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The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. The winner of the national pageant is awarded the title of "Miss America" for one year. The pageant originated as a beauty contest in 1921, but now prefers to avoid this term since Swimsuit and Evening Wear comprise 35 percent of the overall score used to judge contestants...

Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock has uploaded all these photos to his Twitter account @Astro_Wheels. They were taken by him during his stay at the International Space Station. Douglas Harry "Wheels" Wheelock (born May 5, 1960 in Binghamton, New York) is an American astronaut and the commander of International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 25. NASA career Wheelock was assigned to the NASA Johnson Space Center in August 1996 as a Space Shuttle integration test engineer...

A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae (sometimes classified instead as the subfamily Crocodylinae). The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia: i.e. the true crocodiles, the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae) and the gharials (family Gavialidae), as well as the Crocodylomorpha which includes prehistoric crocodile relatives and ancestors...

A Cuban man celebrated his 111th birthday on Thursday by counting his monetary gifts and smoking a cigar. Ignacio Cubilla Banos enjoyed the festivities at his home in Havana surrounded by family. He has 11 children, 40 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Banos, a former sugar factory worker, took some celebratory puffs on a Cuban cigar and showed off a wad of cash a son who lives in Miami had sent as a present before digging into a huge cake...

First class is the most luxurious class of accommodation on a train, passenger ship, airplane, or other conveyance. It is usually much more expensive than business class and economy class, and offers the best amenities. Aviation The first-class section of a fixed-wing passenger aircraft is typically located in the very front of the aircraft...

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an American actress. Paltrow made her acting debut on stage in 1990 and started appearing in films in 1991. She gained early notice for her work in films such as Se7en (1995), Emma (1996), in which she played the title role, and Sliding Doors (1998)...