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    Ah yes, thanksgiving, also known as the turkey day. Many people hold turkey bowls in their backyards. But there are also NFL games on every thanksgiving. The Detroit Lions play every Thanksgiving, as do the Dallas Cowboys. This tradition started back in 1920 when the league first came about (There is a wikipedia article on this topic, and yes it is credible. You scroll down to the bottom and you will see all of their sources.) this Thanksgiving the Minnesota Vikings will go up against the Detroit

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    Many Americans love to eat. And Thanksgiving is a great time to stuff your face with moist turkey and buttery mashed potatoes. For dessert, sweet pumpkin or pecan pie. It’s a good thing this holiday is coming up. But do you ever wonder what it would be like to go back in time to over 400 years ago to the first Thanksgiving? Let's explore what they ate back then vs what we eat today. Let's start with the meat. When you think of Thanksgiving you usually think about eating some kind of meat, unless

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    or celebrate people and events that are native to the country. Thanksgiving, although does celebrate an event, is apart from these American holidays for the fact that it is centered around the virtue of gratitude. Thanksgiving is a national holiday that reflects the culture and tradition that has been created in the United States. This culture is shown through the origin, history, old and modern traditions, and food of Thanksgiving. In September of 1620, Separatists arrived to the New World after

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    Wine For Thanksgiving

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    # The Ideal Wine For Thanksgiving Rushing to find the ideal wine for your Thanksgiving dinner? Not sure which one pairs best? Don’t hesitate. You’ll have time to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade and enjoy dinner with your loved ones. What confuses most people in the selection of wines is that they don’t draw a line between these two categories: 1. Wines that pair well for cooking the turkey. 2. Wines that pair well for Thanksgiving dinner. Still not sure what we mean? Let us simplify. ##

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    Memo On Thanksgiving

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    The purpose of this memo is to evaluate my Thanksgiving celebration and determine if it reached the potentials and my expectations of feeling thankful. This year I did not had a traditional Thanksgiving, but tell you the truth it never is in my home. I am borne and grew up in a different country, even in a different continent, where we had a different history and our holidays are somewhat different as well, with view exceptions of New Year on January 1 and Christmas, only the date is different, January

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    Essay On Thanksgiving

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    Thanksgiving is a day family and friends have a traditional meal including turkey. Thanksgiving is always held on the fourth Thursday of November every year. It’s a very special holiday when everybody comes together as a family to cook, enjoy, and bless the food, but also to enjoy each other. In 2015, I had a special Thanksgiving Day dinner that left me full of joy. On Thanksgiving Day every year, my family and I normally rent a building that’s twenty-minutes away from my house. The building is

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    Essay On Thanksgiving

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    Thanksgiving is a time for many things: food, family, and, with Black Friday sales starting earlier each year, shopping. It’s also a time for giving thanks, something most people forget about despite the presence of the word “thanks” in the name of the holiday. People have a tendency to forget about this part, though, because it’s easy to take the people and animals we love for granted. Sometimes, it’s hard to appreciate them at all, especially when you have a cat whose been labeled the “bad cat”

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    It's coming close to Thanksgiving and it's time for giving thanks. One of the many things you can be thankful for are the people in your life. For example, there are four people in my life who I am thankful for. They are my dad, my grandpa, my Papa Max and my mom. I'm thankful for them because they have helped and are still helping the world. First, my dad. My dad is a policeman. He does a difficult and dangerous job of arresting criminals, detecting crimes, and responding to emergency calls

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    Essay On Thanksgiving

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    Do you ever think about why we celebrate Thansgiving or why we are thankful for different things? Thanksgiving is a national holiday, celebrated by Canadians, the United States, and some of the Caribbean Islands. Thanksgiving was first ever celebrated in October of 1621 by the pilgrims, this feast lasted about 3 days. Thnaksgiving is a great time to recognize and be thankful for what we have. To begin with, I am thankful for my family. The first reason I am thankful for my family is that they

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    Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated by many Americans. It is more than just a day to give thanks and be thankful for many blessings that people have, it is a day which Americans should remember as being an important day in their history. The first year was very difficult for the pilgrims. There was a harsh winter, which made it very hard to prepare crops for the coming season, build homes and shelters, and to prepare for weather conditions that were foreign to the pilgrims. Thanksgiving was very

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