Thanksgiving

Although the Detroit Lions have played on Thanksgiving since the 1930s, their record for holiday games is 33-36-2. The Dallas Cowboys did not begin playing on Thanksgiving until 1966, but they are closing in on the Lions' win total. The Cowboys are 27-15-1 on Thanksgiving.

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Thanksgiving is celebrated as a religious ceremony in Nigeria where each Christian denomination pick a Sunday to celebrate at its own church. The celebrant church invites neighboring churches to celebrate with it and the invitation is usually reciprocal.

The cornucopia is a goat's horn filled with food dating back to Greek mythology. The cornucopia is a symbol of harvest, abundance indelibly linked, and wealth.

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There is no specific traditional food consumed during Christmas time since Turkey is predominantly Muslim and most people do not celebrate Christmas. However, many people will roast a Turkey or Chicken for New Years.

Spain is a lively, reverent country when it comes to public celebration. There is a separate holiday for each patron saint and in cities such as Madrid the Barcelona the festivals and holidays include extended processions, bull fighting, pilgrimages, costume competitions, and tinseled fiestas. Lasting for weeks at a time, some of the more popular holidays in Spain weave celebration with history, paying homage to legendary martyrs and iconic saints.

In the 1920s many of Macy's department store employees were immigrants. They wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving with a festival that was commonly performed in Europe. In 1924, the "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Christmas Parade" was put on by the store. Employees and professional entertainers all wore costumes and did performances. They had floats, professional bands and animals from the Central Park Zoo. It ended up that a quarter of a million people showed up to watch and so they decided to make it an annual event.

82% of people eat Turkey on Thanksgiving. (Source needed. Seems high.)

According to eatturkey.com 46M turkeys were consumer in the USA for Thanksgiving. According to the US Census, there are approx. 115M households in 2010 (114.8M).

Of course, multiple households may gather for each turkey so...

Yes

You can watch the parade live online.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held in New York City, home of the flagship Macy's department store. According to Marching.com, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade route changed in 2009 and will remain the same in 2010:

"Beginning at 77th Street and Central Park West, the parade will travel south to Columbus Circle, turn onto Central Park South before making a right turn to march down 7th Avenue to 42nd Street. The parade will then turn east toward 6th Avenue where it will march down the Avenue of the Americas. At 34th Street, the parade will make its final turn west marching in front of Macy's Herald Square."

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almost all of them, exept Halloween but Croats do celebrate Christmas ,Ester etc.

and also they have ''Maškare'' its something like Halloween but there's no trick or treating,on that day they have parade somewhere in city of Rijeka,Zagreb and Split,its really fun and on the end of parade there are some people that are dressed like demons(sheep skin ,horns) and they are carring bells and play them really loud,thats a ritual ,a legend in which they are forcing winter to leave and inviting spring in their country.(( Sorry, I don't spreak english very well ^^'' )) and yeah thats somewhere in February

The Macy's Thanksgiving parade in 2011 will be held on Tuesday, November 24th, 2011 at 9am - 12pm EST. It will be broadcasted LIVE on NBC. The channel for NBC will be different for most people so I can not say a specific channel number.

Yes, Halloween is celebrated in Dubai.

No, we don't. It is an American Holiday

• The custom of 'trick or treat' probably has several origins, mostly Irish. An old Irish peasant practice called for going door to door to collect money, bread cake, cheese, eggs, butter, nuts, apples, etc., in preparation for the festival of St. Columbus Kill.
• Yet another custom was the begging for soul cakes, or offerings for one's self - particularly in exchange for promises of prosperity or protection against bad luck. It is with this custom the concept of the fairies came to be incorporated as people used to go door to door begging for treats. Failure to supply the treats would usually result in practical jokes being visited on the owner of the house.
• The tradition started with a fear of the god of the dead taking over the sun on November 1, the Celt's new year. They dressed in costumes to hide from the god and some tried to trick him by putting on demon costumes (this is where the whole "scary costume" thing started). The costumes eventually evolved into what it is now. the reason people give away treats on Halloween is because people were afraid of a certain god (I don't know his/her name) and offered treats in return of leaving them alone. This evolved into people giving this for fun.
• Halloween was the celebration the farmers did because it was the end of harvest and they traded goods to each other, but if you didn't give you would get a mean trick that could even kill you.
• There were cultist and on Halloween that warded off evil spirits by wearing mask and lanterns, but instead of a Jack-O'-Lantern they used turnips to scare away the spirits another story of the jack o lantern is that there was a trickster named jack that tricked the devil into climbing up a tree and the devil got stuck, so he cursed Jack's soul to walk in the darkness with just a turnip lantern to guide him. Of course turnips weren't common in the U.S.A so they used Pumpkins And that's the stary of the Jack-O'-Lantern. And if your thinking Halloween is evil its not if any thing the church is evil, the Irish people were visited by the "Saints" and they wanted them to stop worshiping all of their Gods and stop their holidays but the peope loved Halloween and wouldn't give it up. So if you can't beat them join them, so the church made all Hallows Eve.

The country of Turkey has an area of 783,562 km2. Turkey, the animal, typically grow to around 35 lbs. in weight.

cheese burgers, mashed potaters, hot sauce, sunflowers seed, and fried chicken with kool-aid.

Like most other parades, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade sells tickets to the grandstands and VIP sections. Along the route is first come-first serve. The grandstand tickets are around $750 and the VIP are around $1000.

Sistas in the Hood Outreach Ministries will give out free turkeys at P.S. 20 at 142-30 Barclay avenue at 11:30 on Saturday Nov. 21.

I presume it was because the Native Americans introduced the bird to the Pilgrims (but not necessarily on Thanksgiving Day). It was a large bird that was not migratory and therefore was available throughout the year. It was large enough to feed more than one family. Have you ever eaten a wild turkey? Moma-mia! If cooked right, it tastes much better than a Butter-Ball and a lot less fat in your diet. Wild turkeys feed on acorns and other natural products(including insects and small reptiles, etc.) that give them a totally different taste.

Nothing. Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Ireland.

Nothing. Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Ireland.

Nothing. Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Ireland.

Nothing. Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Ireland.

Nothing. Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Ireland.

Nothing. Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Ireland.

Nothing. Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Ireland.

Nothing. Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Ireland.

Nothing. Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Ireland.

Nothing. Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Ireland.

Nothing. Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Ireland.