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Scouring the nation for recipes that evoke each of the 50 states  (reading) The story of Thanksgiving by Ellen Degeneres: Autocorrect mishaps : Friday Night Mishaps (multiple choice listening activity) What's Your Worst Travel Mishap? Last year I planned to travel to Florence for the weekend with a friend in August. We each booked tickets for the same flight coming home Sunday evening and couldn’t figure out why mine was so much cheaper. On Sunday morning, while trying to check in online in order to print my boarding pass, I realized that the flight I had booked left Florence that very same day but in September! After a panicked phone call with Iberia, who mockingly informed me there was a 300-euro fee for my ignorance of the months of the year, I got booked on the correct flight. Signed: Your Teacher

Toys 'R' UsFaces Backlash After Announcing Thanksgiving Opening Hours Please, do notice the collocations:      growing number     announce a release     opening time     to spark a backlash     alleviate the stress     large retailers     

Thanksgiving posts

A bit late, though. For previous Thanksgiving posts, click  here . And this year's Thanksgiving post is...  Arlo Guthrie - Alices's Restaurant song: Lyrics here . Every Thanksgiving radio stations all over the country play the song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” (Alice’s Restaurant for short) off the album “Alice’s Restaurant” from singer/songwriter Arlo Guthrie. The song was released in 1967, and it’s been tradition ever since then to play it each and every Thanksgiving. But what’s the story behind it? Why do people love this song? “Alice’s Restaurant” recounts Guthrie’s true Thanksgiving Day adventure as a satirical, deadpan protest against the Vietnam War draft. On November 25, 1965, the 18-year-old Guthrie and his friend Richard Robbins, 19, were arrested by Stockbridge police officer William “Obie” Obanhein for illegally dumping some of Alice’s garbage after discovering that the town dump was closed for the holiday. Two days later, they pled guilty in...

How much do you really know about Thanksgiving in spite of the American TV series invasion? Try this Thanksgiving quiz , if you dare. If you want to know more, you can click here so that you can visit the November 26th, 2009 post I wrote about Thanksgiving last year.

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