RE: Thankful
November 27, 2014 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2014 at 1:29 pm by Jenny A.)
(November 27, 2014 at 12:48 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Happy day of giving thanks for whatever, people!!
Now, the european in me wants to know:
Is it always on the 27th of November? Ir it always on the last Thursday of November?
Is tomorrow a holiday? Is today a holiday?
Why turkey? (as a curious aside, one of the traditional christmas night dinners around here is turkey... the other bacalhau and the other is goatling)
PS: please don't make me read the wiki article
No it wasn't and isn't always the 27th of November. It currently is the fourth Thursday of November. Before that the states all had different days for Thanksgiving. Lincoln set a national date of the last Thursday in November in 1863. FDR moved the date to the fourth Thursday of November in 1939 and congress ratified that decision in 1940.
And yes today is a holiday. Whether tomorrow is varies.
And yes there is a Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgivin..._States%29 but you don't have to read it.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
