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| Class G - Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Subclass T - Manners and customs |
April Fools' Day |
| April Fools' Day is celebrated in different countries around the world on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as "All Fools' Day", April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when many people play all kinds of jokes and foolishness. The day is marked by the commission of good-humoured or otherwise funny jokes, hoaxes, and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, teachers, neighbors, work associates, etc.— Excerpted from April Fools' Day on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
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- Chapter 8 of Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since, 1824 by Lydia Sigourney
- "He'll be 19 year old, come next April-fool-day; and I meant to a done well by Amariah, when he got to be of age, and give him a decent settin' out, and then hired him by the month, if so be that he was agreeable to 't, and pay him the money"
- Chapter 16 of The Land of Midian, 1879 by Richard Francis Burton
- "April Fools’ day was another that deserved to be marked with a white stone."
- A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent by Charles Dickens
- "I was married on All Fools' Day. Let them laugh that will. I won a good wife that day, and it was as sensible a day to me as ever I had."
- A Christmas Garland, 1912 by Max Beerbohm
- "The time will come when we shall dance round the Maypole every morning before breakfast--a meal at which hot-cross buns will be a standing dish--and shall make April fools of one another every day before noon. The profound significance of All Fool's Day--the glorious lesson that we are all fools--is too apt at present to be lost."
- Chapter 2 of Ambulance 464, 1918 by Julien H. Bryan "Midnight-In the abri at Post Two"
Reference [edit]
- “April-Fools' Day” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
- “April Fools' Day,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
