👓 Time to celebrate with Cupid!
Published 3 months ago • 1 min read
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Hi Reader!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today is a great day to celebrate all kinds of love. This Valentine’s Day, I’m celebrating my love for learning! From lovebirds to Cupid, history and science always give me that warm and fuzzy feeling. I still can’t believe the first valentine was sent from jail!
In this issue:
🦜 Watch to see the real lovebirds
🏹 Read about the history of Valentine’s Day
💝 Vote for your favorite way to celebrate Valentine’s Day
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Will you be my tweetheart?
We often call human couples “lovebirds”, but the real lovebirds are parrots from Africa!
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The History of Valentine’s Day
We think of Cupid as a cute baby with a bow and arrow, but he started out as a god named Eros. In Ancient Greek myths, Eros shoots people with both arrows of love and arrows of dislike! He became less handsome and more babyish in the Hellenistic period (323 BC to 30 BC), when poets described him as a mischievous child. When the Romans conquered the Greeks and adopted their mythology, they renamed Eros to Cupid.
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How do you celebrate Valentine’s Day?
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That’s all for this week, but I’ll see you next Friday. Remember to feed your mind!
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