Founding Fathers: アメリカ合衆国建国の父たち bald eagle: ハクトウワシ アメリカ合衆国のシンボル、国鳥 moral character: 人格 a dove tails: dovetail 「ぴったりはまる」を「主語+動詞」として分離させた表現。 colonist: 入植者
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Founding father Ben Franklin wasn't a fan of our national symbol. In a letter to his daughter he called the bald eagle a bird of bad moral character. What would he have preferred? Well, Ben Franklin liked the turkey. He called it more respectable and courageous despite being a little silly. Now, that's random.
But a dove tails nicely into our five facts about Thanksgiving report:
One, it's America's second favorite holiday. Christmas is first, turkeys are often on the menu for both, so bad news for them.
Two, they probably weren't at the table at the first Thanksgiving. That more likely included geese, ducks and deer.
History ties them to a third point. The first Thanksgiving was probably in 1621 when English colonists and Native Americans shared a harvest feast.
Four, Thanksgiving wasn't an official holiday in the U.S. until the Civil War. On October 3 1863, President Lincoln declared the national holiday. That was on a Thursday, and it's stock.
Five, Thanksgiving traditionally kicks off the Christmas shopping season. President Franklin Roosevelt tried to move it to the third Thursday in November to extend shopping season and stimulate the economy. Some states didn't like that, so in 1942, Thanksgiving was moved to its permanent home on the Fourth Thursday in November.