Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. As a federal and popular holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. Together with Christmas and New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.
The event that some Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, and was attended by 53 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought, though the 1621 events were likely not a religious observation.
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ReplyDeleteWhy, who is it? 'Prelestnie Nogotochki' sounds...mmm...how to say...a bit funny ))
ReplyDeleteIt is a small lyrical digression :D
So, 'Thanksgiving day', I'd like to thank you all! It can sound strange but without each of you my life won't be full of emotions and memories. I take much of each of my course mate, though I don't know what are names of some students ((( But, in any case, thank you ))
I know, it's an unusual way to leave comments but I want to use it, because, from my point of view, in this case our blog will be living.
:D Oleg, You made me laugh))
DeleteBy the way, Miley Ray Cyrus was born on November 23, 1992. She is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She achieved wide fame for her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana.