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Dorin Nube
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
longname wrote: What exactly is celebrated at thanksgiving? And why are turkeys associated with it? Well, when the first and famous Pilgrims came to the New World on the Mayflower and set up camp they formed their own local government and set up a socialist system of distributing the produce from their farms, etc. Predictably, the Pilgrims were soon near starvation. Approximately half of their number died during the first winter. As you can read in the journal of William Bradford, one of the leading men of the expedition, he soon realized that "the young men of the colony were not content to work to support the children of other men" (paraphrased). The colonists quickly did away with their socialist / communist system and allowed each family to retain the fruits of their own labors. Eventually, the colony thrived and formed the foundation of the colonies which eventually became the United States of America. Tradition has it that once the colony started to thrive a harvest festival / feast was held with special emphasis on giving thanks to God for the blessings the colony had received. This is the basis for the current holiday of Thanksgiving. The turkey is just a tradition that was started in the early to mid 1800s. The myth is that Native Americans brought turkeys to the Pilgrims to save them from starvation, but there is no historical evidence of that. In modern times the purpose of Thanksgiving is to show appreciation to Caelestis for all the hard work on the new UZ!
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thebattler35
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
Dorin Nube wrote: longname wrote: What exactly is celebrated at thanksgiving? And why are turkeys associated with it? Well, when the first and famous Europeans came to the New World on the Mayflower and set up camp they formed their own local government and set up a socialist system of distributing the produce from their farms, etc. Predictably, the Europeans were soon near starvation. Approximately half of their number died during the first winter. As you can read in the journal of William Bradford, one of the leading men of the expedition, he soon realized that "the young men of the colony were not content to work to support the children of other men" (paraphrased). The colonists quickly did away with their socialist / communist system and allowed each family to retain the fruits of their own labors. Eventually, the colony thrived and formed the foundation of the colonies which eventually became the United States of America. Tradition has it that once the colony started to thrive a harvest festival / feast was held with special emphasis on giving thanks to God for the blessings the colony had received. This is the basis for the current holiday of Thanksgiving. The turkey is just a tradition that was started in the early to mid 1800s. The myth is that Native Americans brought turkeys to the Europeans to save them from starvation, but there is no historical evidence of that. In modern times the purpose of Thanksgiving is to show appreciation to Caelestis for all the godly work on the new UZ! fiiiixed
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Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:41 pm |
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Caelestis
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
Just another quick update.
The Thanksgiving Event should start on Monday and Tuesday and last for the rest of the week.
There will be a few unique rewards for killing Butterball, the Bionic Turkey including a special holiday ship!
Caelestis
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SSGamer
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
All hail Caelestis! Hail! Hail!
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godking100bases
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
there better be a commod called Stuffing
description The Food Of The Gods.
do eet pl0x.
make it useless, but have that name and desc, and i will be happy
or a tweak for uber weight increase XD
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LethalLoki
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
Thanks caelestis. I haven't been around since they started holiday events so, where would I find this butterball and bionic turkey? and how often do they spawn?
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SSGamer
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
LethalLoki wrote: where would I find this butterball and bionic turkey? I think Butterball is the Bionic Turkey...
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Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:35 pm |
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Battlecruiser23
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
SSGamer wrote: LethalLoki wrote: where would I find this butterball and bionic turkey? I think Butterball is the Bionic Turkey... Bionic Dodo Birds are better if they go missing in action...
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Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:41 pm |
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yugioh124
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
Caelestis wrote: Just another quick update.
The Thanksgiving Event should start on Monday and Tuesday and last for the rest of the week.
There will be a few unique rewards for killing Butterball, the Bionic Turkey including a special holiday ship!
Caelestis It's Tuesday, and there is a distinct lack of turkeys in space atm. Any update?
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pip8786
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
There is a patch planned for today sometime, I believe.
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Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:28 pm |
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thebattler35
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
Is the Next Patch page on the wiki going to be used again? As far as i know it was only used for 1 or 2 patches. And it was good to see what was going in, what was still to be done, what was completed etc. edited to make stupidass link work
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pip8786
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
Forgot about that page, it would be good for it to be used.
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SSGamer
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
pip8786 wrote: There is a patch planned for today sometime, I believe. Epic. Totally off topic but, is Jeff (or some other admin) going to check the item suggestions topic in the suggestions forum? It's starting to gather dust.
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yugioh124
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
pip8786 wrote: There is a patch planned for today sometime, I believe. Still nothing.....
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pip8786
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Re: Content Update - 11.9.09
yugioh124 wrote: pip8786 wrote: There is a patch planned for today sometime, I believe. Still nothing..... Jeff told me last night that the patch was going in at noon today, I assume he meant Pacific. So hopefully in the next 2 hours.
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