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Manliest Beauty 1877
“Now then, Mossoo, your Form is of the Manliest Beauty, and you are altogether a most attractive Object; but you’ve stood there long enough. So jump in and have done with it!”
Cartoon by George du Maurier from Punch. (He was also the father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and grandfather of the five boys who inspired J.M. Barrie‘s Peter Pan, fact fans!)
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More strange taxes…I thought this was pure fancy but a brief search highlights there was indeed a ‘beard tax’.
“In 1705, Emperor Peter I of Russia instituted a beard tax to modernize the society of Russia following European models. Those who paid the tax were required to carry a “beard token”. This was a copper or silver token with a Russian Eagle on one side and on the other, the lower part of a face with nose, mouth, whiskers, and beard. It was inscribed with two phrases: “the beard tax has been taken” and “the beard is a superfluous burden”
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Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
Great pic! BTW I’ve heard that cats are pogonophobic, and it seems the opposite – actually cats seem rather obsessed with my beard, I usually have to stop them rubbing against it, cos fleas will happily jump over for a short while and it gets mega itchy. I’ve never had a cat ‘scared’ of my beard. And it aint short.
A brilliant study that brings together two of the most discussed things on the internet: cats and beards!
Apparently cat’s don’t like men with long dark beards or incomplete beards, but are indifferent to men with short beards. But read for yourself!
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Now THAT’s a long beard. I bet he still got the ZZ-Top jokes*, though.
* response: ‘OMG you’re SO original, never heard that one before…*rollseyes*
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Lovely! Alexei von Jawlensky (Russian, 1864–1941; worked in Germany 1896–1914 and 1922–1941; worked in Switzerland 1914–1922)
The Old Man (Yellow Beard), 1912 it sez here!Jawlensky
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Carl Pietzner – Franz Josef I, who gave his name to his distinctive (and I think sexy) beard – in honour of Otto von Habsburg whose funeral happened to day. End of an era?
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Wonderful pic!
BEARDED MAN in KILT ERIDGE SUSSEX GEO. HOWARD (by photoidhelp)