CHRISTMAS

Christmas is an annual holiday that is celebrated on december 25 that conmemorate the birth of jesus of nasareth. The date of conmemoration its not known to be the jesus actual birthday, and may have iniatially been chosen to correspond with either a historical roman festival or the winter solstice. christmas is central to the holiday season, and in christianity marks the beginning of the larger season of christmastide, wich last 12 days.

Although traditionally a christian holiday, christmas is celebreated by many non christians, and some of its popular celebratory customes have prechristian or secular themes and origins. popular modern customs of the holiday include gift-giving, christmas charols and exchange of greeting cards, church, celebrations, an especial meal and the display of various decorations; including christmas trees and ligths. and in addition there is a man called santaclaus that is like the father of christmas and give gifts to the childrens.

THANKSGIVING DAY

Thanksgiving Day , legal holiday in the U.S., first celebrated in early colonial times in New England. The actual origin, however, is probably the harvest festivals that are traditional in many parts of the world Festivals and Feasts. After the first harvest was completed by the Plymouth colonists in 1621, Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and prayer, shared by all the colonists and neighboring Native Americans. The Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock held their Thanksgiving in 1621 as a three day "thank you" celebration to the leaders of the Wampanoag Indian tribe and their families for teaching them the survival skills they needed to make it in the New World. It was their good fortune that the tradition of the Wampanoags was to treat any visitor to their homes with a share of whatever food the family had, even if supplies were low. It was also an amazing stroke of luck that one of the Wampanoag, Tisquantum or Squanto, had become close friends with a British explorer, John Weymouth, and had learned the Pilgrim's language in his travels to England with Weymouth.