Stefania Fernandez - Miss Universe 2009

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Stefania Fernandez - Miss Universe 2009 Stefania Fernandez (Miss Venezueala) - Miss Universe 2009. Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest run by the Miss Universe Organization. The contest was founded in 1952 by California clothing company Pacific Mills. The pageant became part of Kayser-Roth and then Gulf and Western Industries, before being acquired by Donald Trump in 1996. Along with its rival contests — Miss World and Miss Earth — this pageant is one of the most publicized beauty contests in the world. The current Miss Universe 2009 is Stefanía Fernández, from Venezuela. She won the title on August 23, 2009. The Miss Universe Organization, a New York-based partnership between NBC and Donald Trump, has run the contest since June 20, 2002. The current president is Paula Shugart. The Organization sells television rights to the pageant in other countries, and also produces the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contests with the winner of Miss USA representing the USA in Miss Universe. History: The winner of the "Miss America 1951" pageant, Yolande Betbeze, refused to pose in a swimsuit from its major sponsor, Catalina swimwear. As a result, the brand's manufacturer Pacific Mills withdrew from Miss America and set up the Miss USA and Miss Universe contests. The first Miss Universe Pageant was held in Long Beach, California in 1952. It was won by Armi Kuusela from Finland, who gave up her title to get married to a Filipino tycoon, Virgilio Hilario, shortly before her year was complete. Until 1958 the Miss Universe title (like Miss America) was post-dated, so at the time Ms. Kuusela's title was Miss Universe 1953. The pageant was first televised in 1955. CBS began nationally broadcasting the combined Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 1960 and, separately, from 1965. In 2003 NBC took over the television rights.

Miss Universe 2009 Timings/Schedules in India World beauties are going to meet at the Atlantis Paradise Island, Bahamas where they will be competing for the Miss Universe 2009 crown on 23rd August 2009. Contestants from 84 countries across the world would vie for the prestigious title on the gala show which would be aired throughout the world in several television channels. Millions of fans will enjoy the Miss Universe 2009 beauty pageant on television live from Bahamas. You might already know that NBC and Telemundo will telecast the 2-hour long program live for their subscribers. It can be watched live at NBC and Telemundo (spanish TV channel) on August 23, 2009. If you are in the Philippines, the official media partner of the said competition is ABS-CBN and you can watch it live on August 24, 9:30 PM Philippine Time and replays are said to be on Studio 23 on August 25th at 8pm, August 27th at 10pm on ABS-CBN. Ekta Choudhry (Can she bring the crown to India?) Indian Timing of the show : Star World 6.30AM 24th Aug 2009 I know there are many people who are searching for which channel in South East Asia would telecast Miss Universe 2009 live. I would like to inform those people that Star World television channel is going to telecast Miss Universe 2009 beauty pageant live from Bahamas. That means people from India and some of its neighboring countries would be able to watch the final competition of Miss Universe 2009 live on Star World TV channel. The final competition would be aired live in India at 6.30am on 24 August 2009. Due to difference in time zone, the program will be held on 24 August according to Indian Standard Time (IST), though in North and South America region, it will be held on 23 August. The program will be aired again on Star World on 25th August, Tuesday. Here, it is noteworthy that Star World will air the program in some other South East Asian countries and in the Middle East.

5 Worst Pandemics in History 5 Worst pandemics in history - The world witnessed many horrible disasters much before swine flu and AIDS. Even the much talked Swine-Flu today has a mortality rate much less than 0.1 %. That's a lesser probabilty than of you getting hit by a bus or truck in some suburbs in India. Spanish Flu In 1918 and 1919, the Spanish Flu pandemic killed more people than Hitler, nuclear weapons and all the terrorists of history combined. The pandemic came and went like a flash. Between the speed of the outbreak and military censorship of the news during World War I, hardly anyone in the United States knew that a quarter of the nation's population — and a billion people worldwide — had been infected with the deadly disease. More than half a million died in the US alone; more than 50 million worldwide. Black Death The Black Death, or The Black Plague, was one of the most deadly pandemics in human history. It began in South-western or Central Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s. The total number of deaths worldwide from the pandemic is estimated at 75 million people; there were an estimated 20 million deaths in Europe alone. The Plague would be a constant threat for the next hundred years, periodically resurfacing and killing thousands, with the last major outbreak occurring in London in the 1600s. The Plague of Justinian Generally regarded as one of the first pandemics in the historical record, The Plague of Justinian was a particularly virulent disease that broke out in the Byzantine Empire around 541 AD. It is estimated to have caused the deaths of 100 million people worldwide and it is regarded to have killed one in four people in the eastern Mediterranean region. Its devastation prevented the Byzantine Empire from being able to spread eastward into Italy and thus significantly changed the course of European history. Smallpox Although it has since been successfully eradicated, smallpox devastated the Americas when European settlers first introduced it in the 15th century. Of all the diseases brought to the new world, smallpox was the most virulent. It decimated the Aztec and Incan civilizations, and was equally dangerous back in Europe, where it killed 60 million people in just the 18th century and more than 300 million people worldwide in the 20th century alone. The 7 Cholera Pandemics One of the most consistently dangerous diseases in history, cholera and its so-called "seven pandemics" killed millions between 1816 and the early 1960s. The disease first sprang up in India, where it is said to have killed as many as 40 million between 1817 and 1860. It would soon spread to Western Europe and the US, where it killed more than a 100,000 people in the mid-1800s. Since then, there have been periodic outbreaks of cholera, but advances in medicine made it a much less deadly disease.