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Re: Anybody going to McDonalds today?
"Coyoteboy" <coyoteboyuk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> n5hsr wrote:[color=green]
>> British Thanksgiving is not an official holiday as far as I know. July
>> 4th
>> is sort of a "tongue in cheek" thing.
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> I'm no "history" person but there is no Thanksgiving as such, from what
> i read you guys got the idea off our Easter holiday, which is an
> official holiday here on varying dates depending on the year.[/color]
Huh?? Thanksgiving idea from *Easter*? (Easter's a completely different
ball of wax.) Thanksgiving (in the U.S. - I don't know they whys &
wherefores of Canada's) is based on your harvest home festival, just tweaked
to fit the Pilgrims' situation, & made a nat'l. holiday w/ a fixed date by
Lincoln in the mid-1800's.
Cathy
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