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Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving is a celebration of thanks for the previous year, with families and friends gathering for a large meal or dinner. Consequently, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is one of the busiest travel periods of the year. One-sixth of the turkeys consumed annually in the U.S. are eaten around Thanksgiving.

The Fourth Thursday in November. Actually, Black Friday is also a holiday marked “Day After Thanksgiving” and the Wednesday before is often a holiday or early-dismissal day. Very unusually, some schools give students the entire fourth week of November off.