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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY</title><link>http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/communities/historytalk/archive/2007/02/02/7224.aspx</link><description>At the request of several of my students, here is an excerpt from The History Channel Website on the History of Valentine's Day:

The History of Valentine's Day

Every February, across the country, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>NLCommunities 2.0 (Build: 60217.2664)</generator><item><title>re: HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY</title><link>http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/communities/historytalk/archive/2007/02/02/7224.aspx#7274</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:26:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ce563765-8c4f-48c5-9ecb-1415acd4ed34:7274</guid><dc:creator>Jerry Kokkinos</dc:creator><description>Valentine's Day should be left to once a year in my opinion. &amp;nbsp;I agree with the quote above that says that if there is a day in which we didn't show any love for anyone or anything, it's a waste of a day. &amp;nbsp;You should live life to the fullest and enjoy it to the greatest capacity available to you. &amp;nbsp;I think that this joyous holiday is better off celebrated once a year so we appreciate our loved ones a little more than any other day of the year. &amp;nbsp;Besides, in my opinion, this holiday is just a scheme for stores to make money. &amp;nbsp;Cards, balloons, flowers, and etc. are the basic Valentine's Day gifts. &amp;nbsp;I think it's a waste and that every day can be just like the holiday, just showing someone you love them, you truly care about them, without having to give them a gift. &amp;nbsp;You could show love and affection in so many other, many better ways and I think people should start doing that more.</description></item><item><title>re: HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY</title><link>http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/communities/historytalk/archive/2007/02/02/7224.aspx#7558</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:52:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ce563765-8c4f-48c5-9ecb-1415acd4ed34:7558</guid><dc:creator>lamor</dc:creator><description>i dont think that valintines day should be such an important holiday. i think that its just the card companies ways of gettin money. &lt;br&gt; y do we need 1 day to celelabrate love when we could do that every day. so fellas dont wait untill valintines day to show that special somone that u truely do love them.</description></item><item><title>re: HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY</title><link>http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/communities/historytalk/archive/2007/02/02/7224.aspx#7559</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:57:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ce563765-8c4f-48c5-9ecb-1415acd4ed34:7559</guid><dc:creator>Paolo</dc:creator><description>I believe that Valentine's Day has become extremely commerical. I feel as If i am requiered to go out of my busy schedule and buy heart shaped choclates and over priced roses. Whatever happened to the true meaning of &amp;quot;love&amp;quot;? Love should be celbrated every single day of the year. It doesnt take choclates and a card to show how much you care about a person. It should be that every day we express our feelings to the ones we love. So this valentine's day instead of buying a card make one! Instead of buying flowers and go pick out some from your neighbors garden. Bake them something special. The time and love we put into these things will show the true Valentino we are!!</description></item><item><title>re: HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY</title><link>http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/communities/historytalk/archive/2007/02/02/7224.aspx#7708</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:14:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ce563765-8c4f-48c5-9ecb-1415acd4ed34:7708</guid><dc:creator>lamor </dc:creator><description> your my peice of mind, in this crazy world &lt;br&gt; your everything ivr tried to find &lt;br&gt;your love is a pearl&lt;br&gt;your my Mona Lisa &lt;br&gt;your my rainbow in the skies &lt;br&gt;and my only prayer is realize &lt;br&gt;you will always be beautiful in my eyes &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;the world will turn &lt;br&gt;and seasons will change &lt;br&gt;and all the lessons we will learn &lt;br&gt;will be beautiful n strange &lt;br&gt;we will have our fall of tears &lt;br&gt;our share of sight &amp;nbsp;but right now is for u to realize &lt;br&gt;that your beautiful in my eyes </description></item><item><title>re: HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY</title><link>http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/communities/historytalk/archive/2007/02/02/7224.aspx#7710</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:23:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ce563765-8c4f-48c5-9ecb-1415acd4ed34:7710</guid><dc:creator>lamor</dc:creator><description>I like the way you smile &lt;br&gt;The way your eyes shine&lt;br&gt;and your temple crease &lt;br&gt;I like the way your mouth curles&lt;br&gt;from wall to wall coast to coast &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;heart to heart &lt;br&gt;but how can i say that im fealin you &lt;br&gt;if you wont com my way &lt;br&gt;i wish you were mine but your not &lt;br&gt;I've been thinking about you night and day &lt;br&gt;But I cant find the words to tell you &lt;br&gt;that your the one i should call my boo </description></item><item><title>re: HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY</title><link>http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/communities/historytalk/archive/2007/02/02/7224.aspx#7711</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:23:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ce563765-8c4f-48c5-9ecb-1415acd4ed34:7711</guid><dc:creator>lamor</dc:creator><description>I like the way you smile &lt;br&gt;The way your eyes shine&lt;br&gt;and your temple crease &lt;br&gt;I like the way your mouth curles&lt;br&gt;from wall to wall coast to coast &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;heart to heart &lt;br&gt;but how can i say that im fealin you &lt;br&gt;if you wont com my way &lt;br&gt;i wish you were mine but your not &lt;br&gt;I've been thinking about you night and day &lt;br&gt;But I cant find the words to tell you &lt;br&gt;that your the one i should call my boo </description></item><item><title>re: HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY</title><link>http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/communities/historytalk/archive/2007/02/02/7224.aspx#8047</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:52:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ce563765-8c4f-48c5-9ecb-1415acd4ed34:8047</guid><dc:creator>Michael Cain</dc:creator><description>I love the fact that this man was a true believer in the natural affection of man and woman, and having a valentine to share your heroic manliness, and courage to show that You have a heart like a Lion; is just what I believe to be the way of a man's true love and affection. Yes, I will die for You!</description></item><item><title>re: HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY</title><link>http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/communities/historytalk/archive/2007/02/02/7224.aspx#8248</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:55:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ce563765-8c4f-48c5-9ecb-1415acd4ed34:8248</guid><dc:creator>yo Daddy</dc:creator><description>u peeps is crazy ho&amp;quot;s</description></item><item><title>re: HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY</title><link>http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/communities/historytalk/archive/2007/02/02/7224.aspx#8249</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:37:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ce563765-8c4f-48c5-9ecb-1415acd4ed34:8249</guid><dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator><description>This celebration again, has been watered down and commercialized and has buried the facts behind the truth. Just an addition to the story of valintine and the jailers daughter. &amp;nbsp;One source of informaiton states that the jailer, knowing that valintine was a man of God, asked him to pray for his blind daughter. &amp;nbsp;When he did this the jailers daughters sight was restored. It is also stated that one of the last communications from valintine was a letter to this jailers daughter and was signed &amp;quot;Your Valintine&amp;quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY</title><link>http://blogs.oit.nycenet.edu/communities/historytalk/archive/2007/02/02/7224.aspx#9535</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:17:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ce563765-8c4f-48c5-9ecb-1415acd4ed34:9535</guid><dc:creator>peeps</dc:creator><description>cool</description></item></channel></rss>