On 14th February new, Google Doodle celebrates the St. Valentines Day with a \r
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ferris wheel design - which honors the 154th birthday of George Ferris.\r
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Saint Valentines Day, commonly known as Valentines Day, is observe on February 14 \r
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each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world. \r
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St. Valentines Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early \r
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Christian saints named Valentinus. The most popular martyrology associated with \r
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Saint Valentine was that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who \r
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were forbidded to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted \r
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under the Roman Empire. The day was first associated with romantic love in the \r
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circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly \r
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love flourished. By the 15th century, it had evolved into an occasion in which \r
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lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering \r
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confectionery, and sending greeting cards (know as valentines).\r
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Todays Google Doodle also celebrates the 154th birthday of George Ferris. George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. (February 14, 1859 – November 22, 1896) was an American engineer. He is mostly famous for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago Worlds Columbian Exposition.\r
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Happy St. Valentines Day!\r
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