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nIn past years, I haventalked about:
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- the first Thanksgiving,
- the history of Thanksgiving,
- “traditional” Thanksgiving menu items such as seals and eels,
- why some call this day the National Day of Mourning.
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nDidnyou know…?
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Then first Thanksgiving was eaten without forks. People had spoons,n knives, and of course fingers, but the Pilgrims hadn’t brought alongn forks.n
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nPeoplen in Canada, who celebrate their own Thanksgiving in October, calln ours “Yanksgiving.”
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Wen have Thanksgiving to thank for TV dinners. (A TV dinner is a frozenn dinner that has multiple dishes in a partitioned heating tray.) Wayn back in 1953, Swanson had a whole lot of frozen turkey left overn after Thanksgiving. (To be exact, 260 tons of frozen turkey!)n Needing to find SOMETHING to do with all that turkey, someone atn Swanson invented the TV dinner.n
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Then first meal in space was a turkey dinner. Thanksgiving has beenn celebrated (complete with turkey dinners) by astronauts on severaln space shuttles.n
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nAlso,ntoday is the anniversary of an eruption of Mount Saint Helens inn1842.
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nSomenpeople reading this headline might protest, “1842?? Mount SaintnHelens erupted in 1980! I was alive when it happened, I should know!”
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nHowever,nlike most other active volcanoes, Mount Saint Helens has eruptednmany, many times. It began to grow and erupt 37,600 years ago andnkept up sporadic activity until around 6500 BCE. It went dormant forn4,000 years but began to erupt again around 2500 BCE. The volcano wasnactive for 400 years or so and then dormant for 400 years, on andnoff, off and on, 300 years here and 700 years there, until the yearn800 CE. There were several eruptions in the 1500s, and again in then1600s, and yet again in the 1800s.
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Whichnbrings us to the eruption on this date in 1842. A man named thenReverend Josiah Parrish, living in Oregon, saw a column of steam andnash blasting into the sky. Ash reached areas about 50 miles (80 km)naway, but there was no reported loss of property or life (and not toonmany people living in the area, of course!).
Whichnbrings us to the eruption on this date in 1842. A man named thenReverend Josiah Parrish, living in Oregon, saw a column of steam andnash blasting into the sky. Ash reached areas about 50 miles (80 km)naway, but there was no reported loss of property or life (and not toonmany people living in the area, of course!).n
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MountnSaint Helens continued to spit ash and belch steam, ending with ansmall eruption in 1857. And then the volcano sat there very quietly,nvery well behaved, until the devastating eruption of 1980. n
MountnSaint Helens continued to spit ash and belch steam, ending with ansmall eruption in 1857. And then the volcano sat there very quietly,nvery well behaved, until the devastating eruption of 1980. nn
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nAlsonon this date:
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nIndependence Day in Lebanon
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nFantastic Flyers Day
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