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Beauty Contests Are A Byzantine Invention
Reader comment on item: Affirmative Action in Beauty Contests?
Submitted by Mora (United States), May 18, 2010 at 17:20
Considering that beauty contests are an invention of the Byzantines and have been going on that long ago, if not longer, I'd say this has been a near-Eastern thing for quite awhile and I'm not surprised they still love them, still enter their girls in them, and still win. They invented this stuff.
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| Question [24 words] | phyllis | May 19, 2010 06:53 | 173068 | ||
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| Odd Human Behavior -- Strange [108 words] | Sofa Sogood | May 18, 2010 05:56 | 172944 | ||
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| Numbers or percentages [115 words] | Vazir Mukhtar | May 17, 2010 15:05 | 172843 | ||
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| What is the number of beauty pageants and population being measured? [110 words] | Martin Schwimmer | May 17, 2010 14:48 | 172839 | ||
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| a violation of the law of small numbers. [83 words] | Daniel Buck | May 17, 2010 11:25 | 172801 | ||
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