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2009-02-18T18:13:00.000+05:30

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The History of Valentine's Day!

2009-02-14T16:55:00.001+05:30

Every February, across the country, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this holiday? The history of Valentine's Day — and its patron saint — is shrouded in mystery. But we do know that February has long been a month of romance. St. Valentine's Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. So, who was Saint Valentine and how did he become associated with this ancient rite? Today, the Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred.

One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men — his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.

Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured.

According to one legend, Valentine actually sent the first 'valentine' greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl — who may have been his jailor's daughter — who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed 'From your Valentine,' an expression that is still in use today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories certainly emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic, and, most importantly, romantic figure. It's no surprise that by the Middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France.

While some believe that Valentine's Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine's death or burial — which probably occurred around 270 A.D — others claim that the Christian church may have decided to celebrate Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to 'Christianize' celebrations of the pagan Lupercalia festival. In ancient Rome, February was the official beginning of spring and was considered a time for purification. Houses were ritually cleansed by sweeping them out and then sprinkling salt and a type of wheat called spelt throughout their interiors. Lupercalia, which began at the ides of February, February 15, was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.

To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at the sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would then sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification.

The boys then sliced the goat's hide into strips, dipped them in the sacrificial blood and took to the streets, gently slapping both women and fields of crops with the goathide strips. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed being touched with the hides because it was believed the strips would make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city's bachelors would then each choose a name out of the urn and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage. Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day around 498 A.D. The Roman 'lottery' system for romantic pairing was deemed un-Christian and outlawed. Later, during the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds' mating season, which added to the idea that the middle of February — Valentine's Day — should be a day for romance. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. The greeting, which was written in 1415, is part of the manuscript collection of the British Library in London, England. Several years later, it is believed that King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a valentine note to Catherine of Valois.

In Great Britain, Valentine's Day began to be popularly celebrated around the seventeenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, it was common for friends and lovers in all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes. By the end of the century, printed cards began to replace written letters due to improvements in printing technology. Ready-made cards were an easy way for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of one's feelings was discouraged. Cheaper postage rates also contributed to an increase in the popularity of sending Valentine's Day greetings. Americans probably began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began to sell the first mass-produced valentines in America.

According to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making Valentine's Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year. (An estimated 2.6 billion cards are sent for Christmas.)
Approximately 85 percent of all valentines are purchased by women. In addition to the United States, Valentine's Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia.

Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages (written Valentine's didn't begin to appear until after 1400), and the oldest known Valentine card is on display at the British Museum. The first commercial Valentine's Day greeting cards produced in the U.S. were created in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland. Howland, known as the Mother of the Valentine, made elaborate creations with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as "scrap".

GM: Good Morning Friends! My Teddies 4U!

2008-12-30T08:00:00.000+05:30

Good Morning Friends! My Teddies 4U.....

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Love: Love Hurts!

2008-12-29T22:19:00.000+05:30

Love Hurts.....

Love is like a knife

It hurts when it cuts you

Love is this pain in my body

It never goes away

It stays for days and days

Love hurts!

Love is like a broken leg

It feels like it will never heal

Love is like a heart attack

It surprises you

Love hurts!

Be ready when you fall in love

You will be hurt

Because

Love hurts!!!

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Art: Atlantis Lightshow Trial Run!

2008-12-29T22:06:00.000+05:30

Atlantis Lightshow Trial Run.....

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Art: Paper Art!

2008-12-29T22:02:00.000+05:30

Paper Art.....

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Nature: This is Called Real Beauty!

2008-12-29T15:10:00.000+05:30

This is Called Real Beauty.....

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NewYear: Happy New Year 2009 in Advance!

2008-12-29T14:34:00.000+05:30

Happy New Year 2009 in Advance.....

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Love: World's Best Couple - III

2008-12-29T01:20:00.000+05:30

World’s Best Couple.....

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Love: World's Best Couple - II

2008-12-29T01:17:00.000+05:30

World’s Best Couple.....

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Love: World's Best Couple - I

2008-12-29T01:11:00.000+05:30

World’s Best Couple.....

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Quotes: Beautiful Quotes!

2008-12-29T00:54:00.000+05:30

Beautiful Quotes.....

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Flowers: God Forgot to Put Soul in It!

2008-12-29T00:28:00.000+05:30

God Forgot to Put Soul in It.....

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Fruit: Aaah! I Love These!!!

2008-12-28T20:37:00.000+05:30

ಪಂಚಿ.....

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Thought: Simple Secrets to a Happy Life!

2008-12-26T23:22:00.000+05:30

Simple Secrets to a Happy Life.....

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Panchi.....
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Friendship: Friendship Cards!

2008-12-26T23:17:00.000+05:30

Friendship Cards.....

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Friendship: Types of Friendship!

2008-12-26T19:53:00.001+05:30

Types of Friendship.....

Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more people. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them.

Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating the following on a consistent basis:

· The tendency to desire what is best for the other,

· Sympathy and Empathy,

· Honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth, especially in terms of pointing out the perceived faults of one's counterpart

· Mutual understanding

Best friend (or close friend): a person(s) with whom someone shares extremely strong interpersonal ties with as a friend.

Acquaintance: Similar to a friend, but sharing of emotional ties aren't present. An example would be a coworker with whom you enjoy eating lunch, but would not look to for emotional support.

Romantic friendship: The very close but non-sexual friendship shared between two friends, often involving physical contact such as hugging, holding hands, and even cuddling.

Soul mate: The name given to someone who is considered the ultimate, true, and eternal half of the other's soul, in which the two are and forever were meant to be together.

Pen pal: A person who shares a "postal" relationship with another and regularly writes via "snail mail". They may or may not have met each other in person and may share either love, friendship, or simply an acquaintance between each other.

Internet friendship: A widely debated and criticized form of friendship or romance which takes place over the Internet. It is similar to a pen pal, in a sense a "technologically modern" form of pen pals and the people may or may not have met in person. It's often considered dangerous.

Comrade: means "ally", "friend", or "colleague" in a military or (usually) left-wing political connotation. This is the feeling of affinity that draws people together in time of war or when people have a mutual enemy or even a common goal. Friendship can be mistaken for comradeship. As a war ends, or a common enemy recedes, many comrades return to being strangers, who lack friendship and have little in common.

Casual relationship or "Friends with benefits": The sexual or near-sexual and emotional relationship between two people who don't expect or demand to share a formal romantic relationship. In the U.S., this is considered "a fling".

Boston marriage: A term used in the nineteenth and twentieth century’s to denote two women that lived together in the same household independent of male support. Relationships were not necessarily sexual. It was used to quell fears of lesbians after World War I.

Blood brother or Blood sister: May refer to people related by birth, or a circle of friends who swear loyalty by mingling the blood of each member together.

Open relationship: A relationship, usually between two people, that agree each partner is free to have sexual intercourse with others outside the relationship. When this agreement is made between married couples, it's called an open marriage.

Roommate: A person who shares a room or apartment (flat) with another person and do not share a familial or romantic relationship.

Imaginary friend: A non-physical friend created by a child. It may be seen as bad behavior or even taboo (some religious parents even consider their child to be possessed by an evil spirit), but is most commonly regarded as harmless, typical childhood behavior. The friend may or may not be human, and commonly serves a protective purpose.

Spiritual friendship: The old Buddhist ideal of kalyana-mitra, that is a relationship between friends with a common interest, though one person may have more knowledge and experience than the other. The relationship is the responsibility of both friends and both bring something to it.

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~A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED~

The Four Candles!

2008-12-25T23:26:00.000+05:30

The Four Candles.....

Dear Friend,

Please find the attachment of PowerPoint slideshow file attached.

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Christmas: Merry Christmas!

2008-12-25T19:23:00.000+05:30

Merry Christmas.....

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Christmas: Glittering Christmas!

2008-12-25T19:22:00.000+05:30

Glittering Christmas.....

Luv Panchi.....

Christmas: MeRrY cHrIsTmAs!

2008-12-25T04:07:00.000+05:30

MeRrY cHrIsTmAs.....

My Christmas wishes fly to you,

Like lovely snowflakes from the blue,

Spilling gently from my heart,

Falling softly through the dark,

Until they find your candlelight,

Through whispering winds that sing of night.

May peace and joy wrap you in,

Blankets of love, where hope has been.

And may your kind and gentle ways,

Be blessed with happy, peaceful days,

Becoming more beautiful with every thought,

Like every flake the earth has caught!

Luv / Panchi.....

Christmas: Merry X-mas!

2008-12-25T03:55:00.000+05:30

Merry X-mas.....

Faith makes all things possible,
Hope makes all things work,
Love makes all things beautiful...

May you have all the three for this Christmas!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

With Love

Panchi.....

Christmas: Candles!

2008-12-25T03:50:00.000+05:30

Candles.....

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Christmas: Merry Christmas Dear Friend!!!

2008-12-25T02:45:00.000+05:30

May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow.

Wish you lots of love, joy and happiness.

MARRY CHRISTMAS!!!

May all the sweet magic

Of Christmas conspire

To gladden your hearts

And fill every desire!!!

Two things upon this changing earth can neither change nor end;
The splendor of Christ's humble birth the love of friend for friend

Roopa: Indian Girl

2008-09-23T02:12:00.013+05:30

Roopa: Indian Girl
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