Inflatable Giants

In New York, the traditional parade of "Macy's". Each year, the parade of "Macy" "Exit" huge inflatable toys. These are the heroes of popular cartoons, fairy tales and teleperedach.

Toys sneaked from Central Park to the entrance of a department store Macys between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. The parade is broadcast on television. In the evening on the East River, which separates New York from Brooklyn, arranged feyerverk.

Parades are one of the attributes of Thanksgiving Day in the United States for many years. Usually people come to the parade in costume in the style of outfits and costumes of the XVII century indeytsev.

Thanksgiving Day - one of the major festivals in the US and Canada. It is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. From this day begins the holiday season, which includes Christmas and lasts until New goda.

Thanksgiving Day holiday was originally expression of gratitude and appreciation to God, as well as family and friends for their material well-being and good otnoshenie.

The roots of Thanksgiving goes back in American history, the settlers from England who came to the shores of America in 1620 at the now famous ship "Mayflower." They landed after a heavy storm on the ocean voyage in the current state of Massachusetts and founded Plymouth koloniyu.

More than half of the estimated hundreds of arrivals were not able to survive the harsh winter and died from cold, hunger and disease. The survivors founded a colony in the spring with the help of local Indians have started processing zemli.

The first governor of the colonists offered to spend a day bringing gratitude to the Lord. Subsequently, the colonists celebrated a good harvest festivals Thanksgiving from case to sluchayu.

After independence and the emergence of a single state first US president Joji Washington suggested the Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday each year 26 noyabrya.

After this date the celebration has changed several times, and in 1941 the US Congress passed a bill, according to which the Thanksgiving Day should be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. December 26, 1941, Roosevelt signed the bill, thereby setting performances to date skhemu.



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