If Columbo day is the same day as Canadian Thanksgiving, what are the Americans celebrating on US Thanksgiving?
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An absolutely crazy and true factoid from wikipedia:
yes, the world needs more Genesis P-Orridge, I think that is a universal understanding
That scene in Adams Family Values where Wednesday burns the pilgrim's village to the ground.
I'm so happy they kept the pilgrim theme for the Wednesday show.
Genocide
Eating, and American football.
Don't forget the discounts too!
Speak for yourself. I'll be damned if I celebrate sportsball.
Columo never discovered what is nowadays the USA, he discovered Santo Domingo - Dominican Republic. They have a Colombo Statue with all the reasons.
The first people in the Amerikas are Mongols over the Bering Strait and people from Indonesia, later Wikingos, maybe also Chinese people, all long time before Colombo.
Bro wasn't even the first European, the Norse beat him to it around the time Basil II was still alive
Some pilgrims at some point shared a meal with Native Americans to my understanding (I'm not from there).
Thats what we tell the kids, in reality it the holiday was invented centuries later as part of a national project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_First_Thanksgiving
That sounds about white.
Gluttony.
Serious answer: giving thanks.
The Scandinavians were the first to discover America.
When they were "discovering" America, was there anyone else there at the time?
Yes, but I'm talking about the first Europeans to discover the "New World."