Because It's Better to Spoil the Fun than Bitch About It

[melayneseahawk]

The St. Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago, Illinois in the winter of 1929: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish/German gang led by George 'Bugs' Moran.
- from Wikipedia, full article

At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city.
- from the Catholic Encyclopedia, full article

n Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of erotic love. He is equated with the Greek God Eros and one of his Latin names is Eros. He is also called Amor, Latin for love.
- from Wikipedia, full article

St. 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 a Catholic Church feast day, in honor of Saint Valentine. The day's associations with romantic love arrived after the High Middle Ages, during which the concept of romantic love was formulated.
- from Wikipedia, full article

The History of Valentine's Day, according to the History Channel

Comments

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Generally, it's accurate enough. Whatever.

[kashmir-ki-kali.livejournal.com]

Can Daniel Jackson be my valentine? I could go for hot archaeologists...

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

He's twice your age.

And fictional.

And gay for Jack, but I digress.

(I had dibs, anyway.)