what is velentine day?
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Valentine's is celebrated on February 14, celebrated in various American and European countries by the exchange of valentines or love tokens.\n\nRoman Roots\nThe history of Valentine's Day is obscure, and further clouded by various fanciful legends. The holiday's roots are in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February 15. Pope Gelasius I recast this pagan festival as a Christian feast day circa 496, declaring February 14 to be St. Valentine's Day.\n\nValentines Galore\nWhich St. Valentine this early pope intended to honor remains a mystery: according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, there were at least three early Christian saints by that name. One was a priest in Rome, another a bishop in Terni, and of a third St. Valentine almost nothing is known except that he met his end in Africa. Rather astonishingly, all three Valentines were said to have been martyred on Feb. 14.\n\nMost scholars believe that the St. Valentine of the holiday was a priest who attracted the disfavor of Roman emperor Claudius II around 270. At this stage, the factual ends and the mythic begins. According to one legend, Claudius II had prohibited marriage for young men, claiming that bachelors made better soldiers. Valentine continued to secretly perform marriage ceremonies but was eventually apprehended by the Romans and put to death. Another legend has it that Valentine, imprisoned by Claudius, fell in love with the daughter of his jailer. Before he was executed, he allegedly sent her a letter signed "from your Valentine." Probably the most plausible story surrounding St. Valentine is one not focused on Eros (passionate love) but on agape (Christian love): he was martyred for refusing to renounce his religion.\n\nIn 1969, the Catholic Church revised its liturgical calendar, removing the feast days of saints whose historical origins were questionable. St. Valentine was one of the casualties.\n\nChaucer's Love Birds\nIt was not until the 14th century that this Christian feast day became definitively associated with love. According to UCLA medieval scholar Henry Ansgar Kelly, author of Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine, it was Chaucer who first linked St. Valentine's Day with romance.\n\nIn 1381, Chaucer composed a poem in honor of the engagement between England's Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. As was the poetic tradition, Chaucer associated the occasion with a feast day. In "The Parliament of Fowls," the royal engagement, the mating season of birds, and St. Valentine's Day are linked:\n\nFor this was on St. Valentine's Day, \nWhen every fowl cometh there to choose his mate.\n\nTradition of Valentine's Cards\n Over the centuries, the holiday evolved, and by the 18th century, gift-giving and exchanging hand-made cards on Valentine's Day had become common in England. Hand-made valentine cards made of lace, ribbons, and featuring cupids and hearts eventually spread to the American colonies. The tradition of Valentine's cards did not become widespread in the United States, however, until the 1850s, when Esther A. Howland, a Mount Holyoke graduate and native of Worcester, Mass., began mass-producing them. Today, of course, the holiday has become a booming commercial success. According to the Greeting Card Association, 25% of all cards sent each year are valentines.
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That's sad that you do not know your birhtday day!!!!\nAlas you can not find out unless you know
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its November 23,2006\nit is on a thursday
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it is a day which is celebrated by nation \non this day some historic event had happened\nmight be country got independence,might be country'e constistution is made on this day, or anyother thing that changed the fate of the country.
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When Gd freed them through Moses from slavery in Egypt. \n\nOh, wait, you were referring to the Holocaust. Okay, individuals were freed from various concentration camps at various times, throughout the last year of the war, '44-'45. However, if you were looking at a single date to cover it all, i would say the end of the war in Europe, so whatever V-E Day is.
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Ask about something that you have always wanted to know. like: what are the origins of the days of the week?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day\n\nThis is a link to Wikipedia, it has all the info about May Day, or May 1st that you could ask for.
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Try here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
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Juneteenth isn't just celebrated in Texas. It's a holiday on June 19th to celebrate the abolition of slavery in the American South.
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Party, party, party!!!  It is a pagan holliday where people get very drunk and act like wild animals.  It is also called Fat Tuesday.  It is the Tuesday just before Lent or Ash Wednesday, the Catholic holliday where people promise to give up something they really enjoy for 40 days till Easter.  It is most popularly celebrated in New Orleans.  There is a carnival atmosphere where people get very intoxicated in the streets of New Orleans.  Guys buy beaded necklaces and give them to girls for flashing their breasts.  \n\nFor me as a Christian, I think it is kinda sad.  I look forward to celebrating Easter as the time when Christ died for me and rose again.  I think that a devout Catholic should be ashamed of themself if they were to go out and act like this, then go to confession, followed by Ash Wednesday where they make a "sacrifice" to show how much they love Him.
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Valentine's Day is a day where people have set aside to show\nhow much they love their mate or significant other. The \nphrase "Will you be my valentine" is just a statement they\nsay on Valentine's Day. Everyday we are to show love. Not\njust on this day. Love is an everyday action. You can buy a\ngift for someone just because.
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It is a day of celebration of when the Mexican army defeated the French. There was just a program on the Discovery channel about 2 hours ago about it! Check the listing I'm sure it will be on again.
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Mardi Gras refers to a specific day ("Fat Tuesday"), the day before Lent begins ("Ash Wednesday").  It's associated with New Orleans.\n\nCarnival is a celebration that occurs in the week leading up to Lent, but has no specific date attached to it.  It's associated with Latin and Italian cultures.
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Valentine's Day falls on February 14, and is the traditional day on which lovers in certain cultures let each other know about their love, commonly by sending Valentine's cards, which are often anonymous. The history of Valentine's day can be traced back to an obscure Catholic Church feast day, said to be in honor of Saint Valentine, are discussed below. The day's associations with romantic love arrived after the High Middle Ages, during which the concept of romantic love was formulated.\n\nThe day is now most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines." Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline and the figure of the winged Cupid. Starting in the 19th century, the practice of hand writing notes has largely given way to the exchange of mass-produced greeting cards. The Greeting Card Association estimates that, world-wide, approximately one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association also estimates that women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines
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It's a flower, the poppy. Saturday is Veteran's Day in the United States. In Canada it is called Remembrance Day. It is to honour all the men and women who have fought to protect their countries.
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Yes, in general.\nCarpe diem - sieze the day.
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Not sure about Friendship day, but yesterday was Earth day\nMothers day - May 14\nFathers day - June 18\nGrandparents day - Sept 10