April Fool's Day

Why is 1^st of April celebrated as April Fools Day?

    Surely we have been the victim or have noticed someone being a victim of this phenomenon. So where does it originate from? Well, its origin is still a mystery worth to find, but surely this is one of the interesting day where there is no official Holiday and yet people enjoy it.

There's some uncertainty about when and where this bizarre tradition began, but the most accepted explanation traces April Fools' Day back to 16^th century France. Up until 1564, the accepted calendar was the Julian calendar, which observed the beginning of the New Year around April. According to "The Oxford Companion to the Year, "King Charles IX then declared that France would begin using the Gregorian calendar, which shifted New Year's Day to January 1.

     Not everyone accepted this shifting of dates at the same time. Some believed that the dates should not be shifted, and it was these people who became the butt of some April jokes and were mocked as fools. People sent gifts and invited them to bogus parties. Citizens in the rural parts of France were also victims of these jokes. In those days, news travelled slowly and they might not have known about the shifting of dates for months or years. These people also endured being made fun of for celebrating the new year on the wrong day.

       So think of it as trolls played by people in the medieval period where they had pranks on other people and they used to victimize a friend either by giving a fake love letter or by asking a friend to meet at a place where his/her crush has agreed to show up.

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       In India, Holi, a colorful Hindu festival that frequently entices non-Hindi participants to join in, often is celebrated by people playing jokes and throwing colorful dyes on each other.

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     Persian culture also has a holiday with a similar theme, known as Sizdahbedar. On this day, which typically coincides with April Fools’ Day itself, Iranians play pranks on one another.

 Comment below your thoughts and share your best prank played by you to us.

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Steve Jobs-The name with a lot of hope

Steven Paul Jobs or as we know him by Steve Jobs  was born on 1955 in San fransisco ,California. He was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Born to an undergraduate mother who later put him for adoption to his upbringing parents Paul Jobs and Clara Jobs.

Even a movie named after him was created with Ashton Kutcher playing the role of and another movie is yet to be created. He even starred at a movie named “Pirates of the Silicon valley”

Here's what his thoughts were:

Some of his famous quotes are

"My job is to not be easy on people .My job is to make them better"

"If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do today?"

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world"

"You have to have a lot of passion for what you are doing because it is so hard... if you don't, any rational person would give up"

"Being the richest man in the cemetry doesn't matter to me going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me."

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like Design is how it WORKS"

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower"
      

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