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  Beard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beards, together with long hair, were reintroduced to mainstream society in Western Europe and the Americas by the hippie movement of the mid 1960s.
Beards are also permitted for medical reasons, such as temporary skin irritations, or by infantry pioneer warrant officers, colour sergeants and sergeants, who traditionally wear beards.
The combination of a mustache and a chin beard is a goatee or Van Dyck, unless the mustache and chin beard are connected, in which case it is known as a circle beard.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beard   (3217 words)

  
 Charles A. Beard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beard was thus one of the leading proponents of United States isolationism.
In addition, Beard's foreign policy views have become popular with supporters of paleoconservatism, such as Pat Buchanan, which is perhaps ironic considering Beard's generally liberal (or progressive) stance on most issues.
Beard's stress on greed and economic motivation influenced the "Wisconsin school" of new left historians William Appleman Williams, Gabriel Kolko, and James Weinstein.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Beard   (1004 words)

  
 Beard, Charles Austin - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Beard was especially concerned with the relationship of economic interests and politics.
Charles Beard, much criticized as a radical in his earlier years, was just as much criticized by the liberals in his later years for his violent opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt 's administration, especially in the struggle over the Supreme Court and in foreign policy.
Mary R. Beard, a historian in her own right, was particularly interested in feminism and the labor movement and wrote a number of works on the subjects, notably Women's Work in Municipalities (1915), A Short History of the American Labor Movement (1920), On Understanding Women (1931), and Woman as Force in History (1946).
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-beard-c1h.html   (641 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Beard
Hence clerics are directed to shave their beards; for the cutting of the hair of the beard, which is said to be nourished by the superfluous humours of the stomach, denotes that we ought to cut away the vices and sins which are a superfluous growth in us.
To judge by the portraits of the popes, it was with Clement VII (1523) that a distinct beard began to be worn, and many among his successors, for example Paul III, allowed the beard to grow to considerable length.
Still, though the length of clerical beards decreased during the seventeenth century, it was not until its close that the example of the French court and the influence of Cardinal Orsini, Archbishop of Beneventum, contributed to bring about a return to the earlier usage.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02362a.htm   (1001 words)

  
 Beard Family in Mercer County, Illinois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Guy Beard died in 1928 but Maggie is working the farm that they owned in 1930 and the children are with her.
Beard married Miss Carrie Sporleder (sic) of Mercer County and eight children were born to them, seven still living (this tells us that the eight children listed in the obituary above included seven of Carrie's and one of Mahala's but does not tell us which belonged to Mahala).  In 1865 Mr.
Beard is a son of John and Charity Beard.  He came to the State in the fall of 1856, and settled in Willow Springs Township, where he owns 800 acres, 450 of which are under the plow.  Mr.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Shores/2731/Beard.html   (3925 words)

  
 all about beards: Growing a beard
When you see someone who has a full-grown beard, you know he made the decision to be bearded and he had the determination to stick with it.
Beard growth is genetically determined and there is not much anyone can do other than to accept what they've been given.
If you choose to get rid of your new beard, the easiest way to dispose of it is to use a beard trimmer or other hair clippers.
members.aol.com /beardguy/beard036.htm   (747 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Beard looks to life after Duke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Beard was The Associated Press player of the year in women's basketball and will now team with Chamique Holdsclaw in the pros.
Beard became just the second three-time AP All-American and the first female player at Duke to have her jersey number retired.
Beard is almost certain to be the highest-drafted ACC player selected from the collegiate ranks.
www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/wnba/mystics/2004-04-17-beard_x.htm   (573 words)

  
 Frank Beard - AOL Music
Frank Beard, born June 11, 1949 in Frankston, Texas, is the drummer in the blues-rock band ZZ Top.
Beard was formerly with The Cellar Dwellers, The Hustlers...
Beard is probably best known as the author of "Pro", the story of his year on the tour in 1969.
music.aol.com /artist/frank-beard/55172/main   (165 words)

  
 Andrew Beard
With the emergence of the railroad industry and its rapid expansion throughout the country, an alarming number of railmen suffered serious injuries to their arms and legs when they were crushed during manual style coupling of railroad cars.
The Jenny Coupler automatically joined cars by simply allowing them to bump into each other, or as Beard described it the "horizontal jaws engage each other to connect the cars." Beard sold the rights to his invention for $50,000.00 and the railroad industry was revolutionized.
During his lifetime, Beard received a number of other patents, including a steam driven rotary engine, and a double plow.
www.blackinventor.com /pages/andrewbeard.html   (196 words)

  
 About James Beard
James Andrew Beard was born on May 5, 1903 in Portland, Oregon, to Elizabeth and John Beard.
Beard spent the war years with a brief stint in cryptography, but he primarily served with the United Seamen's Service, setting up sailors' canteens in Puerto Rico, Rio de Janeiro, Marseilles, and Panama.
When James Beard died at 81 on January 21, 1985, he left a legacy of culinary excellence and integrity to generations of home cooks and professional chefs.
www.jamesbeard.org /about/beard.shtml   (516 words)

  
 Beard Marine Watermakers, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
The Beard Marine Group is the largest marine air conditioning, refrigeration, and watermaker sales and service company in Florida.
Beard Marine is the industry leader in marine air conditioning, refrigeration and watermakers sales and service.
Beard Marine is committed to sensible growth and strong stability by maintaining profitability, recognizing opportunity, and operating at the highest levels of personal integrity and business ethics.
www.beardmarine.com   (571 words)

  
 JesseBeard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John W. Beard wrote his will in Johnson County, Indiana, on 3/14/1883.  He named wife Nancy [Farmbrough] and children: John J. Beard and Serena Williams.  He also named his daughter Mary Prudence Beard, providing for her care as she was "weak of mind."  He mentioned land owned in Morgan, Marion, Brown and Shelby Counties.
Margaret Beard, widow, is found in Johnson County, Indiana, in 1850: Margaret Beard, 30, born In; Sophia, 10, In; Hannah, 6, In.
Son William Oliver Beard is found in Clark Township, Johnson County: William O. Beard, farmer, age 32, born In, parents born Ohio; Nancy J. Beard, 29, born In, parents born Tn; Otto Beard, son, 9, In; Harry Beard, son, 7, In;l William Shelton, laborer, 17, born In; Sarina Hemphill, 22, servant, born In.
www.geocities.com /nadineholder/JesseBeard.html   (2043 words)

  
 T. Beard: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Beard's summary was automatically generated using 10 references found on the Internet.
Beard received a Ph.D. in Economics from Vanderbilt University in 1988 and a B.A. in Economics from Tulane University in 1982.
Beard is a Professor of Economics at Auburn University.
www.zoominfo.com /people/beard_t._25342180.aspx   (335 words)

  
 K. Beard: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Beard's summary was automatically generated using 42 references found on the Internet.
Beard's expeditions to collect new fossils include the Wind River, Big Horn and Washakie Basins of Wyoming, the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, and in eastern Mississippi where he unearthed the fossils of the Coryphodon, a hippo-like animal that lived 58 million years ago.
Beard, the fossil is "probably the biggest missing link in what we know about primate and human evolution." Winner of the MacArthur fellowship "Genius Grants" in 2000, Dr.
www.zoominfo.com /people/beard_k._14739025.aspx   (414 words)

  
 Beard - Uncyclopedia
The Beards were facinated by this object, and they began cutting their facial hair in different shapes.
For a while Disney was successful in suppressing unauthorized beards, but then communists, who didn't believe in America, started overthrowing a number of small insignificant countries such as China and Russia, and letting anyone grow a beard, including children.
By the 1980s, beards were acceptable again and were sported by the rock group ZZ Top as an ironic gesture designed to screw with the heads of their impressionable middle-aged audience, thus they all had beards except Frank Beard who didn't.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Beard   (486 words)

  
 Beard Marine News
The Beard Marine Group is proud to announce that it was the preferred contractor to commission the two Sea Recovery Coral Sea Watermakers, 6,300 gallons (23,800 L) per day, aboard the new 180 ft. Trinity Yacht, Hull T027, "Mia Elise".
Beard Marine technicians commissioned the watermaker system onboard to ensure that the system was safe and reliable for usage.
Beard Marine has in-house electrical technicians, specializing in the repair of digital controls.
www.beardmarine.com /beard-news-trinity.htm   (210 words)

  
 CMNH Vertebrate Paleontology: K. Christopher Beard
Beard, K. C., and Wang, J. The eosimiid primates (Anthropoidea) of the Heti Formation, Yuanqu Basin, Shanxi and Henan Provinces, People's Republic of China.
Beard, K. The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey.
Beard, K. C., and Dawson, M. Early Wasatchian mammals from the Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi: Biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications.
www.carnegiemnh.org /vp/cv/beard.htm   (260 words)

  
 Beard research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the interest of science, I thought of cutting off my beard for a winter to determine if it would be colder without it.
Although I've determined that it felt warmer with a beard, no analytical tests were performed.
I suggest that a better test would be to shave half a person's beard off, but not tell them which half.
mudhead.uottawa.ca /~pete/beard.html   (343 words)

  
 New Catholic Dictionary: beard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Among the Jews and other Orientals the beard was cherished as a symbol of virility.
It has been customary from early days for the clergy of the Latin Church to cut off or shave their beards.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the contrary practise prevailed, and beards are now worn by the priests of the Eastern churches, both Uniat and Schismatic, by foreign missionaries, by certain religious like the Capuchins, and by individual priests for reasons of health.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd01071.htm   (89 words)

  
 The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey
In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the first anthropoids--the diverse and successful group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans--evolved millions of years earlier than was previously suspected and emerged in Asia rather than Africa.
In The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, Beard chronicles the saga of two centuries of scientific exploration in search of anthropoid origins, from the early work of Georges Cuvier, the father of paleontology, to the latest discoveries in Asia, Africa, and North America's Rocky Mountains.
Chris Beard is Curator and Head, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History and winner of a MacArthur "genius" grant.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9721.html   (659 words)

  
 World Beard and Moustache Championships
In fact, it is almost unpatriotic not to grow a beard or moustache and enter the competition.
Americans should consider joining Beard Team USA, whose mission is to make the USA a force in international beard and moustache competitions.
On July 3, Jack Passion claimed the $500 first prize at the High Sierra Beard and Moustache Championships held at the Village at Squaw Valley near North Lake Tahoe, California.
www.worldbeardchampionships.com   (620 words)

  
 Muttaqun OnLine - Beard: According to Quran and Sunnah
Cut the moustaches short and leave the beard (as it is).
Trim closely the moustache, and grow beard, and thus act against the fire-worshippers.
was in the mosque when a man came in with dishevelled hair and beard.
muttaqun.com /beard.html   (217 words)

  
 all about beards
Be sure to participate in the beard survey.
You are also invited to show off your beard in our beards of the world gallery.
Beards deserve more respect and appreciation than they often get.
www.beards.org   (220 words)

  
 Contest will pick the greatest facial hair on Earth
Less familiar classes are the Imperial, a great big W of a mustache, with wide, bushy curves; the Garibaldi, a full, rounded beard in the style of the Italian patriot; or the gravity-defying Freestyle classes.
These hirsute men are among the contestants expected at this year's World Beard and Mustache Championships Nov. 1 in Carson City, Nev. Among them is Willi Chevalier, bottom center, the current world champion in the partial beard, freestyle category.
He showers and washes his beard, before and after work, and never leaves home without one of his 30 or so combs, stashed in his car, home and jacket pockets.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /lifestyle/145184_beards24.html   (1291 words)

  
 The Beard in Islam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ordered the moustache to be trimmed and the beard to be left.
The requirement for keeping a beard is a neglected practice in this day and age.
Even the U.S. court has ruled that Muslims have the rights to wear beards in the workplace.
www.islam.tc /beard   (175 words)

  
 Red Beard - Miniclip Games - Play Free Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Click here to open your default mail program and send Red Beard to your friends.
There are 3 different ways of posting Red Beard to your blog or website.
Help Red Beard to collect all of the gold.
www.miniclip.com /redbeard.htm   (183 words)

  
 Flickr: Photos tagged with beard
NEW Explore and refine beard photos with our brand new clustery goodness!
Beard products - wax, gels, after-shaves, colognes and shave creams are just some of the...
You can assign as many tags as you wish to each photo.
www.flickr.com /photos/tags/beard   (153 words)

  
 William Holbrook Beard Online
William Holbrook Beard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Fine art posters are a huge, huge bargain, so don't worry about spending more for the frame than the poster.
All images and text on this William Holbrook Beard page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/beard_william_holbrook.html   (154 words)

  
 Gallery of  Contestants and Champions
Some of the contestants and champions you will meet at the World Beard and Moustache Championships are shown below.
Back to World Beard and Moustache Championships homepage.
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www.worldbeardchampionships.com /Gallery/gallery.html   (44 words)

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