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Begins: Either in late November or December (in the United States, the season specifically begins on the fourth Thursday in November, or American Thanksgiving): Ends: Either on Epiphany (January 6 or the Sunday after January 1) or after the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, in some traditions January 1 (New Year's Day) or February 2 [1] [2]
En was an old Illyrian deity and in his honor in the Albanian language Thursday is called "Enjte". [7] In the Nahuatl language, Thursday is Tezcatlipotōnal (Nahuatl pronunciation: [teskat͡ɬipoˈtoːnaɬ]) meaning "day of Tezcatlipoca". In Japanese, the day is 木曜日 (木 represents Jupiter, 木星), following East Asian tradition.
In August 1939, amid the Great Depression, Fred Lazarus Jr., head of Federated Department Stores (which would later become Macy's), lobbied President Franklin D. Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving a week earlier, to the second to last Thursday of November instead of the last Thursday of November, to make the Christmas shopping season last longer and help boost retail sales.
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Thanksgiving holidays used to happen throughout the year, but Americans showed a preference early on for one particular day of the week
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The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. [3] The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. [4] Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; [5] [6] and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the ...
Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November (which became the uniform date country-wide in 1941). [2] [3] Outside the United States, it is sometimes called American Thanksgiving to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.