The Rainbow Affair is notable for its thinly disguised cameo appearances by The Saint, Miss Marple, John Steed, Emma Peel, Tommy Hambledon ( at whose flat Solo and Ilya encounter Steed and Peel ), Neddie Seagoon, Father Brown, a retired, elderly Sherlock Holmes, and Dr. Fu Manchu.

Some of the more notable artists appearing on Hyacinths and Thistles are Bob Mould, Sally Timms ( The Mekons ), Sarah Cracknell ( Saint Etienne ), Neil Hannon ( The Divine Comedy ), Gary Numan, Marc Almond, Momus, Clare Grogan ( Altered Images ), Melanie, Miss Lily Banquette ( Combustible Edison ), Katharine Whalen ( Squirrel Nut Zippers ) and the accomplished toy piano player Margaret Leng Tan.

* Miss Read ( Dora Saint ), author, lived in Witney.

Dora Jessie Saint MBE ( 17 April 1913 – 7 April 2012 ), née Shafe, best known by the pen name Miss Read, was an English novelist, by profession a schoolmistress.

Alves has signed contracts with Valentino, Christian Dior, Escada, Ralph Lauren, Missoni, Miss Sixty, Michael Kors, GAP, Emporio Armani, Michael Kors Swimwear, AKRIS and holds a deal with Yves Saint Laurent for their fragrance Cinéma's campaign.

Finnessey first competed in the Miss Missouri USA 2000 pageant in 1999 where, as Miss Saint Louis County in her senior year of college, she finished first runner-up to Denette Roderick.

She went onto become an almost permanent fixture in British television, starring in The Sweeney and Return of the Saint, the first episode of ITV's Hammer House of Horror ( 1980 ) and she also had a regular role as the glamorous Miss Griffin in the sci-fi drama Kinvig ( 1981 ), written by Nigel Kneale.

He is married and is the father of seven children: Nzau Twengi Aristote, Elvis, Minou Miss Univers, Didi Stone Nike, Rocky, Del pirlo Mourhino and Saint James Rolls.

Winnifred Blair of Saint John, New Brunswick was proclaimed the first Miss Canada on 11 February 1923 at an earlier, unrelated competition during the Montreal Winter Carnival.

The students belong to the same house for their school life and belong to either Connolly-Green ( formerly Doigs / Lawrences ), Dyson-Red ( formerly Mackenzies / Jethas ), Goddard-Blue ( formerly Dodkins / Crocketts ) or Soper-Yellow ( formerly Fords / Patricks ); all are named after previous headmasters or headmistresses ( formerly heads of houses, Mr Doig, Miss F Mackenzie, Mr Dodkins and Mrs Ford ), with the exception of the last, in honour of distinguished Old Askean Donald Soper.

The Miss Nebraska Scholarship Program was moved to North Platte in 1984.

Her platform issue at Miss America, Children's Miracle Network, was later adopted by the Miss America Scholarship Organization as a national platform.

Numerous Garden Grove organizations, including the Miss Garden Grove Scholarship Program, are part of the Memorial Day weekend festivities every year.

* The Miss and Outstanding Teen Irish Capital Scholarship Pageant is an official Miss America preliminary pageant and is held in the fall.

Miss Irish Capital Scholarship Organization

* Miss Huntley Scholarship Pageant

The Miss America Scholarship program, along with its local and state affiliates, is the largest provider of scholarship money to young women in the United States and in the world.

In addition, Miss Puerto Rico International and the Miss Puerto Rico Scholarship Program select official representatives to the Miss International and Miss America pageants, respectively.

She was " World's Baby Petite " in the " World's Our Little Miss Scholarship Competition " of 1985.

The first issue of the magazine was released to the public on February 1, 2011, featuring two cover stories: one on the Miss Smith Mountain Lake Scholarship Pageant and one on William Byrd High School's famed Big Orange wrestling tournament.

Leila Lopes, Miss Angola 2011, was crowned Miss Universe 2011 in Brazil on 12 September 2011 making her the first Angolan to win the pageant.

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

After winning Miss Pacific Coast in 1981, she gave up pageant life.

* 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 ".

* 1984 – Amelia Vega, Dominican model and 2003 Miss Universe pageant winner

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

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

* December 14 – Yvonne Ryding, Swedish pageant winner ( Miss Universe 1984 )

* September 8 – Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy ; pageant officials later dub her the first Miss America.

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.

She spoke of her ambition to study psychiatry, and also stated her intention to compete in the " Miss Washington " pageant in 1960, but before she could follow either course of action, Paul Tate was transferred to Italy, taking his family with him.

* Mary Katherine Campbell, former Miss America pageant titleholder

* 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 that year Miss Lebanon, Christina Sawaya won the Miss International pageant, Miss Turkey, Azra Akın won Miss World, and the original winner of Miss Earth for that year was Džejla Glavović from Bosnia and Herzegovina ( before being replaced by Winfred Omwakwe of Kenya ).

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.

The Turkey Trot festival also includes a Miss Turkey Trot Pageant, a Miss Drumsticks Competition ( best legs ), dinners, musical entertainment, a 5 kilometer run, a parade ( which has included former Arkansas governor and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ), and a nationally recognized turkey calling contest sponsored by the National Wild Turkey Federation.

The Miss Australia Quest was sponsored and organised from 1954 until the early 1960s by the lingerie manufacturer, Hickory, until Dowd Associates transferred the ownership to the Australian Cerebral Palsy Association in 1963.

This scholarship pageant sponsored by the Chugiak-Eagle River Chamber of Commerce also presents awards for Bear Paw Princess, Official Escort, Best Costume with an Alaskan Theme and Miss Congeniality.

The first edition of Miss Brasil, won by Bahia's representative Martha Rocha, was sponsored by the Folha de São Paulo newspaper.

She was known as " Miss Maya " after the Asian fashion house which sponsored her, and has reportedly been offered a part in a forthcoming Bollywood movie.

The vessel was launched on 25 July 1941 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Kearny, New Jersey and sponsored by the Commander's daughter, Miss Gordon Ellyson.