HotForWords - Happy Thanksgiving!

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I hope you are home with your parents this Thanksgiving! My mom is so pissed at me for not coming back home to Russia to celebrate Thanksgiving with them.

Marina as mom on phone, in Russian... English subtitles.
Marina.. how could you do this to your mother... we have celebrated Thanksgiving every single year since you were born and now you are too big for us to celebrate it with us this year.

Marina as Marina... Mom.. what are you talking about.. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Russia! In fact Russians don't even know how to say thank you in the first place!

Phew.. my Mom is crazy! Any excuse to yell at me!

OK.. let's get on to our Thanksgiving lesson.

Today we're going to learn about the origin of the word Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving has a long, interesting history, so sit back, relax (don't pass out from the tryptophan yet) and enjoy some brain food!

Intro

In December 11, 1620, Pilgrims on the Mayflower set ground at Plymouth Rock after a long journey from Europe. There were a 102 people on board, but their first winter in the new land was devastating, and 46 people died. But in 1621, the harvest was a bountiful one and the remaining colonists decided to celebrate, and included the 91 Indians who, without them, it is said, the colonists would not have survived. The feast was like a traditional English harvest feast and lasted 3 days.

Turkey was most likely not served, but wild ducks and geese were certainly served!

California girl: Oh my gawd! If there was no turkey served they must have had mashed potatoes?

Marina: Nope.. the newly discovered potato was thought to be poisonous.. so they didn't eat that.

CA Girl: OK.. well they definitely had pies!! For sure! Right?

Marina: Nope.. their supply of flour and sugar had diminished so the additional items were pretty much boiled pumpkin, fish, berries, lobster and plums!

CA Girl: Not much of a Thanksgiving if you ask me!

Marina: The thanksgiving feast was not repeated the following year!

CA Girl: Huh?

Marina: In fact it wasn't repeated until over 50 years later! In June 29th of the second celebration in Charlestown, Massachusetts they gave thanks for, get this... for their recent victory over the "heathen natives"

CA Girl: Heathen Natives? .... Oh.. I get!

Marina: Yep! The Indians.. this time they were not invited... in fact they were now the enemy! And again, this was just a one-off celebration!

100 years later, in 1777 all 13 colonies joined once again in a thanksgiving celebration, but as was the case every time before, it was a one-time affair and AGAIN had to do with a military victory against the British. No Indians involved either.

Thanksgivings were celebrated randomly and on random times of the year after that until in the early 1800s when the Boston Ladies' Magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale set out on a campaign to make Thanksgiving an official holiday and after 40 years of her writing letters to politicians, she finally got President Lincoln in 1863 to proclaim the last Thursday of November, Thanksgiving Day. The official date was later changed to the 4th Thursday in November.

So, as you can see... Thanksgiving had quite a few false starts.

The term Thanksgiving itself wasn't used until 1632, a full 11 years after the first celebration, and Thanksgiving Day did not appear as a term until 1674 and it was a full 220 plus years before it even became an official holiday. And thankfully we chose the time in history when we were thankful of the Indians as the image of this holiday, as opposed to later dates when we viewed them as heathen natives!

Funny how we ultimately owe this Thanksgiving Day to a female editor of a women's magazine! Crazy huh!

For your homework, what is your favorite food on Thanksgiving? Mine is.....

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[Lisasnovel2011]

Excellent Video. I love your accent, but most of all, I like that you studied our history. :)

[noooooooooam]

Cool video.

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[GunzGoPewPew]

as i said b4 put the text on ur face in the next vid w/same clothes

[HarrySackthatsme]

@GunzGoPewPew l0l

[HollywoodSleaze]

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[GunzGoPewPew]

Next time put the text on your face

[HatTopProductions]

The American independence from Britian makes me sad :(

[ChrisKroeger17]

@JadeImperial No, it doesn't makes her look good, it makes her look better.

[JadeImperial]

I like the lighting setup for that video. Makes you look good.

[TheNoiseySpectator]

Well, hold on... back at 2:42, were those the Same Indians that were at the first thanksgiving? They were probably different tribes, and just might even have been enemies of the Indians at the first Thanksgiving.

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