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A man with a beard after the Macedonian
period implied a philosopher,[5] and we have
many allusions to this custom of the later
philosophers in such proverbs as: "The beard
does not make the sage."[6]
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The first time of shaving was regarded as the
beginning of manhood, and the day on which this
took place was celebrated as a festival.[9] Usually,
this was done when the young Roman assumed
the toga virilis. Augustus did it in his twentyfourth year, Caligula in his twentieth. The hair cut
off on such occasions was consecrated to a god.
Thus Nero put his into a golden box set with
pearls, and dedicated it to Jupiter Capitolinus.[10]
The Romans, unlike the Greeks, let their beards
grow in time of mourning; so did Augustus for the
death of Julius Caesar.[
There are several theories as to why the
military began shaving beards. When
World War I broke out in the 1910s, the use
of chemical weapons necessitated that
soldiers shave their beards so that gas
masks could seal over their faces.
A male Rastafarian's beard is a sign of his
pact with God (Jah or Jehovah), and his
Bible is his source of knowledge. Leviticus
21:5 ("They shall not make baldness upon
their head, neither shall they shave off the
corner of their beard, nor make any
cuttings in the flesh.") Likewise, it is not
uncommon for a Rastafarian beard to grow
uncombed, like dreadlocks.
Professional airline pilots are required to
be clean shaven to facilitate a tight seal
with auxiliary oxygen masks.
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In Irish football, a ban on beards has been in
place since 2005, when Beechlawn Rovers
defender David Murray pulled Chanel striker
Ricky Bobby down by his beard when he was
clear through on goal. It was feared by the Irish
Premier League that this practice would
continue; therefore a ban was placed on
growing facial hair longer than two inches.[
* Full – downward flowing beard with
either styled or integrated moustache
* Sideburns – hair grown from the
temples down the cheeks toward the
jawline. Sometimes with a moustache.
* Chinstrap – a beard with long
sideburns that comes forward and ends
under the chin, resembling a chinstrap,
hence the name.
* Donegal – similar to the chinstrap
beard but, covers the entire chin.
* Garibaldi – wide, full beard with
rounded bottom and integrated moustache
* Goatee – A tuft of hair grown on the
chin, sometimes resembling a billy goat's.
* Junco – A goatee which extends
upward and connects to the corners of the
mouth.
* Hollywoodian- A beard with
integrated mustache that is worn on the
lower part of the chin and jaw area,
without connecting sideburns.
the ears without connecting side burns.
# Royale – is a narrow pointed beard
extending from the chin. The style was
popular in France during the period of the
Second Empire, from which it gets its
alternative name, the imperial or
impériale.
# Stubble – a very short beard of only one
to a few days growth. This became
fashionable during the heyday of Miami
Vice. During this time, a modified electric
razor called the Miami Device became
popular, which would trim stubble to a
preset length.
# Van Dyck – A goatee accompanied by a
moustache.
# Verdi – short beard with rounded
bottom and slightly shaven cheeks with
prominent moustache
# Neckbeard (Neard) – Similar to the
Chinstrap, but with the chin and jawline
shaven, leaving hair to grow only on the
neck. While never as popular as other
beard styles, a few noted historical figures
have worn this type of beard, such as
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* "There are two kinds of people in this world that
go around beardless—boys and women—and I am
neither one." -Greek saying
* "A woman with a beard looks like a man. A
man without a beard looks like a woman." Afghan Saying
* "The beard is the handsomeness of the face,
and a wife is the joy in a man's heart." - R' Akiva,
Eicha Rabbah
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* "And yet your beards forbid me..." - Banquo,
to the witches, in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
* "Shaving was a custom of the Macedonian
military, taken over by Hellenic and Roman
society. From then on the beard becomes a
philosophical status symbol, a sign of nonconformism." - Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of
Cynical Reason, pg. 210, n.4
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“Keep growing that and you can forget about
it, ever”
-his wife…………..