What was the first ever beauty pageant?
What was the first ever beauty pageant? P. T. Barnum staged the first modern American pageant in 1854, but his beauty contest was closed down by public protest. He kept the contest going by substituting daguerreotypes for women, a practice quickly adopted by newspapers. Who was the Bible's first beauty queen? VashtiVashti Refuses the King's Summons by Edwin LongOccupationQueen of Achaemenid EmpireKnown forfigures in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible Who was Miss America in 1880? Miss Myrtle Meriwether In 1880, so the story goes, Miss Myrtle Meriwether, the owner of a modest millinery and gift shop in...