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Courtney Garrett
Courtney Paige Garrett (born August 14, 1992) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Pamplin City, Virginia, who was chosen as Miss Virginia's Outstanding Teen 2009 and crowned Miss Virginia 2014. She competed for the Miss America 2015 title in September 2014 and was named first runner-up. Pageant career Early pageants Garrett began competing in beauty pageants when she was three years old. Her first competition was for Tiny Miss Appomattox in 1996. Among her childhood achievements, Garrett was crowned Little Miss State Fair of Virginia 1998. Garrett was crowned Miss Central Virginia's Outstanding Teen 2009 and went on to win the statewide Miss Virginia's Outstanding Teen 2009 title. Trying for the national crown, Garrett placed in the top 10 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2010. Vying for Miss Virginia Competing as an adult, Garrett won the Miss Lynchburg 2011 title on January 29, 2011. She competed in the 2011 Miss Virginia pageant with the platform "C.A.R.E. – C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Virginia's Outstanding Teen
The Miss Virginia's Teen competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the Commonwealth of Virginia in the Miss America's Teen pageant. Addison Rhudy of Midlothian was crowned Miss Virginia's Teen on June 24, 2023, at Bergland Center in Roanoke, Virginia. She competed in the Miss America's Teen 2024. Results summary The year in parentheses indicates the year of the Miss America's Outstanding Teen competition the award/placement was garnered. Placements * Miss America's Outstanding Teens: Caitlin Brunell (2008) * 2nd runners-up: Brittany Young (2007), Emily Kinsey (2019) * 3rd runners-up: Casey Shepard (2015) * 4th runners-up: Courtney Jamison (2011), Cassie Donegan (2014) * Top 10: Lexie Overholt (2009), Courtney Garrett (2010), Andolyn Medina (2013) Awards Preliminary awards * Preliminary Evening Wear/On Stage Question: Caitlin Brunell (2008), Courtney Jamison (2011), Andolyn Medina (2013) * Preliminary Talent: Courtney Jamison (2011), Cassie Donegan (2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheaties
Wheaties is an American brand of breakfast cereal that is made by General Mills. It is well known for featuring list of athletes on Wheaties boxes, prominent athletes on its packages and has become a cultural icon in the United States. Originally introduced as Washburn's Gold Medal Whole Wheat Flakes in 1924, it is primarily a wheat and bran mixture baked into flakes. History Creation Wheaties was created in 1921, as a result of an accidental spill of a wheat bran mixture onto a hot stove by a Minnesota clinician working for the Washburn Crosby Company (later General Mills). By November 1924, after more than 36 attempts to strengthen the flakes to withstand packaging, the process for creating the flakes had been perfected by the Washburn head miller, George Cormack, and the cereal was named ''Washburn's Gold Medal Whole Wheat Flakes''. Soon after, the name was changed to Wheaties as a result of an employee contest won by Jane Bausman, the wife of a company export manager. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of movement disorders that appear in early childhood. Signs and symptoms vary among people and over time, but include poor coordination, spasticity, stiff muscles, Paresis, weak muscles, and tremors. There may be problems with sense, sensation, visual perception, vision, hearing, and speech. Often, babies with cerebral palsy do not roll over, sit, crawl or walk as early as other children. Other symptoms may include seizures and problems with cognition, thinking or reasoning. While symptoms may get more noticeable over the first years of life, underlying problems do not worsen over time. Cerebral palsy is caused by abnormal development or damage to the parts of the brain that control movement, balance, and posture. Most often, the problems occur during pregnancy, but may occur during childbirth or shortly afterwards. Often, the cause is unknown. Risk factors include preterm birth, being a twin, certain infections or exposure to methylmercury duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farmville, Virginia
Farmville is a town in Prince Edward County, Virginia, Prince Edward and Cumberland County, Virginia, Cumberland counties in the U.S. state, Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Prince Edward County. The population was 7,473 at the United States Census 2020, 2020 census. It was in a major tobacco growing area. Coal mining and brick making also occurred in the area. Farmville developed near the headwaters of the Appomattox River in central Virginia; the waterway was long its main transportation access to other markets. In the 19th century, a railroad was constructed here. Since the late 20th century, the former railway has been converted to the High Bridge Trail State Park, a more than rail trail park. U.S. Route 15 in Virginia, US 15, Virginia State Route 45, VA 45 and U.S. Route 460 in Virginia, US 460 now intersect at Farmville. The town is the home of Longwood University and is the town nearest to Hampden–Sydney College. Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Edward County High School
Prince Edward County High School is a public high school located in the Farmville, Virginia, Farmville area of Prince Edward County, Virginia,United States. It is part of the Prince Edward County School Division, along with Prince Edward County Elementary School and Prince Edward County Middle School. Athletic teams compete in the Virginia High School League's AA AA Southside District, Southside District in AA Region I, Region I. Leadership (principals) Historical significance In 1951, the school, which was then called Moton High School, was all-black and very impoverished. On April 23, 1951, citing the inequities of the current school to the all-white school, Barbra Johns called to action the all-black student body to walk out and go on strike. At the time, white students attended public all-white schools. Prince Edward County High School is known for the List of landmark court decisions in the United States, landmark cases ''Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss America
Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is judged on competition segments with scoring percentages: ''Private Interview'' (30%) – a 10-minute press conference-style interview with a panel of judges, ''On Stage Question'' (10%) – answering a judge's question onstage, ''Talent or HER Story'' (20%) – a performance talent or 90 second speech, ''Health and Fitness'' (20%) – demonstrated physical fitness onstage dressed in athletic wear, and ''Evening Gown'' (20%) – modeling evening-wear onstage. The previous year's titleholder crowns the winner. Miss America 2025 is Abbie Stockard of Miss Alabama, Alabama, who was crowned on January 5, 2025. She will crown her successor at Miss America 2026. Overview On February 1, 1919, a beauty pageant was held at the Chu Chin Chow Ball at the Hotel des Artistes in New York City. The winner, Edith H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kira Kazantsev
Kira Dixon (née Kazantsev; born July 20, 1991) is an American beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss America 2015 on September 14, 2014. She is the third consecutive Miss America winner from New York and had won the title of Miss New York on May 24, 2014, while serving as Miss City of New York. Early life and education Dixon was born on July 20, 1991, in San Francisco, California, to Russian immigrants who left Moscow in 1990 for the United States, making her a first-generation American. Her father, George, is a general surgeon and her mother, Julia (''née'' Afrikian), is a real-estate broker. Her mother is of Armenian descent. Dixon is trilingual, being fluent in English, Russian, and Spanish. She graduated from Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California, and served as the student body president in 2009. She attended Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, with a triple major in political science, global studies, and geography. She joined the Alpha Phi sororit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss New York
The Miss New York scholarship competition selects the representative for the state of New York in the Miss America scholarship competition. In the fall of 2018, the Miss America Organization terminated the Miss New York organization's license as well as licenses from Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia. In March 2019, the license was awarded to Sloane Lewis and Jamie Hickman, along with a board of directors consisting of 13 members. Abigail Quammen of Manhattan was crowned Miss New York 2024 on July 6, 2024, at the Paramount Theatre in Peekskill, New York. She competed for the title of Miss America 2025. Gallery of titleholders Miss New York has won the Miss America crown seven times (and is the first state to produce winners three years in a row): * Bess Myerson (1945, first Jewish American Miss America, competed as Miss New York City) * Tawny Godin (1976) * Vanessa Williams (1984, first African American Miss America) * Mallory Hagan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city (New Jersey), city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Atlantic City comprises the second half of the Atlantic City-Hammonton, New Jersey, Hammonton metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses those cities and all of Atlantic County for statistical purposes. Both Atlantic City and Hammonton, as well as the surrounding Atlantic County, are culturally tied to Philadelphia and constitute part of the larger Philadelphia metropolitan area or Delaware Valley, the nation's Metropolitan statistical area, seventh-largest metropolitan area as of 2020. Located in South Jersey on Absecon Island and known for its taxis, casinos, nightlife, Boardwalk (entertainment district), boardwalk, and Atlantic Ocean beaches and coastline, the city is prominently known as the "Las Vegas of the East Coast" and inspired the U.S. version of the board game ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Godfather
''The Godfather'' is a 1972 American Epic film, epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling The Godfather (novel), 1969 novel. The film stars an ensemble cast including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather (film series), ''The Godfather'' trilogy, chronicling the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) and the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss. Paramount Pictures obtained the rights to the novel for $80,000, before it gained popularity. Studio executives had trouble finding a director; the first few candidates turned down the position before Coppola signed on to direct the film but disagreement followed over casting several characters, in particular Vito (Brando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Theme
Theme or themes may refer to: * Theme (Byzantine district), an administrative district in the Byzantine Empire governed by a Strategos * Theme (computing), a custom graphical appearance for certain software. * Theme (linguistics), topic * Theme (narrative), the unifying subject or idea of a work * Theme Building, a landmark building in the Los Angeles International Airport * Theme music a piece often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game, or film, and usually played during the intro, opening credits, or ending credits * Theme vowel or thematic vowel, a vowel placed before the word ending in certain Proto-Indo-European words * Subject (music), sometimes called ''theme'', a musical idea, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based * Thematic elements, a term used by the Motion Picture Association and other film ratings boards to highlight adult themes in film, television and video games Media * ''Theme'' (album) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
