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100 years of the beauty queen
Dayana Moncada
For over a century the most beautiful women in the world have been on show in pageants across the land.
From the shopkeeper's daughter who won the first ever beauty contest in 1908 to this year's Miss Universe, Dayana Moncada, all these girls have bodies – and sometimes brains – to die for.
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