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Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
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Date: 
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:16:41 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ...
Huw Millington writes:
Remind me. What's this thanksgiving thing all about? We don't have it over
here.

<snipped discussion of how the celebration started....>

Football is actually a modern addition to the whole celebration.



Great Steve, now you'll have Huw thinking that Americans watch soccer
on Thanksgiving :-)

Cheers,

Ralph Hempel - P.Eng

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(...) Some of the early immigrants from England to the US were happy that they managed to survive for a year, whereas many of their weaker brethren had fallen over, dead. Err, I mean the Pilgrims were celebrating a successful first year in the New (...) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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