[at-l] Happy Thanksgiving

[David Addleton]

all this who was here "first" always, **always** neglects the long
long history of the arctic peoples wandering around the arctic coast
for as long as people learned how to live in those climates; the
phoenecians who are likely responsible for cocaine found in egyptian
remains; and the so called "natives" whose arrival in multiple waves
causes much academic controversy with some claiming the clovis came
from europe; the polenesians . . . . etc etc etc . . . . the "first"
game always seems like a rather chauvinistic enterprise to me . . . .
imbo we should all eat haggis and drink whiskey . . . . ;)

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ha! The Vikings were there first but they didn't need saving from
> starvation.
>
> While our schools tell us Thanksgiving Day began with the Pilgrims (I wonder
> if there's any significance to the word Pilgrim containing the word "grim")
> the actual history of the holiday is a good deal more complicated. There's a
> brief writeup at <http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia_si/nmah/thanks.htm> that is
> worth a few minutes of time to read.
>
> If it had started with the Vikings I wonder what we'd be eating today?
>
> Jim Bullard
> http://jims-ramblings.blogspot.com/
> http://members.photoportfolios.net/Jim_Bullard
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:48 AM, hiker 317 <hiker317 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Happy Thanksgiving to all! I think that i shall spend the day in thankful
>> contemplation with my Alicia Silverstone GoVeg.com poster, feasting on
>> tofurky and spinach, whilst enjoying the ambience of my 210-year-old copy of
>> The Constitution and wondering whether the USA would have turned out
>> differently had a more diverse band of pilgrims and mercenaries been saved
>> from starvation by the First Nation's People, say, a random few dozens of
>> Vikings....
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Beau <email4beau at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Happy Thanksgiving
>>>
>>> We hope your well and life is good,
>>>
>>> Beau & Ninon
>>> bleeder guy & big hearted woman
>>>
>>>
>>>
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