April Fools' Day: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)
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April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day, though not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, enemies and neighbours, or sending them on fools' errands, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. In some countries, April Fools' jokes (also called "April Fools") are only made before noon on 1 April.[1] It is also widely celebrated on the Internet.
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How to say "April Fools' Day" in other languages:
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(Chinese) | 愚人节 |
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(Japanese) | エイプリルフール |
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(German) | Aprilscherz |
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(Spanish) | Pez de abril |
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(French) | Poisson d'avril |
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(Italian) | Pesce d'aprile |
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April Fool can refer to: (most commonly) April Fool's Day, or April Fool (double agent...
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In 1709 Richard Steele and Joseph Addison took the name as a temporary pseudonymn for their publication The Tatler . Later, Jonathan Swift took Isaac Bickerstaff as the name of an astrologer created in 1720 as an April Fool's Day hoax. See also Isaac Bickerstaffe, an eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish...
Pimps At Sea was an April Fool's joke that was started on Bungie Studios website in 2002. It has been added onto in 2003 and 2004 on each April Fool's day, respectively. Pimps At Sea is a combination of action and real-time strategy and claims to have the most complex economical system ever to...
The Spaghetti tree is a fictitious tree, a joke designed to fool the gullible who do not know how spaghetti is produced. The report that it is a product grown on trees was first produced as an April Fool's Day joke by the BBC TV programme Panorama in 1957; this was very successful, with hundreds...
pigeons. It was written by D. Waitzman and released on April Fool's Day 1990, one of the April 1st RFCs... improvement of his protocol in RFC 2549, IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service , (April 1, 1999). In...
Cities only April Fool's Day Halloween, in Cities only Children's Day, 14 th November... List of Festivals in India Hindu Makar Sankranti, Kite Flying Day, Winter festival Baisakhi... (day 2) Bhaubeej Islamic Bakri Id, (Id-Ul-Zuha) Moharrum Ramzan Id, (Id-Ul-Fitar) Christian...
April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day is a notable day, though not of its own right a holiday... after noon. History The origins of April Fool's Day are unknown, although various theories have been... with John Aubrey, who noted in 1686: "Fooles holy day. We observe it on ye first of April. And so it is...
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celebrate something. Australia Day ANZAC Day April Fools Day Arbor Day Bank Holiday Chinese New Year D-Day Day of the Dead Earth Day Easter German Unity Day Groundhog Day Holi Imbolc International... The following is a list of observed commemorative days , that is, days that are used by various...
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