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But always be careful not to say it with ink.” Anonymous • There were probably two different men considered to be St. Valentine, and both were supposedly beheaded on February 14. The more commonly accepted legend identifies St. Valentine as a priest in early Rome around the year 260. The Roman emperor at that time forbade his soldiers to marry because he believed that single men made better soldiers.

In the name of love and in defiance of the emperor’s edict, Valentine secretly married soldiers and their ladies and paid the price with his execution.

• Tradition places the first Valentine letter around 1415. This was when a Frenchman, the Duke of Orléans, was captured in battle and imprisoned in the Tower of London. From there, he composed rhymed love letters to his wife.

• In England during the 1700s, women wrote men’s names on little bits of paper, encased them in a piece of clay and dropped all the clay pieces into a pond. The first paper to rise to the top was supposedly the name of the woman’s true love. turn the page for more!

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According to tradition, that night they would dream of their future husband. Some recited a verse before sleep: “Good Valentine, be kind to me, in dreams let me my true love see.”

Perhaps this is where we derive the expression “the man of my dreams”!

• Another old Valentine custom had men write women’s names on bits of paper and place them in a jar. Each man drew a paper, and that woman was the man’s Valentine. He spent the day paying special attention to her and bestowing small gifts, often a pair of gloves.

Some of the men pinned the lady’s name to their shirtsleeve and wore it for several days, literally “wearing their hearts on their sleeves.”

• In Victorian days, young women used their fans to convey secret messages to their beaus.

Drawing her fan across the cheek meant “I love you,” while twirling it in her right hand gave the warning, “We are being watched.”

• Esther A. Howland was the first person to commercially manufacture Valentines, beginning in 1847. Considered the “Mother of the Valentine,” her original creations featured real lace and colorful ribbons. She eventually expanded her business into sales of $100,000 annually.

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• Those colorful little candy conversation hearts have been around since 1866, when they were first manufactured by the New England Confectionery Company, or NECCO, as the company is more commonly known. Originally called “motto hearts,” they contained messages such as “Be Good,” “Be True” and “Kiss Me.” NECCO began updating their phrases in recent years, adding “Call Me,” “Fax Me,” “Email Me” and starting in 2011, one in 80 hearts reads “Tweet Me.” NECCO makes eight billion Sweethearts every year, selling about 100,000 pounds of them every day between January 1 and February 14.

• If you plan to give your Valentine a bottle of perfume, you might want to know that one of the ingredients in many perfumes is coal tar. And in order to prolong the fragrance, manufacturers add substances taken from beavers, male musk deer and sperm whales. Still other ingredients are derived from turpentine. Most perfumes are produced synthetically using chemical substances, and even the best perfumes contain only about 10 percent flower petal oil dissolved in alcohol. It takes about 10 million jasmine flowers to produce only 2.2 pounds of fragrant oil. Although a perfume may smell like one specific fragrance, it can actually be a blend of up to 500 ingredients.

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VALENTINE’S DAY (continued): • Before it is molded into bars, milk chocolate is stirred by machines for 72 hours to achieve the smoothest chocolate possible.

• About 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate will be given to sweethearts this year.

But Valentine’s Day is far from the biggest day of the year for candy purchases. Halloween is first, followed by Easter, then Christmas.

• For its first 68 years, the Hershey Chocolate Company operated with no advertising budget.

It did not advertise its products until July 1970.

• Egyptians were the first candy makers 3,000 years ago when they mixed fruits and nuts with honey.

• If your Valentine asks you for a Pascali, a Chrysler Imperial, a Rubaiyat, a Floradora, a Montezuma or an Iceberg, she’s asking for a rose from the list of the more popular varieties.

The Society of American Florists estimates the number of roses produced for Valentine’s Day at around 200 million. About 43 percent of flowers given are red roses, and 29 percent are other colors of roses. The remaining gifts are mixed flowers.

• Cupid, Roman mythology’s god of love, was the son of the goddess Venus and the god Mars. He’s often depicted with wings, a bow and a quiver of arrows, and one shot is said to cause his “victims” to fall in love. Other legends represent Cupid with two sets of arrows — one gold-tipped set for love and another lead-tipped set, which brings about hatred.

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• The Monument sat for over 20 years until the federal government took over, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the project. An obvious sign of the time difference can be seen on the lower 150 feet (46 m) of the obelisk. The builders were unable to find a match for the color of the marble used during the early construction, which is why the bottom 27 percent is a lighter color.

• The Monument was completed in 1884, towering to a height of 555 feet and 5 1/8 inches (169.3 m) and weighing more than 80,000 tons.

At its base, the walls are 15 feet (4.6 m) thick, tapering to 18 inches (460 mm) in the upper shaft. The interior walls contain 193 contributed memorial stones. The final cost was $1,187,710.

It was officially dedicated in February of 1885, and within the first six months, 10,041 people had climbed the Monument’s 897 steps to the top. Shortly afterward, a steam elevator was installed, providing a 20-minute ride to the top, complete with a snack of wine and cheese during the trip. However, only men were allowed to ride the elevator, as it was considered unsafe for women and children! By 1888, an average of 55,000 people were making the trip to the top every month. Today, about 800,000 visitors make the trip annually, and the elevator ride takes just 70 seconds.

• At its completion, the Washington Monument became the world’s tallest structure, an honor it held until 1889, when Paris’ Eiffel Tower surpassed it. It remains not only Washington, D.C.’s tallest structure, but the world’s tallest stone structure and the world’s tallest obelisk as well.

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“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing,” said the German writer Goethe. Let’s take a look at that strange phenomenon that “makes the world go ‘round.”

• Courtship during Victorian times had definite rules of etiquette, and according to one authority of those times, the lady “is not to allow the young gentleman to kiss you until he has proposed marriage.” Of course, there were those who disagreed, such as the expert who advised that, “The prudent maiden should not allow her lover to kiss her even after their engagement. Not until after marriage should such a favor be granted.”

• The fourth finger of the left hand became the “ring finger” for wedding rings because of a tradition stating that a delicate nerve ran from that finger to the heart.

• The throwing of rice at weddings represents a wish for children and a long life for the couple, since rice, according to tradition, is the symbol of fertility and longevity.

• One woman expressed her love for her man on a recently seen bumper sticker: “All men are idiots, and I married their king.”

Comedian Rodney Dangerfield had a similar attitude: “My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.”

• It was Sir Alfred Tennyson who said, “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

• One Mexico City couple apparently believed in long engagements. In 1902, when Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez were both 15, they became engaged. They remained so for 67 years until 1969 when they married at 82.

• Although Britney Spears’ first marriage lasted just 55 hours, and one of Patty Duke’s marriages only 13 days, not every Hollywood marriage is doomed to fail. Bob Hope was married 69 years, James Cagney for 63 years, and Charlton Heston, 65 years.

• Minnie Pearl had these thoughts on marriage: “Getting married’s a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain’t so hot.”

• Age seems to have nothing to do with marriage success. Wisconsin’s Simon and Ida Stern dissolved their marriage in 1984.

He was 97; she was 91. Britain’s Bertie and Jessie Woods called in quits in 2008; both were 97 at the time.

• Harry Stevens robbed the cradle when he was 103 and married a much younger woman, Thelma Lucas, age 84, making him a record-holding oldest bridegroom.

• Glynn “Scotty” Wolfe is another unusual record holder. He had 29 monogamous marriages over 71 years. Three of his wives died, and he was married at the time of his death at age 88. His shortest union was 19 days, and the longest lasted 11 years. His son claims, “He divorced one wife for eating sunflower seeds in bed.”

• King Mongut of Siam (portrayed in the film “The King and I”) reportedly had 9,000 wives, however not monogamously.

• One divorce support group advocates, “You do not need to have any reasons for getting divorced. Building upon half-truths or making some up is just fine. The courts are not interested in who did what or who is telling the truth.”

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The statistics, released by the non-partisan Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, show 903 prosecutions so far this year. That’s a 24% increase over the total for all of fiscal year 2010, when 731 people were prosecuted for health fraud through federal agencies across the country. Prosecutions have gone up 71% from Fraud cases five years ago, according to TRAC. Health care fraud “This was a fairly draprosecutions: matic number of prose1991 147 cutions,” said David Burnham, co-director 2001 631 of TRAC. TRAC is a reof TRAC. TRAC is a re631 search organization at 2001 2006 528 Burnham, co-director Syracuse University cutions,” said David 1991 2010 147731 that submits Freedom matic number of proseof Information Act reprosecutions: “This This was a ffairly dra2011 9031 quests for government Health care fraud ing to TRAC. 1 – For the first eight datayears and ago, then accordreports five months of the fiscal year, Fraud cases the results. which runs from Oct. 1 to have gone up 71% from Sept. 30.

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The government beefed up its staffing this year, adding two health care fraud teams in February.

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