Princess Eugenie sports patriotic nails at the Epsom Derby

With her grandmother the Queen celebrating her Diamond Jubilee, Princess Eugenie came up with a fresh, funky way to celebrate. 


The young royal proudly sported Union Jack-themed nails as she stepped out for the Epsom Derby, the official start to the festivities.




Her patriotic talons were the perfect finishing touch to an outfit featuring a checked monochrome shift dress with ruched detailing, nude heels and a simple black fascinator. 


Meanwhile, her sister Princess Beatrice looked blooming lovely in her floral lace overlay frock and flowery fascinator. 




Beatrice kept it simple on the day, while Eugenie decided to support patriotic nails.


The 22-year-old had Union flags on her fingernails for the start of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.


As well as chatting to guests, the two princess also enjoyed the racing from the balcony.


The two princesses and The Queen were treated to a performance by Katherine Jenkins singing the National Anthem, and they also watched Britain's Got Talent winners Pudsey and Ashleigh do their routine.


Meanwhile, Jenkins admitted that she was having an "amazing" day.


She said: "It's incredible. I've been out of the country for three months, so to come back and do this is great."


Speaking about how it felt to perform for the Queen, Jenkins told the Daily Mail: "For me it's such a huge honour.


"It's the first time that the National Anthem has been sung during these celebrations and I would never have hesitated. I would have sung to her in the rain.

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Royal Barge among Scottish boats in Jubilee Pageant

A 41-gun salute was fired at the Tower of London while other gun salutes echoed across Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast on the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953.
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were driven onto the course with racegoers cheering as the Royal motorcade reached the winning post.

Also joining the Queen in her royal box was Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.
The Queen rarely misses attending the Epsom Derby, which is one of the highlights of the racing calendar. Unlike last year, the Queen does not have a horse entered in the Derby, or the other six featured races.
This year, however, the Jubilee celebrations created an extra air of excitement, despite the grey and drizzly conditions.

At Windsor Castle, 21 mini cannons were fired to mark the start of the Diamond Jubilee weekend.
In London The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, fired a 41-gun salute. It followed the Major General's Parade, which drew large crowds to Horse Guard's Parade.
After the parade 72 horses and six First World War era 13-pounder gun carriages passed along Horse Guard's Parade for the salute, which started at 1pm, lasting just over seven minutes.
The Coronation Gun salute is normally fired from Green Park, but Horse Guards Parade was used as part of a series of public events in the Royal Parks to mark the Diamond Jubilee.
Similar 21-gun salutes were also carried out at Edinburgh Castle, Cardiff and Belfast.
The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, will return to Horse Guards Parade on Tuesday, when they will fire a 60-round Royal Salute from their six guns as the "heart beat" to the Diamond Jubilee Procession.
The first gun will fire when the Queen leaves Westminster Hall accompanied by the Household Cavalry Mounted Escort and continue to fire throughout her return journey to Buckingham Palace.
The guns will fire at 60-second intervals for one hour - one round for each year of the Queen's reign.
Further up the Thames more than 1,000 boat crews were putting the finishing touches to their vessels ahead of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on Sunday.
The flotilla is due to escort the Royal barge along the Thames and is expected to draw large crowds in London. More than 20 vessels from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution are being drafted in for the occasion to help with safety on the river.
Final preparations were also underway for street parties that are taking place the length and breadth of the country.
At Chatsworth Estate in the Peak District a 300 feet long picnic table was set up in the gardens and a special Coronation exhibition was opened, displaying the robes worn by four generations of the Cavendish family at the Queen's Coronation.
Hundreds of visitors to Chatsworth joined in the 1950s-style, giant street party in the garden, which had traditional village fete games such as a coconut shy and a test of strength.
David Jackson, who lives close to the estate, said he and his wife came to the stately home to celebrate the jubilee and "join in the fun with everybody else."
He said: "It's very special for the Queen, that's why we're participating: just to make fun and have a really happy day."
Maxine Siddall, from Matlock, was there with her children because she heard there was a party with lots of things to do for her family.

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Nolan Ryan

Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr., born on January 31, 1947, nicknamed "The Ryan Express", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He is currently principal owner, president and CEO of the Texas Rangers.
During a major league record 27-year baseball career, he pitched in 1966 and from 1968 to 1993 for four different teams: the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.
Ryan, a hard-throwing right-handed pitcher, threw pitches that were regularly recorded above 100 miles per hour (160.93 km/h). The high velocity remained throughout his career, even into his 40s. Ryan was also known to throw a devastating 12–6 curveball at exceptional velocity for a breaking ball.

While his lifetime winning percentage was a relatively pedestrian .526, Ryan was an eight-time MLB All-Star, and his 5,714 career strikeouts rank first in baseball history by a significant margin. He leads the runner-up, Randy Johnson, by 839 strikeouts. Similarly, Ryan's 2,795 bases on balls lead second-place Steve Carlton by 962—walking over 50% more hitters than any other pitcher in Major League history. Other than Jackie Robinson (whose number was retired by the entire MLB), Ryan is currently the only major league baseball player to have his number retired by at least 3 different teams: the Angels, Astros, and Rangers.
Ryan is the all-time leader in no-hitters with seven, three more than any other pitcher. He is tied with Bob Feller for most one-hitters, with 12. Ryan also pitched 18 two-hitters. Despite the seven no-hitters, he never threw a perfect game, nor did he ever win a Cy Young Award. Ryan is one of only 29 players in baseball history to date to have appeared in Major League baseball games in four decades.

n February 2008, Nolan Ryan was hired as president of the Rangers. After the 2009 season, Ryan and Chuck Greenberg partnered to place the winning bid to purchase the Texas Rangers from owner Tom Hicks. The deal was completed shortly after the start of the 2010 baseball season. At midnight on August 5, 2010, the Ryan/Greenberg group was announced as the winners of the final auction to purchase the Rangers, after final approval from Major League Baseball.
Greenberg sold his stake in the Rangers in 2011, and Ryan is now the team's principal owner.


Legacy

Nolan Ryan is often compared to the Dodgers' Sandy Koufax: they are linked by the fact that Ryan broke two of Koufax's records, for most no-hitters and the single-season strikeout mark. There are further similarities: both Ryan and Koufax started in the majors at a very young age and struggled early in their careers, and both were very reserved and private. Both had tenacious contract disputes with their owners. Ryan readily admitted the money was a large part of the reason he played as long as he did.
But there are key differences, too: Koufax pitched left-handed and Ryan right-handed; despite his early troubles, Koufax played his entire career with one team, whereas Ryan played for four. Koufax played on four championship Dodgers teams, whereas Ryan found himself on mostly mediocre teams. Ryan had an unremarkable win-loss percentage; Koufax had a stellar one, especially in his final four years. Ryan had a won-loss record only slightly better than the teams for which he played; Koufax had a significantly better percentage than his Dodger teams. Ryan, however, had one of the longest careers of any player, whereas Koufax's sterling career was cut short in its prime by arthritis and arm trouble. Nonetheless, both stand out as the best-known "power pitchers" of their times.

Comparisons to Bob Feller are probably more to the point: like Ryan, Feller was a burly, durable power pitcher, who was likely to strike out or walk any given batter, and pitched large numbers of low-hit games. Feller, however, was able to correct his wildness over time (the two are the only post-1900 pitchers to walk over 200 batters in a season) whereas Ryan had limited late success in that area. Feller, however, had a considerably better won/loss percentage than the Indian teams for whom he pitched. Feller has stated that Ryan's former Mets teammate, Tom Seaver, was a much better pitcher than Ryan, whom he says was just a thrower who had a hard time getting the ball over the plate.
Ryan played in more seasons (27) than any other player in modern major league history. Ryan ranks first all-time in strikeouts (5,714), fewest hits allowed per nine innings (6.56), and no-hitters (7). He is also fifth in innings pitched (5,386), second in games started (773), seventh in shutouts (61) and is tied for 14th in wins (324). Opposing hitters hit only .204 against Ryan during his career, though they had a .309 on base percentage against him. He also limited hitters to a .298 slugging percentage. Ryan had 15 or more strikeouts in a game 26 times, second only to Randy Johnson, who had 28. His lengthy career spanned generations, as he struck out seven pairs of fathers and sons during his career. Ryan also played during the administrations of seven U.S. Presidents - Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jr., Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton - equaling a 20th Century record that had been set by Jim Kaat.
Ryan also ranks high on the list for four "negative" records; he ranks first all-time in walks allowed (2,795), first in wild pitches (277), third in losses (292—most in the post-1920 live-ball era), and ninth in hit batters (158). Ryan is also one of two pitchers in MLB history to give up ten grand slam home runs, including one to Dann Howitt, the next-to-last batter Ryan faced in his career.

Bill James focuses on this dichotomy between Ryan's positive and negative statistics. While ranking him as the 24th best pitcher of all time, he notes, "Ryan has been retired almost ten years [in 2001], in another ten perhaps we will begin to get a little bit of perspective on him. Ryan's log of spectacular accomplishments is as thick as Bill Clinton's little black book; his list of flaws and failures is lengthy but dry, and will never make for good reading.
Other writers have delved more into the specifics of James' general concerns. ESPN writer Rob Neyer stated in a 2003 column that while Ryan was among the 20 best pitchers since World War II, he "often had trouble throwing strikes, [and] he wasn't any good at fielding his position. In another column, Neyer, while stating that Ryan belonged in the Hall of Fame, pointed to Ryan's record-breaking walks total and noted that his .309 on base percentage against "wasn't even close to being in the top 100
Ryan is the only major league player to have his number retired by three different teams on which he played (excluding Jackie Robinson, whose number 42 was retired by Major League Baseball for all teams after playing his entire major league career with one team, the Brooklyn Dodgers). The California Angels (now the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) retired the number 30 on June 16, 1992; the Texas Rangers retired his number 34 on September 15, 1996; and the Houston Astros retired number 34 on September 29, 1996. His number was the first retired by the Rangers. He is also one of only eight players to have different numbers retired by two MLB teams, with Carlton Fisk (Red Sox and White Sox), Reggie Jackson (Athletics and Yankees), Rollie Fingers (Brewers and Athletics), Hank Aaron (Brewers and Braves), Greg Maddux (Braves and Cubs), Frank Robinson (Reds and Orioles), and Jackie Robinson (All MLB) being the others.

Ryan was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999, in his first year of eligibility with 98.8% of the vote (491 out of 497 possible), six votes short of a unanimous election and the second highest percentage in history, behind Tom Seaver. He chose to wear a Rangers cap for his HOF plaque to reflect his Texas heritage, as well as the fact that his 300th win, 5000th strikeout, and last two no-hitters came as a Ranger. He was the first Hall of Famer inducted as a Ranger. That year, he ranked 41st on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players and was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. He was inducted into the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame in 2003, and named the Rangers', and Astros' Hometown Hero in 2006—the only player to be so named by two franchises.

In 1992 the United States Mint produced a $1 commemorative coin often referred to as the "Nolan Ryan dollar" and widely believed to depict him.
In 1995, the Texas State Legislature declared State Highway 288, which passes near Alvin, as the Nolan Ryan Expressway.
The Alvin Independent School District opened Nolan Ryan Junior High School, located at 11500 Shadow Creek Parkway (FM 2234) in Pearland, Texas, just a few hundred yards away from the Nolan Ryan Expressway.

Personal life
Ryan married his Alvin High School sweetheart, the former Ruth Holdorff, on June 25, 1967. They had three children, Reid, Reese and Wendy. Reid and Reese were both pitchers for the TCU Horned Frogs (Reid also pitched briefly in the minor leagues), have more recently become involved in baseball at the executive level, as part owners (along with Nolan) of the Round Rock Express entry in the Pacific Coast League, the top farm club of the Texas Rangers and the Corpus Christi Hooks, the Astros' AA affiliate.
Nolan Ryan currently resides in the Cimarron Hills community in Georgetown, Texas.

Credible Amelia Earhart radio signals were ignored as bogus

A small cosmetic jar offers more circumstantial evidence that the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, died on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.


Found broken in five pieces, the ointment pot was collected on Nikumaroro Island by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 75 years ago.


When reassembled,‭ the glass fragments ‬make up a nearly complete jar identical in shape to the ones used by Dr.‭ ‬C.‭ ‬H Berry's Freckle Ointment. The ointment was marketed in the early‭ ‬20th century as a concoction guaranteed to make freckles fade.


"It's well documented Amelia had freckles and disliked having them," Joe Cerniglia, the TIGHAR researcher who spotted the freckle ointment as a possible match, told Discovery News.


transmissions on her last flight on July 2, 1937, during her record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.
At 07:42 local time, as she flew toward the target destination, Howland Island in the Pacific, with her navigator Fred Noonan, Earhart called the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, stationed at Howland Island to support her flight.
“We must be on you, but cannot see you — but gas is running low. Have been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet,” she said.
NEWS: Earhart's Anti-Freckle Ointment Jar Possibly Recovered
Earhart's final in-flight radio message occurred a hour later, at 08:43.
“We are on the line 157 337. We will repeat this message. We will repeat this on 6210 kilocycles. Wait,” she said.


According to TIGHAR, the numbers 157 and 337 refer to compass headings — 157 degrees and 337 degrees — and describe a navigation line that passed not only Howland Island, the target destination, but also Gardner Island, now called Nikumaroro.
This uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati is where TIGHAR believes Earhart and Noonan landed safely and ultimately died as castaways.
According to TIGHAR's hypothesis, Earhart would have used the aircraft's radio to make distress calls for several days until the plane was washed over the reef and disappeared before Navy searchers flew over the area.

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Nolan Ryan returns to Angel Stadium for first time in 19 years

Huntsville, TX, June 01, 2012-- Nolan Ryan Beef is proud to announce the launch of a new premium beef line, Nolan Ryan’s All-Natural Grass-Fed Beef. Nolan Ryan’s Grass-Fed Beef offers superior beef cuts from cattle raised exclusively on pastures in the USA. This beef is never fed grain, given any hormones, or antibiotics, and is 100 percent free of artificial ingredients and preservatives.


Nolan Ryan’s Grass Fed beef will be available in Kroger’s Southwest division stores in Texas and Louisiana beginning in May. It will be the first time the retailer will sell a premium, grass-fed beef offering. Available Nolan Ryan Grass-Fed Beef cuts include:


· Ribeye
· Tenderloin
· Chuck Roast
· Ground Beef (85/15)


“Our number one priority is quality, and grass-fed cattle produce beef in its purest form. It’s difficult and rare for ranchers to raise grass-fed cattle and we’ve created a great program with select ranching partners to expand the Nolan Ryan product line and offer our customers the finest quality beef,” said Charlie Bradbury, president and CEO of Nolan Ryan Beef.


Studies reveal that grass-fed beef is more nutritious and is higher in Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA), and has a better balance of Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids.


To be selected for the Nolan Ryan’s All Natural Beef grass-fed program, ranchers and cattle are hand-selected by Nolan Ryan professionals, and uphold Nolan Ryan’s strict dietary protocol. All Nolan Ryan Beef products must pass Nolan Ryan’s rigorous selection process that guarantees quality and tenderness in addition to exceeding USDA standards.


The Hall of Fame pitcher who threw four of his seven no-hitters for the Angels has vivid memories of the last time he was on the Angel Stadium mound, on Sept. 17, 1993.


Ryan was a 46-year-old right-hander pitching for the Rangers, and in the second-to-last start of his distinguished 27-year career, he allowed one unearned run and four hits, struck out five and walked none in seven innings of a 2-1 loss to the Angels.


“I didn’t win, but I had pretty good stuff,” Ryan said. “I knew it was the last time I was going to pitch here. I was a little emotional. The fans here always treated me well.”


Ryan, who canceled a scheduled visit to throw out a ceremonial first pitch as part of the Angels’ 50th anniversary celebration because of health issues last July, is in enemy territory now.


That’s how much the Rangers-Angels rivalry has grown, with Texas winning the past two American League pennants after the Angels won the 2002 World Series and five of six AL West titles from 2004-2009.


“They dominated the division for many years, and we took over the last two years,” Ryan said. “They made a commitment to improving the club over the winter. It’s good for baseball, it’s good that people perceive it as a rivalry. I think it’s growing, developing, but do I think it’s at the level of the Boston-New York rivalry? No, I don’t.”

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Miss Brasil

The Miss Brasil Pageant is a beauty contest that has been held almost every year since 1954 between winners of the Brazilian state pageants. The 2009 edition venue took place on Saturday, May 9 at the Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo. The winner of Miss Brasil competes in the Miss Universe contest and the runner-up competes in the Miss International.

History

Larissa Costa, Miss Brasil 2009.

"Miss Brasil" competitions began in the 1920s following a trend throughout the world during that period. A famous controversy occurred when Miss Brasil 1929 competed in the International Pageant of Pulchritude but failed to place in the competition, much less win the "Miss Universe" title. The angered Brazilians hosted their own international pageant in 1930 leading to two separate "Miss Universe" titles that year. In the Brazilian competition Miss Brasil received the Miss Universe title while in the American competition Miss United States received the title. The Miss Brasil competition, like many others in the world, was discontinued as the Great Depression and World War II diverted the world's attention.

The modern pageant was created in 1954 in the city of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. The first edition of Miss Brasil, won by Bahia's representative Martha Rocha, was sponsored by the Folha de São Paulo newspaper.

Organization

Under Diários Associados

Carina Beduschi, Miss Brasil 2005.

In following year, Brazilian media businessman, mogul and journalist Assis Chateaubriand took the rights of Miss Brasil pageant, when the winners take qualified to the Miss Universe, Miss World (participation began at 1958) and Miss International pageants (participation begin in 1960, when the pageant was created). The empire who created Diários Associados, was responsible for diffusion of the national beauties until 1980, when the network Rede Tupi was lost his concessions by order of Haroldo de Mattos, Brazilian minister of Communications at the time, due to its bankruptcy.

The Quintandinha's roots

The Miss Brasil first four editions (1954 to 1957) was held in Palácio Quitandinha, Petrópolis. When Chatô's media group assumed the promotion of pageant, it was massified nationally by its magazines and newspapers coverages, specially now defuncts O Cruzeiro and O Jornal.

All national winners of the pageant in this period were placed at Miss Universe pageant, held in Long Beach, California american state.

Maracanãzinho's "golden years"

On the named Miss Brazil's golden era (began in 1958, when the pageant was moved from Petrópolis to the Federal District at the time, Rio de Janeiro), Rio Grande do Sul's Iêda Maria Vargas and Bahia's Martha Vasconcellos winners of the 1963 and 1968 editions of Miss Universe (both held in the Carioca gymnasium). The same year that Vasconcellos was crowned, Guanabara's Maria da Gloria Carvalho nabbed the Miss International title, while in 1971, Lucia Tavares Petterle was elected Miss World.

Adalgisa Colombo and Rejane Vieira Costa were 1st runners up at Miss Universe in 1958 and 1972 respectively.(See the winners table for 1959, 1962, 1971 and 1979 results)

Due to fire destruction in a part of Maracanãzinho's structure, the Miss Brazil 1970 pageant winner, Guanabara's Eliane Fialho Thompson was crowned in a event edition held only time in Pavilhão de São Cristóvão (São Cristóvão Pavillion), in a carioca northern zone district. Its edition was the first nationally televised by Rede Tupi via microwaves system powered by Embratel.

In 1973, due to lack of public, media interests and possible feminist protests, organizers moved the place to Ginásio Presidente Médici in the country's capital, Brasília. The Miss Brasil 1972 pageant (won by the gaúcha representative Vieira Costa) was the last held in Maracanãzinho's dependencies.

The Brasilia "decadence" and crisis

When the Miss Brasil pageant moved to federal capital, Brasília, lack of public continued severally from 1973 to last edition in the city, held in 1980 (when Associados was filed to bankruptcy protection due to closing of seven Rede Tupi's owned and operated stations, except Bahia's TV Itapoan and TV Brasília, now Rede Record and Rede TV!'s, O&O and affiliate, respectivelly).

In 1976 pageant, Helena Rubinstein cosmetics company retired its sponsorship to Miss Brasil event. So, Catalina Swimwear mark continued its support to organization for same years until mid-80's (when the event broadcasting rights was assumed by SBT).

All brazilian presidents of the period (except Ernesto Geisel) were recepted the Miss Brasil state contestants in the Alvorada Palace days before the final nights, hosted by its coordinator at the time Paulo Max and actress Marly Bueno and telecasted by Tupi and its O&O, TV Brasília.

Under SBT

When the channels of defunct Tupi was redistributed for media businessman and TV animator Sílvio Santos and Russian-Brazilian journalist and owner of Manchete magazine Adolpho Bloch groups, on April 23, 1981, the new network SBT (one of the results of the Rede Associada inventory) owned the Miss Brasil until 1989.

Criticism

In the '80s, the Miss Brasil pageant was known the most brega period, by opinion of same fans and television critics. The last top 5 obteined by Brazilian representative in Miss Universe was in 1981, by the Rio de Janeiro candidate in national pageant, Adriana Alves de Oliveira. Because lack of ratings and announcers, SBT retired the promotion of Miss Brasil in April 1990, after the country not participied in Miss Universe 1990.

Format changes

In this period, Miss Brazil pageant was held in separate pageants for Miss Universe (the most expected and important), Miss World and Miss International. SBT telecasted too same state pageants, nationwide in Programa Sílvio Santos and locally by the affiliates, such as TV Alterosa (Minas Gerais) and TV Itapoan (Bahia).

Vera Fischer, Miss Brasil 1969.

Under Marlene Brito and others

In 1990, the SBT's former producer of the pageant, Marlene Brito, took the Miss Brasil rights and producion until 1993, when Leila Schuster was crowned without realization of traditional pageant, but her was indicated by the national direction for representative the country in Miss Universe 1993. From 1994, Miss Brasil was ownered by various directors, includding the former host in Tupi's period, Paulo Max.

The present directors, Nayla Micherif and Boanerges Gaeta Jr., assumed the functions by partnership in 2002. Since this year, the pageant national telecast is back, after some local broadcastings of it in 90's.

On the new phase, Miss Brasil was broadcast first on Rede TV! and since 2003, Band network assumed the television rights of the event, with venues in São Paulo (2003, 2004 and 2008), and Rio de Janeiro (2005-2007).

Locations and venues

1954-1957-Palácio Quitandinha, Petrópolis (RJ);

1958-1972-Maracanãzinho Gymnasium, Rio de Janeiro;

1973-1980-Ginásio Presidente Médici, Brasília

1981-1987-Palácio das Convenções do Anhembi, São Paulo

1988-1989-Teatro Sílvio Santos (SBT Studios), São Paulo

1991-The Gallery, São Paulo

1992-Olympia (concert house), São Paulo

In 1993, the pageant was replaced by a little event, in a fine restaurant of São Paulo, named Leopolldo. At the place, Leila Schuster was crowned.

From 1994 to 1996, Miss Brazil was back to Rio de Janeiro (first, at Ribalta house concert and two years later in Metropolitan, today Citibank Hall).

In 1997, it was held in northeastern city of Teresina, in Pavlihão de Eventos (Events Pavilion) Governador Guilherme Melo.

From 1998 to present, Rio (Hotel Glória, Copacabana Palace, Ribalta, the newest incarnations of Metropolitan and the Vivo Rio space at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro) and São Paulo (Palace, today Citibank Hall, Via Funchal and Credicard Hall) alternate the right to venue the annual beauty telecast show, at first broadcast by local affiliates from Rede Manchete, Rede Record and CNT.

]Winners

Year Miss Brazil State Miss Universe placing

2010 Débora Moura Lyra Minas Gerais

2009 Larissa Costa Silva de Oliveira Rio Grande do Norte

2008 Natália Anderle Rio Grande do Sul

2007 Natália Aparecida Guimarães Minas Gerais 1st runner-up

2006 Rafaela Köhler Zanella Rio Grande do Sul Semifinalist (Top 20)

2005 Carina Schlichting Beduschi Santa Catarina

2004 Fabiane Niclotti Rio Grande do Sul

2003 Gislaine Rodrigues Ferreira Tocantins Semifinalist (Top 10)

2002 Joseane Oliveira * Rio Grande do Sul

2001 Juliana Dornelles Borges Rio Grande do Sul

2000 Josiane Kruliskoski Oderdengen Mato Grosso

1999 Renata Bomfiglio Fan Rio Grande do Sul

1998 Michela Dauzacker Marchi Mato Grosso do Sul Semifinalist (Top 10)

1997 Nayla Fernanda Affonso Micherif Minas Gerais

1996 Maria Joana Parizotto Paraná

1995 Renata Aparecida Bessa Soares Minas Gerais

1994 Valéria Melo Péris São Paulo

1993 Leila Cristine Schuster Rio Grande do Sul Semifinalist (Top 10)

1992 Maria Carolina Portella Otto Paraná

1991 Patrícia Maria Franco Godói São Paulo

1990

1989 Flávia Cavalcanti Rebelo Ceará

1988 Isabel Cristina Beduschi Santa Catarina

1987 Jacqueline Meirelles Distrito Federal

1986 Deise Nunes de Souza Rio Grande do Sul Semifinalist (Top 10)

1985 Márcia Giagio Canavezes de Oliveira Mato Grosso Semifinalist (Top 10)

1984 Ana Elisa Flores São Paulo

1983 Marisa Fully Coelho Minas Gerais

1982 Celice Pinto Marques Pará Semifinalist (Top 12)

1981 Adriana Alves de Oliveira Rio de Janeiro 3rd runner-up

1980 Eveline Schroeter Rio de Janeiro

1979 Marta Jussara da Costa Rio Grande do Norte 3rd runner-up

1978 Suzana Araújo dos Santos Minas Gerais

1977 Cássia Janys Silveira São Paulo

1976 Kátia Celestino Moretto São Paulo

1975 Ingrid Budag Santa Catarina Semifinalist (Top 15)

1974 Sandra de Oliveira São Paulo

1973 Sandra Mara Ferreira São Paulo Semifinalist (Top 15)

1972 Rejane Vieira Costa Rio Grande do Sul 1st runner-up

1971 Eliane Parreira Guimarães Minas Gerais 4th runner-up

1970 Eliane Fialho Thompson Guanabara Semifinalist (Top 15)

1969 Vera Lúcia Fischer Santa Catarina Semifinalist (Top 15)

1968 Martha Maria Cordeiro Vasconcellos Bahia Miss Universe 1968

1967 Carmen Sílvia Ramasco São Paulo Semifinalist (Top 15)

1966 Ana Cristina Ridzi Guanabara

1965 Maria Raquel de Andrade Guanabara Semifinalist (Top 15)

1964 Ângela Teresa Reis Vasconcelos Paraná Semifinalist (Top 15)

1963 Iêda Maria Brutto Vargas Rio Grande do Sul Miss Universe 1963

1962 Maria Olívia Rebouças Cavalcanti Bahia 4th runner-up

1961 Staël Maria da Rocha Abelha Minas Gerais

1960 Jean Gina MacPherson Guanabara Semifinalist (Top 15)

1959 Vera Regina Ribeiro Guanabara 4th runner-up

1958 Adalgisa Colombo Teruskin Guanabara 1st runner-up

1957 Terezinha Gonçalves Morango Amazonas 1st runner-up

1956 Maria José Cardoso Rio Grande do Sul Semifinalist (Top 15)

1955 Emília Barreto Corrêia Lima Ceará Semifinalist (Top 15)

1954 Martha Maria Hacker Rocha Bahia 1st runner-up

Joseane Oliveira, from Rio Grande do Sul, was the winner and competed in the Miss Universe, but she was stripped of the crown later because she was married at the time of her crowning.

Winners by state

Titles State Winning Years

10 Rio Grande do Sul 1956, 1963, 1972, 1986, 1993, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008

08 Minas Gerais 1961, 1971, 1978, 1983, 1995, 1997, 2007, 2010

08 Rio de Janeiro 1958, 1959, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1970, 1980, 1981

08 São Paulo 1967, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1984, 1991, 1994

05 Santa Catarina 1969, 1975, 1988, 2002, 2005

03 Bahia 1954, 1962, 1968

03 Paraná 1964, 1992, 1996

02 Ceará 1955, 1989

02 Mato Grosso 1985, 2000

02 Rio Grande do Norte 1979, 2009

01 Amazonas 1957

01 Distrito Federal 1987

01 Mato Grosso do Sul 1998

01 Pará 1982

01 Tocantins 2003

Until 1970 the evidence obtained by the Rio de Janeiro belonged to Guanabara.

Winners (Miss Brazil World)

Year Miss Brazil World State Miss World placing

2010 TBA TBA

2009 Luciana de Souza Reis Roraima Semifinalist (Top 16)

2008 Tamara Almeida da Silva Minas Gerais Semifinalist (Top 15)

2007 Regiane Andrade Santa Catarina

2006 Jane de Souza Borges Goiás Finalist (Top 6)

2005 Patrícia Reginato Paraná

2004 Iara Maria Rezende Coelho Minas Gerais

2003 Lara Andressa de Brito Goiás

2002 Taíza Thomsen Severina Santa Catarina

2001 Joyce Yara Aguiar São Paulo

2000 Francine Eickemberg Santa Catarina

1999 Paula de Souza Carvalho Rio de Janeiro

1998 Adriana Luci de Souza Reis Rondônia Semifinalist (Top 10)

1997 Fernanda Rambo Agnes Rio Grande do Sul

1996 Anuska Valéria Prado Espírito Santo 2nd runner-up

1995 Elessandra Cristina Dartora Paraná

1994 Walquiria Blicharski Dalagnol Paraná

1993 Lyliá Virna Menezes Alagoas

1992 Priscila Maria Furlan São Paulo

1991 Cátia Silene Kupssinski Rio Grande do Sul

1990 Karla Cristina Kwiatkowski Paraná

1989

1988

1987 Simone Augustus Costa Pernambuco

1986 Roberta Pereira da Silva Santa Catarina

1985 Leila Rosana Leal Bittencourt Rio Grande do Sul Semifinalist (Top 15)

1984 Adriana Alves de Oliveira Rio Grande do Sul Finalist (Top 7)

1983 Cátia Silveira Pedrosa Rio de Janeiro 2nd runner-up

1982 Mônica Januzzi Paraná

1981 Maristela Silva Grazzia São Paulo Finalist (Top 7)

1980 Loiane Rogéria Aiache Distrito Federal

1979 Lea Silvia Dall'acqua São Paulo Finalist (Top 7)

1978 Laura Angélica Viana Pereira Bahia

1977 Madalena Sbaraini Rio Grande do Sul 3rd runner-up

1976 Adelaide Fraga de Oliveira Distrito Federal

1975 Zaída Souza Costa Bahia

1974 Mariza Sommer Rio de Janeiro Semifinalist (Top 15)

1973 Florence Gambogi Alvarenga Minas Gerais Semifinalist (Top 15)

1972 Ângela Maria Favi São Paulo

1971 Lúcia Tavares Petterle Rio de Janeiro Miss World 1971

1970 Sônia Yara Guerra São Paulo Finalist (Top 7)

1969 Ana Cristina Rodrigues Rio Grande do Sul

1968 Ângela Carmélia Stecca Minas Gerais

1967 Wilza de Oliveira Rainato Paraná

1966 Marlucci Manvailler Rocha Mato Grosso 3rd runner-up

1965 Berenice Lunardi Minas Gerais

1964 Maria Isabel de Avelar Elias Sergipe 3rd runner-up

1963 Vera Lúcia Ferreira Maia Rio de Janeiro Semifinalist (Top 14)

1962 Vera Lúcia Saba Rio de Janeiro

1961 Alda Maria Coutinho Rio de Janeiro

1960 Maria Edilene Torreão Pernambuco Semifinalist (Top 10)

1959 Dione Brito Oliveira Pernambuco

1958 Sônia Maria Campos Pernambuco Finalist (Top 7)

Winners by state²

Titles State Winning Years

07 Rio de Janeiro 1961, 1962, 1963, 1971, 1974, 1983, 1999

06 Paraná 1967, 1982, 1990, 1994, 1995, 2005

06 Rio Grande do Sul 1969, 1977, 1984, 1985, 1991, 1997

06 São Paulo 1970, 1972, 1979, 1981, 1992, 2001

05 Minas Gerais 1965, 1968, 1973, 2004, 2008

04 Pernambuco 1958, 1959, 1960, 1987

04 Santa Catarina 1986, 2000, 2002, 2007

02 Bahia 1975, 1978

02 Distrito Federal 1976, 1980

02 Goiás 2003, 2006

01 Alagoas 1993

01 Espírito Santo 1996

01 Mato Grosso 1966

01 Rondônia 1998

01 Roraima 2009

01 Sergipe 1964

Until 1974 the evidence obtained by the Rio de Janeiro belonged to Guanabara.

Beleza Brasil (Miss Earth Brazil); Representatives to Miss Earth

Year Titleholder Placement

2001 Simone Régis Miss Earth 2001 Miss Air (1st runner-up)

2002 No Delegate

2003 Priscila Poleselo Zandoná Miss Earth 2003 Miss Air (1st runner-up)

2004 Priscilla Meirelles Miss Earth 2004 (Winner)

2005 Isabella Miranda Chaves Unplaced

2006 Ana Paula Quinot Unplaced

2007 Patricia Silva Ferreira Andrade Unplaced

2008 Tatiane Kelen Barbosa Alves Miss Earth 2008 Miss Fire (3rd runner-up)

2009 Larissa Ramos Miss Earth 2009 (Winner)

2010 TBA

Television acts

The actresses

Some Miss Brasil winners or finalists were acting in a lead or supporting roles in soap operas (called "telenovelas") and motion pictures after her reigns (nationwide or locally). By example:

Natália Guimarães (Minas Gerais, winner, 2007 and 1st. runner up at Miss Universe 2007);

Grazielli Massafera (Paraná, 2nd runner up, 2004);

Marisa Fully Coelho (Minas Gerais, winner, 1983);

Suzy Rêgo (Pernambuco, 1st runner-up, 1984);

Vera Fischer (Santa Catarina, winner, 1969).

The hostesses

Some Miss Brasil winners or finalists were acted or still active hosting shows, sports programming or movie sessions aired in national television daily or weekly. They were/are:

Brasilia's resident and Cuiabá's native Jacqueline Meirelles (Cinema em Casa-SBT, 1988, Mulher 90-Rede Manchete, 1989 and some works in TV Gazeta at 90's) Miss Universe 1987 best national costume;

Rio Grande do Sul's Luize Altenhofen (Band Esporte Clube-Rede Bandeirantes, 2007-present and other works in same network and also at Sportv basic cable channel) 1st runner-up, 1998, not competed at the Miss International of that year held in Tokyo due to illness.

São Paulo's Adriana Colin (former host of sports programs in Rede Manchete and Rede Record from 1994 to 2001, former commercial host of Globo's Domingão do Faustão, 2002-2009) 1st runner-up, 1989.

However, the most former Miss Brazil who became TV hostess is Renata Fan, from Rio Grande do Sul, winner from Miss Brazil 1999, but she unplaced TOP 10 at Miss Universe from same year. Besides, she won Miss World University 2000. Nowadays, she hosts Canal Aberto Program, on Bandeirantes TV.

Reality-TV

Some Miss Brasil pageant contestants, finalists or winners were appeared in popular reality television programs broadcast nationwide:

Paraná's Grazielli Massafera (Big Brother Brasil 5 - Runner-Up, Rede Globo, 2005) was 2nd runner-up at national pageant in early year. She represented the country at Miss International 2004, held in Beijing;

São Paulo's Solange Frazão (Celebrity's House 3 - 4th Place, SBT, 2002) was 1st runner-up at the national pageant organized by the network of the program in 1982. Today, she is a very popular TV hostess in her country.

Rio Grande do Sul's Joseane Oliveira (Big Brother Brasil 3 - 12th Place, Rede Globo, 2003 and Big Brother Brasil 10 - 16th Place, Rede Globo, 2010) lost her title at February 4 of that year after admitted her marriage in a popular Sunday TV show, Domingão do Faustão.

Pernambuco's Michelle Fernandes (Big Brother Brasil 9 - first evicted of the show on the season, Rede Globo, 2009) was Top 15 in the national pageant previously year.

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Diamond Jubilee: Massive London security operation planned

The Queen's diamond jubilee has been marked by a new Google Doodle featuring her silhouette, two diamonds in place of the 'O's' from the tech company's name and two of her beloved corgies.


A gold-bordered blue robe with a diamond pattern flows from the silhouette, which is reminiscent of postage stamps, while the 'E' from Google sits on top of her crown.


Events staged in tribute to the Queen's 60-year reign will be held across the UK during the extended four-day bank holiday, with spectacular public activities planned for the capital.


The Royal Navy warship HMS Diamond signalled the start of the festivities in dramatic fashion by firing a 21-gun salute that boomed across Portsmouth harbour.


The Queen starts her celebrations in earnest on Saturday with her traditional visit to the Epsom Derby to watch the thoroughbreds race.


Preparations for a spectacular diamond jubilee river pageant on Sunday are also in place with up to a million people expected to line the banks of the River Thames and nearby open spaces to watch a 1,000-strong flotilla sail down the Thames, led by a royal barge.


Scotland Yard commanders have spent 18 months planning for the events.


The operation is primarily focused on the huge logistical challenges of policing the river pageant.


Safety boats
At high water, there will be 1,000 vessels escorting a royal barge carrying the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh. The barge will be followed by another boat carrying other senior members of the Royal Family.


The event is so large that it will take the entire flotilla some 75 minutes to pass any given point on the river bank - meaning that Scotland Yard's resources will have to be spread along a seven-mile route with additional teams at the muster and dispersal points in the west and east of the capital.


While thousands of police officers will be on duty, along with officers already performing normal duties in the capital, a further 7,000 security stewards will line the riverside route where crowds will gather to see the flotilla or watch big screens.

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