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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!!!!!!

I'm hoping to be Thankful that I found the winning key <grin>.

I hope everyone has a great day.

Michael

ps - as a non-American, I will point out that only the US is having a holiday today. I've been living in the US for almsot 10 years now and I still don't get the fuss.
 
And it's two weeks, hehehehe.
BTW I'll be having Thanksgiving dinner on saturday with friends from Hawai'i in Bavaria. 😀
A reason to be really thankful is there too. 😀
 
Happy Jator day! 😛 Whoops!

May this truly be a day of Thanksgiving for you and yours! 😀
 
Happy Thanksgiving everybody 🙂

But explain to me, why is it that even a 24/7 support-centre closes down on thanksgiving ? I was calling from here to the US (talking long distance) working my way through five levels of computers (press X when you need etc) only to find out there was nobody there 🙁. I wonder what my phone-bill is going to be this month.
 
I'd like to think that Thanksgiving needn't be solely an American holiday, but something that all of our Earthly(and non-Earthly??) neighbors can share together.. being thankful for all that we have and those that we love!

Happy Thanksgiving to all! 🙂
 
Since I have been invited for a thanksgiving diner by an american friend living in Holland, can anyone tell me what thanksgiving is? (I know you have eat turkey), is it some religious day, or typically american, like the new settlers arriving?

Thijs
 
It is a combination harvest/religious festival. Just about every country has something similar. The origins go back the the early days of the Europeans settling the US.

Even people who are not religious tend to take it very seriously. Because it is not specifically Christian (like Christmas is), it is widely celebrated by everyone in the US.

Michael

ps - well, actually it's just an excuse to watch football all day
 
Well, there's that Michael, and the fact that it starts the Christmas shopping season here.😉
 
[hand-over-mouth]BURP....[/hand-over-mouth] I ate too much!!! But, it was good!!!

I hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!
 
Hmmm...My school days have long faded but if I remember my foreign histories subject matter (and I probably don't - at least not accurately🙂):

Thanksgiving:

A group of puritan Protestants sought to escape persecution in England where practising any other than the Anglican faith of the Crown was seen as treasonous. In 1607 'ish a number of them travelled to the Netherlands to join up with Calvinists there. This wasn't all that satisfactory - they kept arguing over who had the biggest code-cracking abacus I presume.🙂

Two ships were purchased to travel to the New World. Permission for the journey was given by King James 1st. The &quot;Pilgrims&quot; likened their journey to the Biblical story of &quot;crossing the Jordan River and entering into the Promised Lands of milk and honey&quot;. After setting sail from Southhampton one of the ships started to sink. They made their way eventually to the port of Plymouth where they were received in kindness and sympathy by the local populace. They abandoned one ship and set out in the other, the &quot;Mayflower&quot;.

This ship carried them to North American shores near Cape Cod. On arrival they set ashore on the 23'rd of November where they held a church service on a rock. They gave &quot;Thanksgiving&quot; for their safe arrival in their &quot;promised land&quot; and a feast day was proclaimed and the day &quot;given to the Lord&quot; or &quot;Holyday/Holiday&quot;. It was deemed that the feast should be from the bounty that the New World provided and it seems that wild turkey was on the menu.

They named their settlement Plymouth in memory of the kindness and support they received in England when their journey was perilously close to failure. The rock on which they stood to give thanks for their arrival and the bounty of the new lands is known as Plymouth Rock.

It became the first permanent settlement of Europeans in North America and became the founding settlement of the present day United States. (The Dutch weren't slouches at getting over there either and it didn't take them long to establish New Amsterdam now known as New York.

Of course, I could be wrong. 😀

Yup, I was wrong. Read all about it
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