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PARIS — April Fools’ Day is an international celebration of silliness, with roots in ancient Rome, India and the first written reference in The Canterbury Tales. In France and Italy, the poisson d’avril and pesce d’aprile respectively, is a traditional call to spend the day trying to tape a paper cut-out of a fish on […]
A terrorist attack, a global health crisis, and a natural disaster.
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