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With Festivus Coming Soon, Are You Prepared for the Feats of Strength?

(Dec. 20) -- Tired of all the holiday cheer floating about the air this week? Maybe what you need is a wintertime celebration that lauds the equally important values of mean-spiritedness and vitriol. That's right, Festivus is just around the corner. Festivus is a secular holiday introduced to the world by a 1997 episode...

Hypothermic Sea Turtles Rescued on Cape Cod

(Nov. 26) -- Marine biologists on Cape Cod have spent their Thanksgiving holiday rescuing a group of hungry, cold and lost souls in their community: sea turtles. Dozens of rare, endangered sea turtles washed up on the Massachusetts peninsula this week, disoriented and suffering from hypothermia. Their confusion could be...

What Recession? Shoppers Eat Up Black Friday Deals

(Nov. 26) -- For one day at least, you could almost imagine the recession never happened. Millions of the nation's shoppers braved rain and cold to crowd stores while others grabbed online bargains on what could be the busiest Black Friday ever. Early signs pointed to bigger crowds at many stores including Best Buy,...

Attend the 'Christmas Story' Convention, but Beware!

(Nov. 26) -- It's become one of the most beloved holiday exclamations, a gleeful cry of warmth and tenderness that evokes so many cups of hot chocolate around a cozy, stocking-draped fireplace: "You'll shoot yer eye out!" In 1983, the movie "A Christmas Story" roughly elbowed its way into our Christmas consciousness. A...

I'm Thankful for ... The Chance to Give Back

Dana Edmunds Wally "Famous" Amos is thankful for the work he's been able to do to end illiteracy. (Nov. 26) -- It has been said that "thank you" are two of the most powerful words in the English language. Another important word is gratitude. Both are very appropriate for me. I am eternally thankful and grateful...

Thanksgiving News From the Web

05/30/12 Elmore County school board OKs new calendar Source: Prattville Progress - Prattville AL Elmore County students will work a little later into the afternoons this year so that they can still have their traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks.
05/25/12 Ace Canopy Teams Up With Tarps Plus And Will Attend... Source: PRWeb palmdale, Ca (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 Ace Canopy and Tarps Plus are in the forefront of helping those less fortunate.
05/23/12 OCS, County pass new academic calendars Source: The Andalusia Star-News - Andalusia AL Opp and Covington County students will have fewer holidays next school year, thanks to the state legislature's Flexible School calendar bill.
05/17/12 School calendars still evolving in wake of legislation Source: Tuscaloosa News - Tuscaloosa AL
TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa County Board of Education was set to approve a new 2012-2013 school year calendar Thursday afternoon, but the plans had to be abandoned due to new information the system received from State Superintendent of Education Tommy Bice Thursday morning.
Last week, the Alabama Legislature passed the Flexible Calendar Act of 2012 in an effort to increase tax revenue from state tourism.
05/17/12 Beyond Black Friday: The 7 Black Days of the Week Source: Mental Floss We all know Black Friday, the discount-fueled shopping frenzy that follows Thanksgiving.

Background on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States.

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