West Germany
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West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990. During this Cold War era, NATO-aligned West Germany and Warsaw Pact-aligned East Germany were divided by the Inner German border, after 1961 West Berlin was physically separated from East Berlin as well as from East Germany by the Berlin Wall. This situation ended when East Germany was dissolved and its five states joined the ten states of the Federal Republic of Germany along with the reunified city-state of Berlin. With the reunification of West and East Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, enlarged now to sixteen states and this period is referred to as the Bonn Republic by historians, alluding to the interwar Weimar Republic and the post-reunification Berlin Republic. The Federal Republic of Germany was established from eleven states formed in the three Allied Zones of occupation held by the United State
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The
Volkswagen Beetle – for many years the most successful car in the world – on the assembly line in Wolfsburg factory, 1973.
Baden-Baden
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Baden-Baden is a spa town, located in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany. The springs at Baden-Baden were known to the Romans as Aquae, in modern German, Baden is a gerund meaning bathing but Baden, the original name of the town, derives from an earlier plural form of Bad. As with the English placename Bath, there are various other Badens at hot springs throughout Central Europe, the current doubled name arose to distinguish it from the others, particularly Baden near Vienna in Austria and Baden near Zürich in Switzerland. It is a reference to the Margraviate of Baden-Baden, a subdivision of the Margraviate of Baden, Baden-Baden became its formal name in 1931. Baden-Baden lies in a valley of the Northern Black Forest in southwestern Germany, the western districts lie within the Upper Rhine Plain. The highest mountain of Baden-Baden is the Badener Höhe, which is part of the Black Forest National Park, the old town lies on the side of a hill on the right bank of the O
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Florentine Hill (Florentinerberg), with the New Castle (top right), the Caracalla Spa (lower right), and the Friedrichsbad (lower left)
Ty Hardin
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Orton or Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr. known as Ty Hardin is a former American actor best known as the star of the 1958 to 1962 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series Bronco. Hardin was born in New York City but reared in Texas, as a growing boy, his grandmother, with whom he lived part of the time after his parents divorced, nicknamed him Ty because he was as active as a Texas typhoon. Hardin graduated in 1949 from Lamar High School in Houston and he also attended on a football scholarship Blinn Junior College in Brenham, Texas, and then at Dallass Bible Institute for one semester. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War and he was commissioned after attending Officer Candidate School in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and he became a pilot of Forward Observer O-1 Bird Dog liaison aircraft. He attained the rank of first lieutenant, after his return from service, he began taking courses at Texas A&M University in College Station on a football scholarship under coach
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Hardin and Nina Shipman, 1962.
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Hardin as Bronco, 1958
Academy Award
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academ
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Academy Awards
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81st Academy Awards Presentations,
Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, 2009
The Teacher (1974 film)
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The Teacher is a 1974 American coming-of-age suspense film, written, produced, and directed by Hickmet Avedis and released by Crown International Pictures. The film stars Angel Tompkins, Jay North, and Anthony James, and tells the story of an 18-year-olds first relationship with his teacher. It is summer, and obsessed Ralf Gordon stalks a high-school teacher and he watches her in her swimsuit while she is relaxing on one of the boats from an old warehouse. Dianes students, 18-year-old Sean Roberts and Ralfs younger brother Lou, also watch her strip naked, an angry Ralf yells at them, brandishing a bayonet. Shocked at this, Lou falls over the railing to his death, later that night, Ralf confronts Sean again, threatening to cut the boys tongue out should he reveal anything. The sheriff questions Sean, who due to seeing Ralf eyeing him. The next day, Sean meets with Diane, who invites him to have tea, Diane reveals that she knows about Ralf stalking her. On their way home, Sean and she se
Mortuary (1983 American film)
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It centered on a hooded face-painted killer who stabbed or impaled his victims with/on an embalming trocar. On May 25,2012 the film was release for the first time on DVD, Christie Parson is mourning the death of her father by drowning. Her mother has convinced herself it was an accident. Christie suffers from nightmares in which a figure, clutching an embalming trocar. She turns detective, aided by her boyfriend to find out the truth and her sleuthing draws her to a local mortuary, whose owner, Hank Andrews, together with his secretly demented offspring, Paul, is guarding an odious secret. Andrews Danny Rogers as Dr. Parson Greg Kaye as Mark Denis Mandel as Josh On May 15,2012, scorpio Releasing in conjunction with Camelot Entertainment released the DVD with special features. The special features included, Play with or without the “Nightmare Theater” experience, On camera interview with composer John Cacavas, on October 7,2014, Scorpion Releasing released the film on Blu-ray a Limited
Wayback Machine
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The Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine in October 2001. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet, the service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the archive calls a three dimensional index. Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been archiving cached pages of websites onto its large cluster of Linux nodes and it revisits sites every few weeks or months and archives a new version. Sites can also be captured on the fly by visitors who enter the sites URL into a search box, the intent is to capture and archive content that otherwise would be lost whenever a site is changed or closed down. The overall vision of the machines creators is to archive the entire Internet, the name Wayback Machine was chosen as a reference to the WABAC machine, a time-traveling device used by the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, an animated cartoon. These crawlers also resp
IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb
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Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Armi Kuusela
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Armi Helena Kuusela is a Finnish charity worker, model and beauty queen. In 1952 she won the beauty contest Suomen Neito and was presented with a trip to the USA to participate in the first-ever Miss Universe pageant. Kuuselas parents, Aarne Aleksander Kuusela and Martta Elisabeth Kyrö met each other in Ontario, Canada and their first baby was born in Canada. After several years in Canada, they returned to Finland to settle in Muhos, Martta gave birth to five girls and one boy, one of the girls died when only two-and-a-half years old. Kuusela was born on August 20,1934, she was the fourth oldest of the children and she went to middle school in Muhos, and in 1951 she started attending the womens college in Porvoo. Kuusela liked swimming, skiing, gymnastics and after completing her Abitur. On June 17, Kuusela took a Pan Am flight from Helsinki to Long Beach, thirty contestants participated in the first Miss Universe pageant in 1952. The pageant was held on June 28,1952, and Kuusela, as S
Christiane Martel
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Christiane Martel is a French actress and beauty queen who became the second woman to win Miss Universe in 1953. She was the only Frenchwoman holding the Miss Universe title until Iris Mittenaere in 2016, Martel was crowned Miss France by outgoing titleholder Claude Godart and represented France at Miss Universe 1953 where she became the second Miss Universe. She was crowned by actress, Julie Adams as Miss Universe 1952, martels runners-up in the 1953 pageant was Myrna Hansen of the USA, followed by delegates of Japan, Mexico, and Australia. Rosa Blanca and her last film to date, 1961s Leoni al Sole, Martel was married briefly to Ronnie Marengo, a department store heir, whom she divorced in 1955. In 1961 she married Miguel Alemán Velasco, who would become Governor of Veracruz and is the son of Miguel Alemán Valdés and they have three daughters and one son. Their son, Miguel Alemán Magnani is a stakeholder of Televisa and she made recent television appearances at the Miss Universe pagea
Hillevi Rombin
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Hillevi Rombin Schine was a Swedish actress and beauty queen who was crowned as Miss Sweden and is the fourth winner of Miss Universe in 1955. She was crowned Miss Sweden Universe 1955 by Miss Sweden Universe 1954, in 1996, she became the first Miss Universe title holder to die. She grew up in Uppsala, Uppland and was the Swedish national decathlon champion before she competed in the pageant, a remarkable athlete, Rombin excelled in gymnastics, track & field, and downhill skiing. After winning the pageant, she left Sweden for Hollywood to fulfill her contract with Universal Pictures. She studied acting along with John Gavin, Clint Eastwood, and Barbara Eden, Universal put her in a couple films, with just one or two lines, to give her some exposure and experience. She was credited for small speaking roles in two films, in The Benny Goodman Story she asks for an autograph and in Istanbul she appears as a flight attendant near the films end. She discontinued her career in order to focus o
Luz Marina Zuluaga
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Luz Marina Zuluaga Zuluaga was a Colombian beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1958. She was the only Colombian woman to win the Miss Universe pageant until Paulina Vega became Miss Universe 2014 and she moved to Manizales, as a small child and grew up there. She applied for the Miss Caldas contest, and she won in 1957, Zuluaga went on with her training towards the Miss Colombia contest and arrived in Cartagena, hoping to win the Miss Colombia title. Pereira is part of the Caldas department, risaralda was made a department in 1966 some years after her election. She was Miss Pereira, Miss Caldas, Miss Colombia and then Miss Universe, Zuluaga did not win the contest, instead finishing as 1st Runner-Up. Before the Miss Universe pageant however, Miss Colombia 1957, Doris Gil Santamaria got married, due to Miss Universe rules stating that no candidate can be married before the final contest itself, Santamaria was forced to resign, making Zuluaga Miss Colombia by default. The contest took pla
Martha Vasconcellos
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She also became the fifth Latin American to win the title, after Perus Gladys Zender in 1957, Colombias Luz Marina Zuluaga in 1958 and Argentinas Norma Nolan in 1962. Vasconcellos is a native of the state of Bahia, Vasconcellos allegedly had a boyfriend since she was twelve when she represented Brazil at the 1968 Miss Universe pageant in Miami Beach, Florida. She beat 64 contestants, including Curaçaos Anne Marie Braafheid, to win the title, the morning after her win, she called her family and boyfriend in Brazil, expressing feelings of being homesick. Vasconcellos lived in New York, New York for the year, as required by the Miss Universe organization, then returned to Brazil in 1969. Vasconcellos today leads a quiet and private life, practically disappearing from the public eye and she has two children from her first wedding to Reinaldo Loureiro, Leonardo and Leilane, and has two grandsons, Felipe and Guilherme. She currently resides in the Boston, Massachusetts area and works for a P
Georgina Rizk
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She is currently a main beauty pageant judge for the Miss Lebanon contest and is the current wife of Lebanese singer and actor Walid Toufic. Rizk was born in Beirut in a Christian household, to a Lebanese father and her mother was married to Rossi, an Italian prior to marrying Rizks father. That union produced a daughter, fashion designer Felicina Rossi and she was crowned in the Miss Universe pageant in 1971 in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. She was the first woman from the Middle East and the woman from Asia to win the title. In the pageant, she made a fashion statement by wearing a very revealing top. The 1972 Miss Universe pageant was held in Cerromar Beach Hotel in Dorado, on 30 May 1972, a month before the pageant telecast,17 Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico along with other victims, were killed during an attack at the Lod Airport in Israel. The massacre was perpetrated by three members of the Japanese Red Army on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palesti
Margarita Moran-Floirendo
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Maria Margarita Roxas Moran-Floirendo or locally known as Margie Moran is a Filipino peace advocate for her efforts in Mindanao and currently the President of Ballet Philippines. She is best known for winning the second Miss Universe crown for the Philippines in 1973,4 years after Gloria Diaz, Margie Moran graduated high school in St. Theresas College and attended college at Maryknoll College. Prior to joining the Miss Universe pageant, she modeled part-time for the fashion designer and she is a granddaughter of Manuel Roxas, 5th President of the Philippines. She won the right to represent the country in the Miss Universe pageant in Athens, Moran said that she entered the contest because of the incessant urgings of friends and family. The 19-year-old,5 ft 6 in beauty ultimately won the Miss Universe 1973 title and she is one of the only four Miss Universe winners to also win Miss Photogenic, the others being Margareta Arvidsson, Janelle Commissiong, and Denise Quiñones. Two years after
Rina Mor
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Rina Mor-Goder is an Israeli lawyer, writer and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1976. She is from Kiryat Tivon, near Haifa, her father was a mechanic, Rina Mor-Goder became a lawyer and mother of two daughters. Upon her proclamation as the winner, she remarked, Im no politician, I think my being Miss Universe will show people that Israel has another side, not only war. Extensive security precautions were taken as she began her tour with a stop in Bangkok. The first Miss Israel ever to win the crown, Messinger answered the contest question as to country would she most like to visit. Her immediate response, An Arab one, after her reign as Miss Universe, Rina Messinger stayed in New York City, where she worked in Public Relations for the Jewish Agency and the Bonds. After four years she returned to Israel and continued working in Public Relations for a big business company, there she met her soon-to-be husband, a very successful businessman. In 1991, she decided to fulfill her dream an
Yvonne Ryding
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Yvonne Agneta Ryding is a Swedish dancer, model, TV Host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1984 on 9 July 1984. She is the third Swede in history to win the title, prior to being crowned Miss Sweden and competing in the Miss Universe pageant, Miss Ryding was a Swedish National Lucia Bride, formerly midfield soccer player and nurse. Following the year as Miss Universe, Ryding worked within the fashion industry, in 1988 her homesickness got the upper hand and she moved back to Sweden. In 1989 she presented the Swedish competition Melodifestivalen, in 1997 she launched her skincare line originally called Y. Ryding was a guest of honor of the Miss Universe 2006 competition, held in Los Angeles and she is divorced from Swedish actor Kjell Bergqvist, whom she met in Monaco in 1986. In 2007, Ryding competed against eleven other Swedish celebrities in the dance contest Lets Dance. Miss Sweden Yvonne Ryding official homepage Miss Universe 1984 Gallery
Cecilia Bolocco
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Cecilia Bolocco is a Chilean actress, TV Host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universo Chile 1987 and Miss Universe 1987. She has worked as a journalist on the Spanish language edition of CNN, on Telemundo and on programs for Chilean Television. Between 2001 and 2011 she was married to former Argentine president Carlos Menem, Bolocco was born in Santiago, Chile to Enzo Bolocco Cintolesi, a businessman, and Rose Marie Fonck Assler. She attended primary and secondary school at Santiago College and she then took a year of Civil Engineering at the University of Santiago, Chile, before dropping out to pursue Costume Design at INCA-CEA Institute. Bolocco was selected Miss Chile for Miss Universe on April 20,1987, on May 26,1987 she beat 67 contestants to become the first Chilean to win the Miss Universe beauty pageant that was held in Singapore that year. During her year-long reign, she settled in Los Angeles, California, Bolocco began a television career in Chile with the show Porque
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Bolocco at the 2010 Chilean telethon
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Bolocco during her ballet classes in 1985.
Angela Visser
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Angela Visser is a Dutch actress, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1989. A few months prior, she competed at Miss World 1988 where she did not place, then, at Miss Universe 1989, Angela swept all three semi-finals competitions and it was obvious she was the virtually unanimous choice of the judges. Placing second after her was Louise Drevenstam of Sweden, with delegates from the United States, Poland, rounding up the top ten were the delegates from Germany, Venezuela, Finland, Jamaica, and Chile. After her reign, Visser came back to the pageant to be its color commentator and she has also appeared in films such as Hot Under the Collar, Killer Tomatoes Eat France. And on television shows, The Ben Stiller Show Blossom Boy Meets World Baywatch Acapulco H. E. A. T, beverly Hills,90210 Friends USA High Spy Hard Angela Visser at the Internet Movie Database
Lupita Jones
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María Guadalupe Lupita Jones Garay Spanish pronunciation, is a Mexican actress, director and beauty queen who became the first Mexican woman to win the title of Miss Universe in 1991. Representing the state of Baja California, Jones won the title of Señorita México in September,1990, a few months later, on May 17,1991 in Las Vegas, Nevada, she and 72 contestants competed for the title of Miss Universe 1991. Lupita entered the semifinals of the pageant in first place, the only delegate with a score above 9. During the final telecast, Jones won everything, swimsuit, interview and she dominated the next two rounds of competition, and won the crown, the prizes and the prestigious title for her country. This new pageant was created when Señorita México was moved to another TV network, in 1997, she attempted to launch the first male-only beauty contest, El Modelo México, but the show got little attention from the public. In 2001, for the Nuestra Belleza México show, Lupita Jones launched the
Dayanara Torres
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Dayanara Torres Delgado is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, model, writer and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1993. Torres was discovered at age 17 while walking through the Plaza de Toa Alta in her hometown and she won the pageant and the right to represent Puerto Rico in the 1993 Miss Universe pageant. In 1992, she participated in the Miss International pageant and became a semi-finalist, the same year, she earned second place at the Queen of the World contest. Torres won the crown in the Miss Universe pageant held in Mexico in May 1993, Torres victory in the pageant caused some controversy because of the claim that she was still a minor, however, Torres had turned 18 several months before the contest. Her victory also raised eyebrows, as she did not top any of the pageants segments. When Torres returned home to Puerto Rico, she was received with a parade, during and after her reign as Miss Universe, she became an ambassador for UNICEF, traveling through Asia and Latin America in s
Sushmita Sen
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Sushmita Sen is an Indian film actress, model and the winner of the Miss Universe pageant of 1994. Sen was the first Indian to win the crown, after completing her reign, Sen went on to pursue Bollywood. She started her career with the Hindi film, Dastak and she rose to stardom with the Tamil musical Ratchagan opposite Nagarjuna, later, she attained commercial and critical recognition for her roles in Sirf Tum and the comedy Biwi No.1. The latter earned her the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award and she has also acted in commercially successful films such as Aankhen, Main Hoon Na – her biggest commercial success so far — and Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya. She received critical acclaim for her roles in films such as Filhaal. Samay, When Time Strikes, Chingaari, Zindaggi Rocks, Aag, Sen was born into a Bengali family in Hyderabad. Her parents are Shuber Sen, a former Indian Air Force Wing Commander, and Subhra Sen and she has two siblings, a sister named Neelam and a brother named Rajeev. She
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Sushmita Sen on the 'IGNITE' fashion show ramp in November 2012
Brook Lee
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Brook Antoinette Mahealani Lee, known as Brook Lee, is an American actress, TV Host, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Hawaii USA1997, Miss USA1997, and Miss Universe 1997. Her Korean grandfather emigrated to Hawaii in the 1950s and she is of Korean, Hawaiian, Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese, English and French ancestry. Lees mother, Toni, was president of Na Pua Ke Alii Pauhi, Lee represented the United States in the Miss Universe 1997 pageant in Miami Beach, Florida. On May 16,1997, she won the crown at 26 years and 128 days, Lee and Al Masini along with funding from the state were forces behind the Miss Universe 1998 pageant being held in her home state of Hawaii, in Honolulu, for the first time. Immediately prior to winning the Miss USA and Miss Universe crowns Lee pursued graduate-level studies in communications at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and she also attended University Lab School for one year, 1987–88. Lee graduated from Kamehameha Schools in 1989, after her reign
Lara Dutta
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Lara Dutta Bhupathi is an Indian actress, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Intercontinental 1997 and Miss Universe 2000. She was the woman from India to be crowned Miss Universe. She made her Hindi debut in 2003 with the drama film Andaaz. Dutta subsequently appeared in top grossing productions, including Masti, Kaal, No Entry, Bhagam Bhag, Partner, Housefull, Don 2. Apart from commercial success, Dutta has received appreciation for her performances in the films Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Billu, Chalo Dilli. Dutta was born to a Punjabi father and an Anglo-Indian mother in Ghaziabad and her father is Wing Commander L. K. Dutta and her mother is Jennifer Dutta and she has two elder sisters, Sabrina, who serves in the Indian Air Force and younger sister Cheryl. Composer/DJ Nitin Sawhney is a cousin of Lara Dutta, the Dutta family moved to Bangalore in 1981 where she completed high school from St. Francis Xavier Girls High School and the Frank Anthony Public School. She graduated with
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Dutta on the ramp in Nov 2012
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Dutta at the Launch of
Nivea India in 2012.
Justine Pasek
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Pasek was born in Kharkiv, the daughter of a Panamanian homemaker and Polish engineer. Affectionately called by her Polish name, Justyna, she lived in Ukraine for a year, after her mother finished her studies in chemistry, the family moved to Panama. Before entering the Miss Panama contest in 2001, Pasek worked as a model in television productions and she also planned to complete her degree in environmental engineering in New Zealand with her two younger brothers, and later work for the Smithsonian Research Center. Paseks start in the world took place when she joined the Chica Modelo contest in 1996 where she won the award for Best Editorial Model. It also gave her the chance to work for Physical Modelos, as a model Pasek has taken part in calendars, commercials, and as a stewardess in different events. After traveling to New York City for an assignment, she was notified of these events in the back of a limousine. She was formally crowned Miss Universe 2002 by pageant co-owner Donald T
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Pasek at a parade in November 2003
Amelia Vega
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Amelia Vega Horford is a Dominican actress, singer, model, and beauty queen. She became the first Dominican woman to be named Miss Universe, at the age of 18, she was the youngest winner since 1994, also, standing at 6 feet 2 inches, Vega is the tallest Miss Universe winner in record. Vega’s father, Otto Vega Rasuk, is a medical practitioner with offices in New York City. Her mother, Patricia Polanco Álvarez, is a licensed Pilot and was also a previous national titleholder who represented the Dominican Republic in 1980 at the Miss World pageant, Vega is niece-in-law of the Grammy Award–winning singer Juan Luis Guerra and wife of NBA player Al Horford. Additionally, Amelia attended and graduated from Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Santo Domingo, after winning the Miss Dominican Republic title, Vega represented the Dominican Republic in the Miss Universe 2003 pageant held in Panama City on June 3,2003. She became the first delegate from this country to win the title, Amelia Vega
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Amelia Vega, Miss Universe 2003
Jennifer Hawkins
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She is currently the host of Australias Next Top Model, face of Australian department store Myer, Lovable Intimates, Mount Franklin Lightly Sparkling and Range Rover. She is the founder and CEO of two brands, Cozi by Jennifer Hawkins swimwear and Jbronze tanning line, and manages an ever-growing property portfolio. She is married to Jake Wall, her de facto partner for eight years previous, Hawkins was born in Holmesville, New South Wales, and currently resides in Sydney. She attended West Wallsend High School in West Wallsend, New South Wales and she is one of four siblings. Hawkins was a cheerleader for the Newcastle Knights rugby league team, and it was as a model that she was cast as Miss Australia for the Miss Universe competition. Hawkins also worked as a choreographer for a team that toured Australia specialising in Hip Hop. However, Hawkins did not participate as Miss Australia but as the newly instated pageant Miss Universe Australias first winner, the Miss Universe pageant was
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Jennifer Hawkins in August 2015
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Jennifer Hawkins for The Collective Shot by Steven Chee
Natalie Glebova
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Natalie Glebova is a Russian-Canadian TV host, author, dancer, model, and beauty queen who won Miss Universe Canada 2005 and later that year won Miss Universe 2005 in Thailand. Glebova was born in Tuapse, Russia and she studied classical piano and graduated from a professional musical school at age of 12. She also has won various regional rhythmic gymnastics championships and she immigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, together with her parents at the age of 13. Prior to competing at Miss Universe, Glebova worked as a model and received her Bachelor of Commerce in Information Technology Management and she has also worked as a motivational speaker for grade school and high school students. Glebova was married to Thai tennis player Paradorn Srichaphan, the couple, who met during the 2006 Thailand Open, became engaged in April 2007 and were married on November 29,2007, in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2008, Glebova joined The Amazing Race Asia 3 and she partnered with Pailin Rungratanasunthorn an
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Natalie Glebova
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Glebova at an event in August 2005
Zuleyka Rivera
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Zuleyka Jerrís Rivera Mendoza is a Puerto Rican actress, TV Host, dancer, model and beauty queen who won the titles of Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2006 and Miss Universe 2006. She made her debut as an actress in Mexicos Telemundos soap opera Dame Chocolate in 2007. Born in Cayey, she was raised in Salinas with her parents Jerry Rivera and Carmen Mendoza, prior to winning the Miss Puerto Rico title she won the local pageant for her hometown of Salinas. She had also placed as the first runner-up in the Miss Teen Puerto Rico pageant, only eighteen years of age when she was crowned Miss Universe, Rivera is one of the youngest women to win the title. She is also the first winner from Puerto Rico to have noticeable mixed heritage features, Rivera is also the second woman with noticeably mixed features to win Miss Puerto Rico Universe after Alba Reyes in 2004. Zuleyka Rivera represented Puerto Rico in the Miss Universe 2006 pageant which was televised live internationally from the Shrine Audito
Riyo Mori
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Riyo Mori is a Japanese actress, dancer, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico City. As an only child, Riyo Mori began dancing at the age of 4 and she has studied at Quinte Ballet School of Canada and also is a graduate from Centennial Secondary School in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Mori also completed her Grade 11 year at Mount Douglas Secondary School in Victoria, British Columbia and she still possesses her first pair of ballet shoes. Mori was crowned Miss Universe on May 28,2007, by the outgoing titleholder Zuleyka Rivera, in the final competition, broadcast internationally on May 28,2007, Mori was announced as one of fifteen semi-finalists who would move forward to compete for the title. She achieved the highest score in the competition, which advanced her to the top ten. Moris kimono-inspired black/floral evening gown of choice came from the Spring/Summer 2007 collection of Gucci, in the last round, Mori was asked by Elle magazine fashion director a
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Riyo Mori, in Mexico City
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Riyo Mori
Dayana Mendoza
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Dayana Sabrina Mendoza Moncada is a Venezuelan actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 2008. She previously won Miss Venezuela 2007 on September 13,2007 in Caracas, Mendoza beat 27 other candidates to win Miss Venezuela 2007 on September 13,2007, and became only the second woman representing the Amazonas state to win, following Carolina Izsak in 1991. She was crowned Miss Universe 2008 at the pageant in the Crown Convention Center, Nha Trang, Vietnam, Mendoza became the first winner of the pageant from Venezuela since Miss Universe 1996s winner Alicia Machado, thus making her the first Venezuelan Miss Universe in the 21st century. Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori crowned her with a tiara worth $120,000 USD, Mendoza will spend her year-long reign traveling the world to lecture on humanitarian issues and to promote education regarding HIV/AIDS. Mendoza was a contestant on the 2012 season of Celebrity Apprentice, in Episode 3, How Much is That Celebrity in the Window. Mendoza no
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Dayana Mendoza
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Mendoza after winning the title of Miss Universe
Ximena Navarrete
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Jimena Ximena Navarrete Rosete is a Mexican actress, TV Host, model and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 2010, becoming the second Mexican to do so. She was previously named as Nuestra Belleza México 2009, in 2013 Ximena Navarette played a dual role in La Tempestad as Marina Reverte and Magdalena Reverte with William Levy and Daniela Romo. Navarrete was born and raised in Guadalajara, the city of Jalisco, Mexico to a middle-class family. She is one of two children, born to Carlos Navarrete, a dentist, and Gabriela Rosete Riestra, a house wife. She began modeling locally at the age of sixteen, and studied nutrition at the Valle de Atemajac University and that night, Navarrete became the second consecutive winner from Jalisco, following Karla Carrillo, the outgoing titleholder and a close friend who encouraged her to participate in the pageant. On August 23,2010, Navarrete was named Miss Universe, making her the second Mexican delegate to win the title, coincidentally, both were crowne
Olivia Culpo
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Olivia Frances Culpo is an American actress, model, television presenter, cellist and beauty queen who won the Miss USA2012 pageant, representing her home state of Rhode Island. She previously won the 2012 Miss Rhode Island USA competition, which was the first pageant she entered, crowned Miss Universe 2012 in Las Vegas, she is the first winner from the USA to obtain the crown since Brook Lee in 1997. Culpo was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, one of five children of Peter and she has two older siblings, Pete and Aurora, and two younger, Gus and Sophie. Their restaurateur father co-owns Boston businesses including Parish Café and The Lower Depths Tap Room, raised in the Edgewood neighborhood of Cranston, Rhode Island, She is of Italian descent with some Irish ancestry from her mothers side. Culpo attended St. Mary Academy – Bay View, and later, in 2010, she was signed by the Boston modeling agency Maggie, Inc. She attended the Brevard Music Center, in Brevard, North Carolina, after winn
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Mayor Fung honors
Cranston resident Olivia Culpo with a key to the city, after her coronation as Miss USA 2012.
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Culpo plays with Boston Accompanietta.
Gabriela Isler
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María Gabriela de Jesús Isler Morales is a Venezuelan TV Host, fashion model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, Russia. Isler also crowned Miss Venezuela 2012 and she is the seventh Miss Universe from Venezuela and the third Miss Universe from Venezuela in six years. Isler was born in the city of Valencia, but has studied and lived in Maracay since she was a little girl and she holds a BA in Management and Marketing. She has Swiss and German heritage and also holds Swiss citizenship due to her Swiss grandfather from Lausanne and her family name Isler is a common Swiss family name. At age of 14 she started modeling as a way to cheer her mother and grandmother up after her aunt died, Isler represented Venezuela at the Miss Universe 2013 pageant, held on November 9 in Moscow, Russia. She was crowned Miss Universe 2013 by outgoing titleholder, Olivia Culpo of the United States, Isler became the third Venezuelan to win the pageant in six years and the seventh ove
Pia Wurtzbach
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Wurtzbach is the third Filipina to win the title of Miss Universe, following Gloria Diaz who won in 1969 and Margarita Moran who won in 1973. Wurtzbach was born in the German city of Stuttgart to a German father and her middle name Alonzo is her mothers maiden name, as per the naming practice in the Philippines and based upon Spanish naming customs. Her parents separated when she was 11 years old and she became the main breadwinner by doing modeling and acting. After being raised in the Philippines, she spent several years in England and she finished her secondary education at ABS-CBN Distance Learning Center in Quezon City, Metro Manila and studied culinary arts at the Center for Asian Culinary Studies in San Juan, Metro Manila. Wurtzbach speaks fluent Cebuano, English and Tagalog and she also speaks basic German, which she described as enough to get myself a bratwurst. Wurtzbach is a model, actress, host and TV personality. She began acting at age four under the stage name Pia Romero
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Pia Wurtzbach in Philippine Terno
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Pia Wurtzbach
Miss World
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Miss World is the oldest running international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951, since his death in 2000, Morleys widow, Julia Morley, has co-chaired the pageant. Alongside with its rival, the Miss Universe and Miss Earth contests, the current Miss World is Stephanie Del Valle of Puerto Rico who was crowned on 18 December 2016 in Washington, D. C. In 1951, Eric Morley organised a bikini contest as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations that he called the Festival Bikini Contest, the event was popular with the press, and was dubbed Miss World by the media. The swimsuit competition was intended as a promotion for the bikini which had recently been introduced onto the market. When the 1951 Miss World pageant winner, Kerstin Kiki Hakansson from Sweden, was crowned in a bikini, the pageant was originally planned as a Pageant for the Festival of Britain, but Eric Morley decided to make the Miss World pageant an annual event. Morley registered
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The first Miss World, 1951 - Kiki Håkansson from Sweden
Miss World 1956
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Miss World 1956, the sixth edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 15 October 1956 at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, UK.24 contestants competed for the Miss World. The winner was Petra Schürmann, who represented Germany and she was crowned by Miss World 1955, Susana Duijm of Venezuela. The announcement of the winner was marked by a moment of confusion, the United States representative, Miss USA1956 first runner-up Betty Lane Cherry, was given the winners sash to wear just before the ceremony, and briefly it was reported that she was the winner. She ultimately was named as the first runner-up, commenting to the press that two seconds dont make one first, japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, and Tunisia competed in Miss World for the first time. Egypt, Switzerland, and Turkey last competed in 1954
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Miss World 1956
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The Top 6 of Miss World 1956
Miss World 1980
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Miss World 1980, the 30th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 13 November 1980 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK. The winner was Gabriella Brum from Germany and she was crowned by Miss World 1979, Gina Swainson of Bermuda. First runner-up was Kimberley Santos representing Guam, second was Patricia Barzyk from France, third was Anat Zimmermann of Israel, Brum resigned after 18 hours of holding the title, and fourteen days later, first runner-up Santos was crowned the new Miss World. Judges for Miss World 1980 included Wilnelia Merced and Bruce Forsyth, additional judges were present at the event. Miss World Competition Through the Years
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Miss World 1980 Titlecard
Miss Earth
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Miss Earth is an annual international environmental-themed beauty pageant promoting environmental awareness. The Miss Earth winner is the spokesperson for the Miss Earth Foundation, the current Miss Earth is Katherine Espín of Ecuador who was crowned on 29 October 2016 in Pasay, Philippines. Those who participate in the pageant are involved with humanitarian and environmental causes, the pageant winner is expected to be involved in international projects, which are also promoted during the pageants broadcast. The delegates also take part in tree planting ceremonies, environmental and cultural programs, sponsor visits. In October 2001, Miss Earth adopted the slogan Beauties For a Cause, the Miss Earth Foundation campaign focuses in educating the youth in environmental awareness. Its major project “I Love Planet Earth School Tour, teaches and distributes educational aides for school children, the Miss Earth pageant has grown over the years, with an increasing number of countries particip
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Vinpearl Resort & Spa, the venue of Miss Earth 2010.
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Logo of the Miss Earth Pageant.
Miss International
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Miss International is a Tokyo-based international beauty pageant organized by The International Culture Association. The pageant was first held in 1960, the current Miss International is Kylie Verzosa from the Philippines who was crowned on October 27,2016 in Tokyo, Japan. The pageant was created in Long Beach, California, USA in 1960 after the departure of the Miss Universe pageant to Miami Beach. Hosted in Long Beach until 1967, the pageant moved to Japan from 1968–1970, for 1971, it was held in Long Beach again, but since that time it has been held annually in Japan until 2003. Since 2004, it is held in China or Japan, the pageant is also called Miss International Beauty. The ultimate goal of the Miss International beauty pageant is to world peace, goodwill. For full list and details List of Miss International titleholders, List of beauty contests Miss International Trivia, Surprising Facts And Controversies
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Logo of the Miss International Pageant.
