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For The Month of April, 2003
 Did You Know... 
The start of the New Year was once observed on April First?
It was a time of Parties and great Revelries, dancing late into the night - Kinda like we do today?
Except, their new year was celebrated for eight days, beginning on March 25 and wrapping up on the First?
Then in 1582, the Gregorian Calendar changed Life for ever?
This new calendar moved the New Year to January First?
This ended most of the Fun! You can't really party for 8 days in the dead of Winter?
Some folks refused to change to the new New Year and they continued to celebrate April First. Nothing bad really happened to them except...
Except their neighbors and friends would often send them on "fool's errands"?
They would call them April Fools!
And play small jokes on them and Pin notes on their backs!
England: Tricks can be played only in the morning. If a trick is played on you, you are a "noodle"?
Scotland: April Fools Day is 48 hours long and you are called an "April Gowk", which is a cuckoo bird? The second day in Scotland’s April Fool's is called Taily Day and is dedicated to pranks involving the buttocks. It is Taily Day that probably gave us the "Kick Me" sign.
India celebrates the festival of Holi, at the end of March, with tricks and pranks?
There is much debate when April Fool's Day began? The years 1562, 1564 and 1582 have been argued up and down. But Pope Gregory XIII didn't even begin his reign until 1572.
When it started is of little importance as long as you...
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