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Miss Spain Gets Promotion: Miss World
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| December 19, 2015
Posted on 12/19/2015 3:09:17 PM PST by Steelfish
Miss Spain Gets Promotion: Miss World
SANYA, China â Spainâs Mireia Lalaguna Royo was named the winner of the Miss World 2015 competition Saturday night in the southern Chinese island resort of Sanya, an event dogged by controversy over Chinaâs refusal to allow Canadaâs entrant to attend.
Sofia Nikitchuk of Russia was the runner-up and Indonesiaâs Maria Harfanti took third place in the final following a lengthy competition featuring 114 women.
Each had won the right to represent their country in a series of local and regional competitions.
The victory marked the first-ever win for a Spanish contestant.
Lalaguna is a 23-year-old model from Barcelona with a degree in pharmacology who plans to pursue a masterâs degree in nutrition. She placed first in the competitionâs top model contest and appeared to impress the judges with her public speaking.
Not present was Miss Canada, Chinese-born Anastasia Lin, who had been prevented from boarding her connecting flight to Sanya from Hong Kong last month after China refused her a visa.
Lin is an outspoken critic of Chinese religious policy and a follower of the Falun Gong meditation practice, which was outlawed by China in 1999.
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: babes
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:09:17 PM PST
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Steelfish
To: Steelfish
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:11:20 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: Fungi
She looks a lot like the current Queen, Letizia, who is from Asturias (Northwestern Spain). La Laguna (her last name is Lalaguna) is in the Canary Islands. In any case, she’s very elegant looking.
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:15:01 PM PST
by
livius
To: Fungi
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:18:21 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:22:52 PM PST
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: BenLurkin
She is very pretty.I would be more impressed if she has a ME degree instead of nutrition.
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:28:07 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: BenLurkin
thanks, i’ll pass. Nice, but that is all.
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:29:21 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: BenLurkin
Oh my! What a beauty. And brains to boot! *sigh*
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:31:33 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
To: Steelfish
Ooh La La!
Oh wait, that's French.
Muy caliente!
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:32:51 PM PST
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: Steelfish
“Please welcome, and say Hola! to Mireia Lalaguna Royo, or Mrs Donald Trump #4.”
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:41:03 PM PST
by
Macoozie
("Estoy votando por Ted 2016!" bumper stickers available)
To: Macoozie
âPlease welcome, and say Hola! to Mireia Lalaguna Royo, or Mrs Donald Trump #4.â
Nah - Trump will just make her either Barron’s Au Pair or better yet - Press Secretary.
To: Steelfish
I vote for Miss Columbia.
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:54:49 PM PST
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:55:33 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy" YoursLolelf ala Louis Prima)
To: BenLurkin
How do you say “Not Guilty” in spanish?
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:57:00 PM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(I'd rather be islamophobic and alive, than tolerant and dead.)
To: BenLurkin
Aaaaah,she’s not so hot.
(Extreme envy here.)
.
.
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posted on
12/19/2015 3:59:52 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Kid Shelleen
Can’t go wrong. Colombians in general are the prettiest people in the world.
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posted on
12/19/2015 4:01:34 PM PST
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
To: EvilCapitalist
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posted on
12/19/2015 4:29:48 PM PST
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: Kid Shelleen
To: HANG THE EXPENSE
Would love her as my dietitian to lower my A1c.
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posted on
12/19/2015 5:07:10 PM PST
by
353FMG
To: Steelfish
I was hoping for Miss Portugal but I did not even think about watching it. I was stationed at Lajes Field in the Azores and that is where Miss Portugal is from.
EmÍlia AraÚjo recently graduated from medical school and is a doctor.
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posted on
12/19/2015 5:16:12 PM PST
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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