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• n  fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag
• n  a short prayer of thanks before a meal

• Because the "day of general thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful crop and other blessings" fell on Monday this year, most Canadians made a long weekend of it.

• Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving Day
• grace
• blessing

News & Articles

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• Lady Vols to spend Thanksgiving in the Bahamas for basketball tournament
  The Tennessee women's basketball team will spend Thanksgiving in the Bahamas.
  June 14, 2013 - Knoxville News Sentinel
• NJ sets deadline for online gambling partners
  Internet gambling isn't expected to start in New Jersey until around Thanksgiving, but Atlantic City's 12 casinos must move fast to line up partners for their online operations. The state Gaming Enforcement ...
  June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• AMERICA’S HOMETOWN THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION: Floats afloat
  Rummaging through a sodden collection of Thanksgiving parade costumes and props Monday, Cheryl Birch opened a file cabinet and sighed. Inside, the 15-foot Betsy Ross flag she’d had custom made for the town’s annual Thanksgiving parade was a soggy mess. “Now I know how the people in Hurricane Katrina and Sandy feel. I know how they feel to lose everything,” Birch said.
  June 13, 2013 - Old Colony Memorial & Plymouth Bulletin

Quotes

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• Tiger Wood in Telegraph.co.uk
  Some people have speculated that Elin somehow hurt or attacked me on Thanksgiving night. It angers me that people would fabricate a story like that,said Woods, his voice rising. "Elin never hit me that night or any other night. There has...
• the Duchess of Cornwall in News & Star
  I'm very touched to have been invited by Prince William and Prince Harry to attend the thanksgiving service for their mother Diana, Princess of Wales,Camilla said in a statement. "I accepted and wanted to support them, however, on...
• Dana Perino in USA Today
  He called to wish the members of the military and their families and the troops that they are serving with a happy Thanksgiving,White House press secretary Dana Perino said. "He said, 'I can't tell you how impressed I am by the courage and...