St Valentines was a Roman priest who was secretly organising weddings for soldiers. He was jailed then sentenced to death by the King on February 14th AD 270. We exchange cards, candy, gifts or flowers, with our special valentines. A special valentine is someone that you love.

American spend up to 3.6 billion dollars on Valentines gift each year. 50 million roses are sold each year on Valentines Day. 73% of people who buy flowers for Valentines day are men and 27% are women.15% of the US women send themselves flowers on Valentines day. Eros is the greek god of love and his roman form is Cupid.

Waitangi Day

These People are carrying the banner because they don't think the treaty has been honoured.
The treaty was signed on the 6th of Feb 1840.
40 maori chiefs  sighed it but later over 500 more singed.
Most of the chiefs didn't know how to write.
they used symbols.