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‘Whence proceeds the custom of making April Fools?’
By Rosa Hodgkin In 1708 the Apollo Magazine printed the query, “Whence proceeds the custom of making April Fools?”. The answer received was “It may not improperly be derived from a memorable transaction happening between the Romans and Sabines, mentioned by Dionysius, which was thus: the Romans, about the infancy of the city, wanting wives,…
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