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To: Richard Mazzarella who wrote (66838)	4/1/2001 7:50:51 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

On April 1, 1864, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about April Fool's Day. newyorktimes.com April Fool's Day, or All Fool's Day, probably developed somewhat differently in various countries, but its observance is documented as early as the sixteenth century in France. Under the Julian calendar developed by Julius Caesar, April 1 was celebrated as the first day of the year. In 1564, Pope Gregory XIII introduced a new calendar, designating January 1 as the start of the new year. In France, those who continued to celebrate April 1 as New Year's Day were called "fools" and became the target of ridicule and pranks by adherents of the new Gregorian calendar. The tradition of performing practical jokes on April 1 spread to other European countries and their American colonies in the eighteenth century. American author Herman Melville set and published his novel about a riverboat swindler, The Confidence Man (1857), on April Fool's Day. Nast's cartoon is a mosaic of several April Fool's pranks.....