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    Thanksgiving Day is celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States as a harvest festival and time to give thanks. The American Thanksgiving began in 1621 when the Pilgrims held a feast after a successful harvest, with the help of local Native Americans who taught them farming and food preparation methods. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, with families gathering for traditional meals including roast turkey and foods from the first Thanksgiving.

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    Thanksgiving Day is celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States as a harvest festival and time to give thanks. The American Thanksgiving began in 1621 when the Pilgrims held a feast after a successful harvest, with the help of local Native Americans who taught them farming and food preparation methods. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, with families gathering for traditional meals including roast turkey and foods from the first Thanksgiving.

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    Thanksgiving Day is celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States as a harvest festival and time to give thanks. The American Thanksgiving began in 1621 when the Pilgrims held a feast after a successful harvest, with the help of local Native Americans who taught them farming and food preparation methods. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, with families gathering for traditional meals including roast turkey and foods from the first Thanksgiving.

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    Grigor Halajyan
    Thanksgiving Day is celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States as a harvest festival and time to give thanks. The American Thanksgiving began in 1621 when the Pilgrims held a feast after a successful harvest, with the help of local Native Americans who taught them farming and food preparation methods. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, with families gathering for traditional meals including roast turkey and foods from the first Thanksgiving.

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    Thanksgiving Day is harvest festival.

    Traditionally , its is a time to give thanks for


    the harvest and exspress gratitude.Its is a holiday celebrated primarily in Canada
    and the United States. The American Thanksgiving began as a feast of
    thanksgiving almost four hunderd years ago.
    In 1620 ,a religious Puritan community saild across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in
    the New World .They settled in what is now know as the state of Manssachusetts.

    Their first winter in America was difficult. They arrived too late to grow a rich
    harvest .Moreover ,half the colony died from disease . The following spring the
    Indians taught them how to grow cron . Indians showed them also how to grow
    other crops and how to hunt and fish.
    In the autumn of 1621 they got a beautiful harvest of corn , barley, beans and
    pumpkins . The colonists hand much to be thenkfil for , so they planned a feast .
    Local Indians how to cook cranberris and dishes of corn and pumpkins .
    In following years many of the colonists celebrated the harvest with a feasy of
    thanks . After the United States gained independence , Congress recommended
    one yearly day of thanksgiving for the whole country .
    Later , George Washington suggested the date November 26 as Thanksgiving Day
    . Then , after the Civil war , Abraham Lincoln suggested the last Thursday in
    November to be the day of thanksgiving .
    On Thanksgiving Day , family members gather at the house of an older relative ,
    even if they live far away . All give thanks for everything good they have .
    charitable organizations offer traditional meal to the homeless .
    Foods , eaten at the first thanksgiving , have become traditional . The tradiyional
    thanksgiving meal consists of roats turkey stuffed with herb-flavoured bread ,
    cranberry jelly , mashed potatoes , creamed cron .
    Today , Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada
    and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States .
    America of all religions celebrate this holiday with big dinners and family reunions
    . It is a time to remember all the good things in life and to be thankful . Turkey is a
    traditional Thanksgiving Day food.

    <<Halajtan Grigor>>

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