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Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art.The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason".
Freedom from Want, also known as The Thanksgiving Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms series of four oil paintings by American artist Norman Rockwell. The works were inspired by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's 1941 State of the Union Address , known as Four Freedoms .
US National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection; US Fish and Wildlife Service National Digital Library; US Library of Congress digital image archive. (Some images are still under copyright, so caveat emptor.) US Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Photo Gallery; US Antarctic Program Photo Library
Like all other federal holidays, the post office will be closed on Monday, Feb. 17 in observance of Presidents Day. That means branches won’t be open and there won't be mail delivery.
Queen Elizabeth II's car arriving at the West Steps of St Paul's in 2012 for the National Service of Thanksgiving for her Diamond Jubilee. A national service of thanksgiving in the United Kingdom is an act of Christian worship, generally attended by the British monarch, Great Officers of State and Ministers of the Crown, which celebrates an event of national importance.
Later in New England, religious thanksgiving services were declared by civil leaders such as Governor Bradford, who planned the Plymouth colony's thanksgiving celebration and feast in 1623. [17] [18] [19] The practice of holding an annual thanksgiving harvest festival did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s. [20]
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Several presidents opposed days of national thanksgiving, with Thomas Jefferson openly denouncing such a proclamation. [19] That was seen as ironic because Jefferson had proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving while he was the governor of Virginia. By 1855, 16 states celebrated Thanksgiving (14 on the fourth Thursday of November, and two on the third).