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This Month Why is April 1st a Day to Celebrate
Foolishness?
In History Author Unknown
Holidays are celebrated for all sorts of have known about the shifting of dates for
6 - 1896 - The 1st reasons. Some honor heroes, others months or years. These people also endured
Olympics of the modern commemorate religious events, but April 1 being made fun of for celebrating the new
stands out as the only holiday that cele- year on the wrong day.
era was held in Athens, brates foolishness. April Fools' Day, or All
Greece Fools Day, is an odd celebration with a Today in France, people who are fooled on
strange history. What other holiday asks us April 1 are called Poisson d'Avril, which liter-
to play tricks and dupe our unsuspecting ally means the "April Fish." One common
14 - 1865 - President friends and acquaintances? joke is to hook a cardboard fish to the back
Lincoln was shot by of a person. What a fish has to do with April
There's some uncertainty about when and Fools' Day is not clear. Some believe that
John Wilkes Booth where this bizarre tradition began, but the the fish is tied to Jesus Christ, who was
most accepted explanation traces April often represented as a fish in early Christian
14 - 2002 - Tiger Fools' Day back to 16th century France. Up
until 1564, the accepted calendar was the
times. Others say the fish is related to the
zodiac sign of Pisces, which is repre-
Woods won his 3rd Julian calendar, sented by a fish, and falls near April.
Masters Gold Tourna- which observed It's interesting to point out that Napo-
the leon earned the Poisson d'Avril mon-
ment beginning of the icker when he married Marie-Louise
New Year of Austria on April 1, 1810.
15 - 1912 - The Titanic around April.
sank at 2:27 am after According to It's probably no coincidence that April
"The Oxford
striking an iceberg just Companion to
Fools' Day is celebrated at the same
time that two other similar holidays
before midnight the Year," King are celebrated. In ancient Rome, the
Charles IX then festival of Hilaria was thrown to cele-
declared that
30 - 1939 - Television France would begin using the Gregorian
brate the resurrection of the god
Attis. Hilaria is probably the base word for
first publicly broadcast calendar, which shifted New Year's Day to hilarity and hilarious, which mean great
January 1.
from the Empire State merriment. Today, Hilaria is also known as
Not everyone accepted this shifting of dates Roman Laughing Day. In India, the Holi festi-
Building at the same time. Some believed that the val celebrates the arrival of spring. As a
dates should not be shifted, and it was part of that festival, people play jokes and
these people who became the butt of some smear colors on each other.
April jokes and were mocked as fools. Peo-
ple sent gifts and invited them to bogus There's no clear connection between the
parties. modern observance of April Fools' Day and
Citizens in the rural parts of France were these two ancient celebrations, which lends
also victims of these jokes. In those days, most historians to accept the French
news traveled slowly and they might not
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2. 3 Stories to Prove That Most Limitations Are Interesting Facts
Mind Created - Control Your Thoughts Control You Never Knew
Your Life
by Sasha Scheer
First, is the story of the trained Where in life did you try as hard as
elephant. When the elephant is you could continuously but
young, he is chained with very heavy
sturdy chains to thick solid pole eventually give up and settle for
stuck deeply in the ground. The less?
chance of this baby elephant of es- Did you know . . . During
caping, is inevitable. The baby ele- The last story is not about an the 1st two years of a ba-
phant does try though, with all of its animal nor an insect, this story is
might, it fights and fights about a man; this story is about the by’s life, new parents will
until finally it grows tired and famous Houdini. There was a time miss six months of sleep on
weary and gives up trying for good. when Houdini would advertise that
Now, when that elephant grows up, he could break out of any jail cell in
average.
it only needs a simple chain attached order to attract people to come see
to a wimpy pole in order to keep it his show. He would request he be Did you know . . . A group
restrained. Although that grown ele- let in with his street clothes on and of jellyfish is called a
phant could easily break the chain be given full privacy. One time Hou-
dini was put into a cell and started
bloom, swarm, or smack.
and or pole, it no longer tries. Every
time it feels the slightest bit of re- picking the lock with his lock picking
sistance, it remembers the time as a tools hidden in his belt. Houdini Did you know . . . The av-
baby when it tried with all of its tried and he tried to pick this lock, erage millionaire goes bank-
might and could not break free. The but hour after hour passed and he
only thing keeping that elephant still hadn't snapped the lock. Houdi- rupt at least 3.5 times.
restrained is its thoughts; if it tried, ni's spirit and energy was growing
it could easily break free. weary because he had never taken Did you know . . . Standing
this long to pick a lock and he was on a cliff in a dream can
Where in life are you afraid to try exhausting himself out. Finally
because you are thinking of a time after countless hours of picking this
represent that the dreamer
when you tried but failed? lock, Houdini collapsed on the gate feels like they’re living on
of the jail cell. Miraculously the door the edge or afraid of failure.
Another story is about a flea. A flung open; it was never locked in
simple, small creature. All a flea the first place! The only thing keep-
does is jump, so you can train that ing Houdini locked in that jail cell
flea if you put it in a jar with a lid. was his belief that he was actually
That flea will jump as high as it can, locked inside.
hit the lid, and fall to the ground. FAMOUS WORDS
The flea will continue to jump with Where in your life do you have a
all of its might hitting the lid and fall- false belief that you are trapped?
“Excellence is to do a common
ing back down for a long time, but
eventually the flea will begin to The essence of all of these stories is thing in an uncommon way.”
jump less high preventing it from mainly you just need to try! Try to
Booker T. Washington
hitting the lid. After this, the flea will do something you failed at before;
no longer jump any higher even never give up; and the more you
when you take the lid off the jar. think you can, the more you

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
 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
Your Life
 Interesting Facts
 Sudoku Puzzle
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