//SET SCROLLER APPEARANCE AND MESSAGES
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myScroller1.setColors("#000080", "#F1F3FE", "#9297B6"); //(fgcolor, bgcolor, bdcolor)
myScroller1.setFont("Verdana,Arial,Helvetica", 2);
myScroller1.addItem("(Golden Age of Greece) High class prostitutes and courtesans were held superior to wives and \'virtuous\' women.");
myScroller1.addItem("(Golden Age of Greece) Greek men wanted faithful love, but tried to obtain it by gifts and trickery. When Greek men actually did fall in love, they considered themselves as sick.");
myScroller1.addItem("(Golden Age of Greece) The Greeks never connected love with marriage. They found love either an amusement that quickly faded or a god-sent affliction that lasted too long.");
myScroller1.addItem("(Roman Empire) Pagan love in Rome was guilt-free, lusty, unfaithful and deceitful.");
myScroller1.addItem("Cupid was the Roman god of love.");
myScroller1.addItem("A custom dating back to the ancient romans is that of the engagement ring. It is believed that the roundness of the ring represents eternity, so wearing the ring symbolizes a union that is to last forever. It was once thought that a vein or nerve ran directly from the \'ring\' finger of the left hand to the heart.");
myScroller1.addItem("(Roman Empire) Unlike Greeks, the Romans preferred sex without philosophy or significance.");
myScroller1.addItem("(Roman Empire) Abortions and contraception were common. Babies were often discarded as garbage.");
myScroller1.addItem("(Roman Empire) Octavian (Augustus) Caesar sought unsuccessfully to restore family unity and sexual \'morality\' via government force and the Julian laws...all were failures, even with death penalties.");
myScroller1.addItem("During the Dark Ages, sex was reduced to an unromantic, harsh, and ugly act. Women became pieces of property.");
myScroller1.addItem("In 585 A.D., the Catholics argued that women did not have a mortal soul and debated if women were even human.");
myScroller1.addItem("By the 9th Century, Women were wasteful property. The church sanctioned wife beatings and leveled only relatively light fines for killing women. Noblemen had the \'natural right\' to ravish any peasant woman on the road and to deflower all brides of their vassals.");
myScroller1.addItem("The start of courtly love and the creation of the romantic ideal began in the 11th Century. In Southern France, noblemen developed a completely new set of love concepts from which a unique man/woman relationship arose that was previously unknown to Western civilization.");
myScroller1.addItem("In France, William II, Duke of Aquitaine (born 1071 A.D.), was the first of the troubadours. He introduced a new life style, love lyrics, and social manners. His courtly-love concepts swept across Europe and are still with us today.");
myScroller1.addItem("In 1122 A.D., William's granddaughter, Eleanor, became Queen of both France and England. She set up cultured courts and established the Court of Love, which codified and promoted courtly love.");
myScroller1.addItem("Poet Chretien, on orders from Eleanor, developed the romantic story of Sir Lancelot and Guinevere.");
myScroller1.addItem("Courtly love introduced the elements of emotional relationships between men and women for the first time. This was a revolutionary concept in which love was based on mutual respect and admiration.");
myScroller1.addItem("Courtly love elevated women from a servant and house-keeper to a more equal partner and an inspirer of progress.");
myScroller1.addItem("By 1450, the official Catholic dogma established that witches existed and could fly by night. All physically desirable women were projected by the church as evil sorceresses.");
myScroller1.addItem("The price of a new bride in Jamestown when the English first settled there was 120 pounds (54kg) of tobacco.");
myScroller1.addItem("In the 16th Century, marriage was based on both physical and financial aspects. Love was neither the basis for marriage nor any essential part of it. ");
myScroller1.addItem("In the 16th Century, marriage was a lifelong financial transaction. Marriage usually took place at 14-16 years old, and included a dowry plus income and property guarantees.");
myScroller1.addItem("(16th and 17th century Europe and America) The custom of bundling allowed courting couples to share a bed, fully clothed, and often with a \'bundling board\' between them or bolster cover tied over the girls legs. The idea was to allow the couple to talk and get to know each other.");
myScroller1.addItem("Henry VIII was the first major figure to combine love and marriage. He waged a long battle with Bishop Wolsey and Pope Clement VII about his divorce and subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn.");
myScroller1.addItem("Renaissance enlightenment made sex seem not so sinful and disgusting as the church projected. The middle class began to associate sex with love.");
myScroller1.addItem("The completely new concept that young marrieds should live alone in a dwelling of their own began developing in the 17th Century.");
myScroller1.addItem("While the status of woman as a human being and as a love object was rising, her legal status remained little better than in the Middle Ages. All property belonged to the husband. Wife beating was still legal.");
myScroller1.addItem("16th Century Puritans tried to combine the ideals of love with the normality of sex in marriage. Woman's status improved under puritanism (e.g., a woman could separate, even divorce, if beaten). Marriage became a civil contract.");
myScroller1.addItem("17th Century Puritans were pious and severe, but also strongly sexed and somewhat romantic.");
myScroller1.addItem("18th Century love idealized the mythical Don Juan. Love was often reduced to malicious sport with the motive to seduce.");
myScroller1.addItem("By mid 18th Century, flirtation and romance were no longer an exclusive part of aristocratic tradition, and was common among the middle class.");
myScroller1.addItem("During the 19th century, the clinging-vine personality in women developed: women should be modest, virtuous and sweet. They should be weak and anxious to lean on and be dominated by strong men.");
myScroller1.addItem("During the 19th century, laughter and wit went out of style. Emphasis began to focus on female modesty. Open displays of sentimentality, melancholy, and tearfulness became chic.");
myScroller1.addItem("Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1842 stated that the female had no privileges except to barely consent or refuse a man. A woman being courted was permitted to summon up a \'timid blush\' or the \'faintest of smiles\' to convey her feelings.");
myScroller1.addItem("During the 19th century, United States Surgeon General, William Hammond, stated that decent women felt not the slightest pleasure during intercourse. Many doctors considered sexual desire in women to be pathological and warned that female passion could cause sterility. Many thought only prostitutes could enjoy sex.");
myScroller1.addItem("Out of this Victorian repression arose a great hunger for a fantasy sex life. Flagellation, pornography, and prostitution rose dramatically.");
myScroller1.addItem("During the early 20th century, romantic attraction not only became desirable, but became the only acceptable basis for choosing a life-long partner.");
myScroller1.addItem(" Today, the value and purpose of romantic love is, above all else, directed toward the fulfillment of major emotional needs and happiness.");