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Our January 2015 Competition:
Okay here is your chance to win a bottle of The Buccaneer beard oil and a cotton jute gift bag.
To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is email us your nautically themed bearded selfie at theaudaciousbeardco@outlook.com or alternatively you can take part on our facebook page.
The photo with the most likes towards the end of the month wins.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/199625710/the-buccaneer-beard-oil-the-audacious
The diplomatic beard
The diplomatic beard:
‘George Killingworth, a political agent of Queen Elizabeth, was sent upon a mission to the court of Ivan the Terrible. (Grandson of Ivan the Great)
Killingworth had a grand beard, measuring five feet, two inches in length. It was a glorious shade of yellow, quite broad and thick. Ivan was delighted by it and could not resist playing with it after luncheon. Others were allowed to touch it, too.’
Quite interesting Beardy facts
Bizar is Basque for beard and seems to have acquired its current meaning as a result of swashbuckling, bearded Spanish sailors having made a powerful impression on the mostly clean-shaven French, for whom the word came to mean “to stand out in a crowd”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3636821/Quite-Interesting.html
Bearded resolution
The new year is the perfect time to stop shaving and grow a beard:
The “magnificent” beard of socialist thinker Friedrich Engels has inspired a climbing wall sculpture in Salford:
Friedrich Engels’ beard inspires climbing sculpture in Salford
Engine said the work depicted Engels’ “signature magnificent beard as a symbol of wisdom and learning”The “magnificent” beard of socialist thinker Friedrich Engels has inspired a climbing wall sculpture in Salford.
The 16ft (5m) beard statue – a “symbol of wisdom and learning” – will stand on the University of Salford’s campus.
Arts company Engine, who are behind the piece, said the idea came from a 1980s plan to relocate an Eastern Bloc statue of the thinker to Manchester.
Engels, who wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, lived in the area from the 1840s onwards.
The sculpture will depict the nose and whiskers of the father of Marxist theory and be situated on the university’s Peel Park campus in 2016,
It features a climbing wall at the front, stairs to the rear and a viewing platform at the top, from which climbers can admire the view across Salford.
‘Audacious’ plan
Engine’s Jai Redman said the work used Engels’ “signature magnificent beard as a symbol of wisdom and learning”, while the climbing aspect came from a desire to make it an “interactive piece”.
“We’re aren’t interested in making ‘a hero on horseback’, [which is] something Engels would have been horrified by.
“Engels’ Beard is a metaphor for how it is an effort and a struggle to pull ourselves out of ignorance [and] a direct representation of how all philosophers ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’.”
Marx and Engels in Manchester
- Born in Prussia in 1820, Friedrich Engels arrived in England in 1842 to take up a role at the business his family co-owned in Salford, the Ermen & Engels cotton mill
- He lived with an Irish woman, Mary Burns, who showed him the state of working class life in the area, leading him to write The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
- He stayed in Manchester on and off for the next 30 years, where he was a neighbour of author Elizabeth Gaskell
- Karl Marx came to Manchester several times to visit Engels. The pair often met in Chetham’s Library, where Marx also wrote part of his work Das Kapital
Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-30375063
December competition news
Competition news:
Massive thanks to everyone that sent in their photos. Our December winner is Ant from Wales and an Audacious Beard Co gift set is on its way to you.
Massive thanks to everyone that sent in their photos. Our December winner is Ant from Wales and an Audacious Beard Co gift set is on its way to you.
Somerset House to celebrate beards with portrait exhibition
Inspirational beard portraits taken by award-winning photographer Brock Elbank to go on show at Somerset house:
The photographs were taken by award-winning photographer Brock Elbank, with a dozen of the works commissioned by Somerset House for the show exhibited for the first time. Photograph: Brock Elbank
Seasons greetings
For those of you who fear you have been far too bad to be placed on the nice list this year – fear not – grab your own little Christmas bag of Audacious goodies here ….
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/theaudaciousbeard and revel in your wicked audacity!
Competition news !!!
Ste Be from Cornwall who shaved off his Audacious beard to reveal a rather spectacular Moustache for Movember wins our special ‘November gift set which includes a face cloth from our sister company Cotton & Jute.Matt from Hertfordshire wins the ‘Customer selfie’ competition receiving a bottle of Woodsman beard oil.
The Wordsmithery prize goes to Dave from Essex who wins a tin of moustache wax. This was Dave’s winning word composition:
‘I was just plain old Dave from Dagenham – until I bought some of your wondrous moustache wax to encourage my Movember effort – now I have a twinkle in my eye, a villainous twist to my tache and I’m known here abouts as That Dastardly Dapper Dave – I’ve decided to keep the moustache … thank you sirs !’
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