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Miss Lithuania 2010
The 19th Miss Lithuania 2010 pageant was held on August 27, 2010. This year only 20 candidates are competing for the national crown. The chosen winner represented Lithuania at the Miss World 2010. Contest started with 40 participants and at the final there left only 14 contestants. Final results Special Awards * Miss Public - Gritė Maruškevičiūtė ( Vilnius) * Miss Elegance - Sandra Lukšytė ( Vilnius) * Miss Photo - Elona Račkutė (Kaunas) Jury *Benas Gudelis, organizer and „ KristiAna“ delegate *Dalia Michelevičiūtė, actress * Kęstutis Rimdžius, stylist and TV presenter * Vaida Kursevičienė, Missis Lithuania 2010 * Raimundas Adžgauskas, photographer Candidates {, class="sortable wikitable" ! Contestant !! Age !! City , - , Deimantė Bubelytė , , 20 , , Vilnius , - , Ieva Jotkelaitė , , 21 , , Klaipėda , - , Laura Kuliešaitė , , 22 , , Vilnius , - , Beata Liminovič , , 22 , , Vilnius , - , Agnė Lukaitytė , , 18 , , Palanga , - , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gritė Maruškevičiūtė
Gritė Maruškevičiūtė (born 18 June 1989, in Šiauliai) is Miss Lithuania 2010. She represented Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ... in Miss World 2010 on October and she reached top 40 at beach beauty event. Maruškevičiūtė currently living in capital city Vilnius and studying law and management in Mykolas Romeris University. References Living people 1989 births Lithuanian beauty pageant winners Miss World 2010 delegates People from Šiauliai People from Vilnius Mykolas Romeris University alumni {{Lithuania-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty Pageants In Lithuania
Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, one of the major branches of philosophy. As a positive aesthetic value, it is contrasted with ugliness as its negative counterpart. Along with truth and goodness it is one of the transcendentals, which are often considered the three fundamental concepts of human understanding. One difficulty in understanding beauty is because it has both objective and subjective aspects: it is seen as a property of things but also as depending on the emotional response of observers. Because of its subjective side, beauty is said to be "in the eye of the beholder". It has been argued that the ability on the side of the subject needed to perceive and judge beauty, sometimes referred to as the "sense of taste", can be trained and that the verdicts of exper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 In Lithuania
This article is about the particular significance of the year 2010 to Lithuania and its people. Incumbents * President: Dalia Grybauskaitė * Prime Minister: Andrius Kubilius Chairmanships * Community of Democracies Events *May 28 – was held Sidabrinė gervė 2010. *August 8 – wind flaw killed 4 people. *August 27 – Gritė Maruškevičiūtė won Miss Lithuania 2010 title. *October 7 – Lithuania and European Space Agency written cooperation agreement. Sports *July 1–3 – Alytus held 2010 Lithuania Swimming Championships *July 9–10 – in S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium was held 2010 Lithuanian Athletics Championships. *July 22-August 1 – Lithuania held and won U18 European Championship Men 2010 Division A. *July 27-August 1 – Živilė Balčiūnaitė won gold medal for Lithuania at marathon event in 2010 European Athletics Championships. *August 14–26 – Lithuania achieved 19th place in 2010 Summer Youth Olympics with 5 medal (3 golden and 2 bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijampolė
Marijampolė (; also known by several other names) is a cultural and industrial city and the capital of the Marijampolė County in the south of Lithuania, bordering Poland and Russian Kaliningrad Oblast, and Lake Vištytis. The population of Marijampolė is 48,700 (2003). It is the Lithuanian center of the Suvalkija region. Marijampolė is the seventh-largest city in Lithuania, and has been its regional center since 1994. The city covers an area equal to . The Šešupė River divides the city into two parts which are connected by six bridges. Names The city has also been known as Marijampolis, Mariampol, Starapole, Pašešupiai, Marjampol, Mariyampole, and Kapsukas (1955–1989). History The settlement was founded as a village called "Pašešupė", after the nearby river of Šešupė. As such the town was first mentioned in 1667. In the 18th century the village, at that time belonging to the Catholic Church, grew to become a market town and its name was changed to Starpol or "S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palanga
Palanga (; bat-smg, Palonga; pl, Połąga; german: Polangen) is a seaside resort town in western Lithuania, on the shore of the Baltic Sea. Palanga is the busiest summer resort in Lithuania and has sandy beaches (18 km, 11 miles long and up to 300 metres, 1000 ft wide) and sand dunes. Officially Palanga has the status of a city municipality and includes Šventoji, Nemirseta, Būtingė, Palanga International Airport and other settlements, which are considered as part of the city of Palanga. Legend According to legend, there was a pagan shrine at the foot of a hill in Palanga where a beautiful priestess named Birutė used to tend the ceremonial fires. Having heard of Birutė's beauty, Kęstutis, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, came to make her his wife. The Lithuanian Bychowiec Chronicle records that Birutė "did not consent, and answered that she had promised the gods to remain a virgin as long as she lived. Kęstutis then resorted to take her by force, and with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimundas Adžgauskas
Raimundas is a Lithuanian masculine given name. It is a cognate of the name Raymond, and may refer to: * Raimundas Čivilis (1959–2000), Lithuanian basketball player * Raimundas Labuckas (born 1984), Lithuanian sprint canoer * Raimundas Mažuolis (born 1972), former freestyle swimmer from Lithuania * Raimundas Palaitis, (born 1957), Lithuanian politician * Raimundas Udrakis Raimundas Udrakis (born 31 March 1965) is a Lithuanian-Soviet Olympic equestrian. He competed in the individual and team show jumping events at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV ... (born 1965), Lithuanian-Soviet Olympic equestrian Masculine given names Lithuanian masculine given names {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaida Kursevičienė
Vaida may refer to: Places * Vaida, Estonia, a borough in northern Estonia * Vaida Bay, a bay in the far northwest of Russia ** Vayda-Guba, a rural locality in Murmansk Oblast, Russia * Vaida, a village in the commune of Roșiori, Bihor, Romania * Vaida-Cămăraș, a village in Căianu Commune, Cluj County, Romania People * Alexandru Vaida-Voevod (1872-1950), Romanian politician * Gheorghe Elemer Vaida (1936-2017) Romanian chemist-engineer * Veronica Vaida (born 1950), Romanian-American chemist * Vaida Pikauskaitė (born 1991), Lithuanian cyclist * Vaida Žūsinaitė (born 1988), Lithuanian runner * Vaida Žitinevičiūtė, Lithuanian gymnast; see 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Women's qualification * Vaida Sipavičiūtė (born 1985), Lithuanian basketball player See also * * Vaidas, a Lithuanian given name * Vajda, a Hungarian surname * Vayda, a surname * Wajda (surname), a Polish surname * Wayda ''Wayda'' is a Bollywood film. It was released in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kęstutis Rimdžius
Kęstutis ( la, Kinstut, ; – 3 or 15 August 1382) was the Grand Duke of Lithuania. He was the Duke of Trakai and governed the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1342–1382, together with his brother Algirdas (until 1377), and with his nephew Jogaila (until 1381). The name "Kęstutis" is a derivative from the old form of the name ''Kęstas'', which is a shortened version of such Lithuanian names as ''Kęstaras'', ''Kęstautas'' (there ''kęs-ti'' means ''to cope''). Historic writing sources reflect different Lithuanian pronunciation. Early life and division of power Kęstutis was the son of the Grand Duke Gediminas. His younger brother, Jaunutis, succeeded his father as Grand Duke of Lithuania. Together with his brother Algirdas, Kestutis conspired to remove Jaunutis from power. They were successful in their efforts. They divided their holdings into an eastern and western sphere of influence. The Duchy of Trakai was established in 1337 as a result. Kęstutis's efforts were conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalia Michelevičiūtė
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Dalia may refer to: People * Dalia (given name), a given name and listing of people with the name * Dalia (Egyptian singer), of album ''Bahebak enta'' 1998 * Badrunnesa Dalia, Bengali singer known as Dalia Places * Dalia (oil field), an offshore oil field in Angola * Dalia, Israel, a kibbutz * Dalia, the Latinized name for Dalsland, Sweden Other uses * Dalia (mythology), a Lithuanian goddess * Dalia, a South Asian broken wheat and mung lentil porridge See also * Dhalia (1925–1991), Indonesian actress * Dahlia (other) Dahlia is a genus of plants. Dahlia may also refer to: Animals *Dahlia (moth), ''Dahlia'' (moth), a genus of moths *Dahlia anemone, a sea anemone People *Dahlia Duhaney (born 1970), Jamaican sprinter *Dahlia Lithwick, Canadian contributing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benas Gudelis
Benas may refer to: Places * Benasque, a town in the comarca of Ribagorza, province of Huesca, Spain People * Benas Šatkus (born 2001), Lithuanian footballer * Benas Veikalas Benas Veikalas (born 24 September 1983) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. He can play both guard positions, but prefers the shooting guard position. Early career Born in Joniškis, Veikalas moved to the United States at the ..., Lithuanian basketball player {{disambiguation, surname Lithuanian masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilnius
Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urban area, which stretches beyond the city limits, is estimated at 718,507 (as of 2020), while according to the Vilnius territorial health insurance fund, there were 753,875 permanent inhabitants as of November 2022 in Vilnius city and Vilnius district municipalities combined. Vilnius is situated in southeastern Lithuania and is the second-largest city in the Baltic states, but according to the Bank of Latvia is expected to become the largest before 2025. It is the seat of Lithuania's national government and the Vilnius District Municipality. Vilnius is known for the architecture in its Old Town, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The city was noted for its multicultural population already in the time of the Polish–Lithuanian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
