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Abril Rodríguez

Abril Fernández competed against thirty-four other young women in the 2009 national Nuestra Belleza México pageant.

Aleksandar Bačko

Aleksandar Bačko is descendent of Nikanor Grujić, Orthodox Bishop of Pakrac and locum tenens Serbian Patriarch, by his brother Dragutin Grujić, archpriest of Mohacs, parish priest of Kacsfalu and assessor of Buda bishopric consistory.

Ayesha Gilani

Ayesha Gilani won the Miss Pakistan World title on the 23rd of June 2009 in Toronto, Canada, where the Miss Pakistan World pageant gets hosted every year, which was started by Sonia Ahmed.

Azra Akın

Thus, she represented Turkey in the Miss World beauty pageant which was held on December 7, 2002 at Alexandra Palace, London, which she also won.

Baby-led weaning

Initial self-feeding attempts often result in very little food ingested as the baby explores textures and tastes through play, but the baby will soon start to swallow and digest what is offered.

Barney Coombs

The main thrust of this group was that a return of the 'charismatic gifts' (i.e. prophecy and speaking in tongues) to the traditional denominations was not sufficient, and that the church needed to be restored to the New Testament forms of church government as described in St. Paul's epistle to the Ephesians - Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist and Pastor/Teacher (Eph 4:11).

Candy Davis

She won the Miss Nude pageant in 1982 and subsequently took on the role as the buxom blonde secretary, Miss Belfridge, on the last two series of the British sitcom Are You Being Served?.

Centro Cultural la Azotea

The Centro Cultural la Azotea ("La Azotea" Cultural Center) is a cultural center and museum complex, located in the township and municipality of Jocotenango in Guatemala's Sacatepéquez Department.

Débora Sulca

In May she competed in the Miss Universe 2005 pageant held in Bangkok, Thailand, where she placed finalist on the 6th place (in the top ten).

Edelweiss Cheung

Edelweiss was not invited to present at Miss Hong Kong Pageant 2009 and crown her successor Sandy Lau, Miss Hong Kong 2009, instead TVB invited Miss Hong Kong 1977 Ms Loletta Chu to crown for Lau.

Elizabeth Key Grinstead

Tara Grinstead, missing Georgia beauty pageant winner and high school teacher

Isabel Lestapier Winqvist

She was crowned on 21 April 2007 by her precursor, Josephine Alhanko, who was semi-finalist at the Miss Universe 2006 pageant, held in Hollywood.

Jessica García Formenti

García Formenti competed in the 52nd Miss International pageant, which was be held on November, 2012 where she was a semifinalist in the top 15.

Joseph Graves Olney

On one such drive, Olney, John Ringo, Ike Clanton, and Al Turner hurrahed the town of Safford, Arizona, a typical cowboy behavior.

Karen Soto

Soto was crowned Miss Venezuela World 2013 during the first edition of Miss Venezuela World pageant, held on August 10, 2013 in Caracas.

Kristina Ruisánchez

Kristina placed 2nd Runner-up at the Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2008 pageant where she competed as Miss Trujillo Alto.

Kylie Williams

Williams went on to represent Florida in the Miss America 2008 pageant, where she made the top fifteen and was first runner-up to the Quality of Life award.

Lana Obad

Lana Obad stands 173 cm and represented her country at the Miss Universe 2010 pageant on August 23, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Len Reynolds

As news of Len's death spread around the village, Len's body was driven away in an ambulance whilst Katherine Jenkins sang him out, although as she was closing the pageant, unaware of the death that had occurred in the village.

Lyndel Soon

She was asked to fill in the state level position as a favor, due to a fact that a delegate of (Kedah state, Malaysia) had quit 2 weeks before the Miss Malaysia Tourism pageant.

Marie Vassilieff

It became the nexus for those at the cutting-edge of art at the time, when Erik Satie, Henri Matisse, Nina Hamnett, Amedeo Modigliani, Ossip Zadkine, Juan Gris, and Chaim Soutine started dropping by in the evenings for conversation and occasionally to draw.

Marie-Agnès Courty

This cataclysm led to a great deal of incandescent material, which could explain myths such as the Apocalypse and Sodom and Gomorrah.

Meaghan Jarensky

Meaghan Jarensky Castaldi is a beauty queen from The Bronx, New York who has competed in the Miss USA 2005 pageant.

Miss Angola USA

The first official Miss Angola USA pageant was held on September 22, 2012, at the Warner Theatre in Washington DC.

Miss Atlántico Internacional 2008

Miss Atlántico Internacional 2008 (or Miss Atlantic International 2008), the 22nd edition of the Miss Atlantic International beauty pageant, was held in Punta del Este, Uruguay on Saturday, January 26, at 22:00 hours and was delivered by Teledoce Televisora color, live and direct satellite television and Latin America, are now setting out for the broadcast across the globe.

Miss China

Miss Universe China, a beauty pageant that selects China's representative to Miss Universe.

Miss Mexico Pageant

Señorita México (1952 - 1993), former Mexican beauty pageant that selected representatives to Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss International.

Miss Philippines Earth 2008

Maria Venus Raj competed at the Binibining Pilipinas 2010 title on March 6, 2010 where she won the Bb. Pilipinas-Universe title, but she was briefly replaced by second runner up Helen Nicolette Henson as the Philippines' representative to the Miss Universe 2010 pageant.

Miss Pokhara

Miss Pokhara is a beauty pageant which began in 1995 for the girls of Western Development Region.

Miss Tall International

The Miss Tall International® pageant selects a representative of the Tall Clubs International.

Motz's problem

In mathematics, Motz's problem is a problem which is widely employed as a benchmark for singularity problems to compare the effectiveness of numerical methods.

Myah Moore

She did not place in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Susie Castillo of Massachusetts.

Nepenthes izumiae

Nepenthes izumiae may also bear a resemblance to N. bongso and N. ovata, but both of these species have entirely infundibular upper pitchers and often have spathulate laminae with glabrous margins.

Nepenthes naga

In their description of N. naga, the authors compared it to the Sumatran endemics N. ovata and N. spathulata, contending that it can be distinguished from these species on the basis of its dichotomous lid appendage and frilled lid.

Nikkie Groat

Groat's first pageant experience came in 2003 when she entered and won the Miss Union County pageant, which allowed her to enter the Miss North Carolina Teen USA pageant, where she was a top twelve semi-finalist.

Nikkie Groat is a beauty queen from Matthews, North Carolina who has competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Onuphrius

His name appears very variously as Onuphrius, Onouphrius, Onofrius; and in different languages as Humphrey (English), Onofre (Portuguese, Spanish), Onofrio (Italian), etc.

Rebecca Ann King

Her daughter, Diana Dreman, won the Miss Colorado 2011 pageant and competed at the Miss America 2012, making her the first daughter of a Miss America ever to compete for the Miss America title.

Sara El-Khouly

As an experienced beauty pageant contestant, Sara was therefore handpicked as the official Egyptian representative to the 2011 Miss Universe pageant to be held on September 12, 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil.

Señorita Panamá 1991

The pageant was broadcast live on RPC Panamá and produced with the collaboration of Venevision.

Singapore Cable Car

It played hosts to the contestants of the Miss World Pageant when it was held in Singapore in 1989, as well as the sportsmen and officials who were there for the Southeast Asian Games in 1990.

Sirio Maccioni

On television, he has been featured as a guest judge on Top Chef, the 48th Annual Miss Universe Pageant and as himself in Charlie Rose, Behind Closed Doors and Eat This New York.

The Diary of Ma Yan

The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese School Girl (马燕日记) is the diary of Chinese schoolgirl Ma Yan (), edited and published in the West by French journalist Pierre Haski.

The Pedruco Sisters

The Pedruco Sisters is a family of 4 sisters who have competed at the Miss Chinese International pageant and Miss World pageant representing Macau.

The Royal Regiment of Canada

International commitments include: performances for the United Nations in Cyprus; the Military Musical Pageant, held at Wembley Stadium, in London, England; a command performance for the colonel-in-chief, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace; and, being selected as the official band to accompany the veterans and the official party to the United Kingdom and France to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the raid on Dieppe August 19, 1942.

Timeline of San Bernardino, California history

The Miss USA Pageant is held in San Bernardino on July 25, and televised on CBS.

Wendy Dascomb

Dascomb later represented the United States in the Miss Universe pageant where she placed in the semi-finals.

Wendy Dascomb (born c. 1949) is a pageant titleholder from Metairie, Louisiana, who held the Miss USA 1969 title.

Zhu Faya

The Chinese surname Zhu , which originally meant "a kind of bamboo" and was later used for "India (abbreviating Tianzhu 天竺)" and "Buddhism", was adopted by many early Buddhist monks, such as the polyglot translator Zhu Fahu 竺法護 or Dharmarakṣa (c. 230-316).


see also

Prairie Dawn

She is famous for writing school pageants (e.g., Sesame Street Little Theater) for her friends, mostly Bert and Ernie, Herry, Grover, and Cookie Monster.