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A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include other criteria, such as personality, intelligence, talent, character, causes, and charitable involvement, through closed-door interviews with judges, or the conventional question-and-answer round(s) in the finals.
Yelp Inc. is an American company that develops the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses. It also operates Yelp Guest Manager, a table reservation service. It is headquartered in Columbia South Carolina . Yelp was founded in 2004 by former PayPal employees Russel Simmons and Jeremy ...
Elite (TV series) Elite ( Spanish: Élite (most common adaptation, although elite is also accepted as an etymological accentuation, reflecting on the French pronunciation of the word [ 1 ]) is a Spanish teen drama series created by Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona for Netflix. The show is set in Las Encinas, a fictional elite high school which ...
Rent inflation is finally improving. The annual inflation rate for rent is 5.1%, still fairly high. But that’s down from a peak of 8.8% last year, and economists think rents will continue to ...
Many writers, especially historians, became prominent spokesmen for liberalism and were frequently called upon for public lectures and for popular essays on political topics by magazines such as The New Republic, Saturday Review, The Atlantic Monthly and Harpers. [158]
Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of class society, and wield the greatest political power. [ 1] According to this view, the upper class is generally distinguished by immense wealth which is passed on from generation to generation. [ 2]
Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. [ 1] Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements, as in the case of tourism .
Elitism is the notion that individuals who form an elite — a select group with desirable qualities such as intellect, wealth, power, physical attractiveness, notability, special skills, experience, lineage — are more likely to be constructive to society and deserve greater influence or authority. [ 1] The term elitism may be used to ...