When Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, it took just six years before the first American football game was played on the holiday. My question is, what took so long?

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As his first move back in office, Trump issued a proclamation titled “Flying The Flag Of The United States At Full-Staff On Inauguration Day” that ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on ...

A proclamation is a form of presidential directive that calls for a specific action from citizens or government officials. Similar to executive orders, proclamations are also published in the ...

The Danish royal palace has shared behind the scenes footage of King Frederik and Queen Mary during the proclamation on the first anniversary of the new King’s reign. Frederik, 56, became ...

The interim government will sit with political parties and other stakeholders tomorrow to finalise the proclamation of July uprising. "We hope that through Thursday's meeting, a consensus will be ...

President Joe Biden issued a proclamation that flags across the country will be flown at half-staff for 30 days following the Dec. 29 death of former President Jimmy Carter. President-elect Donald ...

On June 13, 1863, The Press newspaper of Christchurch published a missive titled "Darwin among the Machines," which may contain the first published argument for halting technological progress to ...

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We have curated a list of some great places to “do Good” this Thanksgiving. Some ways to do good deeds include: serving dinners, passing out blankets, feeding people on the street, helping make ...

But if the folly of the Proclamation in this particular is striking, its effects upon the stipulation of existing treaties may in the end prove how the best laid schemes of of "mice oft gang awry." ...

One such example is Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863). It proclaimed the freedom of enslaved people in Confederate states, redefining the American Civil War as a fight for human ...