#April1 ... #WhyDoTheyCallit #AprilFoolsDay? (perhaps we ought to call it #FoolsErrandDay), with its #HappyBirthday for @LoganPaul AND @JusticeAlitoJr (ETc.) | @theBibleHub @RickLongJr @TranslateTheWeb @NationalToday @411Holidays #TheFamousPeople
'The repository of all current human knowledge' (LoL) tells us several possible origins of April Fools' Day, but the most-common theme seems to be The Fool's Errand (the impossible-or-nonexistent task one is sent out to accomplish)—Noah sending a dove from The Ark to verify that the flood was ended, the nobleman sending out his servants on foolish errands in Eduard de Dene's poem, the people that were tricked into going to the Tower of London "to see the lions washed."
I had a post that I rewrote everyday to replace 'yesterday's cohort' with 'today's cohort.'
Maybe that was 'a fool's #errand,' or ...
One day I asked myself, 'Why don't I just do an entry for every day (with that day's cohort & holidays & maybe its event-anniversaries)?'
... maybe this is 'a fool's errand'; but at least I can come
back to each post and rewrite it with new information
(new birthdays and events and celebrations).
That holiday's explanation is linked through 'the main word' ("errand," not Fools (which I had already 'done' when this day came around)) below; but I feel it's more important to understand that word better. And I find that you understand words better when you look at the other words at the bases of the words you're thinking-of ...
The word “Errand” is built on ancient words that mean "Message/Messenger" (Servant, |Herald, Angel, |Ambassador).
Today's Cohort
Under the sign (basically ... I'll do some more 'research' to find out 'how the various moon-phases & risings & descendings etc. make it different'): Logan Paul, Annette O'Toole, Debbie Reynolds, Rachel Maddow, Randy Orton, Taran Killam, Otto von Bismarck, Ali MacGraw, Judge Samuel Alito, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Gogol, Lon Chaney, John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester), Louis IV (Holy Roman Emperor), Paul Manafort, Mackenzie Davis (Grace in TERMINATOR: Dark Fate), Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman- and then Commander-Janice Rand in most of her STAR TREK appearances) ...
(and--if you or someone you know about has a birthday today
--please mention them (and how you know them or -know
about them) in the comments, thanks)
And I Wonder What Saints' Day my Heart of the Nation calendar says this is:
no saint, but the clergy are wearing Violet
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