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april fools day

            
            
             Traditionally April fools day has been celebrated by millions through out the world as just a simple joke or a practical prank that have been practice by young and old alike, there is no age barrier. When questions are asked what is April fools day? Where did it come from, and how did you learn of it. Most people say their first experience was in grammar school most targeting groups between 1st grade and 2nd grade habitually practicing the bun but harmless jokes all the way through collage and continuing o to now end. The humorous fun is an excellent excuse to play it on people you may not like and b the same token you love just as well. Everyone and anyone can be a target for a April fools gag and not be held responsible for there own foolishness whether you are the foolee or the fooler.
             The history of April fools day or also know as "All fools day- had started in France around 1582 the result of a reformation of the calendar form the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar by pope Charles IX . Use of the Julian calendar dates back to the roman era and ruled by Julius Caesar and calendar inventor for which its was named after in 45b.c. .
             The Julian Calendar composed of eleven months of 30 and or 31 days a 28 day in February (extended to 29 days every fourth year) was very precise and only errored 11 1/2 minutes per year. After centuries a small inaccuracy of the eleven and a half minutes per year ads up and by the sixteenth century the little but continuing minutes had put the Julian calendar behind the solar one 10 days. Under Cesar's rule some one would have been thrown to the lions for such an inadequacy.
             An advancement of 10 days was no longer tolerant so pope Charles IX and new correction device to curb further error was Introduced, making century years of 1700 or 1800 wouldn't be counted as leap years unless they are divisible by 400. The new Gregorian calendar system is very precise and still used in the United States and systematically only errors 26 seconds per solar year a deficient of one day every 3323 years.


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1. April Fools!

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year." - Mark Twain April Fools Day has been going on for a long time. ... To begin, I am going to tell you how April Fool's Day got started. ... Finally, I would like to introduce you to the ways other people celebrate April Fool's Day. ... In Portugal, April Fool's Day is celebrated much like in America. 1.) ... Conclusion April Fool's Day probably didn"t start the way you would have expected. ...

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2. Valentine's Day

Candle light dinner for two on Valentine's Day is just too mainstream. ... After all, it's the very day the world spread so much love and care. ... For instance, you can play and pretend like both of you are dating and fool people with it. ... It's like making an early April fool's Day in a most romantic way. ... So it is fixed, you are going to nail it on Valentine's Day! ...

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3. The Importance of Being Honest

"Aunt Ruby, I told April that I would go to the movies with her, but I would rather go to Jessica's house and go to the mall with her."  "Tell April you're sick," she would say. ... On many occasions April would find out that I really went to Jessica's house and to the mall without her. ... Finally, she approached me one day and said, "I agree that lying is not the best thing to do, but we need to find a way to be honest without being rude.... She admitted that her methods that she had tried to teach me were wrong and I admitted that I had been a litt...

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4. History of Computers

The 8008 was followed by the 4040, which extended the 4004's capabilities in April 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft (which was to achieve a certain notoriety over the coming years), and in July of that year, MITS announced the availability of BASIC 2.0 on the Altair 8800. ... In March 1976, a year after Microsoft was founded, two guys called Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs (who had been fired with enthusiasm by the Altair 8800) finished work on a home-grown 6502-based computer which they called the Apple 1 (a few weeks later they formed the Apple Computer Company on April ...

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5. Steve Wozniak

Of all founders of the computer revolution that took the world by fury, there was one person who was unconceivable from the rest and that man was Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer. From the beginning as a young teenager, Steve was in awe of electronics in which he would take apart small el...

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6. English

Since sleep is the healing of labors that soothes a day's troubles, and Macbeth has murdered Duncan in his sleep, he would pay with sleep. ... It is just another play told by a fool, a series of nonsense and rubbish full of great passion and fierce, but in the end meaningless ("Play Synopsis"). ... "Personal Works and Writings." 1999. 09 April 2002. http://icow.com/anata/macbeth.html "Play Synopsis." [No date] 09 April 2002. ... "Think Quest." 1995. 09 April 2002. ...

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7. Inherit The Wind

Brady holds a standing ground until Drummond calls him to the stand and makes a fool out of him. ... Brady dies later on that day and Hornbeck says that he "died of a busted belly"(112). ... Both reviews were written April 22, 1955-about 30 years after the actual Scopes trial. ...

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8. The Failed Invasion

Then in early April we presented a plan of sabotage in Cuba, which we call Cuban Flames. ... The air strike should have been on D-Day, the day of the attack. ... This plan obviously did not fool the Cubans, and the CIA should have known better, especially since the military thought poorly of the plan, "I [General White] thought that if we did do the pre-D-Day strikes, there was a pretty good chance that world reaction would be such that the thing would be called of (256)."" ... The CIA is made up of intelligent, educated persons; they are not nave in thinking they could have fooled the Cuba...

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