This coming Saturday will be Valentine’s Day here in the U.S., which originally dates back to a Catholic feast day in A.D. 496 to honor a third-century priest named Valentine who was executed on February 14. But, the first commercial Valentine’s cards were sold by Esther Howland in the 1840’s.By the 1900s printed cards—that often included a chubby angel named Cupid printed on the...
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