The History of Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on different dates in October and November in the United States, and Canada. It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessings of the harvest and of the preceding year. Various similarly named harvest festival holidays occur throughout the world during autumn. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in…
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Guy Fawkes Tribute
On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes and other conspirators attempted a gunpowder plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, in an effort to help restore Catholicism in England. Although the gunpowder plot failed, the event was so significant that we still celebrate it four hundred years later by shooting off fireworks, making bonfires, and burning effigies of…