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Billy Mays unexpectedly passed from this life on June 28, 2009.  Billy was a famous pitch man on television, enthusiastically selling a variety of products.  Through his work on television and personal appearances, Billy Mays became a celebrity.  Just as famous as Billy himself was his dark full beard.  Billy demonstrated to the world that a full-bearded man could appear in advertising and achieve great success.  For that, I say, “Thank you, Billy.”

Congratulations to David Traver for winning first place in the Freestyle Full Beard category as well as overall World Beard Champion!  I extend my hearty congratulations to the winners in all the other categories and to all of the competitors as well.

Special congratulations go to John of Georgia from our beards of the world gallery for winning third place in the Full Beard Garibaldi category.  Congratulations, John!  Here is a photo of John taken well before the 2009 championships:

Support the team and grow a beard!  In addition, you’ll be helping out a children’s charity:  Garden of Dreams.

Join today!  Click on the image above to visit the site and check it out.  Visit often to check out the beard progress and rate the beards!

Tell all your friends.  Have them join up, too!   Now get growing!

Three months and one day after hitting seven million photo gallery views, at 17:20 PDT we hit eight million!  Luckily, I happened to be around at the time to watch the counter hit eight million.  Which was the lucky eight-millionth photo?  It was this one of Steven from our featured beards section:

Click on the image above to see the larger version.

After a much-too-long hiatus, the beards.org documentary beard photography project resumed activity yesterday with another original beard photo shoot.  Dale, with his amazing beard growth, kindly agreed to the beard photo shoot.  Here are some preview shots from March 20th, 2009.

You, the esteemed readers of beards.org, are invited to vote and comment on the beards in SmartTix’ office beard contest.  Click on the photos above to go to the voting site.  There you will find a link to photos of the contestants.

UPDATE: Contest’s over.  Thanks for your participation!

The Seattle Beard and Stache Fest just concluded  yesterday, March 1st.  Go take a look at some photos of the finale: Seattle Beard and Stache Fest photos!

Photo above by Jenny Jimenez, courtesy of Seattle Weekly.  Used with permission.

What are you waiting for?  Make plans right now to compete in the Super Bowl of beard competitions: the 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships!  And if you cannot or prefer not to compete, then go as a spectator and enjoy all the fun.  The event runs from May 20th through May 24th, 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska.  The championships are hosted by the South Central Alaska Beard and Moustache Club.  Go to their site right now to register and get your tickets!

http://www.akbeardclub.com/

The third annual occurrence of this growing contest happens in just under a week from now.  Get thee right away to http://www.misprintmagazine.com/ for all the details!  Hurry!

Beard Revue turned one year old, a month ago.  In celebration, the site is selling a cool beard poster.  Be sure to check it out!

Belated happy anniversary to Beard Revue!