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This Month
In History
6 - 1896 - The 1st
Olympics of the modern
era was held in Athens,
Greece
14 - 1865 - President
Lincoln was shot by
John Wilkes Booth
14 - 2002 - Tiger
Woods won his 3rd
Masters Gold Tournament
15 - 1912 - The Titanic
sank at 2:27 am after
striking an iceberg just
before midnight
30 - 1939 - Television
first publicly broadcast
from the Empire State
Building
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Why is April 1st a Day to Celebrate
Foolishness?
Author Unknown
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 celebrates
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. People 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
literally 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
represented by a fish, and falls near April.
It's interesting to point out that Napoleon
earned the Poisson d'Avril monicker 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
celebrate 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 festival
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
explanation for how April Fools' Day developed.
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3 Stories to Prove That Most Limitations Are
Mind Created - Control Your Thoughts
Control Your Life
by Sasha Scheer
First, is the story of the trained
elephant. When the elephant is
young, he is chained with very heavy
sturdy chains to thick solid pole
stuck deeply in the ground. The
chance of this baby elephant of escaping, is inevitable. The baby elephant does try though, with all of its
might, it fights and fights
until finally it grows tired and
weary and gives up trying for good.
Now, when that elephant grows up, it
only needs a simple chain attached to
a wimpy pole in order to keep it restrained. Although that grown elephant could easily break the chain
and or pole, it no longer tries. Every
time it feels the slightest bit of resistance, it remembers the time as a
baby when it tried with all of its
might and could not break free. The
only thing keeping that elephant
restrained is its thoughts; if it tried, it
could easily break free.
Where in life are you afraid to try
because you are thinking of a time
when you tried but failed?
Another story is about a flea. A
simple, small creature. All a flea
does is jump, so you can train that
flea if you put it in a jar with a lid.
That flea will jump as high as it can,
hit the lid, and fall to the ground. The
flea will continue to jump with all of
its might hitting the lid and falling
back down for a long time, but eventually the flea will begin to jump less
high preventing it from hitting the
lid. After this, the flea will no longer
jump any higher even when you take
the lid off the jar.
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 Houdini 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. Houdini'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 keeping 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
actually can.
Interesting Facts
You Never Knew
Did you know . . . During the 1st two
years of a baby’s life, new parents
will miss six months of sleep on average.
Did you know . . . A group of jellyfish
is called a bloom, swarm, or smack.
Did you know . . . The
average
millionaire goes bankrupt at least 3.5
times.
Did you know . . . Standing on a cliff
in a dream can represent that the
dreamer feels like they’re living on
the edge or afraid of failure.
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