Valentine's Day
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
History
- History of Valentine's Day
- Pagan festivals, Christian saints, Chaucer's love birds, and the Greeting Card Association of America
- Valentine's Day by the Numbers
- Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau
- Spelling Love with Candy Hearts
- Ten new ways to convey those immortal words
Love
- Famous Love Stories
- Legendary couples from Antony and Cleopatra to Abigail and John Adams
- Fictional Love Stories
- Love stories in literature, opera, and television
- American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Love Stories
- From Casablanca to Jerry Maguire
- The International Language of Love
- How to say "I love you" around the world
- Quotations from Classic Love Poems
- Shakespeare, Virgil, and Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Classic Love Poems on the Web
- Words of love are only a click away
Fun Stuff
- Valentine Heart Slider
- Valentine's Day Hangman Game
- Wedding Lore and Traditions
- From bridesmaids to tossing the bouquet
- Encyclopedia: Saint Valentine
- A Roman martyr priest, circa 270
- Encyclopedia: Saint Valentine's Day
- The Western holiday was originally known as the Roman feast of Lupercalia
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