Thanksgiving Day is an annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. In the US Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November while in Canada nearly one month and a half earlier (second Monday of October).
Last name origins & meanings: 1  Polish and Jewish (from Poland): from Polish sikora âtitmouseâ, âcoalmouseâ, hence a nickname for a small, dark person, or, in the case of the Jewish name, an ornamental name. 2  Jewish (from Poland): habitational name from any of the villages called Sikory.
Siem is most likely a geographic location, used by at least the Chinese, Mongols and Cambodians to designate an area most likely in the lower Menam basin. From there the Khmer/Thai kingdom Ayutthaya arose, and the term Siam was used ever since to name Ayutthaya, and later the Thai kingdom. It does not derive from the Sanskrit word Syama, which mean dark. The letter S that Cambodians used to write Siam, was different from the S used in the word Syama in their inscriptions.