That year the American Indian Movement protested the pageant's lack of Native American actors and Schoolcraft's and Longfellow's appropriation of Indian legend.

At the time, non-white women were barred from competing, a restriction that was codified in the pageant's " Rule number seven ", which stated that " contestants must be of good health and of the white race.

In addition to the move to CMT, there was a switch in the pageant's schedule from September to January 21, 2006, and a move away from Atlantic City and Boardwalk Hall after 85 years to the Las Vegas Strip and the Theatre for the Performing Arts at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino.

Below is an outline of the recent years of the pageant's format:

Her placement followed many high placements for Texas in previous years and a consistent level of achievement throughout the pageant's history.

In particular, traditionalists objected to her appearance in a red bikini during the pageant's press presentation.

A girl wishing to compete in the pageant starts at either the local level, if a regional contest is held in her state, or goes directly to the pageant's headquarters in Caracas.

King went on to earn her law degree, while Cothran earned her doctorate degree, making them the two most educationally accomplished Miss Americas, in what pageant historians view as an ironic turn of events, given the protests concerns about the pageant's presumed degradation of women.

The base number of contestants over the last decade has been 26 – 28, which can be increased or decreased by pageant's management.

The pageant's organizer, William Chauncey Langdon, promised the girls that they, too, would have an organized role in the pageant, although no organization such as Boy Scouts existed then for girls.

The public will select via text messaging, with five of the participants classifying directly to the pageant's semifinal.

Her victory also raised some eyebrows, as she did not top any of the pageant's segments.

Her win, over Greek contestant Evelina Papantoniou, came on the Miss Universe pageant's 50th anniversary.

The pageant's popularity grew with the advent of television.

In an attempt to create a younger image, Bert Parks, the pageant's famous emcee from 1955 to 1979, was dismissed.

Since the pageant's peak in the early 1960s, its audience has eroded significantly.

" Broadcasters show data proving that the talent show and the interviews, the pageant's answers to feminist criticism, were the least popular portions of the pageant, while the swimsuit part still had the power to bring viewers back from the kitchen ," said New York Times reporter Iver Peterson.

There have been three changes in the organization that led to modifications in the pageant's name.

There were thirty delegates in the first year of competition, and many states did not compete every year during the first two decades of the pageant's history.

Like Bert Parks in the United States, Perry, a talented singer, would sing the pageant's closing song, The Fairest Girl in Canada soon after the new Miss Canada was crowned.

Again, Dave Devall worked alongside Perry as the pageant's off-screen announcer.

She had also won the Miss India 2001 pageant's " Beautiful Smile " award.

Minnillo was crowned Miss South Carolina Teen USA and went on to win the title Miss Teen USA in 1998, the first Miss Teen USA from South Carolina and also the first from South Carolina to be named the pageant's Miss Congeniality.

Since the Miss Indonesia pageant's revival in 2000, this was the first time in which Miss Universe was unable to attend the coronation.

However, the organizers allowed 2010 regional titleholders from Auckland, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver to compete with their 2011 counterparts in Miss Chinese International 2012, marking a first in the pageant's history where two representatives of the same region compete together.

For the tenth anniversary Clerks X DVD release, the scene was produced in color using an animation style similar to that of Clerks: The Animated Series.

The film ranked tenth on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments for its climactic scene.

A has sex with B, B has sex with C and so on ; until in the tenth scene the circle closes with J having sex with A.

A tool for this is a " Time Dash ," where the scene picks up at a different point in time than last left ( for example, a scene between a newly married couple with problems can take the second beat to show them on their tenth wedding anniversary ).

In an interview conducted by Entertainment Weekly in 2000 celebrating the show's tenth anniversary, Groening named " Bart the Daredevil " his favorite episode of the series, and chose the scene in which Homer is loaded into an ambulance and then falls out of it as the funniest moment in the series.

Mark Harrison of Den of Geek listed the character's exit from the TARDIS as the tenth greatest companion farewell scene stating that it was " great to get a glimpse of the Doctor outright booting someone out.

She appeared again in the final scene of the tenth episode of season nine when she appears to be working on a research team in Costa Rica, where Grissom joins her after leaving CSI.

In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher.

Cuba joined the Latin American Integration Association becoming the tenth member ( out of 12 ) on 26 August 1999.

Due to the impending merger of the American Football League and the National Football League, which was due to take full effect in the season, Brown agreed to join the AFL as its tenth and final franchise.

* The Rock ( Tracy Lawrence album ), the tenth studio album by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence

In the end, however, after the American League had rallied late to tie and jumped ahead in the tenth, Clemente would top off the NL's come-from-behind win with a walk-off single off Hoyt Wilhelm, as Willie Mays scampered home with the fifth and deciding run in a wild, windswept affair.

Crawford was voted the tenth greatest female star in the history of American cinema by the American Film Institute.

By the show's tenth anniversary in 1979, 9 million American children under the age of six were watching Sesame Street daily.

In May 2008, Scholastic announced the creation of a 10th Anniversary Edition of the book that was released on September 23, 2008 to mark the tenth anniversary of the original American release.

Initially scheduled for release on a date to coincide with the tenth anniversary of her father's death, Arista Records decided to delay, then cancel the American release.

In January 2004, Mulroney delivered a keynote speech in Washington, D. C. celebrating the tenth anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

A number of American veterans come back to Quorn, particularly every tenth anniversary of the D-Day landings, to remember their time in Quorn and their comrades who did not return.

is the title of the fifth British and tenth North American album by The Beatles, and the soundtrack from their film of the same name.

For the tenth series in Hollywood, Laura Hall took over, playing mainly keyboards, and went on to be the in-house musician for the American series.

* Pia Toscano, a finalist on the tenth season of American Idol

As of the 2000 census, 9. 19 % of Woodbridge Township's residents identified themselves as being of Indian American ancestry, which was the tenth highest of any municipality in the United States and the fifth highest in New Jersey — behind Edison ( 17. 75 %), Plainsboro Township ( 16. 97 %), Piscataway Township ( 12. 49 %) and South Brunswick Township ( 10. 48 %) — of all places with 1, 000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.

* Erika Van Pelt, American Idol 2012 tenth place finalist.

Princeton Review placed UC Davis tenth in the nation in the 2009 version of its annual ranking of faculty diversity among American law schools.

It is more popular in American cities in 2008, ranking joint tenth ( with American Bulldog ) in Detroit and Orlando, ninth in Los Angeles, a joint seventh in Seattle ( again, with the American Bulldog ), but third in Honolulu, only bested by the Labrador Retriever and the German Shepherd Dog.

After some discussion the American delegation offered twenty million dollars on November 21, one tenth of a valuation which had been estimated in internal discussions in October, requesting an answer within two days.

By the show's tenth anniversary in 1979, nine million American children under the age of six were watching Sesame Street daily, and several studies showed it was having a positive educational impact.

By the show's tenth anniversary in 1979, nine million American children under the age of six were watching Sesame Street daily.