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Margaret Gardiner (born 21 August 1959) is a South African journalist and beauty queen who was the winner of the Miss Universe 1978, the first South African woman to win the Miss Universe title. She was 18 years old when she won the pageant.
Miss Universe 1979 was the 28th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Perth Entertainment Centre in Perth, Australia, on 20 July 1979. [a]Margaret Gardiner of South Africa crowned her successor Maritza Sayalero of Venezuela.
Margaret Gardiner (art collector) (1904–2005), British patron of artists and political activist Margaret Gardiner (netball) (1946–2003), New zealand netball player Margaret Gardiner (Miss Universe) (born 1959), South African beauty queen
Miss Universe 1978 was the 27th Miss Universe pageant, held on 24 July 1978 at the Centro de Convenciones de Acapulco in Acapulco, Mexico.It was the first time in the pageant's history that the event was held in Mexico.
Gardiner was born in Berlin where her father, the Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner, was working at the time. In 1923 he assisted Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon with the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb. Her mother was Hedwig (née von Rosen), Lady Gardiner, whose father was an Austro-Hungarian Roman Catholic with Jewish roots and mother a Swedish ...
The Pier Arts Centre is an art gallery and museum in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland.It was established in 1979 to provide a home for an important collection of fine art donated to "be held in trust for Orkney" by the author, peace activist and philanthropist Margaret Gardiner (1904–2005).
Anneline Kriel (born 28 July 1955) is a South African actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss South Africa 1974 and was later crowned Miss World 1974.She is the second of three South African women to hold the Miss World title after Penelope Coelen in 1958 and before Rolene Strauss in 2014.
The museum hired several staff members in April 1990, including executive director Margaret Halsey Gardiner. [83] According to Gardiner, the museum spent $600,000 to stabilize the structure. [ 22 ] The sculptor David Flaharty was hired to restore the interior plasterwork, and architectural firm Jan Hird Pokorny was hired to research the house's ...