In Tokyo Wednesday, a group of Americans engaged in a Japanese tradition more than a century old. The Americans are the Mets and the Cubs. The tradition is baseball. NP readers want to know. In commemoration of April Fools' Eve, we celebrate the Seven Blunderers of the World.
History often seems to be a road map to a cliff.
On April Fools' Day, we should remember the colossal buffoons who have shaped and sabotaged our world. Their profound stupidity remains our legacy. If only for therapeutic revenge, we hereby recount their calamitous lives. The culprits are in chronological order. 1071 A.D. Andronicus Ducas became the inadvertent father of Turkey and the Crusades.