Tuesday, November 26, 2002

The First Thanksgiving The event we now know as "the First Thanksgiving" was in fact neither the first occurrence of our modern American holiday, nor was it even a 'Thanksgiving" in the eyes of the Pilgrims who celebrated it. It was instead a traditional English harvest celebration to which the colonists invited Massasoit, the most important sachem among the Wamapanoag. It was only in the nineteenth century that this event became identified with the American Thanksgiving holiday. From  Plimouth Plantation 4:52:09 PM    comments? [] eBay scam  What’s real, what’s a scam? eBay users wondering   Some verification notices legit; ‘torrent’ of scams blamed on site glitch   EBay.com users are being peppered by e-mails saying there has been a security problem at the Web site, and requesting new account and password information. The problem: Some of the e-mails are legitimate, some are scams and it’s hard to tell the difference. And a recent programming glitch at eBay may actually have made life easier for the con artists. One week ago, the site accidentally revealed auction participants’ e-mail addresses for about a six-hour stretch — a gold mine for both spammers and scammers.   From MSNBC   10:20:46 AM    comments? []

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