Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the
United States, Canada, Brazil, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia, and
the sub-national entities Leiden, Norfolk Island, and Puerto Rico. It
began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the
harvest and of the preceding year. Similarly named festival holidays
occur in Germany and Japan. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second
Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in
the United States and Brazil, and around the same part of the year in
other places. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious
and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular
holiday as well.Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies
are common among almost all religions after harvests and at other
times. The Thanksgiving holiday's history in North America is rooted
in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation. It also
has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in New
England occurs well before the late-November date on which the modern
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