thanksgiving
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In October 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated Thursday, Nov. 26 of that year.
From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025
New Englanders threw Andros into jail, sent him back to England and had the pleasure of proclaiming days of thanksgiving for the ascension of William and Mary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Andros immediately sought to annul the move on grounds that only he had the authority to name a thanksgiving day.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
The music swells further as he reflects on how crushed he was to lose his job over what his lawyers called a “silent or quiet prayer of thanksgiving for player safety, sportsmanship, and spirited competition.”
From Slate • Oct. 1, 2025
The heart tree there was a great oak, its ancient limbs overgrown with smokeberry vines; they knelt be-fore it to offer their thanksgiving, as if it had been a weirwood.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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