The Miss Rhode Island Pageant is sponsored by the Rhode Island Junior Chamber of Commerce as a part of the nation-wide search for the typical American girl -- a Miss America from Rhode Island.

This is an official preliminary contest of the Miss America Pageant held each September in Atlantic City.

Heywood Broun wrote: `` Belle Poitrine is the most original thinker since Caligula '', and even F.D.R. had to concede that `` if the rest of this nation showed the foresight and patriotism of Miss Poitrine, America would rapidly resemble ancient Babylon and Nineveh ''.

Both Miss Garson and her oilman-rancher husband are active supporters of Boys Clubs of America and patrons of the vivid art and opera colony that flourishes in New Mexico.

Elizabeth Ward Gracen ( born Elizabeth Grace Ward ) is an American actress who won the title of Miss America in 1982.

She won the titles of Miss Arkansas in 1981 and Miss America in 1982.

She used her Miss America scholarship money to study acting at HB Studios in New York City before moving to Hollywood to pursue a film and television career.

Category: Miss America winners

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* 1993 – Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011

In 1977, a former Miss America contestant and orange juice spokesperson, Anita Bryant, began a campaign " Save Our Children ", in Dade County, Florida ( greater Miami ), which proved to be a major set-back in the Gay Liberation movement.

* 1980 – Deidre Downs, American model, Miss America 2005

* 1924 – Bess Myerson, American model, Miss America 1945

* 1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.

In 1968, they protested against the Miss America pageant by throwing high heels and other feminine accoutrements into a garbage bin, to represent freedom.

* 1988 – Kirsten Haglund, American model, Miss America 2008

* 1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.

* 1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.

* 1921 – 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy ; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.

The halftime show also featured the Longhorn Band, along with Judy Mallett, Miss Texas 1973, playing the fiddle, in a tribute to American music titled " A Musical America ".

After a childhood of beauty pageants, Thiessen was crowned Miss Junior America in 1987 and a year later won Teen magazine's " Great Model Search " in 1988, by gracing the cover of that issue.

* Venus Ramey ( born 1924 ), Miss America in 1944

* July 23 – Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown, after nude photos of her appear in Penthouse magazine.

It seems to have been chosen exclusively from the winners of beauty contests -- Miss Omsk, Miss Pinsk, Miss Stalingr oops, skip it.

* 1988 – Ximena Navarrete, Mexican beauty queen, Miss Universe 2010

* 1986 – Leila Lopes, Angolan beauty pageant titleholder ( Miss Universe 2011 )

* Miss Universe, a beauty pageant

MMORPGs and other virtual worlds have been captured in documentary films, such as Miss Galaxies 2004, a beauty pageant that took place in the virtual world of Star Wars Galaxies.

The bureau receives a threat against the 75th annual Miss United States beauty pageant in San Antonio, Texas, from notorious domestic terrorist " The Citizen ".

** Tsokye Karchung, Bhutanese beauty queen, Miss Bhutan 2008

* October 3 – Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican beauty queen who held the titles Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2006 and Miss Universe 2006

The event was also highlighted by the appearance of four winners of the Miss Indonesia beauty pageant: Nadine Alexandra Dewi, Inda Adeliani, Alessandra K Usman, and Reisa Kartikasari.

In April 1947, when Crouch was a senior at Winthrop College, Thurmond was a judge in a beauty contest in which she was selected as Miss South Carolina.

As she matured, people commented on her beauty ; she began entering beauty pageants, winning the title of " Miss Richland " in Washington state in 1959.

Among the activities of this group were the organization of a Miss Nazi beauty contest and the formation of a Chilean branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

* Miss Black America, a beauty pageant for African-American women

She won the Miss Orange County beauty pageant in 1978, and participated in Miss California the same year, finishing in sixth position.

When beauty pageants began, they were viewed as “ trivial events whose interpretation required no scholarly effort .” Miss America, the first pageant of its kind, has made an effort to ensure that it does not appear as a " stereotypical " pageant.

In 2011, Dirty Beer Hole, a website that is popular among the users of social-media giants Twitter and Facebook, began seeking contestants for its irreverent, yet entertaining, Miss Cheap Beer beauty pageant.

Denise Marie Quiñones August ( born September 9, 1980, Ponce, Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was the fourth woman from her country to win the Miss Universe contest.

* Stevi Perry, Miss Teen USA 2008 beauty queen, born in Hamburg

There is also a beauty contest for different age groups where the winner is crowned Miss and Little Miss Swine Time.