Thanksgiving

The Bible does not say anything about Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was started by the Pilgrims/Indians, which was after the Bible was written.

When the pilgrims first came to North America they had a poor harvest and were dying from the lack of food. The local natives (then called Indians) showed them how to grow food locally. After their first good harvest they celebrated a day of thanksgiving and a feast to which the local natives who had helped them were invited. A day of thanksgiving and prayer was a common thing for the pilgrims to observe, for various situations.

In later years the story of the Pilgrims, their travail and the help they received from the Natives, along with the peacefulness of their first harvest observance, became legendary and widely known, particularly in the New England region. This eventually was transmuted into an annual Thanksgiving as a day for family gathering and feasting.

The spices pilgrims used were cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and even pepper. They also used dried fruits for sauces.

Dōngzhì Festival (冬至) or Winter Solstice Festival

Prosperity and plenty. From the ancient Greek myth, the owner of the horn of plenty had all they desired, continually.

The indians hunt the food and the pilgrims cook and feed the food to the pilgrims and the indians.

just write Native Americans.

It's the fourth Thursday in November.

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Um um in thanksgiving!!

Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the pilgrims in 1621 at Plymouth Plantation.

In 2010, the second Monday in October is the 11th.

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Turkey was the largest fowl in the area of what would become Massachusetts in 1621

It really depends on the holiday, and on which group of people are observing it. Canada is a big and very diverse country. For example, the majority of people are Christian, so they would observe Christmas. But customs, including the preferred kinds of food, have changed as people's tastes have changed. Canada used to be a British colony, and since the time of Queen Elizabeth 1 (back in Shakespeare's day), goose was the preferred Christmas meal. But today, most people prefer turkey, duck, or even chicken. Also, ethnic people put their own twist on the Christmas meal-- Portuguese or Italian or French Canadians integrate their own food traditions and flavors.

Canada is also home to a sizable number of Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and members of various First Nations tribes (what Americans used to call "Indians" and Canadians used to call "Eskimos"). These groups observe their own special holidays, and eat the foods associated with their cultural traditions. Thus, it is difficult to discuss "Canadian" holiday foods, since the customs (and what people like to eat) will vary depending on whether you are in Montréal, where the traditions of France are still influential, or whether you are in some other part of the country where the influences are more British. It should also be noted that many Canadians watch American cable TV channels like Food Network, and some American food customs have become popular in Canada too.

It was Virginia.

days to feast

• The Pilgrims feast lasted for three days.

3 days

As of the 2008 season, the Cowboys and Packers have played on Thanksgiving Day 2 times: 1970 - Cowboys 16, Packers 3

1994 - Cowboys 42, Packers 31

The Pilgrims did not necessarily have Thanksgiving on a Thursday. That day was chosen during the early 20th century, although it became traditional in some regions before that.

1863 Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving If you look at your calendar you will notice that Thanksgiving is not the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday in November. It is sometimes the last Thursday in November but not every year. Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclomation that follows is taken from the collection of Lincoln's papers in the Library of America series, Vol II, pp. 520-521. ---- The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union. Abraham Lincoln

Thanksgiving appears 28 times in the Authorized Version.

Leviticus 5

Nehemiah 3

Psalms 8

Isaiah 1

Jeremiah 1

Amos 1

Jonah 1

2 Corinthians 2

Philippians 1

Colossians 2

1 Timothy 2

Revelation 1