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01/26/2001 1:36 PM
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Post 'em here! 
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01/26/2001 1:59 PM
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Perfect, Anna. Now I have a place for this:
My calendar says that today is Australia Day. So, Happy (or Solemn, whichever is appropriate) Australia Day to all the good folks in the land of Oz.
What, please, does Australia Day denote?
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01/26/2001 2:39 PM
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Great idea AnnS!
Here's a New England winter treat.
Slice and toast a doughnut, butter, drizzle REAL maple syrup over it.
wow
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01/26/2001 3:04 PM
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my favorite breakfast treat is stale pound cake, toasted, buttered, and spread with raspberry preserves! A little slice of heaven!
(the hard part is keeping pound cake in the house long enough for it to stale--) and in french--pound cake is 4 quarters- the basic ingredients are 4 oz of butter, 4 oz of sugar, 4 oz of eggs, 4 oz of flour-- and allegedly, the English liked it so much, they took the same recipe and uses 1lb butter, 1 lb sugar, 1 lb eggs, 1lb flour...
It one of my son's favorite cakes--
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01/26/2001 4:13 PM
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Dear of troy: Right now I wish I could turn the clock back and have one of my wife's snickerdoodles and a glass of milk. Which reminds me, did you hear the joke that went around a year or so ago, about the dying man smelling his wife's cookies being baked? He crawled down the stairs to steal one, but got a sharp rap from spatula, because they were for the funeral.
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01/26/2001 8:28 PM
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Sparteye,
My calendar also indicates today as Australia Day. Wonder if it celebrates the arrival of Capt. Cook? (linking pun on recipes fully intended). Guess we'll have to wait for the Wizards of Oz to finish celebrating and clue us in.
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01/26/2001 9:06 PM
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How many eggs in a pound?
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01/26/2001 9:20 PM
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Well ideally, you weight them-- but as i recall Joy of Cooking (great cookbook) has a guide based on USDA grade size-- (x many medium eggs = 1 pound, y many large, etc.) If you are in a more rural area you might have a coopprative extention office of USDA, and they should be able to give you a clue-- I think for pound cake its 7 to 8 USGrade A large eggs to a pound--more if using medium, fewer if using extra large or jumbo eggs.
pound cake can be made by creaming butter and sugar, adding eggs (in about thirds)beating well after each addition, (adding vanila or lemon flavor) and adding Flour in thirds. (fold in last third) No levening is needed. the air in creamed butter/egg mixture is all that is needed. (Joy suggest 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of double acting baking powder as a back up) Turn into greased and floured tube pan, back at 350 (F) for about 45 to 50 minutes.. Until done (check with toothpick)
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01/26/2001 9:49 PM
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Recipes - if you like them, try my (other) favourite site: http://www.epicurious.comAlso feel free to come and cook for me, because I never have time. As for Australia Day, apparently it celebrates Australia. The date changed at some point, for some reason. My historically challenged lesser half doesn't know why. I have a vague feeling it may have been to do with not being the date that Captain Cook arrived because that upset the Aborigines. The best Australia Day story I heard came from Tasmania, where they were holding the World Sheepdog Trials. The radio interviewer asked how many countries' dogs were competing, to be told (sheepishly!  ) that when they set the event up they had failed to check into quarantine and cost of transport for dogs. Apparently, even to bring a dog from NZ cost about A$1500 (~US$700), which put most competitors out of the market. So the World Champion Sheepdog will be Australian. Or maybe they did check and just thought this was appropriate for an Australia Day event? 
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01/29/2001 5:34 AM
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>My calendar also indicates today as Australia Day. Wonder if it celebrates the arrival of Capt. Cook? (linking pun on recipes fully intended). Guess we'll have to wait for the Wizards of Oz to finish celebrating and clue us in.G'day. I've just come up for air after ploughing - he says mixametaphorototically - through the 1100-odd (and I mean odd) posts which appeared during my one-week absence. The First Fleet carrying the initial shipment of convicts from England arrived in Botany Bay, New South Wales on 26 January 1788 (18 years or so after Capt Cook). Funny sort of thing to celebrate as your national day, you might say, and there are thousands of Australians who would agree with you, not the least many Aboriginal people who regard it as a celebration of the white invasion of their country. Trouble is, without a tea party, war of independence or like event of national (and unifying) significance, it's the best we've come up with. Although the official date is 26 January, the public holiday used to be declared on the nearest Monday, in order to provide that great Aussie tradition the "long weekend". In recent years the public holiday has been gazetted to fall on the 26 January itself, in an attempt to focus us on celebrating our national spirit etc etc rather than the time off work. This year it was, of course, a Friday, so we got the long weekend anyway , although for many people it passed with little fanfare during the last week of the summer school holidays. To complicate matters, on 1 January this year we celebrated the centenary of Federation - yes, it was only 100 years ago that the various states, several of which originated as disparate penal colonies, came together as a federated country with its own constitution and government (and someone else's monarch, but that's another story). With Australia Day coming so soon on the heels of those celebrations, I think we were all paraded out.
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01/29/2001 8:16 PM
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Your counter-antipodean friends thank you for the true story and the updating tidbits, Marty. You too, Bridget, for the shaggy dog story
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Slice and toast a doughnut, butter, drizzle REAL maple syrup over it.
As a native New Englander, I was pleased to learn that the cafe around the corner from my house in Berkeley, CA makes a bread pudding from maple doughnuts - has to be tried to be believed. [licking my chops emoticon]
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01/29/2001 8:44 PM
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Trouble is, without a tea party, war of independence or like event of national (and unifying) significance, it's the best we've come up with.
You could always make a holiday when Howard finally manages to get his tongue around the, for him, nefandous "S" word!
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01/29/2001 9:42 PM
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A word of explanation about Max Q's ' You could always make a holiday when Howard finally manages to get his tongue around the, for him, nefandous "S" word!' for anyone not up with Australian political issues (and anyone who didn't catch the subtle message on the front of Midnight Oil's T-shirts at the Sydney Olympics): Our Prime Minister John Howard has repeatedly - and pointedly - refused to say "Sorry" to the Aboriginal people of Australia for all the past wrongs inflicted upon them by generations of white immigrants. He has gone as far as saying he personally "regrets" past injustices, but has stopped short of using what Max calls the "S" word, apparently on legal advice that it may be construed as an admission of guilt and hence open the floodgates to compensation claims. If he does say it, I hope he does it in September, as we desperately need a public holiday thereabouts to break up the long bleak stretch of all-work-no-play that lasts from June (Somebody Else's Queen's Birthday) to Christmas, although it is punctuated in my metropolis by a horse race in November.
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01/29/2001 9:43 PM
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Mind splainin' that to us foreigners, Max?
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01/29/2001 9:47 PM
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01/30/2001 3:07 AM
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apparently on legal advice that it may be construed as an admission of guilt and hence open the floodgates to compensation claims.
Heaven forfend that survivors of attempted genocide should ever be entitled to compensation! I mean, gosh dang it all, they got the vote 33 years ago, what more do they want?
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01/30/2001 3:48 AM
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Heaven forfend that survivors of attempted genocide should ever be entitled to compensation! I mean, gosh dang it all, they got the vote 33 years ago, what more do they want?Possibly what the Maori got? And it was only attempted genocide, after all. If the genocide had succeeded, I'm sure Howard's government would be the first to say "sorry!" and give billions in compensation to.. to.. um.  Someone. Oh, yes, the Government!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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02/06/2001 10:19 PM
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My calendar says it is Waitangi Day. And may all our NZ friends have the best Waitangi Day ever.
Please educate me - what tangi?
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02/06/2001 10:32 PM
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Please educate me - what tangi?
Or more to the point - why tangi?
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02/06/2001 11:00 PM
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Waitangi may well be a singularly apt name. It means, roughly, Weeping waters, sometimes tears. There are plenty of those shed on NZ's day of national introspection. I don't think there are many who would argue that the Maori did not get seriously shafted by The Treaty signed at Waitangi, Feb. 6 brings endless debates about how to move forward, addressing the wrongs of the past without becoming mired in them and balancing the rights of the indigenous people with the need to create a truly multi-cultural, not just bi-cultural, society. I don't know how many other countries in the world have a Race Relations conciliator, and I'm not sure why anyone here applies for the job, as the office and its holder are treated with varying degrees of scorn and contempt by opponents from all points on the political compass.
As an aside on Waitangi, the location of the lahar tragedy CapK mentioned contains the same Maori elements in the opposite order - Tangiwai - and has simiar meaning - very appropriate.
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02/07/2001 7:53 AM
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Waitangi Day is New Zealand's equivalent of the Fourth of July. It's the anniversary of the day in 1840 when over a hundred northern Maori chiefs signed a Treaty with the English Crown, represented by Captain William Hobson, at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands ceding sovereignty(!) to the Crown. Depending on your point of view, it was either a revolutionary approach to colonisation or a fraud perpetrated on the Maori by cynical Europeans looking for a cheap way to acquire the country.
There was one small problem with the Treaty: Under international law treaties can only be signed between sovereign states which the Maori most certainly were not. However, over the years that small fact was conveniently forgotten. Since then the Treaty has been passed into law by the New Zealand government, so the point is now moot.
The New Zealand Wars of 1845-1871 began over what was regarded as abrogation of the Treaty terms by the European settlers.
In point of fact, conquest rather than a treaty would have probably created fewer problems for us today, although the Treaty is still hailed as a great thing.
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02/07/2001 8:48 AM
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>June (Somebody Else's Queen's Birthday)
Do you get a day off for that day (not sure of date)- is it her real or "official" bithday? That's funny - we don't get a day off!
I was similarly surprised that Edinburgh has a day off in May for Victoria day - I'd never heard of it in England, why does anyone need a day off to celebrate a dead queen?
On the subject of living queens. England is getting an extra day off in 2002. On 3rd June there is a day off for the Queen's Golden Jubilee, assuming that she is still with us, and then another day on 4th June (a week later than usual) for "Spring Bank Holiday". Spring Bank Holiday isn't taken as a holiday in Edinburgh as it is only two weeks after Victoria Day - so it looks like there will be a battle of the queens (living v dead) to sort out the ensuing May/June bank holiday chaos.
I'll just stick with International Workers Day on 1st May (or nearest Monday) and seek out a few republicans (or publicans would do).
I'll add a list of the English Bank Holidays to save a post:
1st Jan - New Year's Day; 2nd Jan - Scotland only (I assume, recovering from New Year's Day)
Good Friday; Easter Monday;1st Monday in May - Mayday; Last Monday in May - Spring Bank Holiday; Last Monday in August -August Bank Holiday; Christmas Day; Boxing Day (All the Christmas/New Year Bank hoidays get moved to a Monday or Monday/Tuesday if they fall on a weekend)
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02/07/2001 1:18 PM
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why does anyone need a day off to celebrate a dead queen?Jo, that holiday sounds about as unnecessary as Groundhog Day! But, your-all's "Bank Holidays" kill me--to me, that sounds like your whole country is run by the bank. Which, I suppose, they all are, really.
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02/07/2001 5:04 PM
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Canada has Victoria Day too. It's called the "May long weekend" or, more familiarly, "May Long", or, in Newfoundland, the "May 24th weekend". In fact we have a statutory holiday most months of the year, in most provinces...
January 1 - New Year's Day
March/April (depending) - Good Friday and Easter Sunday
May - the nearest Monday to the 24th - Victoria Day
July 1 - Canada Day
First Monday in August - Civic holiday (in most places, not everywhere) - just means a day off
First Monday in September - Labour Day
Second Monday in October - Thanksgiving
November 11 - Remembrance Day - slowly being legislated out of being a day of remembrance for those who died in the wars, now just a day off for any non-retail worker [bitter because my husband works at a heartless, national-prideless bookstore emoticon]
Dec. 25 - Christmas
Dec. 26 - Boxing Day - (see bitter anti-retail rant above)
Any representatives from other countries willing to give a little summary? I find this interesting - what do other countries find important enough to give a holiday for?
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02/07/2001 5:16 PM
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Growing up with Norwegian heritage, I've always had a special place in my heart for May 17th... Norwegian Independence Day, which mainly seems to involve sitting around cursing Swedes.
When I was in Korea, Buddha's birthday was a big deal - April 30 or thereabouts, as was the Korean version of "Thanksgiving" (their choice for translation, not mine). More aptly described as an Ancestral Remembrance Day, the point is to go to the graves of relatives, bow ceremoniously, and leave offerings of food and flowers. With a roughly 50/50 split among Buddhists and Christians, this seemed to be the most unifying national celebration they had. I was partial to Buddha's birthday, though. Lots of lantern-lighting and biben-bop (a vegetarian rice dish traditionally served for the holiday).
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02/07/2001 5:59 PM
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I find this interesting - what do other countries find important enough to give a holiday for?
Here in the US of A the individual states zealously guard their holidays. Massachusetts still celebrates Bunker Hill Day which fortituously falls on Saint Patrick's Day (March 17) and for years New Hampshire observed Fast Day, intended as a day of prayer and fasting, but which turned into a day off work for all state workers, banks, etc. Most New Hampshire folk went to Boston for shopping and in that state it was nicknamed "Farmer's Day" because of the influx of NH farmers into the Big City. The holiday has been abandoned for a number of years.
May First is Lei Day in Hawaii and everyone wears and exchanges beautiful lei. There is a lei competition at Kapiolani Park with amazing examples of lei. Then, in June, there's Kamehameha Day to honor the King who united the Islands. It is a festive day and each year a group is chosen to decorate the King's statue with lei ... the chosen group gathers the flowers and makes the HUGE lei to adorn the statue, the Fire Department provides assistance in getting the lei around the King's neck. Perhaps some of you have seen a post card of the lei-draped King Kamehameha statue, it's quite famous. There is also hula dancing, singing and general merriment at the statue and similar festive events throughout the islands.
P.S. "lei" is not the word in the Pass The Parcel game. I am not a player, merely one of the cheering section.
Aloha, wow
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Here in the US of A the individual states zealously guard their holidays. Massachusetts still celebrates Bunker Hill Day which fortituously falls on Saint Patrick's Day (March 17)
Just for the record, Bunker Hill Day is in mid-June. March 17 is the wonderfully-named Evacuation Day. It is supposedly a celebration of when the Redcoats (i.e. the British soldiers) were finally driven out of Boston during the Revolution (what's this war called in England?), but this is really an excuse for Boston, a heavily Irish town, to have the day off on St. Patrick's day.
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02/07/2001 7:02 PM
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Columbus day is a state holiday in NY-- Oct 8, this year since it a "shopping holiday" that always get moved to the Monday. And while March 17 is disruptive, what with one of the world largest parades,on one of the city's busiest streets, it is not a holiday-- and school kids some time get picked up for truencey while at the parade.(every other parade in NYC is forced to march on the weekend closest to the holiday except for St Patrick--well not legal holiday parade like Memorial day or Vetern's day-- but Puetro Rician Day, and German and Polish )
Brooklyn and Queen school children get off June 6th (commemerating when these boro's became part of NYC), but it not a holiday for Manhattan, Staten Island or the Bronx schoolchildren.
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Hyla noted : Bunker Hill Day is in mid-June. March 17 is the wonderfully-named Evacuation Day.Oh, Hyla, I am prostrate at your feet. You are totally correct about Evacuation Day. How could I forget! Too many years away from my Massachusetts roots? Aloha, wow
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02/07/2001 10:31 PM
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This year I'm lucky because someone will be home. February/ March are bad months the college has no holiday's, it's the end, then beginning of our semesters.
My girls on the on there hand have 3 day's off (city public school).
Presidents day 2/19 -- the generic birthday for Lincoln & Washington
Lincoln's birthday 2/12 -- Illinois claims him as our president
Casimir Pulaski Day 3/5 -- Father of American Cavalry which dates back to the revolutionary war. The Chicago connection seems to because of our large polish population.
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the Revolution (what's this war called in England?)
The War of Independence
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Indonesia's holidays this year:
Jan. 1 New Year's Day
Mar. 5 Idul Adha (Muslim Day of Sacrifice)
Mar. 25 Nyepi (Bali Hindu Day of Silence/New Year)(It's a Sunday this year but we don't get anything off in lieu)
Mar. 26 Islamic New Year
Apr. 13 Good Friday
May 7 Buddha's Birthday
May 24 Ascension Day of Jesus Christ
June 4 Mohammad's Birthday
Aug. 17 Independence Day
Oct. 15 Ascension Day of Mohammad
Dec. 16/17 Idul Fitri (end of Ramadhan)
Dec. 25 Christmas Day
And by great good fortune almost all of them fall on a Friday or Monday this year.
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Michigan doesn't have any idiosyncratic holidays. The most holidays are observed by the state government, fewer by business in general, and the least by retailing in general.
Jan 1; New Year's Day (gov/bus/retail)
Jan, 3rd Monday; Martin Luther King Jr Day (gov)
Feb, 3rd Monday; President's Day (gov)
May, 4th Monday; Memorial Day (gov/bus)
July 4; Independence Day (gov/bus/retail)
Sep, 1st Monday; Labor Day (gov/bus)
Nov, Monday nearest 11th; Veterans' Day (gov)
Nov, 4th Thursday; Thanksgiving Day (gov/bus/retail)
Nov, day after Thanksgiving Day (gov)
December 24, Christmas Eve (gov)
December 25, Christmas Day (gov/bus/retail)
December 31, New Year's Eve (gov)
We used to have Columbus Day, but it was repealed when MLK Day was instituted.
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How exactly is American Thanksgiving Day chosen? Is it a particular date (Nov. 4 as you posted) or "the first Thursday in November" or something more cryptic? In Canada we are never exactly sure when your Thanksgiving is until it actually happens. All the magazines talk about "Thanksgiving recipes" and such - but it's always a month too late for us!
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>Nov, 4th Thursday...
bean, that's the 4th Thursday in Nov., not Nov. 4th...
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...I get it! Silly me! 
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the Revolution (what's this war called in England?)
The War of Independence
Really? In the UK, the war in which the American colonies defeated the British Crown forces and became independent, is just called the War of Independence, without any reference to whose independence? I would have expected at least the War of American Independence or something.
It's interesting to hear what names different wars are given based on which side the name comes from. In the southern USA, I have heard the US Civil War referred to as The War of Northern Aggression.
And Hey - I'm a member! Wonder when that happened.
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Really? In the UK, the war in which the American colonies defeated the British Crown forces and became independent, is just called the War of IndependenceIt's just called the War of Independence in NZ as well - perhaps its viewed as the definitive specimen among wars of independence.
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bean, that's the 4th Thursday in Nov., not Nov. 4th This is indeed the date of Thanksgiving Day in USA. But, I have a hazy memory that at one time that Thanksgiving was the third Thursday in November and an equally hazy memory that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the one who changed the date in the late 19303 or early 1940s. Does anyone remember this (WWH ?) Or is my long term memory going too?   Aloha, wow
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