Sir Dude Named Ben Onymous on Nostr: npub1ahf0p…vjdrc If that's the case, it's been going on much longer. As I recall ...

npub1ahf0ph0eyscw28qf2ursd2q2lcr9zwze3l5yenn93mamhdgv3vvqjvjdrc (npub1ahf…jdrc) If that's the case, it's been going on much longer. As I recall from my college classics studies, during the Roman Republic, aristocrats began shaving their beards to emulate Alexander the Great who had done so centuries earlier and encouraged his soldiers to shave before battle, as beards could be grabbed by enemies in “hand-to-beard combat.”