Beard

There was a time when men would grow a beard to show their rugged manhood. Now big bushy beards are no longer grown for men to display their masculinity but so that men can have something to decorate. And what better time than Christmas to get out the tinsel and decorate your goatee…

Here’s how it’s done! Are you listening Stathis?

Just one question… How do you eat?

The International World Beard and Moustache Championships are underway in the little village of Leogang in Austria. More than 350 contestants from 20 countries are there to vy for an international placing.

For over a year, and more in some cases, the contestants have groomed and pruned their spectacular beards and moustaches as though they were works of art.

Excavations that have been continuing in Alacahöyük, one of the centers of Hittite civilization and considered Turkey?s first ?national excavation field,? have unearthed nearly 3,700-year-old hair ties and jewelry made of animal horns.

The head of the excavations, Professor Aykut Ç?naro?lu, said they had found the hair ties during excavations in the chambers of the mine factory. 

The grim rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has had at least one positive side for Turkish barbers, as hirsute men have begun to forego their fashionable long beards amid concern about being associated with the jihadi group, according to Manisa Chamber of Barbers and Hairdressers head Ali Batu.

FMX’s top riders arrived in Athens on Thursday and made sure most people in the center of the Greek capital knew about!

Ronnie Renner, the four-time winner of the X-Games and the winner of the Red Bull X-Fighters in Mexico City in 2005 took a little tour of the city, paying a particularly spectacular visit to the Athens Academy.

A group of young men who dared to shave their beards was arrested and jailed for three months by ISIS jihadists. According to a series of new laws in ISIS-held Iraqi territories revealed by a blogger, the jihadists forbid men to shave. The even stricter fact is that if said men repeat their offense, they will be beheaded!

Here’s everything that happened in the first four seasons of Game of Thrones, quickly summed up by a fictional George R.R. Martin … or Lon Harris with spray paint in his beard.  Caution: Massive spoilers ahead!

Last year’s Eurovisιon winner Conchita Wurst posted a picture on social media without her famous beard, which made her famous.

Her fans rushed to ask of her new look, however, the dinger assured them that she saved only for a halloween party.

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo acknowledged on Saturday that one of its greatest treasures, the mask of King Tutankhamun, had been crudely glued back together after being damaged, but insisted the item could be restored to its former glory.
   

A Turkish football club has decided to issue a hefty fine for beards, after its chairman claimed some footballers look like students of imam-training schools.