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In the Edo period (1603–1867) of Japan, the Tokugawa Shogunate passed orders for Japanese men to shave the pate on the front of their head (the chonmage hairstyle) and shave their beards, facial hair and side whiskers. [20] This was similar to the Qing dynasty queue order imposed by Dorgon making men shave the pates on the front of their ...
Men were forbidden to shave their beards and required to let them grow and keep them long according to the Taliban's liking, and to wear turbans outside their households. [17] [18] Communists were systematically executed. Prayer was made compulsory and those who did not respect the religious obligation after the azaan were arrested. [17]
Bearded members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during a military ceremony in 1998. Beards are permitted in the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.As a sign of their ideological motivation, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepah) personnel used to tend to wear full beards, while the Islamic Republic of Iran Army personnel are usually trimmed or wear mustaches.
In 1994 a movement called the Taliban mostly made up of orphans was formed. The Taliban rapidly expanded recruiting former Mujahedeen and Communist Soldiers. In 1996 the Taliban would take Kabul leading to many of the various warlords who had fought each other for Kabul to unite into the Northern Alliance as an attempt to stop the Taliban from ...
Once banned by rulers dispatched from Moscow, Poland's stately polonaise dance that nurtured the country's spirit even through the dark years of its partition is now honored by UNESCO. This 18th ...
Flag of the Taliban. The Taliban (/ ˈ t æ l ɪ b æ n, ˈ t ɑː l ɪ b ɑː n /; Pashto: طَالِبَانْ, romanized: ṭālibān, lit. 'students'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [1] [2] is an Afghan militant movement, that governs Afghanistan, with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of ...
Anything made from livestock lungs has been banned in the U.S. since 1971 because the lungs can contain dangerous microbes from the stomach. Oh, and haggis is served wrapped in a sheep’s stomach.
To enforce the ban on beards, the tsar empowered police to forcibly and publicly shave those who refused to pay the tax. [2] Resistance to going clean shaven was widespread with many believing that it was a religious requirement for a man to wear a beard, [3] and the Russian Orthodox Church declared being clean-shaven as blasphemous. [4]