Beautiful Empress Farah Pahlavi

Beautiful Empress Farah Pahlavi
Until 1979 she was known as Her Imperial Majesty Empress Farah Pahlavi of Iran. The empress was a symbol of how far women had come under her husband’s reign. Besides, she was the first Iranian queen to be named Empress. In the beginning of her reign, the Empress took an active part in the development of culture and art in Iran. Due to her patronage, was created a number of organizations contributing to the further development of the historical and contemporary Iranian art in Iran, as well as in the Western world. She presided over a staff of 40 and was patron of 24 educational, health, and cultural organizations, traveling to the remote parts of the country to inaugurate schools and hospitals. Under her direction, were bought back hundreds of historic Persian artifacts from antique dealers previously exported abroad. And with her assistance the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art has turned into the largest collection of Asian art of bronzes, carpets, ceramics, and other objects and antiquities.
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Beautiful American actress Jean Seberg (November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979)

Beautiful American actress Jean Seberg (November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was one of the most appealing, intelligent and enigmatic movie stars of the 1960s. She worked a lot in Europe, mainly in France, where, acting in films directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, got a lot of popularity in France and a BAFTA Award. Besides, Jean has become one of the symbols of the French New Wave. So far, she starred in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe. However, in the late 1960s, Seberg became interested in politics. As a result that her name appeared in several scandals. In fact, Seberg became one of the best-known targets of the FBI COINTELPRO project. Unfortunately, during the last decade of her life, Seberg’s mental health deteriorated, due in part to a miscarriage and harassment by the FBI. Jean Seberg died at the age of 40 of a barbiturate overdose in Paris, 31 August 1979. Her death was a suicide.
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Sleeping Beauty Grace Van Dien

Behind these huge blue eyes and natural beauty discern the features of her father, after whom she took much. And grace and confidence of a true princess (princess Dawn in the “Sleeping Beauty”) inherited from her grandmother, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. Beautiful young actress Grace Van Dien represents the dynasty of actors. She is the daughter of Casper Van Dien – actor, producer, and director, and actress Carrie Mitchum. Her granddad – actor Robert Mitcham. Grace Van Dien was born Caroline Dorothy Grace Van Dien on October 15, 1996 in Los Angeles, California. The movie list of a promising young actress Grace Van Dien consists of six films – Patient Seven (2016), Leap (2016), Army Dog (2016), Code Black (series, 2015 – …), Fire Twister (ТВ, 2015), San Andreas Quake (2015), Sleeping Beauty (2014), The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation (ТV, 2010). Grace lives with her father Casper Van Dien and step mother Catherine Oxenberg.
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January 2016 – the 50th anniversary of the start of the “Batman” TV show. Beautiful actress Julie Newmar as Cat Woman, 1966

50 years ago, the image of a charming Cat Woman became iconic, and made Beautiful actress Julie Newmar popular and recognizable worldwide. born Julia Chalene Newmeyer August 16, 1933, in Los Angeles, Julie Newmar represents the eleventh generation of a Mayflower descendant. In all, Julie has played in more than 63 films, but still, it is the role of Cat Woman in the television series Batman in 1966 that made her famous. Truly the most beautiful film and television star, Julie Newmar at her 82 is still stunning, has much grace, and admits that she is still flirting with men.
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Elysha Brennan, winner of 2015 Rose of Tralee Beauty Contest

Rose of Tralee Beauty Contest takes place last full weekend in August and is one of Ireland’s largest and longest running festivals, celebrating 57 years in 2016. The competition started in 1959 on a budget of just £750. The village of Tralee in County Kerry is famous for a festival that is unique in Ireland: the annual beauty contest for the “Rose of Tralee.” Held during a long weekend in late August, the festivities begin with the playing of a harp by a woman belonging to a Kerry family in which harp-playing has been a traditional occupation for generations.
In addition, there are also horse races and competitions in singing, dancing, and storytelling, live concerts, theater, circus, markets, funfair, fireworks and Rose Parades. Anyway, it is the beauty contest that draws the most attention. Contestants – young women of Irish descent from around the world, come for a global celebration of Irish culture from Ireland, Britain, the United States, and even Australia, although the winner must be of Kerry descent.
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Chinese Lingling Jin broke the record twirling 105 hoops at the same time. Hula Hoop interesting facts

Hula Hoop interesting facts
Well, when and how the hula hoop appeared, nobody knows exactly. According to modern interpretation, it originates in the mid-20th century. But in fact, the invention of hula hoop goes back to ancient times. If we could travel back in a time machine to 1000 BC, we would see Egyptian children playing with a hoop. This toy was made of dry vine. And the hoop was popular both – in ancient Greece and in ancient Rome. The Greeks decorated their big metal hula hoops with bells. During the rotation they were ringing. Besides, ancient artists demonstrated their mastery of the hoop, almost the same way as modern artists do it now. In addition, the paintings, dating from the 5th century BC depict a mythical hero Ganymede with a hoop in one hand and a cock in the other. More than that, symbolic Hoop Dance was popular in ancient cultures of Asia, Africa and South America.
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Beautiful Polish actress Barbara Brylska (born June 5, 1941, in Skotniki, near Lodz, Poland)

Beautiful Polish actress Barbara Brylska first appeared on the screen at the age of 15. She played a small role in the Polish film “The Galoshes of happiness,” on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Then she graduated from the National Film School in Lodz, the Warsaw School of Theatre, Film and Television, and began to regularly appear in the movie, but for a long time remained a little-known actress. Brylska received widespread fame in 1972, after the Polish premiere of “Anatomy of Love”. The actress played the role of Eve, whose relations with Adam was the main theme of the film. The film contained a rather frank sex scenes, but in Poland and Eastern Europe the film sounded in full force, becoming one of the manifestations of the echo of the sexual revolution. Brylska was worthy the success of Brigitte Bordeaux or Sophia Loren.
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