<p style="margin-left:0.0px;">On Thanksgiving, everyone thinks about what they are grateful for. This is a great time to gather the whole family at the same table. But have you ever thought about the history of this holiday? We've rounded up the most interesting facts about Thanksgiving!</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;"><strong>A holiday without a date</strong></p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">For more than 150 years, Thanksgiving was celebrated spontaneously and had no specific date. In 1783, the British Empire recognized the United States as an independent state, and in 1789, the holiday acquired national significance, and the young state began to grow its customs and traditions.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;"><strong>Swan on the table</strong></p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">For the first few years, the main dish on the Thanksgiving table was no turkey at all. The first settlers feasted on the meat of swans, seals, and lobsters.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;"><strong>Why is turkey a traditional Thanksgiving dish?</strong></p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">Interestingly, this bird is not just the basis of the festive table. This dish has a symbolic meaning because it was the turkey that was the only game that the first settlers could hunt.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;"><strong>Why is Thanksgiving celebrated twice a year?</strong></p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">Between 1939 and 1941, the states of Texas and Colorado celebrated Thanksgiving twice in November. Why is that? The thing is that local authorities could not agree on a permanent date.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;"><strong>Why do the US and Canada have different celebration dates?</strong></p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">If in the USA Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, then in Canada on the second Monday of October. Why such a difference? This is due to the colder climate of the country, where the harvest season ends earlier.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;"><strong>The turkey will live!</strong></p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">Every year, the incumbent is presented with two turkeys to choose from. One of the birds soon decorates the festive table in the White House. And the second bird, as a result of a solemn ceremony, receives a “pardon” and returns to live out his life on a special farm. The latter will never again get on the table with people, she will live on the ranch until her natural death. This is such an interesting tradition.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;"><strong>The end of Thanksgiving is Black Friday!</strong></p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">Every year, the day of crazy discounts falls on the Friday after American Thanksgiving Day. But did you know the history of this day?</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">This story happened a long time ago in the USA. In 2004, just as the Christmas holidays began, a little-known entrepreneur who wasn't doing as well as he'd hoped decided to throw a global merchandise sale. And so that other business owners would not be outraged, and people walk in the USA on these holidays until the very morning, he decided not to close the store from late evening until very late morning. The prices were staggering, only 10% off the whole price, which means 90% off, cheaper just for nothing. The news immediately spread throughout the city, people rushed to buy everything! The next day, the idea was picked up by many others, and in 2005 all over America, as soon as Thanksgiving passed, a large-scale offensive of buyers for insane discounts began on Friday night!</p>

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 Unknown facts about Thanksgiving that will surprise you

<p>Scandals and allegations of plagiarism are an inevitable part of the fashion world. We have selected the stories of the most high-profile proceedings, and now we will find out which of the designers is not averse to copying the work of colleagues.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;"><strong>Roberto Cavalli accuses Michael Kors of plagiarism</strong></p><div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe src="https://assets.pinterest.com/ext/embed.html?id=84442561737949306" height="775" width="450" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div><div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe src="https://assets.pinterest.com/ext/embed.html?id=741968107378450677" height="626" width="450" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">Sometimes fashion scandals arise between world stars! Convicting Kors of plagiarism, Cavalli concluded: "This is the decline of American fashion because it does not exist. Thanks to Kors, there is international fashion made in the USA. American women dress the same way."</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">Note that Cavalli often criticizes other colleagues in the shop. For example, he once said that Karl Lagerfeld looks simply ridiculous. Well, Cavalli does not choose expressions.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;"><strong>Did Marc Jacobs steal the idea from Adidas?</strong></p><div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe src="https://assets.pinterest.com/ext/embed.html?id=543387511267086310" height="380" width="450" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">This time, Marc Jacobs was accused of plagiarism: Adidas took up arms against him for using the famous three stripes. This time it wasn't Jacobs himself who was at fault, but rather Louella Bartley and Kathy Hillier, who until recently headed Marc by Marc Jacobs.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">In their collection, the sports brand didn't like sweatshirts with four stripes on the sleeves. Although the classic design of the sports brand has three stripes instead of four, the resemblance is striking. Nevertheless, it's not clear whether the version of Marc by Marc Jacobs is considered plagiarism.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">The accusation that sweatshirts "mislead customers" into thinking they are Adidas sounds reasonable: the German brand has been using its three-stripe badge since 1952. Adidas is calling on the judges to stop the designer from selling the sweatshirts and to give the money already made from selling them to the German company as compensation. By the way, the Adidas brand is one of the leaders in lawsuits. They continue to use various designers and brands that add 3 or 4 stripes to their clothes or shoes.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;"><strong>Do Louis Vuitton designers steal ideas?</strong></p><div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe src="https://assets.pinterest.com/ext/embed.html?id=105130972544566325" height="775" width="450" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div><div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe src="https://assets.pinterest.com/ext/embed.html?id=417357090472489376" height="663" width="450" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">After showing the Louis Vuitton SS21 men's collection, the famous Belgian designer Walter van Beirendonck accused the designer of the Louis Vuitton brand, Virgil Abloh, of plagiarism. Walter is sure that the colors and shapes of many things were stolen from his designs. The man was shocked that a brand with huge budgets and capabilities was stealing other people's ideas.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">In addition to silhouettes, color schemes, and asymmetric shapes, the Belgian designer paid special attention to plush toys, which became perhaps one of the main additional elements of the entire LV show. The same plush toys are also in Valier's collection, which he released in 2016.</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">And fans of the work of the Belgian designer began to dig deeper and noticed that the LV glasses of asymmetrical shapes were very similar to those that Walter presented at Van Beirendonck's fall-winter 2018 show. And do you think Louis Vuitton's design is similar to Walter's idea, or not?</p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;"><strong>Did Dior steal the idea of ​​the collection from the Romanian people?</strong></p><p style="margin-left:0.0px;">In 2018, when the new Dior collection was released, Romanians noticed that it was very similar to their traditional clothes. This situation became the impetus for the struggle against the appropriation of traditional clothing.</p>

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Unknown facts about Thanksgiving that will surprise you

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