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The practice of gifting flowers—especially roses—on Valentine's Day started in the Victorian era, when flowers were used to communicate hidden meanings. Today, roses are still the top choice ...
The town's name in literal translation is "Hill of roses". The rose is the national flower of England, a usage dating back to the English civil wars of the fifteenth century (later called Wars of the Roses), in which a red rose represented the House of Lancaster, and a white rose represented the House of York. [19]
Lupercalia: Valentine's Day pagan connections. Lupercalia was a debaucherous festival that celebrated the coming of spring. It included animal sacrifices and drunken revelry to honor Faunus, the ...
Answer: The Heart of the Ocean Romance is linked to Valentine's Day due to the medieval belief that the mating season of what animal begins on Feb. 14? Answer: Bird
Alice observes three playing cards painting white roses red. They drop to the ground face down at the approach of the Queen of Hearts, whom Alice has never met. When the Queen arrives, along with the King and their ten children, and asks Alice who is lying on the ground (since the backs of all playing cards look alike), Alice tells her that she does not know.
Red and white roses appear in the civic heraldry of Lancashire and Yorkshire respectively. The House of Tudor that came to power at the end of the wars used a combination of their two roses: the ten-petaled Tudor double rose. The double Tudor rose is always depicted as white on red on a field of any other tincture and is always termed 'proper'.
Roses are red, violets are blue, chocolate is rich -- and more expensive now too. Crushing diseases that purged cocoa crops in West Africa, combined with a difficult growing season -- similar to ...
Johannes Valentinus Andreae, a likely candidate for the authorship of the third Rosicrucian manifesto, the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, came from a family whose crest featured an X-shaped cross with roses in the four corners. Many allegorical and esoteric explanations for the Rose Cross have arisen over the centuries.