[:ja]NASAの地球観測衛星Landsat 8が撮影したオランダのライデンです。今日11月28日は米国の感謝祭です。
感謝祭は、イギリスから米マサチューセッツ州のプリマス植民地に移住したピルグリム・ファーザーズの最初の収穫を記念する行事であると一般的に信じられています。ピルグリムがプリマスに到着した1620年の冬は大変厳しく、大勢の死者を出しましたが、翌年、近隣に居住していたインディアンのワンパノアグ族からトウモロコシなどの新大陸での作物の栽培知識の教授を得て生き延びられました。1621年の秋は、特に収穫が多かったので、ピルグリムファーザーズはワンパノアグ族を招待して、神の恵みに感謝して共にご馳走をいただいたことが始まりであるとされています。そして、ピルグリムファーザーズは実はイギリスを出港してすぐに新世界のマサチューセッツとニューアムステルダムへ向かったわけではなく、オランダのライデンに寄り、数年間を過ごしました。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： Holland: First Stop for the Pilgrims (NASA Earth Observatory)
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.906: Leiden, Netherlands🇳🇱
NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captured Leiden, Netherlands. Today, Nov. 28 is the Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States and Canada which began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year by the Pilgrim Fathers. Before ever setting foot in North America, the Pilgrims spent several years living in Holland. Most of the hundred or so people in the Pilgrim congregation lived in one-room cottages near Leiden University, in the shadow of the Pieterskerk, the oldest church in the city. About a decade after they had arrived, the congregation decided it was time to move once again.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Holland: First Stop for the Pilgrims (NASA Earth Observatory)
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.906: Leiden, Netherlands🇳🇱
NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captured Leiden, Netherlands. Today, Nov. 28 is the Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States and Canada which began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year by the Pilgrim Fathers. Before ever setting foot in North America, the Pilgrims spent several years living in Holland. Most of the hundred or so people in the Pilgrim congregation lived in one-room cottages near Leiden University, in the shadow of the Pieterskerk, the oldest church in the city. About a decade after they had arrived, the congregation decided it was time to move once again.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Holland: First Stop for the Pilgrims (NASA Earth Observatory)
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]