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• There were probably two different men consid-ered to be St. Valentine, and both were supposed-ly beheaded on February 14. The more commonly accepted legend identifies St. Valentine as a priest in early Rome around the year 260. The Roman emperor at that time forbade his soldiers to mar-ry because he believed that single men made bet-ter soldiers. In the name of love and in defiance of the emperor’s edict, Valentine secretly married soldiers and their ladies and paid the price with his execution.

• Tradition places the first Valentine letter around 1415. This was when a Frenchman, the Duke of Orléans, was captured in battle and imprisoned in the Tower of London. From there, he composed rhymed love letters to his wife.

• In England during the 1700s, women wrote men’s names on little bits of paper, encased them in a piece of clay and dropped all the clay pieces into a pond. The first paper to rise to the top was sup-posedly the name of the woman’s true love.

• In the 18th-century, some unmarried women pinned five bay leaves to the center and four cor-ners of their pillows on February 13. According to tradition, that night they would dream of their

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future husband. Some recited a verse before sleep: “Good Valentine, be kind to me, in dreams let me my true love see.” Perhaps this is where we derive the expression “the man of my dreams”!

• Another old Valentine custom had men write women’s names on bits of paper and place them in a jar. Each man drew a paper, and that woman was the man’s Valentine. He spent the day paying special attention to her and bestowing small gifts, often a pair of gloves. Some of the men pinned the lady’s name to their shirtsleeve and wore it for several days, literally “wearing their hearts on their sleeves.”

• In Victorian days, young women used their fans to convey secret messages to their beaus. Draw-ing her fan across the cheek meant “I love you,” while twirling it in her right hand gave the warn-ing, “We are being watched.”

• Esther A. Howland was the first person to com-mercially manufacture Valentines, beginning in 1847. Considered the “Mother of the Valentine,” her original creations featured real lace and color-ful ribbons. She eventually expanded her business into sales of $100,000 annually.

• In the late 1850s came the “penny dreadfuls,” Valentines with insulting and derogatory verses. They were printed on cheap paper and designed to make the recipient feel dreadful, hence their name. They were also known as “vinegar Valen-tines,” due to their sour or acidic messages.

• According to a French tradition, a young woman lets her admirer know whether his affections are welcome by what she feeds him on Valentine’s Day. If she feeds him an egg dish, the answer is definitely “No,” while something with apple or pear signifies “Yes.”

• Those colorful little candy conversation hearts have been around since 1866, when they were first manufactured by the New England Confec-tionery Company, or NECCO, as the company is more commonly known. Originally called “mot-to hearts,” they contained messages such as “Be Good,” “Be True” and “Kiss Me.” NECCO began updating their phrases in recent years, adding “Call Me,” “Fax Me,” “Email Me” and starting in 2011, one in 80 hearts reads “Tweet Me.” NECCO makes eight billion Sweethearts every year, selling about 100,000 pounds of them every day between January 1 and February 14.

• If you plan to give your Valentine a bottle of per-fume, you might want to know that one of the ingredients in many perfumes is coal tar. And in order to prolong the fragrance, manufacturers add substances taken from beavers, male musk

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• In the 1600s, perfume was made by placing rose petals in white wine, adding fra-grant herbs and spices and allowing the mixture to ferment for two weeks.

• Thinking about chocolates for your sweetie? You’ll be glad to know that chocolate ranks high in food value and contains several vitamins and minerals. It was also the belief of the ancient Aztec In- dians that the cacao bean was a source of wisdom and knowledge because the seeds had been brought to their land from Paradise.

• Before it is mold- ed into bars, milk chocolate is stirred by machines for 72 hours to achieve the smoothest choc-olate possible.

• About 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate will be given to sweethearts this year. But Val- entine’s Day is far from the biggest day of the year for candy purchases. Halloween is first, followed by Easter, then Christmas.

• For its first 68 years, the Hershey Chocolate Company operated with no advertis-ing budget. It did not advertise its products until July 1970.

• If your Valentine asks you for a Pascali, a Chrysler Imperial, a Rubaiyat, a Flora-dora, a Montezuma or an Iceberg, she’s asking for a rose from the list of the more popular varieties. The Society of American Florists estimates the number of roses produced for Valentine’s Day at around 200 million. About 43 percent of flowers given are red roses, and 29 percent are other colors of roses. The remaining gifts are mixed flowers.

• Cupid, Roman mythology’s god of love, was the son of the goddess Venus and the god Mars. He’s often depicted with wings, a bow and a quiver of arrows, and one shot is said to cause his “victims” to fall in love. Other legends represent Cupid with two sets of arrows — one gold-tipped set for love and another lead-tipped set, which brings about hatred.

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• Courtship during Victorian times had definite rules of etiquette, and according to one authority of those times, the lady “is not to allow the young gentleman to kiss you until he has proposed mar-riage.” Of course, there were those who disagreed, such as the expert who advised that, “The pru-dent maiden should not allow her lover to kiss her even after their engagement. Not until after marriage should such a favor be granted.”

• The fourth finger of the left hand became the “ring finger” for wedding rings because of a tra-dition stating that a delicate nerve ran from that finger to the heart.

• The throwing of rice at weddings represents a wish for children and a long life for the couple, since rice, according to tradition, is the symbol of fertility and longevity.

• One woman expressed her love for her man on a recently seen bumper sticker: “All men are idi-ots, and I married their king.” Comedian Rodney Dangerfield had a similar attitude: “My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.”

• It was Sir Alfred Tennyson who said, “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

• One Mexico City couple appar-ently believed in long engage-ments. In 1902, when Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez

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• Although Britney Spears’ first marriage lasted just 55 hours, and one of Patty Duke’s marriages only 13 days, not every Hollywood marriage is doomed to fail. Bob Hope was married 69 years, James Cagney for 63 years, and Charlton Heston, 65 years.

• Minnie Pearl had these thoughts on marriage: “Getting married’s a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain’t so hot.”

• Age seems to have nothing to do with marriage success. Wisconsin’s Si-mon and Ida Stern dissolved their marriage in 1984. He was 97; she was 91. Britain’s Bertie and Jessie Woods called in quits in 2008; both were 97 at the time.

• Harry Stevens robbed the cradle when he was 103 and married a much younger woman, Thelma Lucas, age 84, making him a record-holding old-est bridegroom.

• Glynn “Scotty” Wolfe is another unusual record holder. He had 29 mo-nogamous marriages over 71 years. Three of his wives died, and he was married at the time of his death at age 88. His shortest union was 19 days, and the longest lasted 11 years. His son claims, “He divorced one wife for eating sunflower seeds in bed.”

• King Mongut of Siam (portrayed in the film “The King and I”) reportedly had 9,000 wives, however not monogamously.

• Research indicates that marital strife can weaken the immune system and cause physical illness, so be nice to your spouse!

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• It was American author James Thurber who made the following sage observation: “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

• If you’re a fan of the original “Wizard of Oz” movie, you might be surprised to learn that the actress who played Glinda the Good Witch, Billie Burke, was 54 years old when the film was shot.

• The award for the most needless war in history could very well go to Paraguay, whose president, Francisco Solano Lopez, believed himself to be an excellent tactician. He was a great admirer of Napoleon Bonaparte and wished to emulate the French emperor, but he had no wars to fight. To remedy the situation, in 1864 Lopez declared war on all three of his neighboring countries, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. His tactical abili-ties seem to have been of little use, however; it is estimated that 90 percent of Paraguay’s male population was killed during the course of the war.

• During this time of election madness, “misol-ogy” could be a useful word to know. It means “hatred of reason.”

• French novelist Marcel Proust’s magnum opus, “Remembrance of Things Past,” has been hailed as a literary masterpiece, but not everyone was a fan at first read. As Proust was trying, unsuc-cessfully, to find a publisher for his seven-vol-ume work, one publisher said, “I may be dense, but I fail to see why a chap needs 30 pages to describe how he tosses and turns in bed before falling asleep.” The author finally published the first volume with his own money; after the book was hailed as a masterpiece by critics, the same publishers who had rejected Proust competed for the opportunity to print the other six volumes of his work.

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