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The gays are celebrating World Beard Day with their hottest scruffy pics
a tongue-in-cheek website devoted to the holiday explains. “The beardless members of the family traditionally show their support by waiting on the bearded hand and foot.”The Old Farmer’s Almanac recently offered a history of shaving and beards, saying that nobles of ancient Egypt (women included) donned artificial beards as markers of divinity, Mesopotamian rulers and elites deemed beards signs of masculinity and strength, and ancient Greeks considered a full beard to denote high status and wisdom.Do you struggle to grow a beard? Beard-haters abound in world history, though, as historian Lucinda Hawksley wrote in the 2014 book Moustaches, Whiskers and Beards (via The Telegraph).