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Topic: Re:Thanksgiving
Posted by: Richard Greenhough
Date/Time: 29/11/15 09:28:00

Americans have Thanksgiving (in November) to give thanks for the Pilgrim Fathers' first harvest. I asked a Canadian once why they also had Thanksgiving (in October) and after some thought they decided they were giving thanks for not being part of the United States ;-)

The UK equivalent is the Harvest Festival in September.

We celebrate expelling the troublesome Americans from the Empire, and stopping them being coloured a pretty pink on the map, on 4th July.


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Non Stop Fireworks28/11/15 17:52:00 Claire Moran
   Re:Non Stop Fireworks28/11/15 19:28:00 Andy Pease
      Re:Re:Non Stop Fireworks28/11/15 19:35:00 Claire Moran
         Re:Re:Re:Non Stop Fireworks29/11/15 02:09:00 Ben Gemmingen
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Non Stop Fireworks29/11/15 08:34:00 Colin Jordan
               Re:Thanksgiving29/11/15 09:28:00 Richard Greenhough
      Re:Re:Non Stop Fireworks29/11/15 08:49:00 Loraine Pemberton
         Re:Re:Re:Non Stop Fireworks29/11/15 10:55:00 Andy Pease
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Non Stop Fireworks29/11/15 20:17:00 Mark Perry
      Re:Re:Non Stop Fireworks30/11/15 17:07:00 Scott Doyle
         Re:Re:Re:Non Stop Fireworks30/11/15 18:12:00 Mark Perry

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