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Holidays are celebrated for all sorts of reasons. Some honor heroes, others commemorate religious events, but April 1 stands out as the only holiday that cele-brates foolishness. April Fools' Day, or All Fools Day, is an odd celebration with a strange history. What other holiday asks us to play tricks and dupe our unsuspecting friends and acquaintances? There's some uncertainty about when and where this bizarre tradition began, but the most accepted explanation traces April Fools' Day back to 16th century France. Up until 1564, the accepted calendar was the Julian calendar, which observed the beginning of the New Year around April. According to "The Oxford Companion to the Year," King Charles IX then declared that France would begin using the Gregorian calendar, which shifted New Year's Day to January 1. Not everyone accepted this shifting of dates at the same time. Some believed that the dates should not be shifted, and it was these people who became the butt of some April jokes and were mocked as fools. Peo-ple sent gifts and invited them to bogus parties. Citizens in the rural parts of France were also victims of these jokes. In those days, news traveled slowly and they might not

have known about the shifting of dates for months or years. These people also endured being made fun of for celebrating the new year on the wrong day. Today in France, people who are fooled on April 1 are called Poisson d'Avril, which liter-ally means the "April Fish." One common joke is to hook a cardboard fish to the back of a person. What a fish has to do with April Fools' Day is not clear. Some believe that the fish is tied to Jesus Christ, who was often represented as a fish in early Christian times. Others say the fish is related to the zodiac sign of Pisces, which is repre-

sented by a fish, and falls near April. It's interesting to point out that Napo-leon earned the Poisson d'Avril mon-icker when he married Marie-Louise of Austria on April 1, 1810.

It's probably no coincidence that April Fools' Day is celebrated at the same time that two other similar holidays are celebrated. In ancient Rome, the festival of Hilaria was thrown to cele-brate the resurrection of the god

Attis. Hilaria is probably the base word for hilarity and hilarious, which mean great merriment. Today, Hilaria is also known as Roman Laughing Day. In India, the Holi festi-val celebrates the arrival of spring. As a part of that festival, people play jokes and smear colors on each other.

There's no clear connection between the modern observance of April Fools' Day and these two ancient celebrations, which lends most historians to accept the French

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Did you know . . . During the 1st two years of a ba-by’s life, new parents will miss six months of sleep on average.

Did you know . . . A group

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Where in life did you try as hard as you could continuously but eventually give up and settle for less? The last story is not about an animal nor an insect, this story is about a man; this story is about the famous Houdini. There was a time when Houdini would advertise that he could break out of any jail cell in order to attract people to come see his show. He would request he be let in with his street clothes on and be given full privacy. One time Hou-dini was put into a cell and started picking the lock with his lock picking tools hidden in his belt. Houdini tried and he tried to pick this lock, but hour after hour passed and he still hadn't snapped the lock. Houdi-ni's spirit and energy was growing weary because he had never taken this long to pick a lock and he was exhausting himself out. Finally after countless hours of picking this lock, Houdini collapsed on the gate of the jail cell. Miraculously the door flung open; it was never locked in the first place! The only thing keep-ing Houdini locked in that jail cell was his belief that he was actually locked inside. Where in your life do you have a false belief that you are trapped? The essence of all of these stories is mainly you just need to try! Try to do something you failed at before; never give up; and the more you think you can, the more you

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This Month In History

Why Is April 1st A Day To

Celebrate Foolishness?

3 Stories To Prove That Most

Limitations Are Mind Created -

Control Your Thoughts Control

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