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In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  The New York Times Step Right Up! See the Bearded Person! Text
"She's a woman with the beard glued on," a boy sitting next to the woman says.
"A woman with a beard, not 'the bearded-lady!"' she says.
The woman behind the counter is wearing a wig.
www.maryellenmark.com /text/magazines/nytimes/917M-000-012.html   (2136 words)

  
  Boston.com / News / Nation / Bearded woman tries to preach in mosque
A big, bearded cleric caught the eye of a mosque official as he approached the stand to deliver the sermon, the chief imam at Bahrain's largest mosque recalled Thursday.
The "cleric" was a woman in disguise, and when the official blocked her path, a scuffle broke out, al-Qattan said of last week's incident in the Al Fateh mosque.
reported the woman had told the police that she wanted to give the sermon to highlight the case of her brother, who had got into trouble with the authorities for a brawl.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/11/18/bearded_woman_tries_to_preach_in_mosque   (358 words)

  
  Beard - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Beard has stood alone for all these things, and whisker has in its time signified what we now call moustache, as in the case of Robinson Crusoe's great pair of "Turkish whiskers." The bearded races of mankind have ever held the beard in high honour.
It is the sign of full manhood; the lad or the eunuch is beardless, and the bearded woman is reckoned a witch, a loathsome thing to all ages.
The beard is common in the 14th century, the forked pattern being favoured and the long drooping moustache.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Beard   (2466 words)

  
 Bearded woman Information
Notable exceptions were the famous (and usually fake) bearded women of the circus sideshows of the 19th and early 20th centuries, before so-called freak shows became unpopular.
In some rare cases, female beard growth is the result of an hormonal imbalance known as hirsutism, or an even rarer genetic disorder known as hypertrichosis.
They tell Don Quixote that the beards are the result of an evil charmer, and the knight has to ride Clavileño to the skies to undo the charm.
www.bookrags.com /Bearded_woman   (283 words)

  
 Bearded Lady - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Notable exceptions were the famous (and usually fake) bearded women of the circus sideshows of the 19th and early 20th centuries, before so-called freak shows became unpopular.
In some rare cases, female beard growth is the result of an hormonal imbalance known as hirsutism, or an even rarer genetic disorder known as hypertrichosis.
They tell Don Quixote that the beards are the result of an evil charmer, and the knight has to ride Clavileño to the skies to undo the charm.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bearded_woman   (363 words)

  
 Beards: Historical Presentation + (the bearded races of mankind have commonly held the beard in high honor).
Beards have assumed all shapes and lengths, some being cultivated to lengths exceeding a man's height while Islamic people still hold the beard in high esteem.
Assyrians resorted to a fl dye for eyebrows, hair, and beard; while the Persians used henna which produced an orange-red color, a style that existed from 1900 B.C. Gold dust, gold thread, and scented yellow starch were sometimes used in the hair and the beard for festive occasions.
Beards predominated among the Greeks until 323 B.C., at which time Alexanter the Great ordered his soldiers to be clean shaven, fearing that their beards would serve as handles for their enemies to grab and to hold the Greek soldier as he was killed.
www.wordinfo.info /words/index/info/view_unit/3365/?letter=B&spage=1   (1076 words)

  
 bearded woman
In front of 2,000 people, an overweight woman happily volunteers for humiliation, stepping up on stage to be informed she weighs 48 stone and "stinks".
Bearded Lady Jennifer Miller, bearded woman The bearded woman has been a phenomenon of legend, curiosity, ridicule, and more recently, political.
[Bearded Woman] Jane Barnell andquot;Madam Olgaandquot; andquot;Lady Olgaandquot; At birth Barnelland#39;s chin and cheeks were covered with down, and by two she had a beard.
digilander.libero.it /lizard.1900/bearded-woman.html   (742 words)

  
 Object-Oriented Programming
with Ada 9X
Woman adds no new component to its parent type; notice the syntax "with null record" used for this purpose.
The operation Is_Bearded can only be applied to an actual parameter P, the specific type of which is in the class Man, thus the membership test.
The parent type of the mixin (the generic formal type) can also be constrained to a set of types belonging to a derivation class, to ensure that is has a number of properties that are needed to implement the mixin type, or to ensure the consistency of the mixed types.
www.adahome.com /9X/OOP-Ada9X.html   (11473 words)

  
 Penn State University Libraries : Special Collections Library : Historical Collections and Labor Archives : Darrah ...
Woman wearing ring, earrings, hat with feathers, ribbon bow on dress, with hand on man's shoulder.
Portrait of young woman wearing lace collar, brooch, with one hand in front of her body.
Vignetted portrait of young woman wearing lace collar, fur collar on coat.
www.libraries.psu.edu /speccolls/FindingAids/darrahindex/ohio.htm   (4264 words)

  
 PopMatters | Columns | Matt Thomson | People Person | Bearded Ladies Live!
Bearded women, and I do mean women with the ability to grow a full beard, are not freaks of nature even if they are out of the ordinary.
The beard symbolized the fact that because of her divine status, Friga was able to take on both feminine and masculine characteristics at the same time.
At the same time, this de-mystification boiled the Bearded Lady down to the essence of her magnetism: as a sexually suggestive androgyne whose appearance is in many ways a reflection onto our own sexually ambiguous state.
www.popmatters.com /columns/thomson/060321.shtml   (1531 words)

  
 Prodigies by James G. Mundie - Bearded Ladies
The well-paid infant grew into the "Bearded Girl", and by the time of this photograph was well on her way to bearded womanhood.
In 1884, Madame Devere's beard was measured at an alleged 14 inches, which is purportedly the record length for a woman's beard.
This is an interesting item: A photograph of the French bearded lady Madame Delait, (curiously spelt ‘Delay’ in the title), which declares her to be a member of a bicycling club, Cycle Thaonnais.
www.missioncreep.com /mundie/gallery/gallery2.htm   (1825 words)

  
 The Human Marvels
Long before The Bearded Lady was a staple in the sideshow, bearded ladies were already revered in the mythology and folklore of the old world.
Born in 1831 in the Swiss village of Versoix, Josephine Boisdechene was born covered with fine fur and she was bearded by the age of two.
Her femininity was accentuated by her Victorian wardrobe, her beard was styled after Napoleon III and it was often opulently adorned with jewels.
www.thehumanmarvels.com /2006/06/mme-clofullia-bearded-lady-of-geneva.html   (737 words)

  
 The Wild Hunt Blog: A modern Pagan perspective
That while the bearded woman went from revered figures of myth, to a feared demonic manifestation, and now simply to a circus curiosity the image still taps deeply into our subconscious.
The bearded lady acts as an acknowledgement of our own history of sexual ambiguity, an outward sign that we can encompass both genders, that perhaps the mysteries of the "other" isn't as mysterious or distant as we may believe.
It might be considered equally plausible that these Goddesses were given beards to provide them with a masculine quality, based on the concept that to be so powerful there had to be some aspect of man in them, instead of just the feminine.
www.wildhunt.org /2006/03/pagan-history-of-bearded-lady.html   (424 words)

  
 Bearded Dragon . org - Visitor Photo Album
This site is dedicated to those who share an interest in Bearded Dragons (Pogona Vitticeps).
These are pictures of bearded dragons contributed by the members of the website.
If you have a picture of your bearded dragon that you would like to see here, go to the image upload form!
www.beardeddragon.org /guestAlbum   (115 words)

  
 Penn State University Libraries : Special Collections Library : Historical Collections and Labor Archives : Darrah ...
Woman wearing lace collar, brooch, ribbon bow on dress, in hair, with hand to face.
Portrait of young woman, bearded man with mustache wearing bow tie, long coat, and young child (boy?).
Portrait of bearded man wearing bow tie, with arms folded, woman wearing ribbon bow, brooch, earrings (seated), and two young women and young man, standing.
www.libraries.psu.edu /speccolls/FindingAids/darrahindex/denmark.htm   (1086 words)

  
 Bearded Waiting Women, Lovely Lethal Female Piratemen: Sexual Boundary Shifts in Don Quixote, Part II, by Arthur Efron
Instead of a clear case of a man cleverly disguising himself as a woman, we are given an unconvincing disguise that blurs sexual boundaries but is taken for real despite —or perhaps because of— the blur.
Although the pretend Dulcinea failed to convince Sancho to accept the whipping, the bearded woman persuades him to take a dangerous ride to attain her disenchantment; as in the later episodes of Claudia Gerónima and Anna Felix, “she drew tears from the eyes of all the spectators, and even filled Sancho's to the brim.
This praise of the woman's body is actually a condemnation, since the female body (or for that matter the male) can hardly fulfill the expectation that it enclose and finally supply the abstract values of class.
www.h-net.msu.edu /~cervantes/csa/articf82/efron.htm   (2936 words)

  
 THE BEARDED DEER
The woman who was driving the tractor had a beard, and I thought it looked really good on her.
Enough bearded women to make me suspect that women with facial hair were probably pretty common, and most women who had it probably just shaved and never mentioned it.
And she looked so forest graceful as she leapt off her tractor and started razzing us because of all our gear, which we were trying to load up on the flat bed that was being pulled along behind her tractor.
www.gostoryteller.com /beardeddeer.html   (795 words)

  
 Bearded lady in fake sheik bid - Unusual Tales - www.smh.com.au
Defying Islamic traditions, a Bahraini woman disguised herself as a bearded Muslim sheik to lead Friday prayers but was stopped before she reached the pulpit.
Sheik Adnan al-Qattan of al-Fateh Grand Mosque said yesterday that the 40-year-old woman identified as Fatima donned a fake beard and robe and entered his mosque last Friday to deliver a sermon.
Then when her beard began to slide off and her voice grew soft during a scuffle we found out she was a woman," the sheik said.
www.smh.com.au /news/Unusual-Tales/Bearded-lady-in-fake-sheik-bid/2004/11/19/1100748153235.html   (224 words)

  
 IOL: 'Bearded' woman tries to preach in mosque
Manama - A Bahraini woman disguised as a male cleric has tried to deliver a sermon during prayers, leading to a scuffle with worshippers and her subsequent arrest.
The woman, who was "bearded" and bespectacled, made her way to the stand where the mosque's imam was about to give a sermon during Friday's weekly prayers "when the muezzin grabbed hold of 'him' to ask where he was going", Sheikh Adnan al-Qatan said on Monday.
When asked for her motive, "the woman, yelling and screaming, said she had wanted to deliver a sermon because she wants to prevent sedition", Qatan said.
www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=123&art_id=vn20041116031629600C158403   (444 words)

  
 Sun Herald - 05/21/03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Her father and his family never accepted the fact she was a bearded woman, caused by a genetic hormonal disorder she inherited from her mother.
Her beard, however, earned her a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2001 for being the woman with the world's longest beard.
Her beard really started growing in when she was 10 years old.
www.sun-herald.com /NewsArchive2/052103/tp3ch17.htm?date=052103&story=tp3ch17.htm   (688 words)

  
 Television Without Pity » Mondo Extras » Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: Pilot
The guy turns around, and either this is a bearded woman, or it's Orlando Bloom.
Bearded Lady reaches into his/her shirt and cuts something inside with a pair of scissors.
Jimmy tells his bum friend that he likes the beard, but that the moustache isn't working for him.
www.televisionwithoutpity.com /articles/content/a1030   (674 words)

  
 Ananova - Bearded woman accused of being Devil's offspring
A Romanian woman is refusing to shave off her thick beard and moustache because she says they keep her warm.
Anica Birladeanu is shunned by villagers in Pechea, County Galati.They claim that her beard is a sign that she is evil and accuse her of being the offspring of the Devil.
The 34-year-old woman says she is a simple shepherd who keeps herself to herself.
www.ananova.com /news/story/sm_137749.html?menu=news.quirkies   (148 words)

  
 The Lady Traders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The only window was the skylight cut into the roof.  The blonde woman went to a small chest and after opening it gathered up a large selection of silk scarves in a variety of colours and patterns.
I then heard the click of the lock on the door as it opened.  The blonde woman entered the room.  She stood over us and smiled.  She was not a natural blonde I noticed the dark roots.  She had a harshly attractive face but wore too much make up around the eyes.
The blonde woman stroked Hazel’s hair and still smiling came around to me.  She ran a hand up my bound legs, stroking them through the fl nylon of my tights.  Her hand went up under my skirt, I tensed slightly and then she withdrew it.
www.homestead.com /jebsadventurebound/files/TLT.html   (2071 words)

  
 Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke? Paradise Island as a woman's community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Her reluctance to marry Steve may have had nothing to do with her interest in other woman, but rather, her reluctance to spend the rest of her life with someone so stupid that he constantly fails to make the connection between the Amazon princess Diana and her alter ego, army nurse Diana Prince.
In her introduction to the collection of Wonder Woman covers, Gloria Steinem writes, "...(Marston) had invented Wonder Woman as a heroine for little girls, and also as a conscious alternative to the violence of comic books for boys."11 Of course, Steinem was not there, nor did she ever interview the good doctor.
In a feminist reversal of mythic hero birth stories, in which a virgin mother is magically impregnated by a male deity19, the virginal amazon Queen Hippolyta, desiring a baby, is instructed by the goddess Athena to mold one from clay.
girl-wonder.org /papers/robbins.html   (2829 words)

  
 ABC News: The Secretly Normal Lives of Sideshow Stars
Bearded woman Jennifer Miller is a 45-year-old adjunct professor at New York University.
She has taught dance and theater to students of all ages, including actress Claire Danes (when Danes was a third-grader), and she doesn't bother with waxing, shaving or electrolysis.
She was in her early 20s and already working as a professional dancer when an endocrine disorder left her with a thick set of whiskers.
abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/WolfFiles/story?id=1289945   (1286 words)

  
 FREAKS - Old Vintage Antique Postcards Postcard
Delait, the bearded woman, dressed as a Man.
FRANCE - Thaon : Mrs Delait, the bearded woman, and her dog.
BELGIUM - Wasmes : Victor Preux, the longuest beard, 1.80 meter.
www.postcardman.net /freaks.html   (248 words)

  
 Candide's Notebooks/Yo Mama's Last Supper
Her father was so angry that he had his bearded daughter crucified.
Thus grew up the cult of Saint Wilgefortis, and her worshipers, praying before the figure of a bearded woman, were unbeknownst to themselves really praying to Christ.
This is interpretive conjecture: It is impossible to know from the picture alone whether Cox is saying that Jesus was in fact a woman or merely that he is being represented as a woman.
www.pierretristam.com /Bobst/library/WF-33.htm   (2842 words)

  
 Isthmus | The Daily Page - Wisconsin Book Festival 2006: Benjamin Percy speaks
I have never lusted after a bearded woman, but I have lusted, and I understand how a small element of the grotesque -- a mole on her cheek or gap between her teeth or scar running across her belly -- can somehow make a woman intoxicatingly beautiful.
From McKinley Morganfield on 04/12/06 at 11:35 pm The gypsy woman told me you were your mother's bad luck child.
The gypsy woman told me you were your mother's bad luck child you're having a good time now.
www.thedailypage.com /isthmus/article.php?article=4421   (3120 words)

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