[rollei_list] Re: A Rambling Discourse on Thanksgiving

"RUG" of course, is what i meant, though the "LUG" does come
very close to the RUG's level or erudition--accompanied by 
a generally more pronounved level of contoversy.

-rei

On Nov23 16:15, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> truly gems of knowledge only on the LUG.
> and i love her for it.
> 
> -rei
> 
> On Nov23 14:54, Marc James Small wrote:
> > At 02:40 PM 11/23/2006, Robert Meier wrote:
> > >Marc -- Thanksgiving is often the final Thursday in November...
> > 
> > ..FDR's effort 
> > to move it to the next-to-last Thursday led to 23 
> > states following his lead, 22 refusing to do so,
> > and the other three, including Texas, celebrating 
> > two Thanksgivings...
> 
> > ... Virginia, to this day, does not celebrate 
> > Martin Luther King day on the same basis as does 
> > the Federal government but, rather, has added it 
> > to the Commonwealth's Lee-Jackson Day, in a 
> > rather odd and whimsical mixture of themes which 
> > would probably have been viewed with favor by 
> > both Lee and Jackson; ....
> 
> > Following the "Franksgiving" problems in 1939 and 
> > 1940, Congress in 1941 split the difference by 
> > passing an Act declaring that the fourth Thursday 
> > in November would be celebrated as Thanksgiving 
> > Day, an Act signed by FDR on 26 NOV 1941 ...
> 
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> Rei Shinozuka shino@xxxxxxxxx
> Ridgewood, New Jersey
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