Who else had beards?snowdog said:
- Spartans, including King Leonidas I. Cowards were punished by having their beards sheared off.
- The most elite of the ancient Egyptians had beards. A metal false beard was even worn by queens.
- All pre-Alexander Greek men had beards. To be without a beard was to be considered womanly. Alexander began the clean-shaven trend merely to protect his soldiers from giving their enemies something to grab onto in the heat of battle.
- All pre-Scipio Roman men had beards. Shaving was an unheard-of practice. Scipio began the clean-shaven trend merely to distinguish Romans from the Greeks.
- Only veterans of Napoleon's Grande Armée were permitted to grow beards.
- Who else had a beard? Charles Dic kens, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Friederich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, from Abraham Lincoln to William Taft, The Beatles, Zeus, Poseidon, Jesus, Moses, Abraham, St. Peter, Rastafarians, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, William Sherman, Zakk Wylde, Dimebag Darrell, Dave Grohl, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Galileo Galilei, Leonardo da Vinci, Archimedes, Michelangelo, Donatello, Johannes Kepler, Saladin, Stonewall Jackson, Dumbledore, Merlin, Santa Claus, Gandalf, and Gimli.
"There are two kinds of people in this world that go around beardless — boys and women — and I am neither one." - Greek saying