Where can one buy a Thanksgiving turkey already cooked and prepared in Toms River, NJ?”
Spider-Man is returning to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Macy’s spokesman Orlando Veras said Monday the company negotiated with Marvel comic books and Sony Pictures to bring the wall climber back to the spectacle. The new balloon depicts a more muscular, crawling Spider-Man. Robin Hall, the parade’s executive producer, says it also will appear in 2010 and 2011. The original balloon debuted in 1987 and retired after the 1998 parade.
Picture the traditional Thanksgiving dinner: a festive table, a loving family, glowing candles and the finest china used only on special occasions. And the centerpiece of the festive meal: the turkey, golden brown, with stuffing and gravy on the side, awaiting the carving knife and whetting the appetites of all those present. This centerpiece scene, emerges from both holiday traditions and a unique world history of a native American god bird. Wild Turkey Origins There are two types of wild turkey, both of which are strong fliers (up to 55 mph for short distances) and among the fastest runners (15-30 mph). One type is originally from Yucatan and Guatemala (Agriocharis ocellata; 47 family – Phasianidae) and the other is from Mexico and the US (Meleagris gallopavo; family -Phasianidae). From the fossil record they were once much more widespread. They diverged from pheasants 11 million years ago and were likely “distributed continuously from middle latitudes of North America to northern So
