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The First Thanksgiving: History of the Harvest Festival

Thanksgiving Day is a North American holiday which celebrates the first harvest feast of the Pilgrims at the Plymouth Plantation in 1621. Thanksgiving is observed on the second Monday of October in Canada...

created by Terri Potratz | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Once-puritan South Africa holds its first sex fair

When I lived in South Africa Playboy was illegal. It seems the country has now found its mojo:"JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans queued to learn about sex toys and pole-dancing this weekend, at the first sex fair ever held in a country founded by conservative...

created by mtippett | 4 years ago
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The Thanksgiving Story

"The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed...