Be Mine - Valentines Contest time!
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Shakespeare mentions Valentines Day in A Midsummer Nights Dream and in Hamlet.
Madame Royale, daughter of Henry the IV of France, loved Valentines Day so much that she named her palace The Valentine.
During the 1700s in England, a girl would pin four bay leaves to her pillow and eat a hard-boiled egg, including the shell, on the eve of St. Valentine’s Day. Supposedly, if she dreamed of a boy that night, she would soon marry him. Girls would also write boys’ names on small pieces of paper, cover them with clay, and drop them into the water. When the clay broke, the papers floated to the top. The first name the girls could read would predict whom they would marry.
Penicillin, a popular treatment for venereal diseases such as syphilis, was introduced to the world on February 14, 1929.
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