abundance of the Earth's harvest. It is also known as the horn of plenty. The traditional cornucopia was a curved goat's horn filled to brim with fruits and grains. The use of corn meant the survival of the colonists. Beans are a special symbol of Thanksgiving too. Native Americans taught the pilgrims to grow beans next to cornstalks. The cranberry is a small sour berry. Pilgrims soon found out a way to sweeten the bitten cranberries with maple sugar. Sweet-sour cranberry sauce or cranberry jelly was on the first Thanksgiving table and it is served today. The Indians used the juice to dye their rugs and blankets. They taught the colonists how to cook the berries with the sweetener and water to make a sauce.

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A Thanksgiving Day ParadeNorth Korea announces new rocket launch

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A North Korean soldier salutes the Unha-3 rocket which was launched in AprilAP

Sadie Gray

Last updated at 9:08PM, December 1 2012

North Korea announced today that it will attempt a long-range missile launch
later this month in a move which immediately drew international
condemnation.

In a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency, the Korean Committee
for Space Technology said that the new firing would be carried out between
December 10 and 22.

The announcement ended weeks of speculation, based on satellite image
analysis, that the North was preparing a fresh launch from its Sohae
satellite launch station. It was intended, said one foreign analyst, as a
“celebratory firework” as Kim Jong Un marked the first anniversary of
succeeding his