For centuries, many Europeans welcomed the New Year with the rebirth of spring. Festivities tied to the vernal equinox often stretched from late March into early April, climaxing around April 1. Then came the seismic shifts: In 1564, France’s King Charles IX issued the Edict of Roussillon, officially moving the start of the year to January 1. Later, in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII’s Gregorian reform corrected the drifting Julian calendar by skipping 10 days in October and reinforcing the January 1 New Year across Catholic Europe.
News traveled at the speed of horses and messengers. Some people never heard the change. Others stubbornly clung to ancient spring traditions. Those who kept celebrating the “old” New Year in early April were mocked mercilessly - sent on fake errands, pinned with paper fish (“poisson d’avril”), and labeled “April fools.”
Were they ignorant villagers slow to adapt?
Or brave traditionalists resisting elite authority and papal power in an age when changing the calendar felt like tampering with God’s own time?
This calendar clash - part reform, part cultural collision - may have birthed the global tradition of harmless (or not-so-harmless) pranks we still love today.
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And, no - not MY Miss Barbara...
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Is this a sign that I might actually be losing it - like my wife tells me I am at least 30 times a day?
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Los Angeles County saw the largest decline of any county in the United States in 2025, according to new census data published on March 26. Nearly 54,000 people moved out of L.A. County between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025, U.S. Census data shows. The decline is part of an ongoing trend. In 2020 L.A. County was estimated to have more than 10 million residents. As of 2025, the county was thought to have just under 9.7 million residents.
It’s unclear where the fleeing Angelinos are moving. However, the neighboring counties of Riverside and San Bernardino saw a combined increase of 21,131 residents between 2024 and 2025, according to U.S. Census data. The greater Las Vegas area also saw a population boost of more than 21,000 people last year.
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The bullet that killed Charlie Kirk was so damaged that investigators could not confirm that it was fired from Tyler Robinson’s gun - but that also doesn’t mean it came from a different rifle, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Claims emerged this week that the “bullet jacket fragment” recovered from Kirk’s body didn’t match the .30-06 hunting rifle Robinson allegedly used in the September 2025 assassination - fanning online conspiracy theories about the conservative icon’s death. But court documents reveal something different. When the fragment was recovered during an autopsy and compared to the murder weapon found at the scene, “the result of the comparison was inconclusive,” according to court papers filed this month that reference findings from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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