THE HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF CANADIAN AND U.S. THANKSGIVING

THE HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF CANADIAN AND U.S. THANKSGIVING
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In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October, this year 2013 it falls on Monday Oct. 14th. Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The harvest season falls earlier in Canada compared to the United States due to the simple fact that Canada is further north.

The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now called Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay.

At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed 'The Order of Good Cheer' and gladly shared their food with their Indian neighbors.

In the US a collective prayer of thanksgiving was led by Captain John Woodlief in the Virginia Colony on December 4, 1619 near the current site of Berkeley Plantation, where celebrations are still held each year in November. Woodleif addressed the 38 men with: "We ordain that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God."

The Pilgrims were particularly thankful to Squanto, the Native American who taught them how to catch eel, grow corn and who served as an interpreter for them (Squanto had learned English as a slave in Europe). Without Squanto's help the Pilgrims might not have survived in the New World. The explorers who later came to be called the "Pilgrims" set apart a day to celebrate at Plymouth immediately after their first harvest, in 1621. At the time, this was not regarded as a Thanksgiving observance; harvest festivals were existing parts of English and Wampanoag tradition alike. Several American colonists have personal accounts of the 1621 feast in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

In Canada, after the Seven Year's War ended in 1763, the citizens of Halifax Nova Scotia held a special day of Thanksgiving.

During the American Revolution, Americans who remained loyal to England moved to Canada where they brought the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada. There are many similarities between the two Thanksgivings such as the cornucopia and the pumpkin pie.

In the First US National Proclamation of Thanksgiving, was given by then President George Washington on October 3rd 1789, he created the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.

In the middle of the American Civil War (October 3, 1863), President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale, proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863.

"The first Thanksgiving Day in Canada after Confederation was observed on April 15, 1872, to celebrate the recovery of The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) from a serious illness."

Eventually in 1879, the Canadian Parliament declared November 6th a day of Thanksgiving and a national holiday. Over the years many dates were used for Thanksgiving, the most popular was the 3rd Monday in October.

After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11th occurred. Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day.

Finally, on January 31st, 1957, the Canadian Parliament proclaimed..."A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed ... to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October.
Happy Turkey Every One!
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REMEMBER UNITS OF TIME!

REMEMBER UNITS OF TIME!
Years ago, I wrote the below for a troubled time in my Wife's life when her previous husband to me passed. Also because of my Youngest Child's Parental Abduction, I used it for Family Members of the Missing whom I had the honour to work with.
I hope, that this may be of some comfort to others, to bad I have trouble following my own advice now:
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REMEMBER UNITS OF TIME!
Remember that it is always darkest before the dawn as I believe that there is a purpose for everything and everyone. Today, you may even see a little of the light that will guide you out of your tunnel.
As you know, I have been there myself so I have an idea of this pain.
The only quick advice that I can give, is that this nightmare shall pass.
To do this you may have to break your day down into units of time, and at the passing of each unit, note that you are fine.
First there are seconds that will pass and please note, that you are still fine.
Then a minute will pass by and please note, that you are still fine.
After 60 minutes you have an hour and please note, that you are still fine.
The hardest is the night but as you are tired (and even in the day light, that's normal as it is called depression) but you will get through this as well, by sleep and when you wake up, note that you are still fine.
Then 24 hours = a day shall pass and please note, that you are still fine.
30 days = a month and please note, that you are still fine.
12 months will go by very quickly and please note, that you are still fine! :)
Then one day you will be in my league (29 years this year) and as each decade passes please note, that you survived this and you are, still fine...
Keep focused on this and those who will love you no matter what!
As they one day, may need you and because of you, for them all will be fine!

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SEND IN THE WEREWOLF!

SEND IN THE WEREWOLF!

Sir Richard as a Halloween

Werewolf 1977

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THE TOILET

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The word toilet derives from the French word toile, meaning a “cloth” (toilette is a “small cloth”), that was draped over a lady or gentleman’s shoulders for hairdressing.
Around 4500 years ago, communities in Scotland, the Indus Valley (present day Pakistan), and Mesopotamia used pipes to carry waste from inside of buildings to outdoors.
Toilets in Egypt used a keyhole shape to increase comfort, whilst the Romans built sewer systems to carry waste into streams and rivers. Flushing first appeared in Knossos, on the island of Crete about 4000 years ago. Rainwater captured in rooftop pans was used to wash away waste via pipes.

Multi-seat public toilets represent something new on the ancient urban landscape and distinguish Roman toilets from their predecessors.”
Roman Toilets, with multi-seat toilets were fixtures in city life by the 2nd century BCE and were usually long benches with holes in them, built near public areas or buildings, and over main sewer lines. Roman toilets were probably standardized to make them transportable and recognizable across Roman geography.

Over the course of decades of excavations at the City of David, which abuts Jerusalem’s Old City, as many as four partial toilets or toilet seats have been discovered. The most cited seat was found in what is called the House of Ahi’el, on the northeastern slope of the City of David.
It is a typical four-roomed Israelite dwelling from the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, whose name derives from a Hebrew inscription on shard found in the there. The house was large, reflecting the prosperity of the era ahead of the Babylonian destruction in 587-6 BCE, and had an external stone staircase, which led to a second floor.

In a small room, about four and a half feet square, on the ground floor, a limestone toilet seat was discovered embedded in the plaster floor above a plaster-lined cesspit, which reaches eight feet below the floor. The toilet seat was fashioned from a large block of locally available limestone.

A toilet is a plumbing fixture used for defecation and urination. Modern toilets consist of a bowl fitted with a hinged seat that's connected to a waste pipe where waste is flushed. Toilets are also called privy, latrine, water closet, or lavatory. Contrary to urban legend, Sir Thomas Crapper did not invent the toilet.

Here's a brief timeline of toilets:
King Minos of Crete had the first flushing water closet recorded in history and that was over 2,800 years ago.

A toilet was discovered in the tomb of a Chinese king of the Western Han Dynasty that dates back to somewhere between 206 BC to 24 AD.

The ancient Romans had a system of sewers. They built simple outhouses or latrines directly over the running waters of the sewers that poured into the Tiber River.

Chamber pots were used during the middle ages. A chamber pot is a special metal or ceramic bowl that you used and then tossed the contents out (often out the window).

In 1596, a flush toilet was invented and built for Queen Elizabeth I by her godson, Sir John Harrington.

The first patent for the flushing toilet was issued to Alexander Cummings in 1775.
During the 1800s, people would come to realize that poor sanitary conditions caused diseases. Thus having toilets and sewer systems that could control human waste became a priority to lawmakers, medical experts, inventors as well as the general public.

In 1829, the Tremont Hotel of Boston became the first hotel to have indoor plumbing with eight water closets built by Isaiah Rogers.

Until 1840, indoor plumbing could be found only in the homes of the rich and the better hotels.
The Englishman with the unfortunate surname, Thomas Crapper, often gets credit for inventing the flushing toilet, and he undoubtedly was a major player in its development. His valve and siphon design was patented in 1891, and his company manufactured water closets that found wide acceptance all over the UK in the decades preceding World War I. His toilets imprinted with "T. Crapper Brass & Co. Ltd." inspired a generation of young American soldiers stationed in the UK during World War I, and they returned to America with a new slang term for the relatively new household fixture but was Crapper the father of the so called crapper?

Let's put it this way: Crapper didn't one day sit down in an outdoor privy and decide that what the world really needed was an indoor toilet. His product was simply another refinement of a design problem that the Victorians, in particular, had been puzzling over: how to build a flushing water closet that would efficiently and sanitarily remove waste without allowing dangerous sewer gases to enter. 

When Crapper refined his design, flushing water closets weren't exactly a new idea. For example, Queen Elizabeth I's godson Sir John Harrington had designed one for her use in 1596, although it never caught on with the rest of English society, royal or otherwise, and was considered to be more of a novelty than a practical invention, especially in the absence of an extensive sewer system.
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LOVE FROM YOUR HEART

LOVE FROM YOUR HEART  
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Does Love from your heart, dissipate like chimney smoke?
Or is it rock hard like granite, lasting for all of our eternities...

Do you stop Loving someone that you once Loved or have lost?
I think not, you store it in your heart and bring it out like a photo album.
To view and at times even share but it is stored and it never stops.
Can you Love more than one person in your lifetime, or is your personality like that of a single railway track?
Never diverting only going one direction and never to be shared...
I think not.
LOVE, is like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
Racing out to as many as one needs to move on and always centered back too you.
To the Love from your heart...as GOD intended it to be, for He put that LOVE into your heart too.
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Richard Abbenbroek...
With Love and all that heaven will allow!
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FORGIVENESS!

FORGIVENESS!
BEING IN THE MILITARY IS A SORT OF FAMILY TRADITION SINCE 1812.
YET I HAVE ADDED HOPEFULLY, A NEW TRADITION;
FORGIVENESS!
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FOR IT IS NOT THAT IS WHAT IT IS, IT IS WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!
AS SOME OF YOU HAVE HURT ME DEEPLY BUT IN JESUS CHRIST'S NAME I FORGIVE YOU!
“LORD, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister, who sins against me? Up to seven times?”
JESUS CHRIST answered; “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times!"
Again, the LORD Forgives and so do I.
Just one more thing, though your now Forgiven.
Over our time together, I have learned that our relationship was toxic, so I will no longer hang out with you till you have sought out help for yourself.
AMEN?
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Sent to you all with LOVE and to all that heaven will allow!

THROUGH CLENCHED TEETH, EH

THROUGH CLENCHED TEETH, EH… HTTPS://YOUTU.BE/BUHWTIHRV6W
THAT IT'S GOOD TO BE ALIVE TODAY!
By Michael Franti & Spearhead

Everyday I wake up and turn my phone on
I read the news of the day, just as it's coming down
I do my best not to let it get me down
I try to keep my head up, but this is Babylon!

This World's in crisis, we try to fight it, this changing climate
With scientists and politicians divided by it
So many ways we could solve it but they would never sign it
This mountains tumbling down, but still we try to climb it!

It's in the Torah, Quran and in the Bible!
Love is the message for somehow we turn to rivals
It's come to people always picking up their rifles
Another school getting shot up homicidal

Some people tryna to fly, some people tryna get high
Some people losing their mind, some people tryna get by
And when you look in my eyes, you see the sign of the times
We all looking for the same thing yeah..

But what if this song's number one?
Would it mean that Love had won?
Would it mean that the World was Saved?
And no guns are being drawn today?
What if everybody had a job?
And nobody had to break a law?
What if everyone could say yeah Ya!

That it's good to be alive today, yeah (oh, oh, oh, oh)
Is it good to be alive today yeah, (oh, oh, oh, oh)
Is it good to be alive today yeah
 Is it good to be alive today yeah, (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)

People used to feel safer when they, would hear a siren
Like help is on its way but now they only think of violence
Another youth in the streets and police is in a conflict
And now they hear the guns click, YO!

Ebola crisis and ISIS is taking heads off
A drone is bombing a village and now the kids all
Signing up to be soldiers, but they all willing now
To do the killing now, now are you willing now?

Some politicians out there making up some problems
And tryna tell the people that they can solve them
With TV shows and soundbites and quotes
But everybody knows that it's all about the cash flow!

They tellin you and me, they're making progress
But tell it to the millions of jobless
It's like a players club with billions of dollars
To get the votes you got to make it rain in Congress

Some people tryna look fly, some people tryna get high
Some people losing their mind, some people tryna get by
And when you look in my eyes, you see the sign of the times
That we all looking for the same thing yeah!

But what if this song's was number one?
Would it mean that Love had won?
Would it mean that the World was Saved?
And no bombs are being dropped today?
What if everybody had a job?
And nobody had to break a law?
What if everyone could say…yeah ya

That it's good to be alive today, yeah (oh, oh, oh, oh)
Yes it is good to be alive today, yeah (oh, oh, oh, oh)
That it’s good to be alive today (oh, oh, oh, oh)
Yes it is good to be alive today yeah!!!

And we all say!
One day, one day,
One day, one day,
One day, we all will say!

That it's good to be alive today!
One day, one day,
One day, one day,
One day, we all will say!

But what if this song's number one
Would it mean that Love had won?
Would it mean that the World was Saved?
And no bombs are being dropped today?
What if everybody had a job?
And nobody had to break a law?
What if everyone could say
That it's good to be alive today!!!!!!

A Post and Photos by Sir Richard.