Articles for tag: Miss World

Karla News

Miss USA Wins Miss Universe 2012

Olivia Culpo: An Intelligent Woman On December 19, 2012, America’s delegate Olivia Culpo, a native of Rhode Island and of Italian heritage, won the global contest by defeating Miss Philippines in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA). According to pageant experts around the globe, from Manila and Mexico to Singapore City and New York City, she wasn´t ...

Karla News

Miss Universe 1977 – Interesting Facts!

Latin America Did you know- Six out of the twelve semi-finalists at the event were from Latin America -Trinidad & Tobago (Janelle Commissiong), Colombia (Aura Maria Mojica), Argentina (Maritza Jurado), Nicaragua (Beatriz Lacayo Obregon), Venezuela (Cristal Montañez) and the Dominican Republic (Blanca Aurora Sardiñas ) — the other six came from Europe (Austria, Germany, Holland, ...

Karla News

9 Beauty Queen Scandals that Took America by Surprise

The recent Miss Puerto Rico incident has once more put beauty pageants in the spotlight. There are some people who think that beauty pageants are archaic, sexist and pretentious and believe they ought to be done away with entirely. There are others who see them as a romanticized tradition that needs to be cherished and ...

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Fun Facts About Liberia – the Second Black Republic in the World

History Did you know…Liberia and Haiti were the first black republics in the world…In the early 1940s Liberia formally declared war on Japan and Germany… While Liberia was one of the most prosperous black republics in the early 1950s, South Korea was one of the world’s poorest nations… World-Famous Liberians Did you know…South Africa’s leader ...