, 2006 and also competed in the Miss America 2007 pageant held January 29, 2007.
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Tuscarora Creek (Potomac River) Tuscarora Creek is a 12.8 mi tributary of the Potomac River in Frederick County, Maryland, in the United States.
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24th National Geographic Bee The 24th National Geographic Bee was held in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 2012, sponsored by the National Geographic Society.
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Jay Leftwich James A. "Jay" Leftwich, Jr. (born December 11, 1962) is an American politician from Virginia. A member of the Republican Party, Leftwich is the member of the Virginia House of Delegates for the 78th district. Leftwich was a member of the Chesapeake School Board.
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Annapolis, Maryland Annapolis ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County. Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, 25 mi south of Baltimore and about 30 mi east of Washington, D.C., Annapolis is part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. Its population was measured at 38,394 by the 2010 census.
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11th Scripps National Spelling Bee The 11th National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C. at the National Museum on May 28, 1935. Scripps-Howard would not sponsor the Bee until 1941.
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Martha Washington Inn The Martha Washington Inn is a historic hotel located in Abingdon, Virginia. Originally built in 1832 by General Francis Preston, hero of the War of 1812, for his family of nine children, over the course of the last 174 years, the building has served as an upscale women's college, a Civil War hospital and barracks, and as a residence for visiting actors of the Barter Theatre. In addition to hotel services, the inn now offers spa treatments.
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58th Scripps National Spelling Bee The 58th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C. at the Capital Hilton on June 5–6, 1985, sponsored by the E.W. Scripps Company.
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Erin Hatley Erin Hatley is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Bartlett, Tennessee who was named Miss Tennessee 2011.
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41st Scripps National Spelling Bee The 41st Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C. at the Mayflower Hotel on June 5-6, 1968, sponsored by the E.W. Scripps Company.
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Miss USA 2011 Miss USA 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss USA pageant, was held on the Las Vegas Strip at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Paradise, Nevada on Sunday, June 19, 2011. Rima Fakih of Michigan crowned her successor, Alyssa Campanella of California, at the end of this event. She represented the United States at the Miss Universe 2011 pageant in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. For the first time ever, one of the sixteen semifinalists was selected exclusively by fans via online voting and SMS messaging. Due to this, the competition formats were changed to reality series style group eliminations, Top 16, Top 8 and Top 4.
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Times Spelling Bee The "Times" Spelling Bee is a spelling bee contested throughout the United Kingdom. The contest, run by the British newspaper "The Times", consists of local, regional, and national segments. The winner of each round continues to the next level. Each part consists of two rounds: a knockout round and a quick-fire round.
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76th Scripps National Spelling Bee The 76th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held on May 28-29, 2003, in Washington D.C..
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White House (plantation) White House, an 18th-century plantation on the Pamunkey River near White House in New Kent County, Virginia, was the home of Martha Dandridge Custis (1731–1802) and Daniel Parke Custis (1711–1757) after they were married in 1750. Troops of the Army of the Potomac under the command of George B. McClellan burned the house to the ground on June 28, 1862, as they retreated during the Seven Days Battles.
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33rd Scripps National Spelling Bee The 33rd Scripps National Spelling Bee was held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, District of Columbia on June 8-9, 1960, by the E.W. Scripps Company.
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2011 Laurence Olivier Awards The 2011 Olivier Awards was held on 13 March 2011 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. The 2011 awards were intended to re-launch the Oliviers as a major awards event, and so they were sponsored by MasterCard, with live coverage by the BBC.