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Happy Thanksgiving 2015

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princess garnet
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Location: Maryland

Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Post by princess garnet » Mon November 23rd, 2015, 10:04 pm

I'd like to wish fellow US forum members a warm and Happy Thanksgiving! :D Safe travels if you'll be on the road.

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Madeleine
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Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
Location: Essex/London

Re: Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Post by Madeleine » Tue November 24th, 2015, 11:08 am

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross

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Nefret
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Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
Location: Temple of Isis

Re: Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Post by Nefret » Tue November 24th, 2015, 7:16 pm

Happy Thanksgiving. I'm staying in my state this year.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}

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MLE (Emily Cotton)
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Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
Location: California Bay Area

Re: Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Tue November 24th, 2015, 8:19 pm

And the same from me, although we already did ours (and it was suitably cheerful and excessive).
I'm a little bothered by the rise of anti-thanksgiving feeling. One meme that's floating around declares that we are "celebrating the extermination of the indiginous Americans". Where do they get that? The linking of something pleasant and appropriate (People celebrating in harmony that they didn't die over the winter) to something that happened on the same timeline, and might have involved a few of the same people, but more probably descendants, is such a stretch that I wonder what the motive is.

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