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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Thanksgiving Day history

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


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Recognizing Thanksgiving - a pivotal tale in the settling of America by Europeans - includes a video of the  Mayflower journey that landed at Plymouth, among others, and are all found at the link. 

In time the first dinner between these new settlers and the Wampanoag Indians took place in 1621 but was proclaimed nationally as Thanksgiving Day by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.

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