Sunday, February 13, 2011

VALENTINE’S DAY BITS’N’PIECES

 

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February 15th was the date of the Roman festival of Lupercalia - where young men held a lottery to decide which girl would be theirs.

During Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St. Valentine's Day to have a dream of their future husband.

In the middle Ages, people believed that the first unmarried person of the opposite sex you met on the morning of St. Valentine's Day would become your spouse.

In the middle of the 17th century even married people took a Valentine - not always their legal other half!

Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone, on the Valentine's Day, 1876.

In Wales, love spoons of wood were carved and given as gifts on February 14th. Hearts, keys and keyholes formed the favorite theme of decorations on the spoons, which together symbolized- "You unlock my heart!"

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