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Alexander The Great's Sex Life

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The Tudors and the Beard

Alexander was a busy boy, wasn't he? He was focused. Global domination will deplete your time for pursuing lovers,. But that is an interesting story that keeps coming up about him. There are sometimes political reasons why he doesn't marry or have sex with certain Persian princesses early on his reign and he perhaps could have done. Why do men grow beards? During puberty, the male body heats up, and a smoke rises in the body pushes out the hair in the face so the beard is actually a form of excrement.

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