• Whether you're in the office or at home, you can get in the mood for holiday festivities by decorating your desktop or notebook computer with a free Thanksgiving Wallpaper background. If you're looking for free wallpapers check out the links on this page for suggestions as well as some tutorials on how you can make your very own Thanksgiving wallpaper. You can find pictures and backgrounds that are Disney cartoons, funny, animated or even in 3D.

• 1. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday of OctoberThanksgiving November: Thanksgiving Facts
  2. Thanksgiving falls annually on the fourth Thursday in NovemberEncyclopedia Smithsonian: Thanksgiving in North America
  3. Thanksgiving 2009: November 26 http://www.when-is.com/thanksgiving-2009.asp
  4. Traditional Thanksgiving imagery includes the harvest, turkeys, Autumn foliage, Pilgrims, Native Americans
  5. Some wallpapers are animated
  6. Many Internet wallpaper downloads are free
  7. Many of the sites that offer wallpaper are ad-heavy and contain pop-ups

• Thanksgiving Wallpaper Tips and Ideas

  You can capture family feasts, parades, foliage and more on film and upload them to your computer to make your own personal Thanksgiving wallpaper.Kodak: Creating Computer Wallpapers

  Because many of the sites that offer free wallpapers are ad-heavy, you may want to scan files for malware or viruses before you download them to your computer.

• A Brief History of Thanksgiving

  In America the first Thanksgiving is generally referred to as the feast shared between the surviving Mayflower pilgrims at the Plimoth settlement and their Wampanoag neighbors in 1621. However, there have been many accounts of earlier Thanksgiving celebrations, including one held in Canada in 1578, when Martin Frobisher hosted a formal feast to give thanks for surviving the harsh journey to Newfoundland.Scholastic: The First Thanksgiving Feast Twilight Bridge: History and Origin of Canadian Thanksgiving

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