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    Thanksgiving is celebrated in November in the United States, Canada, some Caribbean islands, Brazil, and Portugal to give thanks for the harvest and blessings of the past year. Common Thanksgiving foods include turkey, potatoes, cranberries, and pumpkin pie. The holiday began as a harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621 and is now commonly marked with family meals and American football games.

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    Thanksgiving is celebrated in November in the United States, Canada, some Caribbean islands, Brazil, and Portugal to give thanks for the harvest and blessings of the past year. Common Thanksgiving foods include turkey, potatoes, cranberries, and pumpkin pie. The holiday began as a harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621 and is now commonly marked with family meals and American football games.

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    Thanksgiving Day

    The thanksgiving is an American holyday celebrated at November 26, the


    holyday celebrates the gratitude, most of the time to God, for the good things
    that happened this year, generally with parties’. This day can be symbolized by ,
    the turkey, corn, pumpkins and cranberry sauce.

    The ones who partake in the celebration are the Canadians, Americans, some
    Caribbean islands, Brazil and Portugal (Portugal is not so celebrated, but still,
    some people remember about the holyday). At Brazil, Portugal and USA, is the
    same date, the fifth Thursday of November, in Canada is the second Monday of
    October. In 1941 the American congress made it a national holyday; in 1949 it
    became a holyday in Brazil.

    Turkey is one of the most known dishes eaten at thanksgiving, but they also eat
    bread, pumpkin, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, apple or nuts and cookies.
    The native American fruits are also consumed a lot, these fruits are: Cranberry,
    blueberry and concord grape. Most of the time these foods are accompanied
    with wine, or American cider, hot or cold.

    At the start it was celebrated at New England, being the way of the Christians to
    thank God for the crops they had that year, in USA it was first celebrated at
    Plymouth, Massachusetts by the founders of the village, in 1620, in 1621 after a
    hard winter they had a good corn harvest at the summer, at the autumn they
    celebrated their first thanksgiving day.

    At the holyday the people use their free time, to stay with their families, making
    big reunions, parties and dinner. Other people go to the church, this date is
    celebrated with parades and at USA, American football.

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