6…: You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed. It says “no new messages”. So you check it again.
7…: Your bookmark takes 15 minutes to scroll from top to bottom.
When looking at a pageful of someone else’s links, you notice all
of them are already highlighted in purple.
8…: Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
9…: Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see
a new WWW site address in print or on TV, even though you’ve
never had heart problems before.
10 Other: You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading. As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your first instinct is to search for the “back” button.
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After six weeks at sea, the 26. A. Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. They had a hard winter and nearly half of them died. But the local Indians provided seeds for the corn, which the Europeans had never seen before. They also helped the English settlers to hunt and fish.
Fortunately the first year’s harvest was good. The English settlers wanted to thank both God and also the Indians. So the governor declared a feast and invited the Indians to join in. About ninety Indians brought along fish, deer meat, 27. B. turkey, corn and pumpkin. They feasted with the English settlers for three days.
The next year no Thanksgiving celebrations were held, and it didn’t become an annual event until the 1780s. It was made a national holiday in 1863 by President 28. A. George Washington. At that time the country was in the middle of 29. B. the Civil War, and the president thought that the establishment of a national holiday would help to unite American people.
Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth 30. C. Thursday of November with much of the same food as had been eaten at the first Thanksgiving.