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About Valentine's Day...

A Frenchman, Charles, Duke of Orleans is credited with writing the first Valentine. He was captured by the English during the battle of Agincourt in 1415. On Valentine's Day, he sent his wife a love letter from the tower of London, where he was imprisoned.

Celebration of Valentine's Day is based on the belief that birds or fowl pick their mates on February 14. It was believed lovebirds in particular, chose this day to begin mating

The modern day celebration of Valentine's Day seems to have begun in France and England. On Valentines Eve young people would gather and pick names becoming a valentine to whosever name they chose

In Victorian times it was considered bad luck to sign a Valentine's Day card.

The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day

The oldest surviving love poem is written in a clay tablet from the times of the Sumerians, inventors of writing, around 3500 B.C.E. It was unromantically named Istanbul #2461 by the archaeologists who unearthed it.

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