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American Festival February 14th is?Saint Valentines Day. Saint Valentines Day began in Europe and has been celebrated for hundreds of years. In the U.S. today people remember friends and sweethearts with cards called valentines, flowers, chocolates or small gifts. How did it get started ? Nobody is completely sure about the origin about this , the silliest of holidays. However the urban legend experts at S say that most experts give credit to Pope Gregory XIII, who, in the 1500s, gave the world the Gregorian calendar. 没人可以完全肯定这个最愚蠢的节日的起源。不过，S的都市传说专家称，大多数专家将其归功于在16世纪颁行格列高利历（公历）的教皇格列高利十三世。 HOW did it get started ? In 1562, the Gregorian calendar moved the first day of the year from April 1 to January 1. Word did eventually get around, but some people were a bit slow to hear the news. These folks continued celebrating the new year on April 1, unaware that they were now three months behind the times. These April fools were tricked by those in the know. The tradition eventually made its way to the USA. 1562年，格列高利历将一年的第一天从4月1日移到1月1日。这一消息后来传开了，不过有些人比较后知后觉。这些人依然在4月1日庆祝新年，没有意识到他们已经落后了三个月时间。这些“四月愚人”被那些知情者耍了一把。这一传统最后传到了美国。 Something interesting Develop And its still going strong. Over the past week, Web searches on “April fools day jokes and “April fools day pranks have more than doubled, and related lookups for easy April fools day pranks and “April fools day jokes for work also spiked. Bottom line: Keep your guard up, especially if somebody offers you a word search puzzle. Lookups for “impossible April fools day word searches are up 200% 而现在愚人节依然很流行。在过去一周里，对“愚人节笑话”和“愚人节恶作剧”的网络搜索量增加了一倍多，对“简易的愚人节恶作剧”和“职场愚人节笑话”的相关搜索量也大大增加了。底线是：保持警惕，特别是当有人让你做单词搜索迷宫题时。对“让人受不了的愚人节单词搜索”词条的搜索量增加了200%。 Mothers Day?is observed in the United States in honor of mothers on the second Sunday in May. Julia Ward Howe wrote a Mothers Day proclamation in 1870. She wanted to have an international day when all mothers of the world would stand up and speak for peace, so their sons would not have to die