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 Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:02 pm
I will kill you.
and it's spelled Comet btw.
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:00 am
If anyone needs to stop quoting, perhaps it is you, Hokaru. XD
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Black Cat Godess Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:43 am
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:08 am
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:16 am
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:23 am
I concur with your assumption.
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:47 am
...okay so perhaps its not an assumption it is a fact, Thanksgiving is coming up and there will be much feasting in the land and such.
So, who's doing what fun stuff for the weekend?
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:02 pm
thanksgiving is in october in canada. MMM, we had turkey awhile ago.
Its in october right? I'm not just being idiotic?
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Local friendly psychopath
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:32 pm
You arnt from canada, are you?
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:05 pm
Why is Thanksgiving in October in Canada?! eek
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:44 pm
actually i am from canada, its just i'm really bad with dates. sweatdrop
Why is thanksgiving in november in the US? Actually i do know that one. But if you don't know why its in october in canada, read this.
In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. The United States later set aside the same day as the federal holiday of Columbus Day. Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The roots of the Canadian holiday are different than those of the United States of America.
The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Canada. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving, and the first Thanksgiving to have taken place in North America. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. Frobisher was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay.
At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed 'The Order of Good Cheer' and gladly shared their food with their Native-Canadian neighbours.
After the Seven Years' War ended in 1763 handing over New France to the British, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.
After the American Revolution, American refugees who remained loyal (United Empire Loyalists) to Great Britain were exiled from the United States and came to Canada. They brought the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada, although as a liturgical festival Thanksgiving in Canada also corresponds to the English and continental European Harvest Festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves and other harvest bounty, English and European harvest hymns sung on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend and scriptural lections drawn from the biblical stories relating to the Jewish harvest festival of Succoth.
Eventually in 1879, the Canadian Parliament declared November 6th a day of Thanksgiving and a national holiday in Canada. Over the years many dates were used for Thanksgiving, the most popular being the third Monday in October. After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11th occurred. Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays, and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day.
On January 31st, 1957, the Canadian Parliament proclaimed:
"A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed ... to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October."[1]
The first Thanksgiving Day in Canada after Confederation was observed as a civic holiday on April 5, 1872 to celebrate the recovery of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) from a serious illness. Before then, thanksgiving days were observed beginning in 1799 but did not occur every year. Starting in 1879 Thanksgiving Day was observed every year but the date was proclaimed annually and changed year to year. The theme of the Thanksgiving holiday also changed year to year to reflect an important event to be thankful for. In the early years it was for an abundant harvest and occasionally for a special anniversary. After the First World War it was for Armistice Day, while more recently and including today it has been a day of general thanksgiving.
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:52 am
Ehh we English have no such thing.
dramallama
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:16 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:21 pm
Wow. This guild is not abandoned.
It's amazing. I stopped coming in here because I'd assumed that it would be done for like the other 80% of my guilds...but it isn't!
It's so beautiful. u.u
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:24 pm
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