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ARK schools[edit]

  • ARK SCHOOLS Charity registered (num 1111608) on 10 October 2005 and deregistered (as exempt) on 25 Aug 2011 [1]. Other names:
 * ABSOLUTE RETURN FOR KIDS ARK EDUCATION (OLD NAME)
 * ARK ACADEMIES (OLD NAME)
 * ARK EDUCATION (WORKING NAME)
  • ARK SCHOOLS GB registered company on 26 April 2004 [2]. Previous names
* ARK ACADEMIES
* ABSOLUTE RETURN FOR KIDS (ARK) EDUCATION
* ABSOLUTE RETURN FOR KIDS (ARK) EDUCATION LIMITED

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Moustaches in Indian Subcontinent[edit]

Moustaches are very common in India. Some communities, especially in North India like Rajputs and Thakurs, consider their moustache as a symbol of prestige.

dalits were traditionally not allowed them. In some areas, they were subjected to a moustache tax. L. Elayaperumal, who was the Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, launched in 1946 his first struggle against the oppression of Dalits by caste Hindus. Elayaperumal said in an interview in Chithirai Neruppu, a book published by Dalit, Neyveli, that he organised a mass movement when Vadamalai, an ex-serviceman and son of the Dalit headman of the village, was tied to a tree and beaten up by caste Hindus for three days simply because he had entered the village, was well-dressed and wore a moustache "in violation of the village law". [5]

comedy moustaches[edit]

One attached to a nose, glasses set; groucho marx's greasepaint moustache; the sort traditionally drawn on the mona lisa; hitler moustache

Moustaches throughout history[edit]

Victorian bumfluff

Moustache as symbol of non-conformity[edit]

Gay biker moustache; hippy handlebar moustache

history[edit]

In europe, was symbol of barbarians against Roman cleanshavenness Julius Caesar, betraying his culture's aversion to the 'tache in his evident lack of a word for the thing, described the Ancient Britons as shaving "every part of the body, except the head and the upper lip" Strabo described the inhabitants of Cornwall as having mustachios which "hang down upon their breasts like wings". pictures of celtic heads with moustaches

Diodorus said of the Celts, "Some of them are cleanshaven, but others - especially those of high rank, shave their cheeks but leave a moustache that covers the whole mouth and, when they eat and drink, acts like a sieve, trapping particles of food"

The semi-animistic Kurdish Yarsans, for instance, grow spectacular 'tashes in open defiance of their Muslim neighbours, despite being periodically persecuted for their trouble.

Mohammed himself in one hadith (saying) explicitly commands his followers to "trim closely the moustache and grow the beard, and thus act against the fire-worshippers (Zoroastrians)". Few religious tenets have been so openly flouted.

The king of the moustachioed Victorians was undoubtedly Frederick Nietzsche.

  1. Since 1957, all Disney workers had to be clean shaven (although Walt Disney himself had a moustache). This ban was lifted in 2000, allowing workers to grow moustaches, but not beards
  2. Police authorities in Assam, India, are paying a monthly bonus to an officer who grows a moustache. One officer said “Having a big moustache is a symbol of masculinity and that helps you to excel in your professional duties as people are afraid to challenge you” (Daily Telegraph)

Traditionally, Hungarians are fond of moustaches, as are Mexicans.

The Vikings had moustaches too. The syrians like it: "Moustache Hairs Lost: Ramadan Television Serials and the Construction of Identity in Damascus, Syria"; in turkey, it is becoming a symbol of modernity - istanbul led the way with men not having moustaches. "Westerners. Moustache which had represented locality and being Anatolian started to represent being a villager and rural with the strengthening of Westernisation and modernisation desire. Because of this it was necessary to cut moustache in order to have a civilised and urban image." [6] The typical "old fashioned" turk is called the maganda: moustachoied, hairy, eating kebaps. "The popularity of cutting moustache continued during the 1990s. Very few men with moustache could be seen in the advertisements. According to a 1993 survey, while the percentage of men with moustache was 77, it decreased to 62.80 percent in 1997. Another survey made in 2001 also showed that the percentage of men without moustache was still increasing and the percentage of men with moustache was 46 percent and the takeover by men without moustache was characterised as a turning point for Turkey. (Bali, 2002: 185)." "the indispensable symbol of Westernisation and modernisation."

In 1919, Duchamp drew a moustache on the Mona Lisa and named it L.H.O.O.Q.


"Certain physical traits are also seen as indicators of greater masculinity. For instance, in most Rajasthani communities, the moustache has become a symbol of pride and prestige among men. As a 45 year-old Gujjar respondent stated, A man with a moustache is courageous; he is mostly true to what he says. A man without moustache is a bad man, moreover his words cannot be believed." [7]


http://movember.org/: Movember, the month of the moustache. In australia, this has been tied up with prostate cancer awareness [8].

The Handlebar club" defines a handlebar as a "hirsute appendage of the upper lip, with graspable extremities".

Moustaches on women[edit]

Drag king

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