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The Burley Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game played from 1945 through 1956. [1] It was held each year on Thanksgiving Day in Johnson City, Tennessee, at the city's Memorial Stadium, which was demolished in July 2010. [2] The game was part of an annual two-day tobacco festival, [3] with the name of the bowl coming from Burley tobacco.
The hymn later gained popularity in the United States where it is used as part of Thanksgiving celebrations. [3] The first verse is written as a celebration of the harvest, calling for people to give thanks to God for it. [5] The last two verses are based on the Parable of the Tares, and discuss the last harvest at the Second Coming of Jesus. [1]
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.
It's Thanksgiving week, and while people are planning to stuff their plates with all of the fixings, men's college basketball is serving a full slate of hoops with its plethora of holiday tournaments.
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Thanksgiving Day football games in the United States are nearly as old as the game—and the organized holiday—themselves. The first Thanksgiving Day football game took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day of 1869, less than two weeks after Rutgers defeated Princeton in New Brunswick, New Jersey in what is widely recognized as the first intercollegiate football game in the ...
"Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986", a poem by William S. Burroughs from his 1989 book Tornado Alley "A Thanksgiving Prayer", a reading of the poem, set to music by Frank Denning, from Burroughs's 1990 album Dead City Radio; Thanksgiving Prayer, a 1991 short film of Burroughs reading the poem, by Gus Van Sant