Miss Baker Auburn University after attaining the record for oldest living squirrel monkey. She is buried on the grounds at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Her tombstone routinely has one or more bananas on top. Miss Baker Miss Baker (1957 – November 29, 1984) was a squirrel monkey who in 1959 became, along with rhesus macaque Miss Able, one of the first two animals launched into space by the United States and safely returned. Previous United States efforts at launching monkeys to space had met with the animals' demise from suffocation or parachute failure, and Soviet Union efforts had fared little
Miss Earth women wear ankle-length dresses. Nevertheless, her participation in the pageant received approval from the Dalai Lama.<ref name="csmonitor.com/2006/1017/p07s02-wosc.html"></ref><ref name="misstibet.com/history/2006/stories/20061206-miss_tibet_goes_global.html"></ref><ref name="xeni.net/trek/2006/11/miss-tibet-crowned-headed-for-miss.html"></ref><ref name="news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7129296.stm"></ref> Carousel Productions licensed the Miss Cuba organization in 2007 to select the first Cuban representative at Miss Earth. Ariana Barouk won; she became the first Miss Cuba in several decades, and competed at the Miss Earth Pageant.<ref name="showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view_article.php?article_id"></ref> Also in 2007, Miss Earth made history when delegates from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Tibet all competed together for the first time in an international pageant in spite of political sensitivities. In 2008, the Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan, one of