Valentine tank According to the most popular one, the design was presented to the War Office on St. Valentine's Day, 14 February 1940, although some sources say that the design was submitted on Valentine's Day 1938 or 10 February 1938. White notes that "incidentally" Valentine was the middle name of Sir John V. Carden, the man who was responsible for many tank designs including that of the Valentine's predecessors, the A10 and A11. Another version says that Valentine is an acronym for Vickers-Armstrong Ltd Elswick & (Newcastle-upon) Tyne. The "most prosaic" explanation according to David Fletcher is that it was just an
Man's Day and Woman's Day (Iceland) according to the old Icelandic calendar. Woman’s Day was traditionally dedicated to the mistress of the house or farm. The first references to it were made by Ingibjörg Schulesen, a sheriff's wife in Húsavík in the period between 1841 and 1861. Today, men commemorate Woman’s Day by giving flowers or gifts to significant women in their lives (roughly equivalent to Valentine's Day in other countries). The holiday is now celebrated on February 18. Man's Day and Woman's Day (Iceland) Man’s Day and Woman’s Day are traditional celebration days in Iceland, which were traditionally determined according to the old Icelandic calendar.