Caprice Bourret

Caprice on the cover of GQ (UK edition), March, 1999

Caprice Bourret (born October 24, 1974), often known by just her first name, is an American supermodel and actress.

Bourret was born in Hacienda Heights, California and won the title of Miss Teen California at the age of 16. After growing up in Whittier, California she moved to the United Kingdom in 1996 to further her career in modelling. An appearance in a revealing dress at the 1996 British National Television Awards ceremony helped gain her public recognition. Bourret has become one of the UK's most famous models and is popularly known by just her first name.

Bourret has appeared on the covers of more than 300 magazines published around the world, including GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Vogue, Maxim and FHM. Bourret also posed nude in the March, 2000 issue of Playboy magazine. She was voted GQ Magazine's Woman of the Year and Maxim's International Woman of the Year three years running. She has also been featured in television ad campaigns for Diet Coke and Pizza Hut.

In addition to marketing her image in posters and calendars, Bourret has also developed lines of beauty products, lingerie, and swimsuits. In 2001, she released her first single as a pop singer, "Once around the Sun", which was co-written by 90's star Chesney Hawkes.

Bourret is now moving into an acting career. She has appeared on stage in London in The Vagina Monologues and Rent. She has also appeared in the films Hollywood Flies, Nailing Vienna, and Jinxed In Love. Bourret has hosted the series Caprice's Travels and Friday Night's All Wright as well as several award shows.

In early 2005, she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. Viewers saw her become agitated when other contestants implied that she was only taking part to boost sales of her products. She will also join Jose Canseco, Bronson Pinchot, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, Janice Dickenson, Carey Hart, and Pepa from r&b duo Salt-N-Pepa on the fifth season of the VH1 reality series The Surreal Life.


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She will also join Jose Canseco, Bronson Pinchot, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, Janice Dickenson, Carey Hart, and Pepa from r&b duo Salt-N-Pepa on the fifth season of the VH1 reality series The Surreal Life. For more on the universities and colleges in Kansas, see the complete list. Viewers saw her become agitated when other contestants implied that she was only taking part to boost sales of her products. The composition of FHSU's enrollment includes 35% non-resident students and 44% off-campus enrollments. PSU also has almost a quarter of enrollment from non-residents. In early 2005, she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. FHSU has the fastest growing enrollment in Kansas with most of it coming from non-resident and off-campus enrollment. Bourret has hosted the series Caprice's Travels and Friday Night's All Wright as well as several award shows. Fort Hays State University (FHSU), Pittsburg State University (PSU), and Emporia State University (ESU) are smaller public universities with total enrollments of 8500, 6537, and 6194, respectively.

She has also appeared in the films Hollywood Flies, Nailing Vienna, and Jinxed In Love. Wichita State University (WSU) ranks third largest with 14,298 students; about 12% were non-resident students. She has appeared on stage in London in The Vagina Monologues and Rent. About 19% were non-resident students. Bourret is now moving into an acting career. Kansas State University (KSU) has the second largest enrollment, with 23,151 students at its Manhattan and Salina campuses and Veterinary Medical Center. In 2001, she released her first single as a pop singer, "Once around the Sun", which was co-written by 90's star Chesney Hawkes. About 31% were non-resident students.

In addition to marketing her image in posters and calendars, Bourret has also developed lines of beauty products, lingerie, and swimsuits. The total university enrollment, which includes KU Medical Center, was 29,590. She has also been featured in television ad campaigns for Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. Among the state-funded universities, the University of Kansas (KU) is the largest in terms of enrollment, with 26,980 at its Lawrence campus, KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park, and Public Management Center (formerly the Capitol Complex) in Topeka. She was voted GQ Magazine's Woman of the Year and Maxim's International Woman of the Year three years running. In Fall 2004 the state’s six public universities reported a combined enrollment of 88,270 students, of which almost a quarter were non-resident students and a tenth were off-campus enrollments. Bourret also posed nude in the March, 2000 issue of Playboy magazine. It also authorizes numerous private and out-of-state institutions to operate in the state.

Bourret has appeared on the covers of more than 300 magazines published around the world, including GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Vogue, Maxim and FHM. The Kansas Board of Regents governs or supervises thirty-seven public institutions. Bourret has become one of the UK's most famous models and is popularly known by just her first name. Main article: Education in Kansas. An appearance in a revealing dress at the 1996 British National Television Awards ceremony helped gain her public recognition. See also: List of cities in Kansas. After growing up in Whittier, California she moved to the United Kingdom in 1996 to further her career in modelling. "Rural flight" as it is called has led to offers of free land and tax breaks as enticements to newcomers.

Bourret was born in Hacienda Heights, California and won the title of Miss Teen California at the age of 16. Between 1996 and 2004 almost half a million people, nearly half with college degrees, left the six states. Caprice Bourret (born October 24, 1974), often known by just her first name, is an American supermodel and actress. 89% of the total number of cities in those states have fewer than 3000 people; hundreds have fewer than than 1000. Kansas, as well as five other Mid-West states (Nebraska, Oklahoma, North and South Dakota and Iowa), is feeling the brunt of falling populations. The industrial outputs are transportation equipment, commercial and private aircraft, food processing, publishing, chemical products, machinery, apparel, petroleum and mining.

The agricultural outputs of the state are cattle, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, hogs and corn. Its per-capita income was $29,438. The 2003 total gross state product of Kansas was $93 billion. See also: KDOT road condition information (http://www.kanroad.org).

In January 2004, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) announced the new Kansas 511 traveler information service.[3] (http://www.ksdot.org/offtransinfo/News04/511_Release.htm) By calling 511, callers will get access to information about road conditions, construction, closures, detours and weather conditions for the state highway system. Weather and road condition information is updated every 15 minutes. Other bypasses are I-235 around Wichita and I-470 around Topeka. I-435 and I-635 serve a dual purpose as connections between the major routes and bypasses around the Kansas City metropolitan area. I-335 and portions of I-35 and I-70 make up the Kansas Turnpike.

I-335, a northeast/southwest route, connects I-70 at Topeka to I-35 at Emporia. I-135, a north/south route, connects I-70 at Salina to I-35 at Wichita. Spur routes serve as connections between the two major routes. I-35 is a major north/south route connecting to Des Moines, Iowa, in the north and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the south. Cities along this route (from north to south) include Kansas City (and its suburbs), Ottawa, Emporia, El Dorado and Wichita.

Cities along this route (from east to west) include Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka, Junction City, Salina, Hays, and Colby. Louis, Missouri, in the east and Denver, Colorado, in the west. I-70 is a major east/west route connecting to St. The state is served by two interstate highways with six spur routes.

Other important rivers are the Saline and Solomon, tributaries of the Smoky Hill River; the Big Blue, Delaware, and Wakarusa, which flow into the Kansas River; and the Marais des Cygnes, a tributary of the Missouri River. It forms, with its tributaries, the Little Arkansas, Walnut, Cow Creek, Cimarron, Verdigris (which is the lowest point in Kansas at 680 feet), and the Neosho, the southern drainage system of the state. The Arkansas River, rising in Colorado, flows with a tortuous course, for nearly 500 miles, across three-fourths of the state. The Kansas River, formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers, joins the Missouri at Kansas City, after a course of 150 miles across the state.

The Missouri River forms nearly 75 miles of the state's northeastern boundary. (Mount Sunflower is the highest point.) The rivers flow through bottomlands, varying from ¼ to 6 miles in width, and bounded by bluffs, rising 50 to 300 feet. Its altitude above the sea ranges from 750 feet at the mouth of the Kansas River to 4000 feet on the western border. The state, lying in the great central plain of the United States, has a generally flat or undulating surface.

Kansas is one of the six states located on the Frontier Strip. The state is divided up into 105 counties with 628 cities. The geographic center of the 48 contiguous states is located in Smith County near Lebanon, Kansas, and the geographic center of Kansas is located in Barton County. This spot is used as the central reference point for all maps produced by the government.

It is located equidistant from the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean. The geographic center of North America is located in Osborne County. Kansas is bordered by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south, and Colorado on the west. See also: List of Governors of Kansas; U.S. Congressional Delegations from Kansas. In 2005 voters accepted a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, and the Kansas State Board of Education resumed hearings to determine if evolution should once again be removed from state science standards.

The decade brought new restrictions on abortion, the defeat of prominent Democrats, including Dan Glickman, and the Kansas State Board of Education's infamous 1999 decision to eliminate the theory of evolution from the state teaching standards, a decision that was later reversed. Since the early 1990s, Kansas has grown more socially conservative. Board of Education of Topeka banned racially segregated schools throughout the U.S. Brown vs.

Kansas was first among the states to ban the concept of separate but equal schools. Kansas schools both public and private continue to have some of the highest standards in the nation. The council-manager government was adopted by many larger Kansas cities in the years following World War I while many American cities were being run by political machines or organized crime. Kansas had a reputation as a progressive state with many firsts in legislative initiatives—it was the first state to institute a system of workers compensation (1910).

Moore is the only Democrat in the delegation; all others are Republicans. The state's current delegation to the United States Congress includes Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts and Representatives Jerry Moran (District 1), Jim Ryun (District 2), Dennis Moore (District 3), and Todd Tiahrt (District 4). Their current term will end in January of 2007, and they are able to run for re-election in 2006. Both are elected on the same ticket to a maximum of two consecutive 4-year terms.

Moore. The top executives of the state are Governor Kathleen Sebelius and Lieutenant Governor John E. The state capital is Topeka. Famous sport athletes from Kansas include Barry Sanders, Gale Sayers, Wilt Chamberlain, Jim Ryun, Walter Johnson, Maurice Greene and Lynette Woodard.

Kansas was home to President Eisenhower, presidential candidates Bob Dole and Alf Landon, Amelia Earhart, and Carrie Nation. Wild Bill Hickok was a deputy marshal at Fort Riley and a marshal at Hays and Abilene. On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led Quantrill's Raid into Lawrence destroying much of the city and killing many people. On February 19, 1861 it became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.

Civil War veterans constructed homesteads in Kansas following the war. Kansas became the 34th state of the Union on January 29, 1861. On March 30, 1855 "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invaded Kansas during the territory's first election and forced the election of a pro-slavery legislature. To travellers enroute to Utah, California, or Oregon, Kansas was a waystop and outfitting place.

Fort Leavenworth was the first community in the area around 1827. territories of Nebraska and Kansas. The Kansas-Nebraska Act became law on May 30, 1854 and established the U.S. Kansas then became part of the Missouri Territory until 1821.

Kansas, as part of the Louisiana Purchase, was annexed to the United States in 1803 as unorganized territory. Main article: History of Kansas. postal abbreviation for the state is KS. The U.S.

Kansas, derived from the Siouan word Kansa meaning "People of the south wind", is a midwestern state in the United States. Many Kansans also support the sports teams of Kansas City, Missouri, including the Kansas City Royals and the Kansas City Chiefs. Kansas City T-Bones, Wichita Wranglers, Wichita Thunder, Topeka Tarantulas, Wichita Wings (defunct). The Boyer Gallery, a collection of animated sculptures made by Paul Boyer is located in Belleville, Kansas.

It is also home to Apollo 13, an SR-71 Blackbird, and many other space artifacts. The museum features the largest collection of artifacts from the Russian Space Program outside of Moscow. The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, located in Hutchinson, Kansas is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institute. The Horace Greeley museum is located in Tribune, Kansas.

The National Agriculture Center and Hall of Fame is located in Bonner Springs, Kansas. The National Teachers Hall of Fame is located in Emporia, Kansas. The Wizard of Oz Museum in Liberal, Kansas features Dorothy's House, a recreation of the farm house featured in the film The Wizard of Oz. The Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City, Kansas features Old West memorabilia and history.

(website (http://www.doleinstitute.org)). The institute is located in Lawrence, Kansas on the campus of the University of Kansas. Dole Institute of Politics houses the largest collection of papers for a politician other than a president. The Robert J.

(website (http://www.lecomptonkansas.com/index.php?doc=consthall.php)). Constitution Hall in Lecompton, Kansas is the location where the Kansas Territorial Government convened and drafted a pro-slavery constitution. The house of Carrie Nation, now a museum, is located in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. Abilene, Kansas is also the ending point of the Chisholm Trail where the cattle driven from Texas were rail loaded.

Eisenhower, the Eisenhower Library, and his grave are located in Abilene, Kansas. The Greyhound Hall of Fame is located in Abilene. The boyhood home of Dwight D. The plant sits on over 9000 acres (36 km²) of land which was made up of more than 100 farms. The Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in De Soto, Kansas opened in 1942 to manufactor gunpowder and munition propellants for World War II.

Board of Education was filed, is now a National Historic site in Topeka, Kansas. Monroe Elementary, the school Linda Brown attended when the historic case Brown v. The John Brown museum is located in Osawatomie, Kansas. The museum features many works of art created by people with no formal training, and it sits only a block or two from the Garden of Eden.

Lucas, Kansas is also home to the Grassroots Art Center [2] (http://home.comcast.net/~ymirymir/index2.htm). [1] (http://www.missioncreep.com/tilt/dinsmoor.html). Dinsmoor even built his own mausoleum in which you can still see him today in his concrete coffin by paying for the tour. One scene has labor being crucified by a doctor, lawyer, banker, and preacher.

The garden features sculptures of biblical scenes and political messages. Samuel Dinsmoor created the Garden of Eden in Lucas, Kansas in 1905, and opened it up to tourists in 1908. It is 160 feet tall and weighs 11 million pounds. Big Brutus, the World's second largest Electric Shovel resides in West Mineral, Kansas.

The disputed World's Largest Ball of Twine created August 15, 1953, in Cawker City, Kansas, is still growing.