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Fast forward over a century and according to Forbes, 2.5 million women compete in a pageant every year. To put that in perspective, the latest recorded population of the United States was 324 million, with 161 million being female.
Azar Hekmat-Shoar, whose real name was Azar Taj Dehghani, was born in Tabriz in 1314 …