THANKSGIVING DAY + BLACK FRIDAY (OPEN SEASON HOLLIDAYS)

Thanksgiving Day,

is a holiday celebrated in the United States

on the fourth Thursday in November. 

It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens,

(preces e graças  ao senhor que provem todas as graças)

to be  celebrated on Thursday, November 26.

As a federal and popular holiday in the U.S.,

Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays  of the year.

Together with Christmas and the New Year, 

Thanksgiving is a part of  the broader 

holiday season (calendario oficial de  festejos).

Black Friday

is the name given to the day following 

(dia seguinte)  Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionallythe beginning of the Christmas shoppingseason.

On this day, most major retailers open extremely early, (maioria  dos grandes lojistas/ varejistas abrem as portas cedinho) often at 4 am, or earlier, and offer promotional sales to kick off (inicio das vendas) the holiday shopping season.

Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many non-retail employers (empregados terceirizados são contratados) also observe this day as a holiday along with Thanksgiving,

giving their employees the day off,  thereby increasing (com isso  encrementa)

the number of potential shoppers.

The day's name originated in Philadelphia,where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic

which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. 

Use of the term started before 1961; later an alternative explanation began to be offered: that "Black Friday" indicates  the point at which retailers

begin to turn a profit,(indica  que  os varejistas irão liquidar  tudo)  or are "in the black".