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A Brief (International) History of the Pigtail
(1644) Manchus invade China and order every man to wear a pigtail.
(1770) Travellng fops, calling themselves Macaronis, embellish their ridiculously little hats and tight-fitting striped clothes with pigtails.
(1805) Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Butler, Jr. is court-martialed for appearing publicly in command of his American troops with his hair in a pigtail.
(1911) Sun Yat Sen overthows the Emperor of China and declares the wearing of pigtails to be illegal.
(1945) Swedish author Astrid Lindgren publishes the first in her series of Pippi Longstocking books, featuring a girl with pigtails who claims her real name is Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking.
(1979) American tennis phenom Tracey Austin wins “the battle of the bouncing pigtails†in the second round of the US Open Tennis Championship.
(2011) A psychologist in Israel who uses photography to capture the universal face of human emotion finds himself face to face with a real-life adorable Pippi (complete with freckles), raises his camera, and clicks.
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