• Miss Burma was the national beauty pageant in Burma (now Myanmar) from 1947 to 1962. The winner of Miss Burma also represented her country at the Miss...
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  • Miss Burma is a national beauty pageant in Myanmar (Burma), and may mean: Miss Burma (19471962), the national beauty pageant in Burma Miss Universe Myanmar...
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  • Miss Universe Myanmar (Burmese: မယ်စကြဝဠာ မြန်မာ) is an annual national beauty pageant that selects Myanmar's representative to the annual Miss Universe...
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  • Hteik Su Phaya Htwe (category CS1 Burmese-language sources (my))
    she was selected in Burma national team for swimming competition. In 1947, she finished as the second in the Burma's first Miss Burma competition. After...
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  • Maiyya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo (1962) (Bhojpuri Film) Main Shaadi Karne Chala (1963) Hum Matwaale Naujawan (1962) Burma Road (1962) Ghar Basaake Dekho (1963)...
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  • Stolen Assignment (1955), Miss Tulip Stays the Night (1955) and Suspended Alibi (1957), with his final lead roles coming in the 1962 films Serena, Flight from...
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  • The first Miss India was Esther Abraham, from Calcutta, who won in 1947. The pageant was organised by the local press. In 1952, two Miss India pageants...
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    in Rakhine. The government of Prime Minister U Nu, when Burma was a democracy from 1948 to 1962, used the term "Rohingya" in radio addresses as a part...
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    Mohammad Ali Bogra (category Ambassadors of Pakistan to Myanmar)
    independence of Pakistan in 1947, he joined the foreign ministry as a diplomat and briefly tenured as Pakistan's ambassador to Burma (1948), High Commissioner...
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    in particular, those at Guadalcanal and in the jungles of New Guinea and Burma, where the C-47 and its naval version, the R4D, made it possible for Allied...
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  • Abraham Sofaer (category 20th-century Burmese male actors)
    Abraham Isaac Sofaer (1 October 1896 – 21 January 1988) was a Burmese-born British actor who began his career on stage and became a familiar supporting...
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  • The Purple Plain (category Burma Campaign films)
    film was based on the 1947 novel of the same name by H. E. Bates. Bill Forrester, a RCAF pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma, pilots a de Havilland...
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    Knows Worst. Other notable films in which she appeared include: Rookies in Burma (1943), starring the comedy duo of Wally Brown and Alan Carney, in which...
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    Jerry Wald (category 1962 deaths)
    Objective, Burma! (1945) Mildred Pierce (1945) Pride of the Marines (1945) Humoresque (1946) The Unfaithful (1947) Dark Passage (1947) Possessed (1947) Key...
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  • composer 1961 – Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer 1962 – Min Ko Naing, Burmese activist 1962 – Vincent Spano, American actor, director, and producer...
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    divorce from Hendricks on January 20, 1947, which required her to wait one year before remarrying. On January 21, 1947, Day traveled to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...
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    Supporting Actor for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947) and Johnny Belinda (1948). His other roles include Whirlpool (1950), A Star...
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  • Burma (now also known as Myanmar), where she started to published fiction. She raised her children in Burma. On 7 January 1921, she described Burma as...
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  • Drummond (J. N. Chance) The Sexton Blake Library (3rd Series) 191 The Death of Miss Preedy Lewis Jackson (Jack Lewis) The Sexton Blake Library (3rd Series) 192...
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  • Daughter 1947 (20th) 1 2 Climbing the Matterhorn 1947 (20th) 1 1 Design for Death 1947 (20th) 1 1 First Steps 1947 (20th) 1 1 Goodbye, Miss Turlock 1947 (20th)...
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    The Miss Georgia competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Georgia in the Miss America pageant. Georgia has won the Miss...
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    Daughter (1962) with Lee Remick and was reunited with the Rat Pack in Sergeants 3 (1962). Lawford played a Senator in Advise & Consent (1962) for Preminger...
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    Charlie Chan in Rio (1941) .... Jimmy Chan (as Sen Yung) A Yank on the Burma Road (1942) .... Wing (as Sen Yung) Castle in the Desert (1942) .... Jimmy...
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  • activist Connie Panzarino (1947–2001) American writer and activist for disability and LGBTQ rights Connie Price-Smith (born 1962), American former shot putter...
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  • Ark". 1898 Kimmins Girls' School founded by Miss A. Emilie Kimmins. Boys and girls studied together. 1902 Miss Mary Ashlin donated a legacy to the Colonial...
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    beauty pageants, was crowned Miss New Orleans in 1931, and went on to compete in Galveston's Pageant of Pulchritude. Miss Lamour was close friends with...
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  • July 1 (category CS1 Burmese-language sources (my))
    1183) 1277 – Baibars, Egyptian sultan (b. 1223) 1287 – Narathihapate, Burmese king (b. 1238) 1321 – María de Molina, queen of Castile and León 1348 –...
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  • (2008) Not for Ourselves Alone (1999) Not a Photograph: The Mission of Burma Story (2006) Not for Publication: (1927 & 1984) Not a Pretty Picture (1976)...
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    twice removed and paternal great-aunt by marriage The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the groom's second cousin once removed The Lady and Lord Brabourne, the...
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  • Marauders (1962) – adventure crime drama film based on the exploits of the long-range penetration jungle warfare unit of the same name in the Burma campaign...
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