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SCOUT· 28%51m·2024-09-09·History492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2)
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“I like an Englishman to look like an Englishman, and beards are foreign and breed vermin. Also depend upon it, they will lead to filthy habits.” Europe has had a love-hate relationship with facial hair since the Late Middle Ages. In the eleventh century, beards were celebrated as an expression of fertility caused by…
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