Hello and greetings to all. In a few days we celebrate Valentine’s Day. Although not all the delights the Anglo-Saxon tradition of Valentine’s Day, this holiday supporters argue that it is worth it to appreciate because of the positive message. They also include the NASA employees who show that the signals are to love us even from outer space.
„Mars sends us all the love on Valentine’s Day” – posted employees of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Twitter a year ago, accompanied by a unique valentine. This photo Martian formations, with a very romantic shapes. Specialists browsing photographs documenting the different areas of the Red Planet have found ten of hearts.
That’s not all. The team working with at the Space Telescope, Chandra pointed out the heart shape, which adopted a cloud of hot st to 8 million. C gas, located in the star cluster NGC 346 belonging to the Small Magellanic Cloud. Tests using the instrument radio, optical and ultraviolet suggest that contained 210 thousand. light-years from Earth, cosmic heart is a remnant of a supernova explosion that occurred thousands of years ago. I also attach some other pictures from the Internet, documenting the cosmos, which is the shape of a heart.
Valentine’s Day is an annual falling on February 14. The name comes from Saint. Valentine, whose liturgical memorial in the Catholic Church is also celebrated on this day.
Custom on this day is to send letters containing confessions of love (often written in verse). In the West, especially the United Kingdom and the United States, St. worshiped. Valentine as the patron saint of lovers. February 14, he became a self-giving occasion for little gifts
Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the southern and western Europe since the Middle Ages. Northern and eastern Europe joined the group Valentine’s much later.
Despite the Catholic patron saint of the holidays, it is sometimes associated with convergent timely custom dating from the Roman Empire, which consisted mainly of search chosen the heart, eg. By drawing its name from a special urn. The modern day love but there is no direct relationship with one particular celebration of ancient Rome, although it is associated with the mythological figures such as Cupid, Eros, Pan and Juno Februata.
It is possible that customs associated with this day refer to the ancient Roman festival called Lupercalia, celebrated on 14-15 February in honor of Juno, the Roman goddess of women and marriage, and the Lord, the God of nature.
The British believe this feast for their own due to the fact that it became famous all over the world, Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Polish celebration of Valentine’s to hit with the cult of St. Valentine of Bavaria and the Tyrol. But only gained popularity in the 90s of the twentieth century. This feast is competing for the title of the so-called. holidays in love with a native Slavic feast popularly known as the Midsummer Night or Sobotka, celebrated on the night of 21 to 22 June.
Standing almost Valentine’s Day is another element of the prize itself decorative Valentine’s Day cards. Red, mostly in the shape of a heart, bear Valentine’s poem, and often a love confession. Combined with the feast of the custom of giving gifts Valentine’s partner in the form of flowers, sweets, plush mascots as well as more personal items of clothing.
For those not staying in relationships, so-called. singles (particularly describing themselves as Quirkyalone) Valentine’s Day are oppressive, related to the „tyranny of being in a relationship” and stigmatizing people living alone. For this reason, 14 February has been recognized by the community Quirkyalone for International Quirkyalone Day, having intended to be non-valentine.
source : tvnmeteo.tvn24.pl , pl.wikipedia.org , twojewiadomosci.com , commons.wikimedia.org , odkrywcy.pl , NASA