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Probably as a result of infamous sailors like Blackbeard and Barbarossa, it's popular to give pirate or nautical characters names that reference their [[Seadog Beard|facial hair]] -- and not just sailors, either.
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* The aforementioned Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach.
* The Turkish privateer Oruc Reis, who went by the nickname Barbarossa or Redbeard.
* Many notable Vikings had colourful nicknames, among them [
* The emperor Nero's family name was [
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063888/ Cookiebeard!]
* The Holy Roman Emperor named Friedrich Barbarossa, who worked hard to live up to his reputation (until he died of a heart attack in Turkey by falling in an ice-cold river at the beginning of the Third Crusade...) [[Those Wacky Nazis]] named their invasion of Russia after him.
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