Marx's beard is the coolest beard of all time

[Mass_Liberal]

doncha think?

[laconicsax]

1. I think it's rivaled

Here's Karl Marx


Here's Johannes Brahms


http://www.karadar.com/PhotoGallery/brahms.html for more photos of the man and his beard.

[Dirk39]

4. Comrades forgive me...

although Marx was pretty cool otherwise, I don't like his beard in special and all other beards in general. I just hate this tame animal look. He wrote some cool books otherwise. O.K. his early works were a bit on the adolescent side, but his late work is incredible - or did he sing for a boygroup?
Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[HereSince1628]

10. His bust looks great on his tomb

if you get to London take a trip out to Highgate cemetary. I have to admit it was a life event to stand between the resting places of Marx and Spencer.

Yeah, its a bit pricy to enter the cemetary but, if you are on foot you can walk over to Hampstead Heath and get a great panoramic view of the city...

[JVS]

13. You paid money?

You got hosed, comrade!

I was visiting an old highschool friend who was studying for a semester in London (returning the visit I got during Oktoberfest) when we decided to go see old Chuck's grave. There was a woman collecting money to see some graves in an enclosed area and we asked her where Marx was, she said, with a good bit of disdain, that he was over in the other part of the cemetary. There was no charge to go to that part, so we turned on our heels and left her behind without paying a pence. While we were paying our respects a funeral had started between our location and the gate so we had to lay low and wait for it to pass.
I also visited the Karl Marx birth house in Trier that year, which had an interesting museum on Marx and the socialist movement. Did you know that Marx was a distant cousin of Heinrich Heine?

[laconicsax]

2. whoops

edit: sorry, clicked post twice.

[maha]

3. The mid-19th century was the Golden Age

for men's facial hair. For the time, his beard was just average.

[newyawker99]

14. Congrats maha!! 400 posts

:toast:

[ForrestGump]

5. Nope

Thesse guys:

[leftofthedial]

6. What about Lenin's beard?

Are you a closet counter-revolutionary, comrade?

[ForrestGump]

12. Okay - here ya go

[mitchum]

7. No...Tom Cruise's beard is the coolest beard of all time...

there's no woman cooler than Penelope Cruz!

[ElkHunter]

8. And what about Trotsky's gotee?

It ain't much but it looks so much more intellectual than those Santa whiskers that Marx sported.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. It even looked good with an axe sticking out of his forehead

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. What about Walt Whitman's?

Gotta go with the LI boy.


John Muir was no slouch either...here he is with TR


bigger one at... if you are a hard-core fan

and, you know what... John Wesley Powell (one-armed thanks to the CW and first explorer of Grand Canyon, founder of USGS) was pretty hirsute as well

[noonwitch]

15. I'm kind of partial to Rasputin's beard

One of my favorite historical figures, who usually gets demonized by historians, with a couple of exceptions.