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What are the most interesting about Mayflower?

admin — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:19:23 +0000

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Learn About The Interesting Thanksgiving Trivia’s You Could Share With Your Guests

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:11:47 +0000

Usually, when Thanksgiving than what first comes to mind are the delicious cakes and other dishes and spectacular roast turkey.

Well, food is an important part of his party, but not the only component of the Thanksgiving season. Thanksgiving is really a great opportunity for us to celebrate with joy and thank our creator, along with family and friends for the blessings we have received so far.

Here are some Thanksgiving trivia you’d like to share during your vacation.

1) Sarah Hale, editor of a women’s magazine, is credited with having declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, in writing to Congress for many years.

February) The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621. It was also told that his thanksgiving was a total of three days.

3) Original name / word for pilgrims, in fact the Puritans.

4) Fork Turkey is considered a lucky charm to grasp what before anyone else gets them. Have fun looking!

5) Before being captured and sold, cranberry must bounce at least four times before is not considered too old.

6) The food long before astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren eaten on the moon was a roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings.

7) 102 pilgrims said to have been aboard the Mayflower, who came to America (New World).

is the name of the ship date of dispatch of the ship Mayflower before landing in American Puritan leader.

9) Abraham Lincoln was the president who made a national holiday of Thanksgiving in the U.S. and before he said, Thanksgiving is celebrated whenever the governor of a state, he said.

10) Thanksgiving is always celebrated on Thursday because it was the week of half the Puritans daily prayers.

11) pumpkin pie has not been delivered during the first Thanksgiving celebrations in 1620, because the ovens were not invented yet at that time.

12) Approval to conduct the Thanksgiving table ate with their hands, spitting on the floor, pulling the bones into the heart after eating.

13) Not all were traveling in the New World in solving some of these travelers were out to get skins and wood to postpone England.

14) Pilgrims to the New World through the Mayflower actually spent 66 days at sea before reaching land again. This is what it was before you travel.

15) In October 1777, George Washington declared Thanksgiving All “Cologne, because it felt better than his victory over Sarasota.

Thanksgiving is more than a great meal. It is time for family and friends to meet again in a festive mood to appreciate all the blessings given and simply enjoy the company of really good people will have made a difference in your life. So have a happy thanksgiving

Fun & Interesting Thanksgiving Facts

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:01:57 +0000

Thanksgiving is a holiday rooted in rich history. Here are some very funny and interesting facts to share Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving. * Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. * Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada. * The Pilgrims came to North America in December 1620. * The Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to reach North America. * Pilgrims boarded the ship, which was known by the name of ‘Mayflower’. * The Wampanoag Indians were the ones who taught the Pilgrims to cultivate the land. * The drink that the Puritans brought with them on the Mayflower was the beer. * With the fall of 1621 only half of the pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower, survived. The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to give a thanksgiving feast. Day is celebrated the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts. * Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford organized Thanksgiving and invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians also at the party. * The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days. * In celebration of the first harvest with the Pilgrims and Native Americans, “chicken” was eaten. Although this could have been Turkey, is more likely to have been geese and ducks. * A mature turkey has 3,500 feathers. Turkey feathers were used by Native Americans to stabilize arrows. * Turkeys have lived in North America by 10 million years * There was no milk, cheese, bread, butter and pumpkin pie at the original Thanksgiving feast. * The cranberry has its name because the pink flowers on the plant as a crane’s head and neck. Craneberry The name stuck, becoming blueberries. * Ben Franklin liked it so much that Turkey wanted to be the official bird of the United States. * A male turkey is called (Tom). The female is called (hen). Children are called broilers. * Only male (Tom) turkeys gobble. Females (hens) make a shot. The famous Swallow is actually a mating call of the season. * A tom gobble can be heard a mile away. * A hen lays about 115 eggs per month, which lasts about 28 days to hatch. * Turkeys are known to spend the night in the trees! * Domestic turkeys can not fly. Wild Turkeys, however, can run 20 mph and fly up to 55 miles per hour. * Turkeys can drown if you look for when it rains! * A group of turkeys is called a flock. * Today more than 670 million turkeys are consumed on Thanksgiving. * A turkey of 16 weeks of age is called a fryer. Five to seven months old is called roast turkey. * The largest was Turkey’s record of 86 pounds. * The average person consumes 4500 calories on Thanksgiving Day.