Google St Valentine’s Day massacre
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Today is Valentine’s Day when the many and various commercial interests across the world gear up to sell you more stuff.
Says the Wikipedia »»»
(Saint) Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine’s cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The day was originally a pagan festival that was renamed after two Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
It’s also the day seven hoods (No, they were nothing to do with the RIAA or MPAA) were machine-gunned to death in killings the Wikipedia describes like this »»
The Saint Valentine’s Day massacre is the name given to the death of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago, Illinois, in the winter of 1929: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran. Former members of the Egan’s Rats gang were also suspected to have played a large role in the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, assisting Capone.
And as is its wont, on special days Google features special presentations of its logo.
Doesn’t today’s look, well, just a little gory? Don’t the X and the O look like they were smeared there by a bloody finger?
JN
February , 2009
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February 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I thought Valentines day was named after a bishop called Valentine who I think was killed for believeing in love or something like that
February 14th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Well, in Sweden we got this one:
http://www.google.se/logos/valentines09v2.gif
February 14th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
There are various theories online regarding the origins of Valentine’s Day. Seems (according to the common theories) to have originated in Rome (Feast of Lubercus) and was then ‘taken over’ by the catholic church – the old ‘replace old heathen practices’ routine. Stories mentioned include hungry roaming wolves outside of Rome, sheep attacks, church officials changing names, secret marriages, a jailer’s daughter cured of blindness, love letters, Valentine evolutions and the like. All very romantic indeed
. No sheep were injured during the making of this post.