In 1621, Indian guests outnumbered Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving (which did not get its name until centuries later).
At the court of King Arthur, the winter festivities are disrupted by the arrival of a spectral green knight.
One tycoon who may have downscaled tomorrow night's festivities is Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club.
Even though the band celebrates its 125th anniversary this year and is one of the best in the world, if not the best, festivities have been modest.
Whereas last year's Sunday programming was cancelled after two drug-related deaths, this past weekend's festivities were cut short by "extreme weather conditions".
In 1965, over the Thanksgiving weekend, he devised a transistor called the MeSFET to circumvent the limitations of "transmitter-type electronics".
Still, the festivities will dwarf those seen in 2002, locals say.
He counted national leaders among his friends.Mr Khashoggi's fortunes declined in the late 1980s, thanks to overspending on festivities, ill-advised investments and his entwinement in scandals including the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the fall of Ferdinand Marcos and the Iran-Contra affair though he was never convicted of criminal wrongdoing.
This week's vote by mechanics, albeit on the eve of Thanksgiving, really was turkeys voting for Christmas.
Tomorrow's walls will be overcome, she said at the post-Berlin Wall festivities, only if states are willing to "give up powers to multilateral organisations, whatever it costs".
It could also, officials say, help the country change in more fundamental ways.The numbers handled by China's state-owned rail service during the new-year holiday (February 9th-15th this year) are staggering: a by-product of a huge recent migration into urban areas of rural residents, most of whom have left behind relatives whom they rejoin in the countryside for the festivities.
