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2 unusual facts about St. Valentine's Day at Girton


St. Valentine's Day at Girton

The cartoon depicted the first girl looking over a Valentine written in ancient Greek and asking the second, "Charming, isn't it? Gussie must have sent it from Oxford?" with the second girl replying, "Yes, it's out of the Antigone-the Love Chorus, you know. How much jollier than those silly English verses fellows used to send!"

The cartoon which depicted two women students of Girton College, Cambridge on their preference of a Valentine in ancient Greek rather than English, reflected the uneasiness of contemporary society about a woman with the "power and privileges" of Greek Studies at a time when classical scholarship was mostly restricted to upper-class males.


Alexander D'Arcy

Evidently a favorite of such cult directors as Roger Corman, Russ Meyer and Sam Fuller, D'Arcy was seen in Corman's The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), Meyer's The Seven Minutes (1971) and Fuller's Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972).

Be Mine, Valentine

The tracks "Knife Vs Face: Round 1" and "Well, I Never Knew You Were So Much Fun" (listed as "Well, I Never...) were re-recorded for their debut album In Vogue

Beemer, Nebraska

His efforts on behalf of the area were rewarded in 1886, when Congressman Edward K. Valentine secured a post office for the settlement, naming it the Beemer Post Office.

Charles A. Shibell

Additionally, John J. Valentine, Sr. Wells, Fargo & Co. would, as a direct response to Brazelton's criminal actions in Pima County, send special agent and future sheriff of said county, Bob Paul, to investigate on their behalf.

Comparison microscope

Colonel Goddard was the key forensic expert in solving the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in which seven gangsters were killed by rival Al Capone mobsters dressed as Chicago police officers.

David H. Valentine

In 1966 he was appointed as Harrison Professor of Botany in the University of Manchester.

James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton

On 14 February (St. Valentine's Day) 1752, Hamilton met the society beauty Elizabeth Gunning at Bedford House in London.

John J. Valentine, Sr.

Upon the resignation of Charles F. Crocker in August 1882, Valentine was elected vice president and a director of Wells Fargo.

In the spring of 1861 Valentine went to California, where he was joint agent for Wells Fargo & Company, the Pioneer Stage Company and the California State Telegraph Company at Strawberry Valley, California.

John L. Valentine

Valentine was also awarded the Tax Practitioner of the Year award by the Utah State Bar in 2008.

La Fête du Baiser

La Fête du Baiser ("festival of the kiss") is a festival celebrated the Saturday after St. Valentine's Day, in Roquemaure, France, near Avignon.

Mid-Hudson Civic Center

Notable wrestlers who wrestled in the building during this time include then WWF Champion Hulk Hogan, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, André the Giant, Bret Hart, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, King Kong Bundy, Big John Studd, Ken Patera, Tito Santana and Rowdy Roddy Piper (who also hosted his "Piper's Pit" segment on the show).

Morgus the Maniac

While competing in an interpromotional show with Extreme Championship Wrestling, then Eastern Championship Wrestling, which included former WWF wrestlers such as Mr. Hughes, Junkyard Dog, Greg "the Hammer" Valentine and Jake "the Snake" Roberts, he would lose his MEWF Heavyweight title to Lucifer the Knight of the Road on November 14, 1993.

Peter von Frantzius

An almost exclusive supplier of the Chicago Outfit (although often selling to rival gangs such as the North Side Mob), he was one of the first to supply "Tommy" submachine guns and other specialized weaponry connected to countless gangland slayings during the bootleg wars of the 1920s, including the murder of Brooklyn mobster Frankie Yale in 1928, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929 and the 1930 gangland murder of Chicago journalist Jake Lingle.

Sophie McShera

Their business, That Sweet Feeling, specialises in jars of romance-themed confectionery, especially popular on St. Valentine's Days.


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