21 shots from one of the first European beauty pageants Miss Europe 1930

The Unbelievable Fate of a Beauty from a Movie Tale: How Miss Asia and a Bollywood Star fell victim to their beauty

In the 1970s. she was called one of the most beautiful women in India and the queen of Bollywood. After winning the Miss Asia competition, Zeenat Aman began acting in films and for 20 years remained one of the most sought-after Indian actresses. She was remembered by the Soviet audience as a fabulous beauty from "The Adventures of Alibaba and 40 Thieves" and "Eternal Love Tale". However, the events of her personal life were much more dramatic than the plot of any Indian film and could become an illustration of the proverb “do not

The first Miss World beauty contest: scandalous start and real reasons for organizing

April 15, 1951 is considered the birthday of the Miss World international beauty contest. On this day, advertising agent Eric Morley from London had the idea to organize a competition, the final of which took place on July 29th. Few people know that Miss World was originally conceived as just a one-time publicity stunt, the purpose of which was to draw attention to a completely different event. Why was the competition actually held, and why was it accompanied by a scandal?

How was the fate of the first "Miss USSR": the American dream of the Soviet beauty queen

Today, beauty contests are held all over the world, and their participants are building successful careers as models. But even 35 years ago, such events were considered an absolute innovation in our country, and even on a national scale. In 1989, the first Miss USSR contest was held, and this event caused a huge resonance: many viewers were indignant when they saw dozens of girls parading in swimsuits on TV screens. Then they wrote about the winner Yulia Sukhanova in all the newspapers, but then the girl neo

The first beauties of Europe in 1929: portraits of the participants of the very first Miss Europe contest

The first Miss Europe competition as we know it today was held in 1929 in Paris. Before that, girls sent their photographs to the newspaper Pari-Midi, where portraits of beauties were regularly published. The publishing house even arranged an open display of outfits and hairstyles, but at that time only girls of European appearance could participate. In our review - the beauties of European countries, who were sent to Paris for the very first competition in 1929

One million coffee beans. One World, One Family, One Coffee: another mosaic of Saimir Strati

This Albanian maestro, multiple "record holder" for mosaics, Saimir Strati, has already been met by the readers of Culturology.Ru on the pages of the site. It was he who created a painting of 300,000 screws and a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci from nails, and also laid out images from corks and toothpicks. And the new mosaic, on which the author is working today, probably cost him more than one hundred cups of strong aromatic coffee, since he lays it out from a million coffee beans