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THE BALD SUPREMACY

hen conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés wrote of “bizarre hairless dogs” in their journals during the invasion of 16th-century Mexico, it was a boorish cultural faux pas akin to Indigenous warriors crossing the Atlantic to Europe and remarking on the prevalence of “bizarre T-shaped symbols with statues

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