Saint Valentine’s Day, commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day, is a holiday observed on February 14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as […]
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Husband Of Missing Utah Woman Kills Self And Two Young Sons
On this day in 2012, 36-year-old Josh Powell, who had been in the public eye since police labeled him a person of interest in the 2009 disappearance of his 28-year-old wife, Susan, locks out a social worker then kills himself and his two sons, ages 5 and 7, by setting […]
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The <strong>Lantern Festival</strong> (also known as the <strong>Yuanxiao Festival</strong> or <strong>Shangyuan Festival</strong> in China; Chap Goh Meh Festival in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore; <strong>Yuen Siu Festival</strong> in Hong Kong, and <strong>”Tết Thượng Nguyên” or “Tết Nguyên Tiêu”</strong> in Vietnam); is a festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first […]
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