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Old 11-24-16, 04:46 AM   #1
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Default Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.

Happy Thanksgiving To our Subsim members residing in the U.S. Canada has theirs on Oct. 10th as well. Other countries have something similar as well.

The Chinese celebrate August Moon festival that falls on the 15th day of 8th lunar month of their calendar.

The Roman harvest festival known as Cerelia was celebrated on Oct 4th.

In Korea. The celebration falls on 15th of August, which is known as Chu-Sok (meaning "fall evening"). It begins on 14th night and continues for three days.


I hope those who celebrate Thanksgiving on this day have a happy and safe Holiday spent with Family and friends. Hopefully, those who celebrate this day can count good health among their blessings.
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Old 11-24-16, 06:39 AM   #2
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Happy Thanksgiving, we have a lot to be thankful for. This has been a really good year for the Stevens family.
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Happy thanksgiving to you all or is it y'all ... plenty to give thanks for, plus I got a new pressure cooker form QVC to cook thanksgiving dinner in.

Now if I could just figure out how to stop eating these little pumpkin coffee cake bites and washing them down with Dr Pepper I'll make it to dinner.
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Happy Thanksgiving to our colonial cousins

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Now, if we can just get Natalie Portman to open her wormhole and send Miles Standish back to planet Plymouth the citizens of Indi will open their stuffing mines and fill our tummies.

Gobble yourselves into a stupor y'all.
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Old 11-24-16, 12:01 PM   #6
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Default The real first thanksgiving

The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621. This feast lasted three days, and—as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims. The colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.
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You’ve probably heard the story of how Squanto assisted in their planting of corn? So this was their first successful harvest and they were celebrating that harvest and planning a day of their own thanksgiving. And it’s kind of like what some of the Arab nations do when they celebrate by shooting guns in the air. So this is what was going on over there at Plymouth. They were shooting guns and canons as a celebration, which alerted us because we didn’t know who they were shooting at. So Massasoit gathered up some 90 warriors and showed up at Plymouth prepared to engage, if that was what was happening, if they were taking any of our people. They didn’t know. It was a fact-finding mission.
When they arrived it was explained through a translator that they were celebrating the harvest, so we decided to stay and make sure that was true, because we’d seen in the other landings—[Captain John] Smith, even the
Vikings had been here—so we wanted to make sure so we decided to camp nearby for a few days. During those few days, the men went out to hunt and gather food—deer, ducks, geese, and fish. There are 90 men here and at the time I think there are only 23 (adult male) survivors of that boat, the Mayflower, so you can imagine the fear. You have armed Natives who are camping nearby. They [the colonists] were always vulnerable to the new land, new creatures, even the trees—there were no such trees in England at that time. People forget they had just landed here and this coastline looked very different from what it looks like now. And their culture—new foods, they were afraid to eat a lot of things. So they were very vulnerable and we did protect them, not just support them, we protected them. You can see throughout their journals that they were always nervous and, unfortunately, when they were nervous they were very aggressive. People did eat together [but not in what is portrayed as “the first Thanksgiving]. It was our homeland and our territory and we walked all through their villages all the time. The differences in how they behaved, how they ate, how they prepared things was a lot for both cultures to work with each other. But in those days, it was sort of like today when you go out on a boat in the open sea and you see another boat and everyone is waving and very friendly—it’s because they’re vulnerable and need to rely on each other if something happens. In those days, the English really needed to rely on us and, yes, they were polite as best they could be, but they regarded us as savages nonetheless.
The feast was cooked by the only four adult Pilgrim women who survived their first winter in the New World (Eleanor Billington, Elizabeth Hopkins, Mary Brewster, and Susanna White), along with young daughters and male and female servants. As with all Thanksgiving feasts; not enough credit to the ladies! Can U imagine: three days of keeping the party going with 90 warrior 'savages'- ready for action- at hand! Naturally per tradition, I'll let my wife and daughter do all the cooking...only tending to the carving and, while they're sleeping off the big feed... I'll handle the massive kitchen cleanup...with leftovers, this'll go for three days too!
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Now, if we can just get Natalie Portman to open her wormhole

That sounds practically dirty.
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