In America the fourth Thursday of November is celebrated as a national holiday known as Thanksgiving. It is the only holiday completely unique to this country and is rooted in our earliest history when European settlers, who had landed on our shores in 1620, gathered to give thanks for and feast on the fruits of their first year’s harvest. The ritual has lasted for almost 400 years, though since then we seem to have lost track as to what we are giving thanks for and whom we are thanking.
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