Miss International 1977
Miss International 1977, the 17th Miss International pageant was held on July 1, 1977 at the Imperial Garden Theater in Tokyo, Japan. Pilar Medina earned Spain's first Miss International crown. Results Placements Contestants * - Susan Heier * - Pamela Joy Cail * - Eva Prevolnik * - Yvette Maria Aelbrecht * - Miriam Coimbra * - Patrícia Viotti de Andrade * - Sian Helen Adey-Jones * - Jacki Mary Dreher * - Silvia Ebner Cataldo * - Silvia Alicia Pombo Carrillo * - Hannia Chavarria Córdoba * - Christa Yvonne Drube * - Arja Liisa Lehtinen * - Catherine Pouchele * - Dagmar Gabriele Winkler * - Lia Aga * - Linda Sandlin * - Prunella JulIe Nickson * - Willy Muis * - Maria Marlene Villela * - Dorothy Yu Yee-Ha * - Gudrun Helgadóttir * - Joan Stephens * - Indri Hapsari Suharto * - Anne Marie McDaid * - Ronit Makover * - Livia Jannoni * - Mieko Kojima * - Shin Byoung-ok * - Katia Fakhry * - Dorothea Chuah Poh Kooi * - Rose Bugejja * - Ernestina Sodi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pilar Medina
Pilar Medina Canadell (born ) is a Spanish teacher and beauty queen who was the first Spanish delegate to win the Miss International title in 1977. In 1976, she competed in the Miss Spain pageant, representing ''Región Centro''. As the first runner-up, she earned the ticket to compete as Spain's delegate to the 1977 Miss International pageant in Tokyo, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north .... Retrieved on 11 Apr 2008. She claimed the international beauty title, as well as the ''Best National Costume'' award. After her short career in the modelling industry she decided to leave all behind. She started studying Spanish at the University of Valencia and later started teaching classes in a secondary school. She is now giving classes in the European School of Brussel ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1977 In Tokyo
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 ** 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Indri Hapsari Suharto
Indri Hapsari Soeharto ( , ; jv, ꦯꦸꦲꦂꦠ; born 20 November 1960) is an Indonesian actress, psychiatrist, pasindhèn singer, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title Putri Indonesia 1997 (Miss International Indonesia 1977). She represented Indonesia at the Miss International 1977 in Japan, where she was placed 2nd runner-up. After Tresyee Ratri Nugraheni Astuti, who previously placed in the top 15 at the Miss International for the first time in 1976, Soeharto became the second Indonesian in history to be a Miss International finalists. Early life and education Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 20 November 1960 to a Betawis- Javanese parents. Soeharto holds a master's degree in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry from the University of Indonesia, Jakarta, her dissertation was about children with autism. She also earned her Doctorate in Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the Department of Human Communication Sciences, Health Sciences School, University of Shef ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dagmar Wöhrl
Dagmar Gabriele Wöhrl (''née'' Winkler; born 5 May 1954) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). She has served as Chairwoman of the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development of the German Bundestag. She was also a member of the 'Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States' in the Middle East. Wöhrl is the member of UNICEF National Committee of Germany. Early life and career Born in Stein, Bavaria, Wöhrl represented Germany in various beauty pageants: the 1973 Miss Universe beauty pageant where she did not place; the Miss International 1977 beauty pageant where she placed as first runner-up; the Miss World 1977 beauty pageant (after she won the Miss Germany beauty pageant 1977) where she placed as second runner-up; and the 1977 Miss Europe beauty pageant (held in March 1978 having been postponed in 1977, yet still called Miss Europe 1977) where she placed as first runner-up. Political career In 1994 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Madrid , coordinates = , largest_city = Madrid , languages_type = Official language , languages = Spanish language, Spanish , ethnic_groups = , ethnic_groups_year = , ethnic_groups_ref = , religion = , religion_ref = , religion_year = 2020 , demonym = , government_type = Unitary state, Unitary Parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy , leader_title1 = Monarchy of Spain, Monarch , leader_name1 = Felipe VI , leader_title2 = Prime Minister of Spain ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miss International
Miss International (''Miss International Beauty'' or ''The International Beauty Pageant'') is a Japan-based international beauty pageant organized by the International Culture Association. First held in 1960, it is the fourth largest pageant in the world in terms of the number of national winners participating in the international contest. Along with Miss World, Miss Universe, and Miss Earth, the pageant is one of the Big Four international beauty pageants. The Miss International Organization and the brand are currently owned (since 1968), along with Miss International Japan, by the International Cultural Association and Miss Paris Group. The pageant crown used by the organization is supplied and patented by the Mikimoto (company), Mikimoto pearl company. In 2020 and again in 2021, the pageant was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The current Miss International is Jasmin Selberg of Germany, who was crowned at the Miss International 2022 pageant on 13 December 2022 in Tok ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miss International 1978
Miss International 1978, the 18th Miss International pageant, was held on November 10, 1978 at the Mielparque in Tokyo, Japan. Katherine Ruth earned United States's second Miss International crown. Results Placements Contestants * - Graciela Riadigos * - Michelle Cay Adamson * - Elisabeth Havichek * - Brigitte Maria Antonia Muyshondt * - Rosita de Lourdes Requeña * - Ângela Soares Chichierchio * - Patricia Morgan * - Kimberly Ann Allan * - Marianela Verónica Toledo Rojas * - Olga Lucia Prada Rodríguez * - Marlene Lourdes Amador Barrenechea * - Anita Heske * - Hymy Marja Suuronen * - Véronique Fagot * - Petra Brinkmann * - Aspasia "Sia" Krokidou * - Carmen Blas Sablan * - Roxane Celeste Fleming * - Karin Ingrid Gustaffson * - Lorena Irias Navas * - Regina Tsang Hing-Yu * - Sigurlaug "Dilly" Halldórsdóttir * - Sabita Dhanrajgir * - Lorraine Bernadette Enriquez * - Lea Avgi * - Gloria Aita * - Atsuko Taguchi * - Chae Jung-sook * - Farida Abdul ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miss International 1976
Miss International 1976, the 16th Miss International pageant, was held on July 2, 1976 at the Imperial Garden Theater in Tokyo, Japan. Lidija Manić of Yugoslavia crowned her successor Sophie Perin of France. This is France's first ever Miss International crown. Results Placements Contestants 44 Contestants has competed the title this year. * - Johanna Fonseca * - Patrice Lesley Newell * - Elvira Botempo * - Beatrice Libert * - Martha Rosa Baeza * - Vionete Revoredo Fonseca * - Janet Withey * - Lynn Hore * - Maria Antonieta Rosselló * - Alicia Sáenz Madrid * - Maritza Elizabeth Ortiz Calvo * - Maarit Hannele Leso * - Sophie Perin * - Paula Bergner * - Maria Sinanidou * - Thelma Zenaida Hechanova * - Debbie Lee * - Cornelia "Cora" Yvonne Kitz * - Victoria Ann Baker * - Margaret Tsui Mei-Ling * - Sigrun Saevarsdóttir * - Nafisa Ali * - Treesye Ratri Astuti * - Dorit Cohen * - Joanna Avana * - Kumie Nakamura * - Han Young-ae * - Carmen Pick * - Fa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a East Thrace, small portion on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is located off the south coast. Turkish people, Turks form the vast majority of the nation's population and Kurds are the largest minority. Ankara is Turkey's capital, while Istanbul is its list of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city and financial centre. One of the world's earliest permanently Settler, settled regions, present-day Turkey was home to important Neol ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Imperial Garden Theater
The , often referred to simply as the Teigeki (帝劇), and previously the Imperial Garden Theater, is a Japanese theater located in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan operated by Toho. History Opened in 1911 as the first Western-style theater in Japan, it stages a varied program of musicals and operas. The original structure was rebuilt in 1966 as Toho's "flagship" theater, opening with the premiere of ''Scaretto'', a local adaptation of ''Gone With the Wind Gone with the Wind most often refers to: * ''Gone with the Wind'' (novel), a 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell * ''Gone with the Wind'' (film), the 1939 adaptation of the novel Gone with the Wind may also refer to: Music * ''Gone with the Wind'' ...'', which drew 380,000 attendees over the course of the theater's first five months of operation. References External links Website of the Imperial Theatre Theatres completed in 1966 Toho Theatres in Tokyo 1966 establishments in Japan Buildings and structures in C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |