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The Thanksgiving holiday or celebration is in fact celebrated in many countries. Thanksgiving is essentially a harvest related festival and celebrates the harvest when it is completed and the work is done. Worldwide, harvest celebrations are observed with different names and at different times depending on the harvest season of the country. Ask questions here about the origin and traditions surrounding Thanksgiving such as foods served, giving thanks, and parades.

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What is the purpose of Thanksgiving day in 1621?

In the following summer after the 'Pilgrim Fathers and their families had arrived in America in 1620, Native Americans showed them what foods were safe to eat, and how to store food for the next winter. They held a celebration to thank God and the Native Americans that they were able to survive. (Previously, during the first winter many of the new arrivals died.)

Can a turkey kill you?

Not unless you choke on a piece as you are eating. Or get hit by a frozen turkey.

A live turkey is not capable of killing a human nor would it even try.

Is family dollar store open Thanksgiving Day?

Family Dollar observes the following Holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, 1/2 day Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

It is on their website.

Witch company sells the most turkeys for thanksgiving?

The company that sells the most turkeys for Thanksgiving is Butterball. This company has a lot of very close competition though.

Do more people celebrate Christmas or Thanksgiving?

Christmas

Answer: Although more money is spent on Christmas than Thanksgiving (food + gifts vs. food), more people celebrate Thanksgiving (a secular holiday) than Christmas ( a Christian religious holiday.)

Was Thanksgiving everyday for the pilgrims?

no. Thanksgiving is when the natives and the pilgrims made peace and gave tahnks for it.

Why did the pilgrams invite the Indians to a Thanksgiving feast?

'Thanksgiving' did not begin as a great loving relationship between the

pilgrims and the Wampanoag, Pequot and Narragansett people. In fact,

in October of 1621 when the 'pilgrim' survivors of their first winter in

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sland sat down to share the first unofficial 'Thanksgiving' meal,

the Indians who were there were not even invited! There was no turkey,

squash, cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie. A few days before this alleged

feast took place, a company of 'pilgrims' led by Miles Standish actively

sought the head of a local Indian leader, and an 11 foot high wall was

erected around the entire Plymouth settlement for the very purpose of

keeping Indians out! Officially, the holiday we know as 'Thanksgiving'

actually came into existence in the year 1637. Governor Winthrop of the

Massachussetts Bay Colony proclaimed this first official day of Thanksgiving

and feasting to celebrate the return of the colony's men who had arrived

safely from what is now Mystic, Connecticut. They had gone there to

participate in the massacre of over 700 Pequot men, women and children,

and Mr. Winthrop decided to dedicate an official day of thanksgiving

complete with a feast to 'give thanks' for their great 'victory'....

What year was Thanksgiving on November 18th?

Oh, dude, that's a good one! Thanksgiving is always celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, so it can never fall on November 18th. It's like trying to fit a square turkey into a round pie crust - just doesn't work, man.

How come the incas celebrated Thanksgiving in may?

First off, the Thanksgiving you are probably thinking about did not come until MANY hundreds of years after the Incans died. Also, Thanksgiving centered around the Pilgrims is an American holiday. If the Incans did have a sort of holiday to give thanks, they were probably worshipping and thanking their gods.

Name a movie star you would invite for Thanksgiving dinner?

Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Denzel Washington, Sean Penn, Reese Witherspoon

Do mailmen have to work on Holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas?

No, mailmen do not work on Thanksgiving and Christmas. They are also off on Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Martin Luther King Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, and Veterans Day.