The nineteenth-century was a period of amazing innovation. In facial hair.
Indeed, the less-than-Civil War obsessed individual may not realize that sideburns were named for Union General Ambrose Burnside. But as
this quiz from the fine folks at Smithsonian.com makes clear, when it came to fantastic facial hair configurations, Burnside had stiff competition.
Another fascinating fact. Especially for *The Secrets of Mary Bowser* in which a certain handsome barber figures prominently.
Tomorrow: razors! tractors! and my dentist!