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New Year’s Eve and New Year

New Year’s Eve is the night before the New Year, on December 31st. During this day, people eat a good meal like foie gras and wait and watch television to see the fireworks at midnight.

New Year is celebrated on January 1 and at midnight in all countries of the world.
Julius Caesar decided in 46 BC the new year begins on January 1.
Mistletoe and holly come from ancient beliefs.
During New Year, we usually eat foie gras, turkey, and we drink champagne (for adults of course).
At midnight people shout: « Happy New Year, and good health! ».
Then, people usually wear evening wear.New year

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More about Thanksgiving!

The story of Thanksgiving:

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In 1620, a boat with a hundred of Pilgrims left England for North America (at that time called « The New World »). They had to flee their country because they were persecuted because of their religion. Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts and the first winter was very cold for them with a limited amount of food. They were helped by the Indians who gave them food: potatoes,corn…and taught Pilgrims how to cultivate the soil in this new country. The next year, to thank them, Pilgrims invited the Indians to share their traditional meal at the end of the harvest. It was the first Thanksgiving.

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What is Thanksgiving ?

Thanksgiving is a celebration to thank the Indians who helped the Pilgrims when they arrived in the New World where there is a big meal with family or friends, which includes a delicious roasted turkey, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, corn cobs and a pumpkin pie. They also make cranberry sauce to eat with it .

Classic Thanksgiving Menu and Recipes

Where and when it is celebrated?

It is celebrated in the USA on the fourth Thursday of November and in Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October.

Another tradition for Thanksgiving:

Millions of turkeys are roasted on this day, so every Thanksgiving , the president of the USA saves one. This tradition comes from John Fitzgerald Kennedy who did this out of « compassion » for a turkey.

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Know more about Halloween!

What do people do to celebrate Halloween?

On Halloween, children love to dress up as a skeleton, a witch, or a ghost and ring the bells asking people « Trick or Treat » « some candy or a spell ». Halloween is also a celebration for adults. Adults often organize disguised parties. Usually, we like to visit the haunted house, decorate the house, watch horror movies or decorate pumpkins with the remake of Jack o Lantern.

The Jack o Lantern is one of the best known symbols of Halloween. Originally, in Ireland and Scotland, the population used rutabagas, but the migrant refugees in the United States replaced them with the pumpkin whose harvest is in full swing in October.

Halloween: the Origins

Halloween is the foundation of a Celtic festival in Samhain that dates back more than 2,500 years and is considered as the ancestor of Halloween.

It celebrated the end of the year and the beginning of the New Year.

At that time, Irish and Scottish migrants settled on the New Continent to escape the Great Famine in Ireland, bringing with them their tales and legends.

Since then, Halloween has been celebrated in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and Great Britain.

This celebration was exported to the United States by the Irish in the 19th century, but it became the party that we know today in the mid-19th century.

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