Instantly obliterated 150,000 people in response to pearl harbor which only killed around 3,000 people. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people died. Destroyed the landscape for thousands of miles for many years. In my opinion the worst most inhumane event throughout human history.
To this day, the Umbrian city of Terni celebrates the Feast of St. Valentine outside the Basilica di San Valentino. Ja teb'a l'ubl'u. (Russian) Kocham CiÄ. (Polish) Bi chamd khairtai. (Mongolian) As for the inclusion of romantic love in Valentineâs Day, we can thank 14th-century English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, a man regarded as the Father of English literature and the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. His âParlement of Foulesâ, a romantic poem, is the first reference of Valentineâs Day as a special day for lovers. This came almost 10 centuries after the lives and exploits of both our aforementioned Valentines. Aloha Au Ia Ê»Oe. (Hawaiian)
Edgar Allen Poe's 'A Valentine' is actually a type of poem that uses certain letters of each line to spell related words or phrases, known as an acrostic. Unlike other acrostics, which use the first or last letters of each line, Poe used the letters corresponding to the line's number to spell out the name of the poem's recipient, Frances Sargent Osgood, another poet with whom he reportedly had an affair.