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Fun and Interesting Thanksgiving Facts
Lifestyle - Food and Drink
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Fun-and-Interesting-Thanksgiving-Facts Thanksgiving Day is a Holiday rooted in rich history. Here are some very fun and interesting Thanksgiving facts to share during Thanksgiving dinner.
*Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States.
*Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October in Canada.
*The pilgrims arrived in North America in December 1620.
*The Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to reach North America.
*The pilgrims sailed on the ship, which was known by the name of 'Mayflower'.
*The Wampanoag Indians were the people who taught the Pilgrims how to cultivate the land.
*The drink that the Puritans brought with them in the Mayflower was beer.
*By the fall of 1621 only half of the pilgrims, who had sailed on the Mayflower, survived. The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to give a thanksgiving feast.
They celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
*The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford organized the Thanksgiving feast and invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians also to the feast.
*The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days.
* At the first harvest celebration with the pilgrims and Native Americans, "fowl" was eaten. While this might have been turkey, it's more likely to have been geese and ducks.
* A mature turkey has 3,500 feathers. Turkey feather were used by Native Americans to stabilize arrows...

 
A Visit To The National Museum Of Art
Lifestyle - Travel and Places
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A-Visit-To-The-National-Museum-Of-ArtThe National Museum of Art may be gone through in one day. However, with the frequent rotation of traveling exhibitions, there is almost regularly a reason to return to the museum. If you have never been to the National Museum of Art, it is recommended that you give yourself extra time so that you may give each gallery the time it deserves.
The National Museum of Art, likewise renowned as the National Gallery of Art, is a massive gallery located in Washington, D.C. The gallery focuses on the art of those who have had historic ties to the United States of America, with a focus on American, British, Spanish, French, Dutch, Flemish plus Italian arts. With a variety of art styles, ranging from paintings to sculptures, there is a little of something for everyone at the National Museum of Art.
The National Museum of Art is a 2 building, multi story complex with garden cafe plus four wings of galleries. There is a sculpture hall, as well as a Rotunda in the upper floor of the west building. The ground floor is dedicated to prints, drawings, sculptures, decorative arts besides is the location of all temporary exhibitions that are currently visiting the museum. The east building contains shops and auditoriums, as well as extra galleries that are used as needed. There are likewise a huge deal of offices plus storage facilities situated in the east building that is not open to the public...

 
Extraordinary Usage For Lots of Coins
Lifestyle - Arts and Culture
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Extraordinary usage for lots of coins - without glue or scaffolding.  Just very carefully put one coin on another. A few hours a day months of practice and maybe you will be able to do something similar to these structures? Amazing physical law showed in a different way...

 
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