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Miss Burma (1947–1962)
Miss Burma was the national beauty pageant in Burma (now Myanmar) from 1947 to 1962. The winner of ''Miss Burma'' also represented her country at the Miss Universe. In 1962, the pageant was banned by the Union Revolutionary Council government because it was considered against Burmese culture. History The term Miss Burma was introduced in Myanmar through the MISS ORGANIZATION and held the Miss Burma 1959 Local Beauty Pageant Competition. At the end of the event, Than Than Aye was competed in Miss Burma 1959. She was the Burma's first contestant in the Miss Universe pageant. In 1960, the Miss Burma Organization competed for Burma beauty pageants to Big Four international beauty pageants. That year, Myint Myint May competed in Miss Universe 1960 and received the ''Miss Congeniality Award'', a Special Award and Ma Sen Aye competed in Miss World 1960. After that year, Khin Myint Myint won the Miss Burma beauty pageant and represented her country at the Miss Universe 1961 event hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty Pageant
A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, talent, character, and charitable involvement, through private interviews with judges and answers to public on-stage questions. The term beauty pageant refers originally to the Big Four international beauty pageants. Pageant titles are subdivided into Miss, Mrs. or Ms., and Teen – to clearly identify the difference between pageant divisions. Hundreds and thousands of beauty contests are held annually, but the Big Four are considered the most prestigious, widely covered and broadcast by media. For example, ''The Wall Street Journal'', BBC News, CNN, Xinhua News Agency, and global news agencies such as Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse collectively refer to the four major pageants as "Big Four" namely: Miss Universe, Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manie Pu
Manie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Międzyrzec Podlaski, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Międzyrzec Podlaski, west of Biała Podlaska, and north of the regional capital Lublin Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t .... References Villages in Biała Podlaska County {{BiałaPodlaska-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Universe 1959
Miss Universe 1959, the 8th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 24 July 1959 at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, California, United States. 34 contestants competed and in the end Akiko Kojima of Japan won the competition, becoming the first Asian woman to win the title. She was crowned by Luz Marina Zuluaga from Colombia. This was the last year that the pageant was held in Long Beach before it moved to Miami Beach, Florida in 1960, before the establishment of the Miss International pageant. Results Placements Contestants * - Liana Cortijo * - Christine Spatzier * - Hélène Savigny * - Corina Taborga * - Vera Regina Ribeiro * - Than Than Aye * - Eileen Butter * - Olga Pumajero Korkor * - Zianne Monturiol * - Irma Buesa Mas * - Lisa Stolberg * - Carlota Elena Ayala * - Pamela Anne Searle * - Françoise Saint-Laurent * - Carmela Künzel * - Zoitsa Kouroukli † * - Rogelia Cruz Martínez † * Hawaii - Patricia Visser * - Peggy Erwich * - Sigr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Universe 1958
Miss Universe 1958, the 7th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 25 July 1958 in Long Beach, California, United States. 36 contestants competed where finally, Miss Colombia, 19-year-old Luz Marina Zuluaga won the competition, and was crowned by Gladys Zender of Peru. Results Placements Contestants * Alaska - Eleanor Moses * - Celina Mercedes Ayala * - Astrid Tanda Lindholm * - Liliane Taelemans † * - Adalgisa Colombo † * - Clyo Fernandes * - Eileen Cindy Conroy * - Raquel Molina Urrutia † * - Luz Marina Zuluaga † * - Eugenia María Valverde Guardia * - Arminia Pérez y González * - Evy Norlund * - Alicia Vallejo Eljuri * - Dorothy Hazeldine * - Monique Boulinguez * - Marlies Jung Behrens * - Marily Kalimopoulou * - Maya Glinz * Hawaii - Geri Hoo † * - Corine Rottschäfer † * - Miriam Hadar * - Clara Copella * - Tomoko Moritake * - Oh Geum-soon * - Elvira Leticia Risser Corredor * - Greta Andersen * - Graciela Scorza Leguizamón * - Beat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khin Than Nu
Khin is a classical membranophone used in Newar music. Khin are played in pair putting on lap by the players facing each other. A Khin is made of a hollow wooden trunk with membrane covering both sides. The right side is covered with cow skin Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are large, domesticated, cloven-hooved, herbivores. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus ''Bos''. Adult females are referred to as cows and adult ma ..., while the left side is covered with goat skin. Both sides are attached with a black tuning paste called ''khau''. The right hole of the trunk is narrower than the left one, and thus sound produced from the right side is sharper than the sound from left side. It is played during 'Bhajans' and different festivals also like 'Ghintanghisi' and others. References Newar Membranophones Drums of Nepal {{Membranophone-instrument-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinthada
Hinthada ( my, ဟင်္သာတမြို့; formerly Henzada) is a city located on the Irrawaddy River in Ayeyarwady Region, Burma (Myanmar). In the 1983 census the city itself had a population of 82,005. By 2010 it had grown to 170,312. The trade of locally grown rice and grain goes through the port of Hinthada. History Historically, Hinthada was occupied by the Mon people (Talaings),Morrison, W. S. (1915) ''Henzada District'' Office of the Superintendent, Government Printing, Rangoon, Burmapage 16 and was part of the Pagan Empire. Climate Education The city is home to University of Computer Studies, Hinthada and Hinthada University and Technological University, Hinthada. homepage Notable residents * |
Mandalay
Mandalay ( or ; ) is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. Located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631km (392 miles) (Road Distance) north of Yangon, the city has a population of 1,225,553 (2014 census). Mandalay was founded in 1857 by King Mindon, replacing Amarapura as the new royal capital of the Konbaung dynasty. It was Burma's final royal capital before the kingdom's annexation by the British Empire in 1885. Under British rule, Mandalay remained commercially and culturally important despite the rise of Yangon, the new capital of British Burma. The city suffered extensive destruction during the Japanese conquest of Burma in the Second World War. In 1948, Mandalay became part of the newly independent Union of Burma. Today, Mandalay is the economic centre of Upper Myanmar and considered the centre of Burmese culture. A continuing influx of illegal Chinese immigrants, mostly from Yunnan, since the late 20th century, has reshaped the city's ethnic mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hteik Su Phaya Htwe
Princess Margret Hteik Su Phaya Htwe ( my, ထိပ်စုဖုရားထွေး; 20 August 1927 – 21 June 2003) was a pioneer Burmese athlete, bodybuilder, swimmer and a former beauty queen. She was the youngest daughter of Princess Myat Phaya Galay, the fourth daughter of the last king of Burma Thibaw Min and Supayalat. Early life and education Hteik Su Phaya Htwe was born on 20 August 1927 in Rangoon, British Burma; her father was Ko Ko Naing, a former monk and her mother was Princess Myat Phaya Galay, the fourth daughter of King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat. She attended the St. Joseph Convent in Moulmein and Myoma Girls National High School in Rangoon. Career After the war, she and her older brother Prince Taw Phaya Gyi opened a gymnasium. In 1946, she was selected in Burma national team for swimming competition. In 1947, she finished as the second in the Burma's first Miss Burma competition. After retirement from sports, she served as the administrator of the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daik-U Township
Daik-U Township is a township in Bago District in the Bago Region of Burma."Myanmar States/Divisions & Townships Overview Map" Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) The principal town is Daik-U. History Prior to the , the area around Daik U was composed of small villages. After the British built a railway between Rangoon (now Yangon) and Pyuntaza in 1878, with a railway station at Daik U, a bustling vill ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Benson Craig
Louisa Charmaine Benson Craig (sometimes spelled Luisa Benson; 10 March 1941 – 2 February 2010) was a Burmese-born two-time beauty pageant winner and Karen rebel leader of Jewish and Karen ancestry. Early life and education Louisa Charmaine Benson was born to Saw Benson (also known as Moses Ben-Zion Koder), a Jewish entrepreneur in Rangoon, and his wife Naw Chit Khin, a Karen woman. He was descended on his father's side from the Koder family, a prominent Cochin Jewish business clan in South India's Cochin (now Kochi), and on his mother's side from the Leynado family, a Sephardic Jewish family. Orphaned as a child, Koder was sent to Calcutta to be raised by aunts. He later converted to Christianity. In 1939, after returning to Rangoon, he married. During World War II, Louisa's parents were separated for lengthy periods as they tried to find safety from the Japanese occupation of Burma. After the war, the independence movement and Karen movement for autonomy resulted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taungoo
Taungoo (, ''Tauñngu myoú''; ; also spelled Toungoo) is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ranges to the east and west. The main industry is in forestry products, with teak and other hardwoods extracted from the mountains. The city is known for its areca palms, to the extent that a Burmese proverb for unexpected good fortune is equated to a "betel lover winning a trip to Taungoo". The city is famous in Burmese history for the Toungoo dynasty which ruled the country for over 200 years between the 16th and 18th centuries. Taungoo was the capital of Burma in 1510–1539 and 1551–1552. Kaytumadi new city (new city of Taungoo) is the central command of the southern command division region of Armed Forces (''Tatmadaw''). Hanthawaddy United Football Club is based in Taungoo. Names The classical Pali name of Taungoo is Ketumadi (ကေတုမဒီ;), which translates to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyapon
Pyapon ( my, ဖျာပုံမြို့; Mon: , ) is a town and seat of Pyapon District in the Ayeyarwady Division of Myanmar, along the Pyapon River, a tributary of the Ayeyarwady River. It is located about inland from the Andaman Sea, about south of the previous capital, Yangon. It has a population of approximately 65,601 in 2021. It serves as a center for collecting rice from the surrounding agricultural areas, and is home to a diesel-run power plant, using equipment by the German firm Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', '' .... References Populated places in Ayeyarwady Region Township capitals of Myanmar {{Ayeyarwady-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
