Thanksgiving Day - Thanksgiving - is an annual holiday in the United States and Canada. Today, the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of the week of November so this day can not last Thursday of November as many people think (eg year 2012 5 Thursday). In Canada, where there is an earlier harvest, the holiday is celebrated on the second Monday of May 10.
Thanksgiving is usually celebrated with an evening party with family and friends. In Canada and the United States, it is an important day for family reunion together, and people often travel far to return home. People often leave four days for the holiday weekend in the United States: they are off work or school on Thursday and Friday of that week. Thanksgiving usually held at home, other than the US Independence Day or Christmas, the holidays that many public organizations (such as fireworks or busk). In Canada, it is a three-day weekend, people often stay on the second Monday of October every year
from the late 1930s, for the Christmas shopping season in the United States officially began the day Thanksgiving Thanks terminated. In New York City, Parade Macy's Thanksgiving Day is held every year on this date in Manhattan. Parades often have multiple stands with many topics, with large bubbles form on the TV characters and bands from high schools. This parade always ends with a Christmas Santa. There are many other parades in many other cities.
While the Friday after Thanksgiving is the largest shopping day of the year in the United States, many stores have started to welcome customers with the item for the season Halloween celebration soon.
Football (American football) is often an important part of Thanksgiving in the US and in Canada. Professional teams usually play one another in this day spectators can watch on TV. In addition, many high school football team or another college football weekend also there, often with longtime rival.
In the United States, people often commemorate a meal held in 1621 between the Indians Wampanoag and Pilgrim had emigrated group in Massachusetts. Many details of the story is the legend was coined in the 1890s and early 20th century to create a manifestation of national unity after the American Civil War as well as to the assimilation of immigrants.
In Canada, Ceremony Thanksgiving is a three day weekend. While Thanksgiving Day is on a Monday, Canadians might eat dinner in any day of the three day weekend. This often leads to eating a party with this group of people this day, and the other group the other day.
Thanksgiving associated with the harvest season festivals are usually held in Europe since antiquity. The festival is the first in North America to be held in Newfoundland and dig Martin Frobisher Frobisher Exploration group in 1578 One other festival is held on December 4, 1619 when 38 settlers from Berkeley into a boat at stake Virginia and thanksgiving to God. Before that, there is a Thanksgiving dinner hosted by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (with Teya Indian group) May 23, 1541 in Texas, to celebrate the food they find. Some argue that this is the organization's first real Thanksgiving in North America. A similar event happened a quarter of a century later on September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine, Menéndez de Avilés Florida met Pedro mainland; and those on the boat he organized a party with the natives.
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