He's the first boy to win the bee since 2008, and the first champion from the Big Apple since Rebecca Sealfon in 1997.

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Last year her student Trinh Tran won the title of seventh-grade grand champion in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest the equivalent of the national spelling bee of handwriting.

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On Friday, the three-time heavyweight champion, whose name became synonymous with the phrases "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" and "I am the Greatest, " made another memorable appearance late Friday during a spectacular opening ceremony ushering in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.

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