April Fools' Day
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April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day is an annual custom in many Western countries on the 1st of April consisting of practical jokes, hoaxes, and pranks. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouti
An 1857 ticket to "Washing the Lions" at the Tower of London. No such event ever took place.
On April Fools' Day 1980, the BBC announced Big Ben's clock face was going digital and whoever got in touch first could win the clock hands.
Massacre of the Innocents
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The Massacre of the Innocents is a story recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two yea
The Virgin and Child Surrounded by the Holy Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Massacre of the Innocents
Rubens, Massacre of the Innocents, 1610–11, Toronto
Massacre of the Innocents, Matteo di Giovanni, c. 1500