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AMERICAblog: A little Thanksgiving trivia

  • smoke · 1 year ago
    got leftovers?
  • Older_Wiser · 1 year ago
    Hey, is that TN Smoke? Welcome back, buddy! Hope you had a great T-Day. : )
  • Older_Wiser · 1 year ago
    Well, turkey day is over here; everyone has gone.

    Meanwhile, my son just called me to go outside to see Jupiter and Mars aligned...you can see with the naked eye in the southwest sky. Wonderful!
  • Another Historian · 1 year ago
    The historian Larry Tise has a nicely written account of how the turkey was named in an essay called "Why Is Our Thanksgiving Bird Called a Turkey? (Answer: Because, of course, it came from Turkey)." It's at: http://hnn.us/articles/57346.html
  • Queer Canuck · 1 year ago
    In Brazil, turkey is called "Peru."
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  • johnsonFamily · 1 year ago
    Japanese: "shichi-men cho" ~ seven sided bird.
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    My partner and I were in Turkey in 2001, and I asked our guide if there were turkeys in Turkey. She said no. Just then we drove past a farm with a large turkey strutting about in the vegetable garden. Guide was very surprised.