Happy Valentine’s Day Geoffs! This week Madison has some salacious valentines cards from the Victorian era that were anything but sweet! Next, Spencer is telling us all about The Ghost Club! We’ve got an obituary that’s a little chilly, one that had us going meeeeOW and one for an icon. Oh and baby, we didn’t forget, we’ve also got some dumb.ass.criminalllllls!
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Sources:
https://allpoetry.com/poem/15727062-The-first-Valentine-poem-circa-1415-by-Michael-R.-Burch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I,_Duke_of_Orléans
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charles-d-orleans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-25/battle-of-agincourt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar_valentines
https://www.lanternghosttours.com/post/history-s-oldest-known-valentine-was-written-in-prison
https://nerdist.com/article/valentines-day-history-origins-in-lupercalia-saint-valentines-path-to-love-letters-and-mass-commercialization/
https://time.com/4663003/esther-howland-valentines/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nothing-says-i-hate-you-vinegar-valentine-180962109/
https://victorianachronists.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/victorian-vinegar-valentines/
https://lifestylesafter50.com/vinegar-valentines-sour-not-sweet-nothings/
https://www.rubylane.com/item/398016-12454/Vinegar-Valentine-Titled-Greedy
https://www.britannica.com/event/Victorian-era
https://time.com/4663003/esther-howland-valentines/
https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/discovery/history-stories/love-letters-and-hate-mail-victorian-vinegar-valentines-2/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1033605073/?match=1&terms=fatal%20valentine
https://www.newspapers.com/image/396703464/?match=1&terms=mock%20valentine
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1019219812/?match=1&terms=mock%20valentine
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/give-your-beloved-a-sweet-glistening-brain-for-valentines-day
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/11/13/convicted-idiot-driver-who-passed-school-bus
https://fox8.com/news/court-orders-driver-to-wear-idiot-sign/#ooid=s4OGN2NTpi-dplPOcLOJWcgZ6YEgp0Dc?utm_source=publish2&utm_medium=referrer&utm_campaign=www.kpbs.org
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dispatch/name/shena-hardin-obituary?id=22243870
https://614now.com/2026/hot-topics/ohio-woman-arrested-for-twerking-on-damaging-police-cruiser
https://www.thecut.com/article/shirley-raines-founder-of-beauty-2-the-streetz-dies-at-58.html
https://www.ghostclub.org.uk/history.html
https://www.newspapers.com/image/388107184/?match=1&terms=The%20Ghost%20Club
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Club
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_brothers
https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/davenport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/aug/10/houdini-and-conan-doyle-impossible-edinburgh-festival
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