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141 million valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually, making Valentine's Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion. (This total excludes packaged kids valentines for classroom exchanges.) (Source: Hallmark research)
Over 50 percent of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased in the six days prior to the observance, making Valentine's Day a procrastinator's delight. (Source: Hallmark research)
Research reveals that more than half of the U.S. population celebrates Valentine's Day by purchasing a greeting card. (Source: Hallmark research)
There are 119 single men (i.e., never married, widowed or divorced) who are in their 20s for every 100 single women of the same ages. Corresponding numbers for the following race and ethnic groups are:

• Hispanics: 153 men per 100 women
• Asians (single race): 132 men per 100 women (This ratio is not significantly different from that for Hispanics or non-Hispanic whites.)
• Non-Hispanic whites (single race): 120 men per 100 women
• Blacks (single race): 92 men per 100 women (The numbers of black men and women in this age group are not significantly different from one another.

There are 34 single men (i.e., never married, widowed or divorced) age 65 or older for every 100 single women of the same ages. Corresponding numbers for the following race and ethnic groups are:

• Hispanics: 38 men per 100 women
• Non-Hispanic whites (single race): 33 men per 100 women
• Blacks (single race): 33 men per 100 women
• Asians (single race): 28 men per 100 women

(Note: None of the ratios for the individual groups differ significantly from one another nor from the ratio for all people age 65 or older.)
904: The number of dating service establishments nationwide as of 2002. These establishments, which include Internet dating services, employed nearly 4,300 people and pulled in $489 million in revenues.

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2.2 million marriages take place in the United States. That breaks down to more than 6,000 a day.
112,185 marriages were performed in  Neveda during 2008. So many couples "tie the knot" in the Silver State that it ranked fourth nationally in marriages, even though it's total population that year among states was 35th.
The estimated U.S. median ages at first marriage for women and men are 25.9 and 27.6 respectively, in 2008. The age for women rose 4.2 years in the last three decades. The age for men at first marriage is up 3.6 years.
Men and women in northeastern states generally have a higher median age at first marriage than the national average. In, for example, women were a median of 27.4 years old and men 29.1 years of age at first marriage. States where people typically marry young include where women were a median of 21.9 years and men, 23.9 years.
57% and 60% of American women and men, respectively, are 15 or older and currently married (includes those who are separated).
70%: The percentage of men and women ages 30 to 34 in 2008 who had been married at some point in their lives - either currently or formerly.
4.9 million opposite-sex cohabitating couples maintained households in 2005. These couples comprised 4.3 percent of all households.

Candy is Dandy

1,241: The number of locations producing chocolate and cocoa products in 2004. These establishments employed 43,322 people. led the nation in the number of such establishments with 136, followed by with 122.
515 locations produced nonchocolate confectionary products in 2004. These establishments employed 22,234 people.
The total value of shipments in 2004 for firms producing chocolate and cocoa products was $13.9 billion. Nonchocolate confectionery product manufacturing, meanwhile, was a $5.7 billion industry.
3,467 Number of confectionery and nut stores in the United States in 2004. Often referred to as candy stores, they are among the best sources of sweets for Valentine's Day.
The per capita consumption of candy by Americans in 2005 was 25.7 pounds. Candy consumption has actually declined over the last few years; in 1997, each American gobbled or savored more than 27 pounds of candy a year.

Flowers

The combined wholesale value of domestically produced cut flowers in 2005 for all flower-producing operations with $100,000 or more in sales was $397 million. Among states, California was the leading producer, alone accounting for nearly three-quarters of this amount ($289 million).
The combined wholesale value of domestically produced cut roses in 2005 for all operations with $100,000 or more in sales was $39 million. Among all types of cut flowers, roses were third in receipts ($39 million)to lilies ($76.9 million) and tulips ($39.1 million).
There were 21,667 florists nationwide in 2004. These businesses employed 109,915 people.

Jewelry

There were 28,772 jewelry stores in the United States in 2004. Jewelry stores offer engagement, wedding and other rings to lovers of all ages. In February 2006, these stores sold $2.6 billion worth of merchandise. (This figure has not been adjusted for seasonal variation, holiday or trading day differences or price changes). The merchandise at these locations could well have been produced at one of the nation's 1,864 jewelry manufacturing establishments. The manufacture of jewelry was an $9 billion industry in 2004.

valentine history

The history of Valentine's Day — and its patron saint — is shrouded in mystery. But we do know that February has long been a month of romance. St. Valentine's Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. So, who was Saint Valentine and how did he become associated with this ancient rite? Today, the Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred.
One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century inRome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men — his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.
Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured.
According to one legend, Valentine actually sent the first "valentine" greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl — who may have been his jailor's daughter — who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed "From your Valentine," an expression that is still in use today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories certainly emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic, and, most importantly, romantic figure. It's no surprise that by the Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France.
While some believe that Valentine's Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine's death or burial — which probably occurred around 270 A.D — others claim that the Christian church may have decided to celebrate Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to "christianize" celebrations of the pagan Lupercalia festival. February was the official beginning of spring and was considered a time for purification. Houses were ritually cleansed by sweeping them out and then sprinkling salt and a type of wheat called spelt throughout their interiors. Lupercalia, which began at the ides of February, February 15, was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.
To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at the sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would then sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification.
The boys then sliced the goat's hide into strips, dipped them in the sacrificial blood and took to the streets, gently slapping both women and fields of crops with the goathide strips. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed being touched with the hides because it was believed the strips would make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city's bachelors would then each choose a name out of the urn and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage. Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day around 498 A.D. The Roman "lottery" system for romantic pairing was deemed un-Christian and outlawed. Later, during the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds' mating season, which added to the idea that the middle of February — Valentine's Day — should be a day for romance. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. The greeting, which was written in 1415, is part of the manuscript collection of the British Library in London, England. Several years later, it is believed that King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a valentine note to Catherine of Valois.
In Great Britain, Valentine's Day began to be popularly celebrated around the seventeenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, it was common for friends and lovers in all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes. By the end of the century, printed cards began to replace written letters due to improvements in printing technology. Ready-made cards were an easy way for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of one's feelings was discouraged. Cheaper postage rates also contributed to an increase in the popularity of sending Valentine's Day greetings. Americans probably began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began to sell the first mass-produced valentines in America.
According to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making Valentine's Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year. (An estimated 2.6 billion cards are sent for Christmas. Approximately 85 percent of all valentines are purchased by women. In addition to the united states ,Valentine's Day is celebrated in Canada,mexico, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia.
Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages (written Valentine's didn't begin to appear until after 1400), and the oldest known Valentine card is on display at the British Museum. The first commercial Valentine's Day greeting cards produced in the U.S. were created in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland. Howland, known as the Mother of the Valentine, made elaborate creations with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as "scrap."<a href="http://hostgatorcouponsite.org/">hostgator coupon code</a>

Today In History. What Happened This Day In History

1072		Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger take Palermo in Sicily.
1645		The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, is beheaded on Tower Hill, accused of acting as an enemy of the British Parliament.
1724		King Philip V shocks all of Europe when he abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, Louis.
1811		An uprising of over 400 slaves is put down in New Orleans. Sixty-six blacks are killed and their heads are strung up along the roads of the city.
1847		General Stephen Kearny and Commodore Robert Stockton retake Los Angeles in the last California battle of the Mexican War.
1861		Florida secedes from the Union.
1863		London's Underground begins operations.
1870		John D. Rockefeller and his brother William establish the Standard Oil Company of Ohio.
1899		Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo renounces the Treaty of Paris, which annexed the Philippines to the United States.
1901		The Automobile Club of America installs signs on major highways.
1903		Argentina bans the importation of American beef because of sanitation problems.
1911		Two German cruisers, the Emden and the Nurnberg, suppress a native revolt on island of Ponape in the Caroline Islands in the Pacific when they fire on the island and land troops.
1912		The World's first flying-boat airplane, designed by Glenn Curtiss, makes its maiden flight at Hammondsport.
1917		Germany is rebuked as the Entente officially rejects a proposal for peace talks and demands the return of occupied territories from Germany.
1918		In Washington, the House of Representatives passes legislation for women's suffrage.
1920		The Treaty of Versailles goes into effect.
1923		The United States withdraws its last troops from Germany.
1940		German planes attack 12 ships off the British coast; sinking 3 ships and killing 35 people.
1941		The Soviets and Germany agree on the East European borders and the exchange of industrial equipment.
1946		Chiang Kai-shek and the Yenan Communist forces halt fighting in China.
1964		Panama breaks ties with the U.S. and demands a revision of the canal treaty.
1984		The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations for the first time in 117 years.
Born on January 10
1834		Lord Acton [John E.E. Dalberg], English historian, editor of The Rambler.
1864		George Washington Carver, chemist, agronomist, helped change the agricultural economy of the South.
1949		George Foreman, world heavyweight champion boxer.

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From where to cook a banana tree to conquering forts around the city, we bring you the best travel secrets from Mumbai and beyond.

For all you un-jolly folk that want to escape the holiday-party madness of Mumbai this year, we’ve got a plan – come, meat the elves. High on Travel along with the happy campers at Big Red Tent is organising an overnight barbeque festival on Christmas eve, at a lake-side, fully equipped camping ground a couple of hours from Mumbai, off the Mumbai-Pune expressway. Here you’ll find barbeque experts, pitched tents and yes, proper loos. All Grills Attached Guided by not just three but five wise men including Chef Anish Rai, Corporate Chef of the Barbeque Nation chain and his team of four, you’ll begin with marinating veggies, paneer and meats and graduate to not only grilling them but also learning about the different aspects of barbeque, from gauging the amount of charcoal required to achieving the best texture for your Chicken teriyaki, paneer tikka and mutton steak (this apparently goes best with mushroom rosemary sauce, which will also be available at the site). And if despite the expert guidance you end up burning your food, there’s always salad and dips for you to nosh on. Silent Night? Other activities will include hanging out around a big bonfire and crashing in pre-pitched tents big enough to fit Santa in, tricked out with sleeping bags, inflatable pillows and camping mattresses. If you’re feeling particularly enthusiastic, you can even take a trek around the area the next morning. The food and equipment will be provided on site, so all you have to bring along is your overnight change and a bottle (or six) of your favorite wine. Santa hats are optional, but hey, come on, it’s Christmas. Getting there: Visit http://www.highontravel.com/bbq-fest-details/ for details and to book or email info@highontravel.com, Rs 3,500 per adult and Rs 1,500 for kids. Let someone else paint the town red this month. Take your palette and set off instead for Serenity, a work-in-progress eco villa community in Mahagaon, 120 kilometres from Mumbai. Here, artists from around the world will be participating in a three-week Art in Nature residency program starting November 19. On the weekends, you can go up to the green valley and visit, participate in workshops and even stay the night. (S)lumber party! What the Artists Will Do Artist and curator Shilpa Joglekar has picked a bunch of artists from around the world - Tomasz Domanski (Poland), Urs Tewllmann (Switzerland), Ryszard Litwiniuk (Canada) Myriam du Manoir (France), Prashant Jogdand and Raman Adone (India) – who will bunk together and build sustainable art works from locally sourced materials like bamboo, stone and soil. These structures will go on to be permanent fixtures at Serenity, green foot prints left behind by the artists and conservation reminders for guests.    What You Will Do Feeling left out? You can pile on too, for weekend workshops on clay modelling, painting and sculpting taught by abovementioned artists. Meanwhile, they’ll put you up in fun eco-chic tents and feed you locally prepared food. I’ll have one part of art, please. Getting there: Art camp at Serenity Villas, to book call 9820110539 or visit www.serenityvillas.in, Rs 6,000 for a workshop including one night stay and three meals. Bumpy rides in sunny yellow taxis, pineapple pastries from Flury’s for breakfast, civilised screwdrivers and chips at Tolly, pandals strung with a thousand fairy lights: this Scouter caught the tail end of Pujo in Kolkata, when the city shakes off its year-round torpor and is at its dazzling, ripest best. Notes from a weekend in the City of Joy. Special thanks to Ashok and Bharti Haralalka for their time, hospitality and many, many drinks. Eat Despite multiple trips and much gluttony, we’ve barely managed to skim the surface of the culinary cauldron that is Kolkata. These restaurants however, are good places to start if you’re visiting the city: Bhojohari Manna, with its multiple branches and austere vibe, for authentic Bengali food (get luchi, aloo dum, posto, ilesh, chola daal and Rajbhog); Zishaan for kathi rolls; Girish Chandra Dey and Nakuri Nandi for fresh gud (jaggery) sandesh and Floriana at Russell street for a tub of Naturelle Nolen Gud ice cream. Also super delish is hand-churned Cappuccino Crunch ice cream available at the Alipore branch of the legendary Kookie Jar - remember to grab a sinful mocha biscuit and chocolate boats while you’re there.  Be still, my eating heart. Other favourites: Flury’s for puffs, above mentioned pineapple pastries and old world charm; Fire & Ice for thin crust pizza; Chinese at Red Hot Chilli Pepper and Zen; Bistro By The Park for iPad menus. Bhojohori Manna, Plot No. X, Block EP & GP, Sector 5, Salt Lake City, call 03340011211; Zishaan, near Park Circus Tram Depot, Sayed Amir Ali Ave, Circus Avenue, call 03366343397; Girish Chandra Dey, Ramdulal Sircar Street, Shyambazar, call 03322410048; Floriana, 13D, Russel Street, opposite Bengal Club, call 03322293531; Kookie Jar, Enclave No. 17, Belvedere Road, Alipore, call 03324490863. Still hungry? Find more Kolkata cuisine recommendations here. Shop Wheels of Fortune Make keg room for more beer in your inbox as we bring news of another Oktoberfest party. This one’s on a bus going from Mumbai to Pune’s Doolally micro-brewery (and back) where the journey will count as much as the destination. Bond voyage? The idea, organiser Regan Rodricks of Blue Bulb tells us, is to get Mumbai’s beer lovers to visit this brewery and ensure they don’t have to drive back to the city drunk. The Beer Wagen or “party bus” leaves Mumbai on October 15 and 16 with various pick up points across the city based on its passengers’ addresses. So you can either opt for a day trip (Rs 1,200 including bus ride and Rs 1,000 cover charge) or spend the night at Fortune Inn, a partner hotel that’s giving passengers special rates with shuttle service to Doolally. The Butterfly (Stroke) Effect While studying architecture and journalism in Manipal, Tushar Pathiyan and Ishita Malaviya developed an odd extra-curricular activity, one that has seldom been seen around these parts – surfing. “We got into it and were stoked right away,” explains Tushar, who talks (and we hope, looks) like the quintessential surfer boy. After a couple of years of exploring the sport, they began to offer friends lessons, and the great response they received led to the Shaka Surf Club Surf Shack, which formally opens for business this season. Wave hello! What Do You Sink? Now, Tushar and Ishita offer surfing lessons to anyone interested in the sport; in fact, the beach that they operate out of, located about 20 minutes from Manipal, is ideal for beginners – the waves are gentle, and there are no rocks or reef, so even if you take a tumble, chances that you’ll hurt yourself are slim. “Surfing is not dangerous, as long as you understand your skill level and stick with what you can handle,” explains Tushar. Still, even beginners need to have certain skills, like knowing how to swim and being comfortable in the water. “We don’t work with non-swimmers,” Tushar says firmly. And although they concentrate on training beginners, The Shaka Surf Club holds advanced-level courses as well, conducted by experienced international surfers travelling to India. The Formula 1 Grand Prix zooms into Singapore this weekend, (hopefully) bringing some much needed chaos to this uber-organised city. We dig up notes from a recent holiday for your racy trip east. Get, set, go! Special thanks to Singapore residents Yeshwant Holkar and Insiyah Imani for their hospitality and recommendations. Eat If there was one time we would use the much-overdone word “foodie”, it would be to describe Singapore. The restaurant scene here is diverse, extensive and top notch, with every local touting one (or five) recommendations for the best places to eat at. Prepare for gluttony. If you’re amongst the carnivores that routinely bemoan the lack of good steak in Mumbai, head first to Cut (we did), Wolfgang Puck’s swanky steakhouse at Marina Bay Sands. Also check out Min Jiang in Rochester Park, a Chinese restaurant that serves up super crispy duck, Shanghai dumplings and lots of vegetarian dishes; and Wild Honey for breakfast - mean egg burritos and gorgeous waffles stuffed with grilled mangos. Other good options: Chili and pepper crabs at Jumbo, Dempsey; barbequed sting ray and more street  food at Newton Circus or Makansutra at Esplanade; Margarita’s at Dempsey for Mexican fare. Getting there: Cut, Marina Bay Sands, 1 Bayfront Avenue, call +65 6688 8517; Min Jiang, Goodwood Park Hotel, call +65 67301704; Wild Honey, Mandarin Gallery 333 Orchard Road, call +65 6235 3900. Drink One weekend in Singapore, and our livers demanded a divorce. Prepare for the debauchery to  come  with a nice, civilized drink at the pretty courtyard bar at Raffles Hotel, or go up to the less pleasant and more touristy Long Bar,  where the Singapore  Sling was invented  - get one if you must, but know that they are overtly sweet and generally undrinkable. For a more rowdy scene head to Kinki, a rooftop bar where we were introduced to evil Japanese Bomb shots and randomly reunited with old friends – or go across the street to Lantern, rooftop bar at the Fullerton Bay Hotel. Also fun is Chinatown, with a line of small, fun bars we dimly remember spending a margarita-soaked evening in. Auto Pilot “Ay Auto!” When MBA students Vikas Menon, Gopi Arvind and Shreyas Parekh shouted these two words on the desolate night street outside their campus, no black and yellow came. This happened numerous times and then desperate times called for desperate measures. The trio put their heads together and came up with something to make the lives of every Punekar easier: Ay Auto, a week-old dial-a-rickshaw service that operates from 7 pm to 7 am. What: “Slow Travel” vacations at High On Travel, click here for membership to their exclusive Travelers Club (specially for bpb subscribers!), Rs 1,250 for a craft and cuisine tour of the Jaipur bazaar. Why: Built by an IIT Bombay graduate, this cool new website curates tours, hotels and activities that allow visitors to “connect with the location and its people”. Currently on the roster is a home stay in Wayanad, Kerala; visits to Batalik villages, where the entire population has descended from Alexander the Great; and a walk through hidden lanes of Jaipur. High On Travel also has an exclusive club where members are offered freebies and add-ons to a rotating selection of trips. Currently on the cards – 25% off a trip to Cunoor, including tea appreciation at Tenerife Hill and a cheese-making holiday at Acres Wild. When: You want to experience jet lag. The sex monkey has a twin, and this one wants to get you high on adrenaline rather than alcohol: all hail the entrance of Bonobo Adventures, a travel company by the same guys behind Bandra’s beloved bar, designed to introduce amateurs (yes, I’m talking to you) to the great outdoors. What’s the connection between a bar and a vacation planner, you may ask, and rightly so – they seem like two different animals. But according to Sahil Timbadia, a partner at Bonobo, they are actually the same species. “Running Bonobo, we’ve learnt what people need to have a good time,” he explains. “We know what they want, and we know how to deliver it. A lot of those can be applied to the tourism industry. Plus, internationally, pubs often organize trips for their patrons and we wanted to do something similar at Bonobo.” The Ape of Good Hope Timbadia is an adventure junkie himself, and one of the key players behind Bonobo Adventures. During his multiple mountaineering, rafting, kite surfing and don’t-even-ask trips, he has built a repertoire of knowledge and personal relationships with major travel agencies, both of which he plans to leverage for his new venture. “I know all the major tourism players personally, so they’ll give me flexibility and deals that are otherwise impossible to get,” he told us. Plus, Bonobo Adventures promises to monitor each stage of the trip closely, making sure all of their 15 to 30 travellers are well served. Refugee and immigration lawyer Aurina Chatterji does a fair bit of travel. Born in Mumbai, studied in London and Montreal, currently working in Toronto, she recently returned from a holiday in Laos with a doggie bag for bpb. No awkward paws, please. When we told people we were travelling to Laos for a vacation. we were often met with blank stares: "But....why?" People enquired with gentle bewilderment. "I hear it's lovely," we often sputtered, unable to articulate the allure of this little Asian country.  Surrounded by stalwarts of tourism, Laos still remains curiously off-the-beaten path for most non-backpackers, an emerald wonder still navigating its way to the 21st century. Technically still a communist state, Laos has little to offer in the way of shopping, but compensates with its gorgeous wats (pagodas), superbly maintained colonial architecture, 85% forest cover, the rusty Mekong and much to everyone's surprise - its food.

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