Valentine's Day Special: Ten Best Quotes to Make Her Believe "You LOve Her"

Tearing your hair out looking for classy Valentine's Day mobile text messages to send to the hot girl next door without sounding needy? 

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner; so we need something special to share. Here are some of the most passionate lines from classic authors that will get her weak in the knees. 

A list of historical love quotes:

1. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same - Emily Bronte

2. If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so

I never have to live without you - A A Milne

3. But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun – Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

4. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong - W.H. Auden

5. You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams - Dr. Seuss

6. When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

7. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be - Robert Browning

8. For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow - Rosemonde Gerard

9. But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever - Robert Burns 

10. I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator - Napoleon Bonaparte's 1796 dispatch to wife Josephine.

Valentine's Day 2011 - - The Reality of Valentine's Day in Historical, Traditional and Religious Terms

Valentine's Day - - History, Traditions and Religious Views

What is Valentine's Day??

Valentine's Day is a celebration of romantic love occurring annually on February 14.

Although it is associated by legend with a Catholic saint named Valentine, Valentine's Day is not a religious holiday and never really has been. Valentine's Day has historical roots mainly in Greco-Roman pagan fertility festivals and the medieval notion that birds pair off to mate on February 14.

The custom of exchanging cards and other tokens of love on February 14 began to develop in England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries and became especially popular in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Over the last decade or so, Valentine's Day observance has even spread to the Far East, India, and the Middle East.

History of Valentine's Day

The association of the middle of February with love and fertility dates to ancient times. In ancient Athens, the period between mid-January and mid-February was the month of Gamelion, which was dedicated to the sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera.

In ancient Rome, February 15 was Lupercalia, the festival of Lupercus (or Faunus), the god of fertility. As part of the purification ritual, the priests of Lupercus would sacrifice goats and a dog to the god, and after drinking wine, they would run through the streets of Rome striking anyone they met with pieces of the goat skin. Young women would come forth voluntarily for the occasion, believing that being touched by the goat skin would render them fertile. Young men would also draw names from an urn, choosing their "blind date" for the coming year. In 494 AD the Christian church under Pope Gelasius I appropriated the some aspects of the rite as the Feast of the Purification.

In Christianity, at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early lives of the saints under the date of February 14. Two of the Valentines lived in Italy in the third century: one as a priest at Rome, the other as bishop of Terni. They are both said to have been martyred in Rome and buried on the Flaminian Way. A third St. Valentine was martyred in North Africa and very little else is known of him.

Several legends have developed around one or more of these Valentines, two of which are especially popular. According to one account, Emperor Claudius II outlawed marriage for all young men because he believed unmarried men made better soldiers. Valentine defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young couples and was put to death by the emperor for it. A related legend has Valentine writing letters from prison to his beloved, signing them "From your Valentine."

However, the connection between St. Valentine and romantic love is not mentioned in any early histories and is regarded by historians as purely a matter of legend. The feast of St. Valentine was first declared to be on February 14 by Pope Gelasius I around 498. It is said the pope created the day to counter the practice held on Lupercalia, but this is not attested in any sources from that era.

The first recorded association of St. Valentine's Day with romantic love was in the 14th century in England and France, where it was believed that February 14 was the day on which birds paired off to mate. Thus we read in Geoffrey Chaucer's (c. 1343-1400) Parliament of Fowls, believed to be the first Valentine's Day poem:

For this was on saint Valentine's day,
When every fowl comes there to choose his mate.

It became common during that era for lovers to exchange notes on Valentine's Day and to call each other their "Valentines." The first Valentine card was sent by Charles, duke of Orleans, to his wife in 1415 when he was a prisoner in the Tower of London. Valentine's Day love notes were often given anonymously. It is probable that many of the legends about St. Valentine developed during this period (see above). By the 1700s, verses like "Roses are red, violets are blue" became popular. By the 1850s, romantics in France began embellishing their valentine cards with gilt paper, ribbons and lace.

Valentine's Day was probably imported into North America in the 19th century with settlers from Britain. In the United States, the first mass-produced valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold shortly after 1847 by Esther A. Howland (1828 - 1904) of Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father operated a large book and stationery store, and she took her inspiration from an English valentine she had received. 

In the 19th century, relics of St. Valentine were donated by Pope Gregory XVI to the Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland, which has become a popular place of pilgrimage on February 14. 

But in 1969, as part of a larger effort to pare down the number of saint days of legendary origin, the Church removed St. Valentine's Day as an official holiday from its calendar.

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9400-year-old Dog's Bone Fragment Found by Graduate student Samuel Belknap III

PORTLAND, Maine — A University of Maine researcher has found a bone fragment from what he says is the oldest-known domesticated dog in the Americas.

Graduate student Samuel Belknap III says he came across the bone while analyzing a dried-out sample of human waste that had been unearthed during an archaeological dig in Texas in the 1970s.

He says a carbon-dating test pegged the age of the bone at 9,400 years old. A DNA analysis confirmed it came from a dog.

He says it appears the dog was used for food because the bone was found deep inside a pile of human excrement and had changed color after passing through the digestive tract.

The paper by Belknap and other researchers has been accepted, pending revisions, for publication in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

PLATINUM COUPLE: Ethel and Bernard Gilbert of Ramsey Happily Married for 70 Years

PLATINUM COUPLE: Ethel and Bernard Gilbert of Ramsey, who are both 90-years-old, toasted 70 years of marriage with friends and family at Ramsey Cricket Club on Saturday.

Mr Gilbert, known among friends as Bunny, was in the army and went AWOL (absent without leave) in order to marry his blushing bride on January 8, 1941, at Beckingham Church in Lincolnshire.

He continued to serve throughout the war and was present during the surrender of German troops at the end of World War II as part of British Field Marshall Montgomery’s personal bodyguard. Following the war, Mr Gilbert turned to labouring and then turkey farming. He moved to Huntingdon after securing a job at a farm.

Mrs Gilbert worked for many years serving tea and sandwiches at RAF Wyton. The couple have two sons, Gordon and Glen, who were also present on Saturday.

Inset, Ethel and Bernard Gilbert as pictured on their wedding day. The couple celebrated 70 years together on Saturday.

Miss America 2011 - - Fifty-three Women to Contect for Miss America Crown by the Hands of Miss America 2010 Caressa Cameron

LAS VEGAS — Fifty-three women are vying for the Miss America crown on Saturday night, an honor that carries with it a $50,000 scholarship and a yearlong run as an idol to many young girls throughout the country.

Miss America 2010 Caressa Cameron planned to crown the winner after a two-hour competition televised live nationally on ABC.

After an opening number, hosts Brooke Burke and Chris Harrison will announce 16 finalists, including one chosen by fans through online and mobile phone voting. The girls will then compete in swimsuit, evening gown, talent and interview competitions, and a panel of judges will pick a winner.

The competition is the finale of a week of preliminary contests, with each queen having already won her state crown. The 53 contestants include one from each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Preliminary scores count 30 percent toward a contestant's score to get into the top five. The talent competition counts for 30 percent, while the swimsuit and evening gown competitions each count for 20 percent. After the final five contestants answer a question onstage, each judge will rank them in order. The winner will be determined solely from that ballot.

During the preliminaries, three competitors — Miss Hawaii Jalee Fuselier, Miss Alabama, Ashley Davis and Miss Oklahoma Emoly West — won nightly swimsuit competitions worth $1,000 each. Miss Rhode Island Deborah Saint Vil, Miss North Carolina Adrienne Core and Miss Nebraska Teresa Scanlan each won talent contests, winning $2,000 apiece.

The $50,000 top prize is among $349,000 in prizes given by the Miss America Organization at the national level. The organization bills itself as the country's largest scholarship provider for women.

Each of the contestants was guaranteed at least $3,000, with the first runner-up receiving $25,000 and third place winner getting $20,000.

Pageant officials on Friday said Miss Michigan Katie LaRoche won $6,000 for the Quality of Life award, a scholarship given for volunteerism and community service. LaRoche's platform is raising awareness of human trafficking. Miss Delaware Kayla Martell was first runner-up for the award, while Miss New Jersey Ashleigh Udalovas was second runner-up.

New Bacteria Found Eating Up Rusty Iron Structure of shipwrecked Titanic

Scientists examining samples of the shipwrecked Titanic have discovered a new type of bacteria threatening to devour the entire iron structure of the ocean liner.

The new species of microscopic bacteria, Halmonas Titanicae from the Halomondaceae family, has been found eating away at the sunken ship, UK's The Sun reports.

The samples were actually taken from the ship in 1991, but new DNA technology has only recently allowed scientists to identify the rust-eating bacteria.

Scientists predict that clumps of rust attached to the ship will eventually disintegrate into a fine powder in the salt water, resulting in a complete collapse of the structure by 2030.

The findings by Dr Henrietta Mann and Bhavleen Kaur from Dalhousie University in Halifax in Canada and researchers from Spain's University of Sevilla were published late last year in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

"To explain it in human terms, not every type of bacteria has the same taste … the rusticles on Titanic are made from a composition of different microorganisms and there is one particular bacteria which particularly likes eating iron," Dr Mann said.

"In this case, the bacteria helps to decompose the ship."

This discovery confirms reports by divers who have visited the wreck and said that the ship is gradually decaying.

"It has already lasted for 100 years but eventually there will be nothing left but a rust stain on the bottom of the Atlantic to remember this once magnificent ocean liner from," Dr Mann.

"I think (the) Titanic has maybe 15 or 20 years left. I don’t think it will have too much longer than that."

Chairman of the Irish Titanic Historical Society Ed Coghlan said future generations may think it was "a shame" efforts weren't made to preserve the wreckage even though the task itself would "cost an absolute fortune and is probably impossible".

"The Titanic is a very human story from its construction to its sinking and the re-discovery and it will be fascinating to see what happens to the wreck in the coming years," Mr Coghlan said.

"Fortunately it has been photographed extensively and there are wonderful videos and still shots to show us what it looked like underwater so there will always be a record of it."

The Titanic was called an "unsinkable" ship but it sank after hitting an iceberg while on her maiden voyage in 1912, killing more than 1500 passengers and crew.

It lay undiscovered until 1985 when a combined American-French expedition found the historic ship's resting place 530km south east of Newfoundland.

Amazing Timing and Date in 2011: Olivia Lee Born at 11:11 a.m. as on 1/11/11

January 11 will serve as an oddly significant day for two local families.

Two babies were born at Willis Knighton in Bossier City Tuesday at very coincidental times.

 

Little Olivia Lee was born at 11:11 a.m. to Donna and Benjamin Lee.

Little Cameron Wambold was born at 1:11 p.m. to Stephanie Guest and Billy Wambold.

Both mothers were shocked about the timing.

"It just happened. It really did. It is a huge coincidence, but it just worked out that way," said Lee.

"I think it's kind of cool. I don't really know if there is anything behind that, but I think it's kind of cool."