Can you explain the meaning and origin of Thanks giving?
Thanksgiving (United States) … The event that Americans commonly call the “First Thanksgiving” was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621. This feast lasted three days, and as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims.
An annual national holiday marked by religious observances and a traditional meal including turkey. The holiday commemorates a harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621, and is held in the US on the fourth Thursday in November. A similar holiday is held in Canada, usually on the second Monday in October.
the expression of gratitude, especially to God.
“he offered prayers in thanksgiving for his safe arrival”
Others have given you the many main means of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is also the only national holiday that has no political heroes, politics or religion. Everyone loves gatherings & food and this day officially in the USA can be celebrated by just about every ethnic background. It crosses all types of boundaries in the spirit of thanksgiving & share. It doesn’t always involve having a turkey dinner although most people do. And even for some people the gathering does not always take place on that thursday. The main objective is to gather & share with others in friendship, food & light conversation. I believe that is why Thanksgiving is thought to be celebrated by more people here than Christmas.
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Thanksgiving is a time to be close to the people around you by spending time together and sharing food and kindness. You give thanks to the people that were kind to you.
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It’s important to Americans because it celebrates the time when the pilgrims shared food and kindness with the Native Americans rather than fighting and acting very hostile.
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Christmas I believe is generally larger…but at the same time…Thanksgiving doesn’t revolve around religion.
Following a nineteenth century tradition, most Americans believe that the first American Thanksgiving was a feast that took place on an unremembered date, sometime in the autumn of 1621, at Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts. In 1620, a group led by separatists from the Church of England, who were heading for Virginia, instead landed at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, for uncertain reasons. In the autumn of 1621, they celebrated a three-day harvest feast with the native Wampanoag people, without whom they would not have survived the winter of 1620. This event was not viewed as a thanksgiving celebration at the time; the colony would not have a Thanksgiving observance until 1623 — and that was a religious observance rather than a feast.
Did you research the song’s lyrics, or just copy and paste them because you felt they were interesting? Baghdad is not in Turkey; did you mean Moors from Baghdad and Turkey?
Here is what wikipedia states about the origin of Moorish people:
The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula including the present day Spain and Portugal) and the Maghreb and western Africa, whose culture is often called Moorish. In general, a Moor was an Islamic conqueror in Europe. The term derives from the Phoenician and Greek name Mauri, applied to the inhabitants of Mauretania (centered on modern-day Morocco, not Mauritania.) The Moors were mainly comprised of Arabs, Berbers, Ethiopians and a mixture of the three.
The term Moors is also used to refer to the main ethnic group inhabiting modern-day Mauritania, who - like the historic Moors - are of mixed Arab-Berber-Ethiopian origins.
In 46 BC, the Romans entered West Africa. Upon seeing the Africans, the Romans labeled them Maures. This term originates from the Greek adjective mauros. In Latin, maures or Moor described their dark skin. North, East and certain parts of West Africa were comprised of an admixture, most having dark skin but they varied according to anthropologists. However this was an attempt to separate these groups according to racial terms.
In 640, the Arabs sought to spread Islam to Africa and by 708, Islam had a hold on North Africa. Africans in large numbers accepted Arabic as the national language and converted to Islam. One of the most important and influential forces for the Moors came from Ethiopians. Along the voyage across Africa, other multicultural groups joined and converted to Islam and its ideas.
So in other words, Moors did not come from Turkey or Persia.
Rome Hotelbye nowadays is one of the most crucial tourist destinations of the world, because of the incalculable immensity of their archaeological and art treasures, along with for the appeal of their unique traditions, the beauty of their breathtaking opinions, and the majesty of their amazing parks. Among the things should see durante Rome is Campo de’Fiori. Campo de’Fiori is a square square south of Piazza Navona applied as a market place during the day, and party key for school students and tourists at night. The name indicates “area of flowers” and was given throughout the Middle Ages when the area was actually a meadow. Another place worth visit is The Roman Forum. Located in the tiny valley involving the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, The Roman Forum was for ages the teeming heart of historical Rome and nowadays is just a sprawling damage of architectural fragments