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Thanksgiving;Nearly 46 pilgrims died due to extreme cold in winter. However, in the spring of 1621, a native Indian brought them necessities and especially sent someone to teach the pilgrims to survive by growing food and hunting animals. ;A national day George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789. The idea attracted mixed reaction. 乔治?华盛顿在1789年宣布感恩节为全国节日。该提议引起各种争议。 After a number of events and changes, President Lincoln proclaimed last Thursday in November of thanksgiving in the year 1863. This was due to the continuous efforts of Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor. She wrote a number of articles for the cause. 经过一系列的事件和变化，林肯总统在1863年宣布，11月的最后一个周四为感恩节。这些都归功于一位杂志编辑，撒拉·约瑟·黑尔长期不懈的努力。她编写 了大量的文章支持确定该节日。;;;Thanksgiving is a Great time to tell your friends that we love them.;TV dinner In 1953, someone at Swanson severely overestimated the amount of turkey Americans would consume that Thanksgiving. With 260 tons of frozen birds to get rid of, a company salesman named Gerry Thomas ordered 5,000 aluminum trays, recruited an assembly line of women armed with spatulas and ice-cream scoops and began creating mini-feasts of turkey, corn-bread dressing, peas and sweet potatoes — creating the first-ever TV dinner. Thomas later said he got the idea from neatly packaged airplane food.;Indians Thanksgiving was initially meant to be a fast, not a feast. The devout settlers at Plymouth Rock mostly recognized “giving of thanks” in the form of prayer and abstaining from food. ; Franklin D. Roosevelt FDR learned the hard way not to mess with some traditions. In 1939, the President declared that Americans should celebrate the annual feast one week early, hoping the decision would spur retail sales during the Great Depression. But Americans did not react kindly to the New Deal meal. Some took to the streets while others took to name-calling; the mayor of Atlantic City solved the controversy by declaring his residents would simply enjoy tw