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	April Fool's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The origin of April Fool's day is not entirely clear, but it is generally accepted to have stemmed from the changes in the calendar system [1].
		Howard Stern's April 1st, 2004 show: The show started off with a message stating that due to increased pressure from the FCC, the Howard Stern show had been cancelled, and they played pop songs till after 7:00 am, when Stern came back on and said it was a joke.
		April Fool (double agent) is the codename for a spy and double agent who played a key role in the downfall of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/April_Fool's_Day (2357 words)

	April Fool's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is (unreliably) said that being fooled by a pretty girl will be compensated by marriage to, or at least friendship with her.
		The discovery of a mummy eventually led to the announcement that it was an April's Fool joke.
		One type of April Fools Day hoax is to leave a message telling someone to telephone Mr.C.Lion or Mr.L.E.Fant (or various others) at a number that turns out to be a zoo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/April_Fool%27s_Day (2357 words)

	April 1st
		Surtees should be born on the first of April, as he was the perpetrator of one of the most dexterous literary impostures of modern times.
		Of course, for successful April fooling, it is necessary to have some considerable degree of coolness and face; as also some tact whereby to know in what direction the victim is most ready to be imposed upon by his own tendencies of belief.
		April fooling is a very noted practice in France, and we get traces of its prevalence there at an earlier period than is the case in England.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/april/1.htm (4407 words)

	April Fool's Day -- History, Traditions, and Foolishness
		April Fool's Day thus developed into an international fun fest, so to speak, with different nationalities specializing in their own brand of humor at the expense of their friends and families.
		For instance, a British short film once shown on April Fool's Day was a fairly detailed documentary about "spaghetti farmers" and how they harvest their crop from the spaghetti trees.
		The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
	wilstar.com /holidays/aprilfool.htm (707 words)

	April 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining.
		April 1 is known as April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day in many countries.
		Date that bobhouses, used for ice-fishing, must be taken off frozen lakes in New Hampshire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/April_1 (1324 words)

	Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time
		In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop.
		To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." Check out the actual broadcast archived on the BBC's website (You need the RealVideo player installed to see it, and it usually loads very slowly).
		The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /aprilfool2.html (1224 words)

	April Fool's Day, April 1st
		Others played tricks on them and called them "April fools." They sent them on a "fool's errand" or tried to make them believe that something false was true.
		In France today, April first is called "Poisson d'Avril." French children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends' backs.
		The most clever April Fool joke is the one where everyone laughs, especially the person upon whom the joke is played.
	home.earthlink.net /~mirzaian/Foolsday.htm (610 words)

	April Fool's Day—Origin and History
		April Fool's Day is one of the most light hearted days of the year, yet it stems from a serious subject—the adoption of a new calendar.
		The French came to call April 1 Poisson d'Avril, or "April Fish." French children sometimes tape a picture of a fish on the back of their schoolmates, crying "Poisson d'Avril" when the prank is discovered.
		In 1752, Great Britain finally changed over to the Gregorian Calendar, and April Fool's Day began to be celebrated in England and in the American colonies.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/aprilfools1.html (327 words)

	Internet Down For Cleaning
		Down through history the fools of April have had their day, one day a year.
		See what those april fools have been up to and don't laugh with them, laugh at them.
		Say, does anyone know if April is available because I would like to be her fool if you know what I mean.
	www.april-fools.us /internet-cleaning.htm (642 words)

	April Fool's Day \| April 1st \| History \| France \| Pranks \| Practical Jokes \| Gags \| Tricks \| Laughs \| Fun \| Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		April Fools' Day is about more than playing jokes, tricks and pranks.
		In Portugal, April Fool's is celebrated on the Sunday and Monday before Lent.
		April Fool's practical jokes should be done in good fun and not meant to harm anyone.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p593.htm (328 words)

	April Fool's Day or All Fool's Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		April Fool's Day or All Fool's Day occurs annually on April 1.
		This custom is thought to have started in France during the 16th century but the British are credited with bringing it to the United States.
		The butt of such a prank was known as a "poisson d'avril" or "April fish."
	www3.kumc.edu /diversity/other/aprlfool.html (142 words)

	April 1st RFC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Every April Fool's Day (1 April) since 1989, the Internet Engineering Task Force has published one or more humorous RFC documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC titled ARPAWOCKY.
		This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.
		CIO Magazine commentary on RFC 3751 and 1 April RFCs in general
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/April_1st_RFC (478 words)

	village voice > news > Inside the Al-Azza Refugee Camp in Bethlehem by Sarah Ferguson
		April 10th, 2002 5:30 PM "I’ve been shot at every day," says Kristen Schurr, a 33-year-old freelance journalist from Harlem, speaking via cellphone from the Al-Azza refugee camp in Bethlehem.
		On April 1, Schurr was among the 150 peace activists who were fired upon by Israeli Defense Forces when they attempted to march to the neighboring town of Beit Jala in support of Palestinians who were facing house-to-house arrests.
		A Palestinian camerman and seven activists were wounded, including Zaid Khalil, an Upper East Side resident, who suffered shrapnel wounds to his leg, and an Australian woman, who was seriously wounded when a bullet fragmented in her stomach.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0215/ferguson.php (923 words)

	Limerick Leader - April 1st, 2000 - Features - All your local notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A 'GREEN School Committee' was formed last April in Caherconlish school in an effort to combat 'Litter and waste' in the school and the local environment.
		The present scheme which will finish on April 30, is operating in the first year of a three-year rollover scheme especially for people over 35 years, and employs fifteen people.
		This was respectfully recognised at the removal to Bruree Church and after concelebrated requiem Mass at the burial in Castlemahon, where the coffin of the late Connie Carroll was draped with the blue and white colours of his native Bruree G.A.A. club.
	www.limerick-leader.ie /issues/20000401/localnotes.html (22263 words)

	April 1st - Uncyclopedia
		April 1st also known as the "Day of Truth".
		People call April 1st the "Day of Truth" because newspapers, radios and TV shows usually drop, as a joke, certain remnants of the Truth.
		People are usually amused by this behaviour, since truth normally is hidden from everyone.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/April_1st (64 words)

	Antivirus News: It's April 1st and time to play pranks on your friends
		It's April 1st and time to play pranks on your friends
		At PCWorld.com you can download seven April 1st pranks, you can play on your friends and co-workers.
		April 1st is a great opportunity for virus writers to spread their nasty work.
	www.bullguard.com /antivirus/news_224.aspx (256 words)

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		This RFC REQUIRES the contents of the payload to be encoded in the base-64 encoding of RFC 2045 [RFC2045], but removes the requirement that the encoded output MUST be wrapped on 76-character lines.
		Kennedy Informational [Page 4] RFC 3252 Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport 1 April 2002 The TCP offset element was expanded to a maximum of 255 from 16 to allow for the increased size of the header in XML.
		Kennedy Informational [Page 5] RFC 3252 Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport 1 April 2002 To calculate the length and checksum fields of the UDP element, a canonicalized form of the element MUST be used as in section 2.1.
	www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc3252.txt (1650 words)

	Clipart - Download Royalty-Free Clipart, Images, Fonts, Web Art and Graphics
		To coincide with the vernal equinox and other agriculturally significant events, New Year's Day used to be celebrated in many societies around the first of April.
		Others called these traditionalists "April fools" and played tricks on them, sending them on "fool's errands" or trying to make them believe that something false was true.
		French children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends' backs; when the "young fools" discover this trick, the prankster yells "Poisson d'Avril!" (April Fish!) Even though April Fool's Day is not an official American holiday, it is still recognized by many.
	www.clipart.com /en/holidays/aprilfool (219 words)

	Tigers roll; winning April 1st in 11 years
		Oh, to be in Detroit now that a winning April finally is there.
		In each of the past 10 seasons, a losing April has led to a losing season.
		The hit was an April emancipation for him.
	www.freep.com /sports/tigers/tigers29_20040429.htm (583 words)

	April 1st Snowstorm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From March 31st to April 1st, 1999 a vigorous storm system moved through northeast Wyoming and western South Dakota.
		This is the energy that forced the band of heavy snow across the area.
		A look at the upper-air analysis for 12z (all of the upper-air charts seen here is for 12z) April 1st, 1999 reveals some features of note.
	www.crh.noaa.gov /unr/iwe/1999/0401 (722 words)

	April 1st? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Silly Burrito writes "Think Secret is reporting that Tiger will be out in April with an event on April 1st and it should be out in stores by April 15th.
		The two-month fight for MCI may be coming to an end, as Qwest Communications set an April 5 deadline for MCI to accept or reject its $8.45 billion bid for the company.
		We've added "April Fools" to the title of each post that was merely a joke...sorry, you'll have to cancel your plans of slacking-off in your Google undies, drinking Gulp, while your Jeeves butler does the housework!
	www.webrankinfo.com /english/seo-news/topic-2613.htm (293 words)

	Think Secret - Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to arrive in April
		The event, sources say, is currently scheduled for Friday, April 1 and will be delivered via satellite to numerous locations around the world.
		Apple has doubled the software metrics for stores and resellers for the second quarter, ending May 31, for example (note that the quarter for metrics is different from the quarter for financials; Apple's third quarter ends June 30.
		While several new software titles slated for release at NAB on April 18 will boost software revenue for stores, Tiger will be the jewel that Apple expects will allow resellers to double their sales from the first quarter.
	www.thinksecret.com /news/0503tiger.html (558 words)

	KIDPROJ MCC: April Fools Day // April Fools Day - Several countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		April Fools Day // April Fools Day - Several countries
		If you play a trick on someone after noon you are the April Fool.
		The trick that you play is usually not a bad trick, just a silly trick to make them laugh.
	www.kidlink.org /KIDPROJ/MCC/mcc0702.html (102 words)

	Unqualified Offerings
		April 04, 2004 - April 10, 2004 »;
		The satirical impulse got mixed up with the imperatives of the April Fool's joke itself, whose object is, after all, to trick people.
		Assuming this is in fact an April Fool's joke, I have to say, Jimski, the humor is very, very dark, and in questionable taste.
	www.highclearing.com /archivesuo/week_2004_03_28.html (4358 words)

	Locus Online: April 1st 2003 News
		TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, April 1, 2003: Jeff VanderMeer, putative author of the acclaimed City of Saints and Madmen and founder of the Ministry of Whimsy Press, died of a freak accident in a squid tank Friday night at the Tallahassee Florida Aquarium — but subsequent investigation has revealed a massive hoax perpetrated upon the SF/F community.
		MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, April 1, 2003: Dr. Lister Matheson, director of the Clarion Writers Workshop at Michigan State University, has announced a recall of the classes of 1996 and 1998.
		HOLLYWOOD, April 1, 2003: New Line Cinema today announced that they had reached agreement with Michael Swanwick to write "approximately" 200 "short-short" stories of 250 words or less based on characters from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
	www.locusmag.com /2003/News/News0401a.html (1832 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As of April 1st, 2004, households can expect to pay more for their electricity.
		As of April 1st, 2004, households and other low volume consumers who were paying the capped commodity price of 4.3 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) will pay 4.7 cents per kWh for the first 750 kWh they use each month and 5.5 cents per kWh after that.
		The April 1st commodity price and distribution rate changes together form an important step toward establishing a pricing structure that more closely reflects the true cost of electricity.
	www.oeb.gov.on.ca /html/en/consumerinformation/electricitychanges2.htm (1215 words)

	BBC News \| MEDIA REPORTS \| World's media plays the April Fool
		There was also talk of using the existing station at Richard Wagner Platz to raise funds retrospectively from the 19th century composer's descendants.
		Media in the former Soviet Union were eager spinners of April Fool yarns.
		Radio Russia reported that parliament was holding an emergency session to declare 1st April a public holiday on efficiency grounds.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/1254570.stm (731 words)

	The MINI Pullman (posted April 1st!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Too bad the interior photos were not also posted on April 1st.
		David / April 01, 2005 12:50 PM / Permalink
		Did any of you read the April 1st posting on MINI2 about the workers strike at the Oxford plant because the MINI/BMW execs felt that tea does not reflect well on brand image; therefore, tea was banned from the plant?
	www.motoringfile.com /2005/04/01/the_mini_pullman_posted_april_1st (943 words)

	The SEO Blog: Gmail Going Live April 1st
		According to dozens of Google-watchers, Google's ad-driven email system, Gmail is slated to move from beta to live-status on Friday April 1st, one year after it was introduced to a limited number of testers.
		On its first day, many thought Gmail was an April Fool's joke.
		To establish the initial beta-test group, Google issued a number of initial invitations to a very small group of users that day.
	news.stepforth.com /blog/2005/03/gmail-going-live-april-1st.php (605 words)

	Hitler Caricatures
		What they wrote: This cartoon was published on 1 April 1924 while Hitler was in the Landsberg Prison.
		It presents Hitler's triumphant entry through the Brandenburg Gate as a silly April Fool's idea.
		What they wrote: Simplicissimus (a satirical magazine) suggested in January 1928 that the NSDAP would split so often that in the end only Hitler would be left.
	www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/caric.htm (1001 words)

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