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THE ORIGIN OF APRIL FOOLS

• No one is really sure how April Fools Day • REPAIR • REFRESH came about. The traditional explanation is that • RECLAIM it started in 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII orCall to learn about dered that the Gregorian calendar replace the Hair Loss Therapy! old Julian calendar, which moved the first day of the new year to January 1st instead of April 701-739-2403 1st. Those who still celebrated the new year on 2600 DeMers Ave. Grand Forks, ND April 1st were ridiculed as fools. The problem with this explanation is that April Fools Day was already being celebrated when the calendars were switched over.

• Joseph Boskin, a professor of history at Boston University, explained that April Fools began during the reign of Constantine, when a group of court jesters told the Roman emperor that they could run the empire better than he David Kent could. Constantine allowed a jester to be king 2534 17th Ave. S. Grand Forks for one day. The jester passed an edict call218-779-5458 ing for absurdity on that day, and the custom dkent@nodakins.net became an annual event. The Associated Press ran this story in many newspapers in 1983.

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• Robert Benchley invited his friend Frank Case to dinner at his house. Frank was the manager of the Algonquin Hotel at the time. When he was shown to the bathroom, Frank was dismayed to see that all the towels, as well as the soap, came from his hotel. At dinner, the silverware, plates, and napkins also bore the stamp of the Algonquin. Benchley had secretly arranged to “borrow” a truck load of Algonquin property for the evening.

• James Thurber’s mother was a practical joker.

One day she was to meet an old friend that she hadn’t seen in thirty years. By prearrangement, Mrs. Thurber was to wear a red rose so her friend could recognize her at the train station. Mrs. Thurber arrived early, and spotted a very old woman sleeping on a bench. She quietly pinned the rose on the slumbering form and enjoyed the scene when her friend showed up, looked at the sleeping woman incredulously, and woke her up saying, “Why, Mrs. Thurber, how are you? You're looking just fine!”

• Author Kathleen Norris once saw in a store window that her friend Frank Sullivan was coming up behind her. She whirled about suddenly and cried at the top of her lungs, “Not one penny more! You and your family have had all the money you'll ever get out of me! You've bled me white!” A crowd started to gather. Her voice grew louder.

“You've spent it all on drink rather than on your sick wife! I've given you everything I have— and still you hound me for more!” Sullivan fled.

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• Ben Franklin once entered an inn and found every seat next to the fire already occupied. He asked the innkeeper if he had any oysters, and the reply was yes. “Take a bucket of them out to the stable and feed them to my horse,” Franklin said. Everyone seated at the fire went out to see a horse eat oysters.

When they came back in to say the horse refused to eat oysters, they found Ben seated at the prime position next to the flames. “Then bring the oysters in here and roast them for my supper!” he said.

• Sportswriter Bill Hanna was walking down the street when he ran into fellow reporter Bill Phelon. Hanna remarked on how nice it was to run into his old friend, but mentioned he was looking ill. They parted company. Hanna walked a half a block farther when Phelon again approached him with surprise, saying how long it had been since they’d seen each other and how ill Hanna was looking. “But I just ran into you a moment ago,” cried Hanna. “Impossible!” replied Phelon and wandered off. A block further, here came Phelon, rushing to Hanna to pump his hand and mention how ill he was looking. “Please tell me you just saw me a few minutes ago!” hollered Hanna, which of course was denied by Phelon. Hanna hailed a taxi and took himself to the hospital.

• On April Fools Day shortly before Mt. St. Helens erupted, a Massachusetts TV producer thought it would be funny to air the report that a local nonvolcanic ski mountain was also erupting. Police were swamped with calls. The station apologized for the prank and the producer was fired. ...continued

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• Italian banker Gilberto Baschiera was a modernday Robin Hood. Over a period of seven years, he secretly diverted 1 million euros from wealthy clients to poorer ones so they could qualify for loans. He made no profit from these dealings and avoided jail in 2018 with a plea bargain.

• In 2006, a Coca-Cola employee offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi took the high road and responded by notifying Coca-Cola.

• Ever wonder why there's no period in "Dr Pepper"? It was removed because the old logo font made it look like "Di: Pepper."

• Wildlife technician Richard Thomas took the famous tongue twister, "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" and calculated a rough estimate of the actual answer. It came out to around 700 pounds!

• For years your dentist has no doubt advised you to be sure to floss. But the benefits extend beyond your teeth. Researchers have discovered that flossing can also help your memory. It prevents gum disease, which prevents stiff blood vessels, which in turn cause memory issues.

• The future Queen Elizabeth II's wedding dress was entirely paid for with ration coupons.

• Red Solo cups have not only been honored in a song by country singer Toby Keith, they're a common souvenir to bring back from the U.S. The novelty comes from their appearance in numerous movie party scenes.

• American children are given an average of $3.70 per lost tooth.

• To properly write adjectives in order, list them by amount, value, size, temperature, age, shape, color, origin and material. *** Thought for the Day: "No matter what path you're on in this life, if that path isn't about love, you're on the wrong path." -- Lawrence Overmire (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.

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I see a lot of security and international affairs in that bio. In multiple online versions of his bio, the word "veterans" doesn't come up once. Except for his wife's work, I'm not seeing any connections with veterans. There were visits to Iraq and Afghanistan, yes, plus visits to Walter Reed hospital. In Afghanistan and Iraq, he was there to talk to coalition partners and military leaders about security issues and draw down.

Maybe he sat down to a meal with the troops.

But where's the real veteran experience? Where's the commitment to our country with a job that can take you into harm's way? Or an assignment where your family can't go? The bad pay? The person above you who can make or break your career? The bad decisions you remain silent about. The terrible duty stations?

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Is your senior center still closed? Most of them are, which means that we haven't experienced our typical routines for a very long time.

Mostly it's the social aspect we miss. A show of hands: How many of us, if given the opportunity, would show up at the senior center for an in-person gathering even if it was held outside? In the parking lot?

It's being done in some parts of the country, even in cold weather, so it's possible if those who run your senior center are willing to do the work of spacing chairs 6 feet apart and making coffee in thermoses so it stays hot and pushing around a trolley of cookies.

With spring officially here, chances are that if you and others approach the staff of the senior center to express interest, social gatherings like these could be made to happen. An hour once a week would go a long way toward reconnecting with friends and checking in with others to see -- in person -- how they're really doing.

Besides the loss of social interaction, it's the classes many of us miss: budgeting for living on Social Security, cooking for one, journaling ... and especially the hands-on classes about electronic devices. Those device classes are the very classes we need now that could help us to interact with others on video calls.

To their credit, some senior centers have figured out that, if nothing else, they can show video exercise classes we can follow from home. And many of them have stepped forward with volunteers who can help get us signed up online to get the COVID vaccine.

From what I hear, though, it's the in-person social interactions that we seniors miss the most. Even a once-aweek gathering, in a parking lot, would be very welcome. © 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• What do ankle and anchor have in common? They • “Glamour” and “grammar” both come from the same root word. In the 1500s, anyone who could speak share the Latin root word “ank” meaning “bend.” The and write Latin grammar was thought be have speAnglo-Saxons borrowed “ank” to make the flexible cial magical powers. In England such a person was ankle; the Greeks took the same root word and applied said to have “gramarye” and the Scots pronounced it to the curve of the anchor which held their ships in it “glamour.” Both meant that any person capable of place. understanding Latin was surely capable of casting • “Baby,” “babble,” and “barbarian” all spring from the charms as well.

Greek word “barbarous” meaning a foreigner or one who speaks an incomprehensible language. It’s the • “Trunk” is the Latin word for tree, so “tree trunk” is redundant. A traveling case became known as a trunk same story for the rhubarb plant: the land along the because the first ones were made out of the hollowed river Volga was known to the Greeks as the Rha. Since out section of a tree. this was an unknown territory, they called it “barbaron” or barbarian. A plant they found there was dubbed “rha • “Infans” is Latin for “not able to speak” meaning a barbaron” meaning “from the barbarian land of Rha” baby, or a member of the “infantry” who is not aland then shortened to rhubarb. lowed to speak unless spoken to.

• The words “bull” and “fool” both come from the An- • “Bursa” is the Latin word for pocket, which explains glo-Saxon word “bula” meaning a swelled-up creature. why “disburse” means “out of pocket” and “reim-

burse” means “back in the pocket.” A closed, fluid• According to legend, St. Martin was riding his horse filled pocket in the human body which functions as along a lonely road one cold winter day when a beggar a gliding surface to reduce friction between tissues stopped him and asked for alms. Martin had no money, of the body is called a bursa. When a bursa becomes but seeing that the beggar was shivering in his rags, inflamed, the condition is called bursitis. he took off his cloak, cut it in two with his sword, and gave half to the beggar. The story goes that the beg- • The word “part” refers to a piece of a whole or somegar then revealed himself to be Christ. A shrine was thing that isn’t complete. In verb form, the word to erected on the spot to commemorate the divine event part means to divide or remove something. It comes where Martin had offered Christ half of a cloak. The from the Latin “partire” meaning to divide or to share. shrine was called a “cappella” which is Latin for “little It’s the root of various words including “impartial” cloak.” Through the years every roadside shrine bemeaning “to take to part in the debate.” There’s also came known as a cappella. The French turned the word “apartment” when you share a building, as well as into “chapelle” and the English translated it as “cha“jeopardy” originally defined as “an evenly divided pel.” The Latin word for cloak is “cappa” and gives us game.” To “impart” means “to give a share of.” the word cape. Therefore, “cape” and “chapel” spring from the same source. To sing “a cappella” means to sing in “chapel style.”

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• On April 7, 1970, legendary actor John Wayne wins his first -- and only -- acting Academy Award, for "True Grit." Wayne played a drunken, foul-tempered but endearing U.S. marshal named Rooster Cogburn.

• On April 11, 1988, actress and singer Cher collects the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Moonstruck" (1988). Cherilyn Sarkasian first became famous as the taller, female half of the 1960s singing duo Sonny and Cher.

• On April 8, 1990, "Who killed Laura Palmer?" was the question on everyone's mind when David Lynch's surreal TV drama "Twin Peaks" premiered on ABC. The body of the blonde homecoming queen was found washed up on shore wrapped in plastic in the show's opening episode.

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• After the introduction of crosswords, the fad spread like wildfire across the nation.

• In 1924, a man on a train noted that 60% of riders were doing crosswords. The B & O Railroad placed dictionaries in all their cars, and the Pennsylvania Railroad printed crosswords on the back of its menus.

• Engaged couples announced their upcoming marriages by putting appropriate crosswords in the paper.

Religious crosswords appeared in church bulletins.

Harvard and Yale held an intercollegiate crossword tournament (Yale won). The New York Police challenged the Fire Brigade to a similar tourney.

• Checkered clothing became popular, and one dressmaker gave free crossword books to each lady who purchased a garment. If they returned the book with the puzzles correctly solved, they received a discount off future clothing purchases.

• Pickpockets lounged in hotel lobbies, auspiciously doing crosswords while waiting for victims to stroll by.

• Libraries began blacking out the crosswords in newspapers to keep one person from keeping it too long. Sales of dictionaries and thesauruses skyrocketed.

• The London Zoo announced it would no longer be answering questions about the gnu, the emu, or any other three-lettered animal.

• Opticians noted an increase in crossword-induced headaches when people tried to read the tiny type with incorrect prescriptions.

• A New York magistrate entered court one day to find 21 people in a circle around the table before the bench, trying to come up with a four-letter word for “elevated.” He outlawed crosswords in his court after that.

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• One week before D-Day in 1944 an army officer sat down to complete a crossword in the English paper Daily Telegraph. He was not doing it for fun. He was doing it because the cryptic clues were giving the war department the jitters.

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• A few weeks earlier, the words “Utah” and “Omaha” appeared as crossword answers. It so happens that those were two of the secret names chosen for Normandy landing beaches. Later, the answer “Overlord” appeared, which was the code word for the whole D-Day operation.

Then came the clue: “This bush is a center of nursery revolutions.” The answer was mulberry, code word for a barge that was to be towed across the English channel. Now the war planners were nervous, suspecting leaks or spies.

Carefully they completed each crossword, and then “Neptune” showed up as an answer—the secret name of naval operations. At this point several men were sent to detain and question the man who thought up the puzzles.

• His name was Leonard Dawe, and he had been making up crosswords for 20 years. How could he explain the fact that five confidential code names relating to D-Day had shown up within the last month? Dawe was fortunately able to convince them it was all a crazy coincidence.

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