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Ridgewood NJ, Trivia Night – May 21, 2023 – 7:00 p.m. – Village Hall, Annie Zusy Youth Center – Are you the smartest person in Ridgewood? Prove it! Ridgewood Emergency Services along with Joe Trivia, is hosting Trivia Night to kick off EMS Week. Doors open at 6:15pm. Trivia will begin at 7:00 pm. Tickets are free, but you must register online at www.eventbrite.com/e/trivia-
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By Elizabeth Whitman @elizabethwhitty e.whitman@ibtimes.com onMarch 31 2015 10:46 AM EDT
April Fools’ Day began in the year 1582, according to one legend, when Pope Gregory XIII (after whom the Gregorian calendar is named) moved the start of the new year from the end of March to the beginning of January. The change was made public, but not everyone got the memo, and those who didn’t and thus continued to celebrate New Year’s Day on April 1 were laughed at. “Because they were seen as foolish, [they were] called April Fools,” medieval historian Ginger Smoak has explained, according to the Huffington Post.
Another myth is based on the same idea but suggests the change in the New Year happened at a slightly different time and place. It attributes the calendar change to France in 1564 — rather than to the pope — and when people celebrated the wrong New Year, others would paste paper fish on their backs, which explains why in France, the day is known as April Fish.
