It was, of course, the hippies who started the current style of long hair, beard, whiskers, and sideburns—more properly called burn-sides, after the Union general A.E.
Burnside who sported this particular brand of hirsute adornment.
The hippies, and their forerunners, the beats, who rebelled against the foppery of fancy duds and the time-wastefulness of trimming away the indicia of manliness, can be said to have become a social force just around the time Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in 1957.
The hippy paean struck its high note with the presentation of "Hair," which celebrated the most visible aspect of hippiness.
Yet it is now being bruited about that the beard has reached the heyday of its current vogue, and may well be on the way out—or off, as the case may be.
Indeed, love for the beard has been very fickle. During the first part of this century—between 1910 and 1960—facial foliage in the United States was indeed a rarity.
Dolphins are the world's most uneasy sleepers. They nap only a few hours at a stretch—with one eye open at all times.
http://amazingfactsworld.com/can-dolphins-talk
In 1864, in response to an outcry against trains, the British government passed a law which limited steam-driven vehicles to a speed of 4 m.p.h. in the country and 2 m.p.h. in the city.
The left bank of a river is the bank to the left of a person looking downstream, and has nothing at all to do with the right-left relationship of the two banks on a map.
Thus, St. Louis is on the right bank of the Mississippi, and Manhattan Island forms part of the left bank of the Hudson.
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