Worldwide Wednesday: The 10 Hottest Women From Lithuania

Take out your notepads, because we've got a history lesson, kids. On this day in 1918, the Council of Lithuania signed the country's Act of Independence, otherwise known as the Act of February 16, which proclaimed the restoration of the sovereign state. The act marked the end of a series of resolutions pertaining to the country's freedom from the Russian and German empires. Although Lithuania would have to re-establish independence from the Soviet Union on March 11, 1990, its first proclamation is widely recognized as the country's greatest success. We beg to differ. After further research on the country, we'd propose that its greatest success is the amount of beautiful and talented women resting within its borders. Check out our ten sexy counterarguments.

10 KARINA KRYSKO
Hometown: Vilnius
Claim to fame: Although she's recognized for her participation in the 2008 Eurovision Dance contest, her hosting gigs, and being voted number one in FHM's Top 100 World's Sexiest in Lithuania, Krysko is most famous for being the lead singer of the band 69 Danguje. Translated into English, that means "69 in the sky." Let your filthy minds run wild with that one.

9 Hometown: Vilnius
Claim to fame: Although she's recognized for her participation in the 2008 Eurovision Dance contest, her hosting gigs, and being voted number one in FHM's Top 100 World's Sexiest in Lithuania, Krysko is most famous for being the lead singer of the band 69 Danguje. Translated into English, that means "69 in the sky." Let your filthy minds run wild with that one.

8Hometown: Klaipeda
Claim to fame: The country's beloved pop singer, and former winner of the Bravo award for "Female Artist of the Year," has released three double-platinum albums, including her most famous, 2008's As Busia Salia. But it was her comedy show, Orbita, that transformed her into one of Lithuania's most popular and wanted celebrities.

7.RASA ZUKAUSKAITE
Hometown: Vilnius
Claim to fame: Usually, Eastern European women connote either supermodel or dominatrix to us. Don't ask us why. Zukauskaite is just another example of the former. The rising star opened the Spring Milly show in New York last fall and is currently on the cover of the fashion magazine, L'Officiel Lithuania.

6. EGLE TVIRBUTAITE
Hometown: Vilnius
Claim to fame: Yet another budding supermodel, Tvirbutaite closed the spring Nanette Lepore show in New York last fall and appeared in editorials for Russian and German Vogue.

5 MARGARITA SVEGZDAITE
Hometown: Vilnius
Claim to fame: Technically now a veteran supermodel, at the industry's ripe old age of 28, Svegzdaite has walked runways for John Galliano, Christian Dior and Victoria's Secret.

4. GIEDRE DUKAUSKAITE
Hometown: Vilnius
Claim to fame: One look at her editorial photo and you can already guess that she's your archetypal, stunning supermodel, otherworldly cheekbones and all. Although she skipped last season's NY Fashion Week, she ended last year with an editorial in Spanish Vogue and kicked off 2011 with another one in British Elle.

3 REDA LAPAITE
Hometown: Telsiai
Claim to fame: Lapaite isn't your typical fashion model. Her swimsuit editorials, as well as her uninhibited 2008 Maxim calendar shots, set her apart from her somewhat androgynous, steely-eyed contemporaries on the runway

2. JURGITA VALTS
Hometown: Vilnius
Claim to fame: After her friend Kara Monaco (2006 Playmate of the Year) submitted Valts' pictures to Playboy, the magazine selected her as their July 2006 Cyber Girl of the Month. Since then, she's done photoshoots for a variety of men's mags, including Maxim, FHM and Stuff.

JURGITA TVARISH
Hometown: Vilnius
Claim to fame: Unlike in the United States, posing nude in the past apparently doesn't disqualify you from national pageants In Lithuania. Just look at Penthouse Germany's former August 2001 cover girl, Jurgita Tvarish, who eventually became Miss Lithuania 2007.



1 EDITA VILKEVICIUTE
Hometown: Kaunas
Claim to fame: Since signing with an agency at age 17, in 2006, this supermodel has done editorials for Vogue, Marie Claire and Elle, walked runways for Cavalli, Burberry and Balenciaga, and has also been the face of Etro, Versace Parfum, Karl Lagerfeld and Emporio Armani. Oh, and she was also the naked model posing alongside Zac Efron in the buzzed-about April 2009 issue of Interview. As intimidating as her resume already sounds, Vilkeviciute recently gained her wings at the 2010 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, making her one of their newest angels.