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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