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Written by Lin Donn Illustrated by Phillip Martin The ancient Greeks would have loved April Fools Day. They so adored being clever. It’s easy to imagine the ancient Athenians concocting their plots and chanting their victories, and the ancient Spartans rigging their barracks and roaring with laughter. A special day put aside just for trickery, with everyone forewarned that others were out to fool them .... the challenge of it would have greatly appealed to the ancient Greeks. But, they did NOT create this holiday. The history of April Fools Day only goes back to the 16th century. Legend says … April Fools Day started with a change in the calendar. The “new year” celebration was moved from April 1st to Jan 1st. Some people did not hear about this change for many years. Other ignored the change, and continued to celebrate as they had always. These people were called “fools”. . In the 1500’s, some people began playing tricks on the “fools”. Over time, April 1st became a day of playing tricks, and a challenge – a competition of sorts - to see who could come up with the best prank. Today, almost 500 years later, April 1st is still a day when tricks are played on people in a spirit of fun. Anyone who plays a mean trick is just being mean. For the rest of us, April Fools Day is a challenging game of trickery! April Fools is celebrated in only some countries in the world. In France, April 1st is called Poisson dAvril. French kids play a special game on this day. The object of the game is to tape a paper fish on someones back without that person noticing. When the victim spots the fish taped to their back, the kids yell Poisson d’Avril! (April Fish!)? In Belgium, Egyptologist, Jacques Kinnaer, shared: The expression April Fish, in my region of the country (in Belgium), not only applies to the paper (or real) fish being stuck to someones back, but to the tricks played on that day in general. If I played a prank on you on April 1st, the expressio