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- ↑ "Origin and History of April Fools' day" . Retrieved April 1, 2018.
- ↑ How a BU Prof April-Fooled the Country
- ↑ King Kugel: An April Fools’ history lesson
- ↑ Joseph Boskin. Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War: A Comical Journey. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. 224 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-0964-3. Reviewed by Javan D. Frazier
- ↑ Robert G. O’Meally, "An Icon Through History"