Swami Vivekananda

 

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History about Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day - A day to celebrate love

Saint Valentine's Day, extensively popular as Valentine's Day, is celebrated on February 14 to commemorate the bond and spirit of love between intimate companions. The enthusiasm of celebration is seen much among the youths who consider it to be a wonderful moment to express their love towards their beloved. Founded in 496 A.D by Pope Gelasius I to pay homage to one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine, this day usually reflects the tradition and culture of ancient Roman and Christian.

Valentine's Day in celebrated across the world in a traditional fashion by sending Valentine wishes, flowers, greeting cards and gifts to his/her beloved. This year, lovers would be celebrating Valentine's Day 2013 on Thursday, February 14 to convey their heart's feelings towards their partners.

Facts about the history of Saint Valentine's Day is still shrouded in mystery. Many Christians believe that Saint Valentine was a priest in Rome during the third century and helped young couples to get married secretly despite being outlawed by Emperor Claudius. When Claudius discovered Valentine's actions, the emperor ordered his execution. Moreover, many people believe his execution was ordered for helping Christians escape the Roman prisons where they were brutally beaten.

Valentine's Day is celebrated across many countries. The celebration was long followed by Christians as a tradition until Geoffrey Chaucer associated it with romantic love in his poen 'Parlement of Foules' when courtly love was growing luxuriantly in the High Middle Ages.

Valentine's Day is indeed a big deal. To mark the occasion a special moment for their beloved, couples seek for unique and attractive Valentine's gift ideas. Not only youths by aged couples also treat it is as a special moment and make plans to celebrate it in a memorable way apart by sending Valentine's Day wishes and Valentine's Day messages. For many it is a wonderful time to revive their love relationship or recall some wonderful moments they have spend together.

On Valentine's Day to show love and affection, a range of beautiful and striking gifts categorised as Valentine's gifts for Him and Valentine's gifts for Her are available. Apart from the traditional Valentine Gifts, romantic breaks for couples which are just designed to re-kindle the fire of love and passion.

Exchanging cute greetings cards and hand written notes on Valentine's Day are some small tokens of love and affection apart from gifts. But in the contemporary times, Valentine's Day SMS has become widely popular to celebrate and treat one's beloved in a special way.

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Shobhaa De

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Joke A Day

A man was walking on the beach one day and he found a bottle half buried in the sand. He decided to open it. Inside was a genie. The genie said," I will grant you three wishes and three wishes only." The man thought about his first wish and decided, "I think I want 1 million dollars transferred to a Swiss bank account. POOF! Next he wished for a Ferrari red in color. POOF! There was the car sitting in front of him. He asked for his final wish, " I wish I was irresistible to women." POOF! He turned into a box of chocolates.

Jokes A Day

A young boy had just gotten his driving permit. He asked his father, who was a minister, if they could discuss his use of the car.
"I'll make a deal with you," said his father. "You bring your grades up, study your Bible a little, get your hair cut, and then we'll talk."

A month later the boy came back and again asked his father if they could discuss his use of the car.

"Son, I'm real proud of you. You've brought your grades up and you've studied your Bible, but you didn't get hair cut!"

"You know, Dad, I've been thinking about that. Samson had long hair, Moses had long hair, Noah had long hair, and even Jesus had long hair."

"Yes son, and they walked everywhere they went!"