• Kohl'sBlack Friday sales started online at 12:01 a.m. CT Monday. 
• In-store sales kick off at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day — an hour earlier than last year.
• More and more retailers are starting Black Friday early. 

Kohl's is kicking off Black Friday before most people have even started preparing their turkeys. 

The retailer's Black Friday deals went live online at 12:01 a.m. CT on Monday, November 20. It's offering discounts on everything from toys and electronics to kitchen appliances. The deals will be available online through Friday. 

Kohl's in-store Black Friday sales start when doors open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day — an hour earlier than its 6 p.m. start last year. 

Retailers have started kicking off Black Friday sales earlier and earlier to better compete in an increasingly difficult industry. While this can help retailers win over customers, it also dilutes the emphasis on one day — Black Friday — as the ultimate holiday for budget shoppers. 

"I think the traditionalists will have a hard time stomaching that," Josh Elman, a consumer and retail analyst with Nasdaq Advisory Services, told Business Insider. "But I think at the end of the day ... the whole idea and concept of Black Friday deals in store will diminish over time."

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• A new program makes it possible to return Amazon orders at Kohl's. 
• The returns are free, but your items must be eligible under Amazon's guidelines, which you should check before you go.
• Select Kohl's stores in the Chicago and Los Angeles areas have launched the program, so we decided to check it out.

In September, Kohl's and Amazon announced a partnership that would make returning items bought on Amazon more convenient. 

Eighty-two Kohl's stores in the Chicago and Los Angeles areas have set up pop-up stores where customers can shop from a selection of Amazon devices and return any Amazon orders for free. These return centers accept any merchandise that's eligible under Amazon's guidelines, which you can check on your Amazon account. 

We tested the service at a Kohl's store in Torrance, California. Here's how it worked: 

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For the sake of the experiment, I ordered a $9.99 clip for a Fitbit One. I had several options for shipping it, or I could pick it up at the Amazon@Westwood location. Short on time, I opted for the $3.99 one-day shipping.

When I was ready to return it, I had a few different options. Dropping it off at Kohl's for shipping is free, but you must designate this type of return on your account before heading to the store.

After I selected "Kohl's Dropoff," the screen showed me a Kohl's store about 10 miles away from my location. There are closer Kohl's stores, but the Amazon returns program doesn't currently include every location.

• It's not always easy to discern innocent workplace behavior from sexual harassment.
• Sexual harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature, but it doesn't always.
• Use these subtle signs to to discern exactly what qualifies as sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment, especially when it's happening to you or around you, isn't always so clear-cut and obvious.

According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, sexual harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.

But it doesn't have to be of a sexual nature. Sexual harassment can also include offensive remarks about a person's sex.

And for the harassment to be considered unlawful, it has to be so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or results in an adverse employment decision, like the victim being fired or demoted.

While these parameters are helpful, it can be difficult when you're in such a situation to discern exactly what qualifies as sexual harassment.

When an issue is taken to court, for example, some courts determined that something is harassment using the standard of what a "reasonable person" would consider unwelcome and sexual, whereas other courts have used the standard of what a "reasonable woman" considers harassing when the victim is female, ABC News reports.

By these standards, sexual harassment is very much in the eye of the beholder.

As Daley Haggar, a comedy writer in Los Angeles, recently wrote in Lenny Letter, "Being sexually harassed by a sitcom writer is like being sexually harassed by your gynecologist. It can be hard to tell if the guy's being a pervert or just doing his job."

Of course, it's not just comedy writers who have a hard time discerning innocent workplace behavior from sexual harassment. The signs can be subtle. Which is why we've compiled some below:

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You experience behavior of a sexual nature that makes you uncomfortable

Ellen Bravo, who directs Family Values @ Work, a network of state coalitions working for family-friendly policies, told Business Insider sexual comments or requests that you find unwanted or offensive and inappropriate touching are the first sign of sexual harassment.

Bravo, who has extensive experience writing and training on the subject of sexual harassment, including co-authoring "The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment" and authoring "Again and Again," a novel about date rape, said that this can include a number of scenarios.

For example, if someone:

· Stands too close and talks in an intimate way.

· Keeps looking at or commenting on your body in a way that makes you uncomfortable. There's a difference between saying "nice dress" and "that dress really shows off your curves."

· Asks you about your personal life, including your romantic or sexual experiences.

· Insists on talking about their own sexual experiences.

· Keeps trying to get you to meet alone outside of work.

· Shows you pornographic materials or tries to get you to talk about a sexually-charged movie or song or other such topic.

"The best guideline is the 'uh-oh' feeling," Bravo said. "You think the person knows they are making you uncomfortable and is enjoying that power over you."

You're unable to make it stop

"If you've tried various ways to say, 'I don't like this and don't want to participate, hear it, or be treated this way,' but the individual does not stop the behavior," Bravo says this is a clear indicator.

According to the EEOC, simple teasing, off-hand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious are not unlawful. But when it's become so chronic or severe that the behavior creates a hostile or offensive work environment or results in an adverse work event, that's unlawful.

You feel pressured to go along with it

"Either explicitly or implicitly, you feel you do not have permission to avoid or end the behavior," Bravo said. "You may be told that the harasser is a rainmaker and that you need to avoid him."

• Xennials are a 'micro-generation' born between 1977 and 1985.
• This group has also been called the 'Oregon Trail Generation.'
• Xennials may have been hit hardest by the recession, because of a combination of student loan debt, job losses, and other factors.

It's hard not fitting in.

If you feel sort-of-but-not-quite like a millennial, and sort-of-but-not-quite like a Gen X-er, take heart: You might just be a Xennial. That's a term for the "micro-generation" born between 1977 and 1985.

The term was coined in 2014, by Sarah Stankorb in Good Magazine. Recently, people have started talking about Xennials again, with self-proclaimed members of this demographic waxing (read: tweeting) nostalgic about Oregon Trail and flip phones. Merriam-Webster even labeled "xennial" one of its "words we're watching."

Below, Business Insider has outlined the defining characteristics of Xennials, and how they're different from the generations that came before and after them.

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Xennials are a 'micro-generation,' born between 1977 and 1985.

Source: Business Insider

This group has also been called the 'Oregon Trail Generation,' in reference to a popular computer game when they were growing up.

Source: Social Media Week

Xennials were the first generation to grow up with household computers and have internet access. ('You've got mail!')

Source: Social Media Week

• Bartenders can tell a lot about a person based on their drink order.
• Several bartenders Business Insider interviewed said they looked down on people who order vodka.
• Here's what ordering vodka says about you, according to these bartenders.

He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink, he drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink — all fine options, except for one.

"You can tell what type of person someone is by their drink order in specific bars," Anjali Sharma, a former bartender with eight years of experience from Atlanta, told Business Insider.

And ordering vodka apparently speaks volumes to bartenders.

According to some of the bartenders Business Insider surveyed, if you order vodka drinks, you either look boring or troublesome — or perhaps both.

"Please don't order vodka," Emily Doyle, a bartender with 12 years of experience in Ireland, told Business Insider. "You're nice when you stick with beer, but a demon on spirits."

"Friends don't let friends date vodka-soda girls. Basic girls always order them," Kyle Siegel, a bartender with nine years of experience in Montauk, New York; New York City; Palm Beach and West Palm, Florida; and Maryland told Business Insider.

"Vodka is for people want to f--k up and forget," an anonymous bartender said.

These feelings of disdain are compounded when the vodka you order comes in the form of expensive shots.

Of course, vodka drinkers needn't despair. At the end of the day, paying customers who aren't overly intoxicated will generally get what they order.

All bartenders ask is that you be nice. "Eye contact, greetings, please and thank you — I'll respond in kind, and we'll all have more pleasant interactions," Rebecka, a bartender with 10 years of experience in New York and Glasgow, Scotland, told Business Insider.

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• Many retailers are closing stores, but luxury still seems to be thriving.
• Cushman & Wakefield has crunched the numbers to find the most expensive streets shopping streets in America.
• These shopping areas have thrived despite the retail apocalypse.

If there's a retail apocalypse going on, nobody told the stores on 5th Avenue.

The upper reaches of the Manhattan street again ranked as the most expensive place in the US to rent space for a retail store. It's the most expensive shopping street in the country as well as the world, according to a new report by commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield.

It seems that though many stores are indeed closing, the trend is mostly impacting lower-priced mall locations — and not the main streets in the US' biggest cities.

"While there has been a lot of discussion around store closures, the main high street markets have not been as adversely affected as some of the headlines might suggest," the report reads. 

Here are the most expensive shopping streets in America: 

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9. Walnut Street — Philadelphia

Like many other cities, Philadelphia has gotten a retail boost from e-commerce-based brands that have opened stores in major shopping areas. The rent on Walnut Street averages $125 per square foot a year. 

8. Newbury Street — Boston

Boston's famous shopping street also has stores from e-commerce-based brands, but it's famous in its own right. That's good enough to command $130 per square foot in rent per year.

7. Worth Avenue — Palm Beach

Palm Beach's pricey boutiques also have pricey rent. It costs an average of $145 a square foot per year to rent on the main street, Worth Avenue.

• Macy's flagship store on 34th Street in New York City is requiring parents to make reservations for their children to get their pictures taken with Santa this year.
• The policy is designed to reduce wait times and congestion around the store's Santaland exhibit.
• The exhibit will run from Nov. 24-Dec. 24.

Getting your photo taken with Santa Claus is a childhood tradition, but one that often requires patience.

Long lines have the potential to leave children and their parents irritable, a problem malls and department stores have tried to solve in recent years. A New Jersey mall outraged parents by charging $35-$50 for admission into a Santa exhibit in 2015, and this year, Macy's flagship store in New York City is requiring parents to make reservations for their children to get a picture with Santa.

While reservations at Macy's 34th Street location will be free, this is the first year the retailer has adopted this policy. Macy's Santaland exhibit will run from Nov. 24-Dec. 24, and parents can make reservations for 30-minute time slots on the Macy's website anywhere from 30 minutes to five days in advance. Macy's hopes the policy will reduce wait times and congestion around the store's Santa-themed display.

"Santa's a popular guy, so the wait times to meet him have been quite long in previous years, especially on our busiest days," the company said on its website. "The new reservation system is designed to minimize this by scheduling visitors to join the line at a time of your choice, allowing for the best possible holiday experience."

Macy's recommends that customers check in at any point during their 30-minute time slot and anticipates that lines will be shortest from Monday through Thursday.

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• Hedge-fund manager Barry Rosenstein put his Hamptons beach house on the market for $70 million.
• The property covers 13,623 square feet and has seven bedrooms, 9.5 bathrooms, a guest cottage, and a lap pool.
• Rosenstein broke the record for the most expensive home ever sold in the United States when he paid $137 million for another Hamptons property in 2014.

Three years after buying the most expensive home in US history, hedge-fund manager Barry Rosenstein is putting another of his homes on the market for $70 million. Located in the Hamptons, the home was purchased by Rosenstein for $19.2 million in 2005, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Rosenstein founded the hedge fund Jana Partners in 2001. The fund has invested in Whole Foods and Blue Apron, among other companies. In 2013, he paid $137 million for a home in East Hampton — a purchase that remains a record in the United States.

While it won't break any real estate records, Rosenstein's $70 million property is still quite luxurious. Take a look at what it has to offer.

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The home covers 13,623 square feet.

Source: Douglas Elliman Real Estate

If the home sells for its listed price, Rosenstein stands to make a profit of more than $50 million. He bought it for $19.2 million in 2005.

It has a total of seven bedrooms and 9.5 bathrooms.

• Tuesday, November 28, is the best time to buy flights before the holidays.
• Flight prices are more than 40% off on so-called Travel Deal Tuesday.
• If you're flexible about your travel destination, use travel app Hopper's Flex Watch feature to find cheap flights.

Travelers rejoice: there's a "Black Friday" for flight deals.

On Tuesday, November 28 — or so-called Travel Deal Tuesday — you could score more than 40% off round-trip flights to destinations all over the world, according to an analysis by travel app Hopper.

Depending on who you're shopping for this year, cheap airfare could make a great experiential gift to give someone. 

If you don't have time to scour flight options online all day — or you're not even sure where you want to go — Hopper will use its flight price reports to track and analyze airfare to various destinations to help you figure out "when to fly and buy" for the lowest cost.

It's latest feature, called Flex Watch, will suggest locations that have the cheapest prices available right now. It's perfect for the budget-conscious traveler, as well as the indecisive traveler who desperately needs to get away but doesn't want to overpay. 

And it's easy to set up. All you have to know is where you are traveling from (your home airport, most likely) and when you want to go (this could be a span of a few months or specific dates). You can also choose which continent, country, or state you're interested in visiting.

Then, browse through options immediately if you're searching on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, since that's when prices are expected to be at their lowest before the holidays. If you're not seeing a trip you like, or you want to wait to buy for other reasons, set up a push notification to get an alert on any can't-miss deals.

Hopper predicts round-trip flight prices for dozens of popular cities across the US will be between $160 and $270 if you buy on Travel Deal Tuesday.

Here are some popular international fare sales Hopper expects will be available (all prices are average round-trip for US origin cities):

• Cancun, Mexico: $313
• San Jose, Costa Rica: $358
• Bogota, Columbia: $418
• Reykjavik, Iceland: $502
• Dublin, Ireland: $531
• Paris, France: $566
• London, United Kingdom: $594
• Bangkok, Thailand: $607
• Delhi, India: $669
• Madrid, Spain: $678
• Tokyo, Japan: $736
• Rome, Italy: $741

Check out Hopper's full list of predicted fare deals here.

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When cult leader Charles Manson and his "family" carried out their infamous nine-person killing spree in 1969 Los Angeles, the events sent shockwaves across America.

Born from the the hippie scene of late-60s California, Manson's murders landed him a life sentence in prison. That sentence ended on Sunday, when the cult leader died at age 83 at a hospital in Bakersfield, California.

Here's a rundown of his turbulent life, his violent crimes, and the aftermath of the Manson Family murders:

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Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1934 to a 16-year-old mother who was an alcoholic with a criminal record. He lived a troubled childhood growing up in various boys' schools, and likely never knew his biological father.

Manson bounced around from boarding schools to foster homes starting when he was five years old, soon after his mother was convicted of armed robbery and given a five-year prison sentence.

Sources: Biography, The Guardian

Manson displayed violent and manipulative tendencies even when he was very young. He was known to manipulate his classmates in the first grade into hurting kids he didn't like. As a problem child in the foster care system, he soon fell into a life of petty crime, and starting in 1956, spent years in federal prison for a variety of offenses, including forging government checks.

Manson did his first stint in prison in 1951, and was in and out of jail throughout the '50s and '60s.

A probation report from this period says Manson displayed a "marked degree of rejection, instability and psychic trauma", and was "constantly striving for status and securing some kind of love." Such symptoms were likely the result his largely parent-less and tumultuous childhood.

His crimes during this period largely included stealing cars, pimping young prostitutes, and forgery.

Sources: Biography, The Guardian

After his release from prison in 1967, Manson initially arrived in California to pursue music, and became influenced by LSD, hippie culture, and The Beatles.

Having learned to play guitar in prison, Manson arrived in Los Angeles with hopes of securing a recording contract through some of the big names in the industry at the time.

While he did his best to wow artists like Neil Young and The Mamas and Papas, his idiosyncratic folk music failed to generate enthusiasm until he was introduced to Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, who saw talent in Manson's playing.

Wilson allowed Manson and several of "his girls" — who had by now begun coalescing around him because they believed he was a guru with prophetic powers — to stay with him at his mansion in June 1968.

Wilson eventually kicked them out after they began causing trouble, but Manson later accused the Beach Boys of reworking one of his songs and including it on their 1969 album "20/20" without crediting him.

Sources: BBC, People

• Jay-Z's entrepreneurial vision has broadened rapidly over the course of his career.
• The rapper-mogul has founded or owned, among other ventures, a clothing company, a restaurant chain, a sports management firm, two record labels, and the streaming service Tidal.
• He's the second richest hip-hop artist in the world, with an estimated net worth of $810 million.

Jay-Z's entrepreneurial vision and wealth have grown exponentially since the rapper's career took off in the early 1990s.

The rapper-mogul made his first major business move in 1995, when he founded Roc-A-Fella Records.

As his rap career prospered over the ensuing decades, Jay-Z also began an insatiable pursuit of new business opportunities, including the founding of several companies and making a number of other shrewd investments that extended beyond the rap world.  

From starting record labels and a clothing company, to making major moves into sports management with Roc Nation Sports, and into the competitive world of streaming with Tidal, Jay-Z's wide-reaching entrepreneurial efforts continue to embody one of his most famous lyrics: "I'm not a businessman / I'm a business, man."

The following is a brief history of Jay-Z's most notable businesses and investments, the total of which have made him the second richest hip-hop artist in the world, with an estimated net worth of $810 million:

Roc-A-Fella Records 

In 1995, Jay-Z used the money he received from signing a deal with Payday Records to start his own label, Roc-A-Fella Records, alongside his former associates, Damon "Dame" Dash and Kareem "Biggs" Burke.

Roc-A-Fella started out in a small office space in a low-rent part of downtown New York City, operating as an imprint of the Island Def Jam Music Group. Its first release was Jay-Z's debut album, "Reasonable Doubt," which dropped in 1996 to critical acclaim and modest commercial success.

The label would go on to release some of the best and most commercially successful rap music of the late 1990s and 2000s, including Kanye West's first six albums, and every Jay-Z album through 2013's "Magna Carta Holy Grail."

Roc-A-Fella went defunct in 2013, five years after Jay-Z had started his second successful label, Roc Nation. 

Rocawear 

In 1999, Jay-Z and Damon Dash created Rocawear, an urban clothing line that would go on to have annual sales of around $700 million during its peak in the early 2000s, according to The New York Times.

After having a falling out with Dash in 2006, Jay-Z took the company over. He then sold the rights to Rocawear to the Iconix Brand Group in 2007 for $204 million.

He no longer has a stake in the company.

The 40/40 Club

In 2003, Jay-Z opened The 40/40 Club, an upscale sports bar and restaurant in Manhattan's Flatiron District. He co-owns the club with his business partner Juan Perez, who would go on to be the president of Jay-Z's sports management firm, Roc Nation Sports. 

Jay-Z name-dropped the club for the first time on his 2003 hit "Dirt off Your Shoulders," rapping, "Now you chillin' with a boss, b---- / Of course, S.C. on the sleeve / At the 40/40 Club, ESPN on the screen."

The restaurant chain expanded to new five new locations over the next 11 years, including spots in Atlantic City, Las Vegas, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Roc Nation

After a productive stint as the CEO and President of Def Jam Recordings (between 2004 and 2008), Jay-Z left his longtime label and teamed up with entrepreneur Jay Brown to found the entertainment label Roc Nation in 2008.

Rihanna, Jay-Z's star signee from his Def Jam executive days, left Def Jam in 2014 to join Roc Nation, adding to a roster that now includes the likes of J. Cole, Shakira, DJ Khaled, T.I., and Big Sean.

Roc Nation is owned by the entertainment company Live Nation, and it has offices in New York City, Nashville, Los Angeles, and London. It launched its own sports management division, Roc Nation Sports, in 2013.

In April 2017, Roc Nation announced the launch of Arrive, a venture capital firm that provides brand services and business development to early-stage startups.

Roc Nation Sports

In 2013, Jay-Z made a huge move into sports management when he launched Roc Nation Sports in a partnership with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA). 

Jay-Z previously had a minority share in the Brooklyn Nets basketball team. In 2013, a year after he orchestrated the team's name change and move from New Jersey to the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Jay had to give up his stake in the team in order to legally manage players. 

Roc Nation Sports currently represents star athletes like Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant, Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley, and Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Canó.

Michael R. Yormark, Roc Nation's president and chief of branding and strategy, described Jay-Z as having an "entrepreneurial spirit that is absolutely contagious."

"When I joined Roc Nation, he immediately encouraged me and my team to take chances with Roc Nation Sports because you can’t have an ounce of fear when you’re building a business," Yormark told Business Insider. "Thanks to Jay’s leadership and strategic vision over the years, Roc Nation Sports has grown exponentially by signing world-class athletes across a vast array of sports. We believe there’s nothing we can’t accomplish and that is a testament to the attitude that Jay and Roc Nation Sports President Juan Perez has instilled in us."

Tidal

After Jay-Z acquired the Norwegian tech company Aspiro in March 2015, he quickly relaunched the company's streaming service, Tidal, with a flashy press conference. 

Sixteen major artists, including Jay-Z, Kanye West, Madonna, and J. Cole, stood on a stage in New York City on March 30, 2015, and were introduced as the co-owners and stakeholders of the first "artist-owned" streaming service. 

The service's business model has centered around hosting exclusive releases from artists like Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and Kanye West.

In March 2016, the company claimed to have reached 3 million global subscribers, but an internal report from January 2017 showed that it only had 1.2 million subscribers. Since Jay-Z relaunched the service, Tidal has also seen a consistent exodus of top executives. 

Though Tidal has certainly not been smooth sailing for Jay-Z, in January 2017, he sold sold 33 percent of Tidal to the phone company Sprint for $200 million. It was reportedly worth $56 million when he bought it in 2015.

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• Most American schoolchildren grow up with the story of how the English pilgrims and Native Americans came together for the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth.

• In reality, peace didn't last between the English settlers and their one-time Wampanoag allies.

• The two became embroiled in a devastating war just a generation after the famous feast.

In the US, Thanksgiving is a time for family, parades, lots of delicious food, and, oftentimes, intense travel snarls.

American schoolchildren are usually taught the tradition dates back to the pilgrims, English religious dissenters who helped to establish the Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts. As the story goes, friendly local Native Americans swooped in to teach the struggling colonists how to survive.

Then everyone got together to celebrate with a feast in 1621. Attendees included at least 90 men from the Wampanoag tribe and the 50 or so surviving Mayflower passengers, according to TIME. The bash lasted three days and featured a menu including deer, fowl, and corn, according to Smithsonian Magazine.

In reality, Thanksgiving feasts predate Plymouth. You'll even find a number of localities have vied to claim the first Thanksgiving for themselves.

Settlers in Berkeley Hundred in Virginia decided to celebrate their arrival with an annual Thanksgiving back in 1619, according to The Virginian-Pilot— although The Washingtonian reported the meal was probably little more than some oysters and ham thrown together. And decades before that, Spanish settlers and members of the Seloy tribe broke bread with salted pork, garbanzo beans, and a Mass in 1565 Florida, according to the National Parks Service.

Our modern definition of Thanksgiving revolves around eating turkey, but in past centuries it was more of an occasion for religious observance. The storied 1621 Plymouth festivities live on in popular memory, but the pilgrims themselves would have likely considered their sober 1623 day of prayer the first true "Thanksgiving," according to the blog the History of Massachusetts. Others pinpoint 1637 as the true origin of Thanksgiving, owing to the fact Massachusetts colony governor John Winthrop declared a day of thanks-giving to celebrate colonial soldiers who had just slaughtered 700 Pequot men, women, and children in what is now Mystic, Connecticut.

Either way, the popular telling of the first Thanksgiving is what lived on, thanks to Abraham Lincoln.

The enduring holiday has also nearly erased from our collective memory what happened between the Wampanoag and the English a generation later.

Massosoit, the sachem or paramount chief of the Wampanoag, proved to be a crucial ally to the English settlers in the years following the establishment of Plymouth. He set up an exclusive trade pact with the newcomers, and allied with them against the French and other local tribes like the Narragansetts and Massachusetts.

However, the alliance became strained overtime.

Thousands of English colonists poured into the region throughout the 17th century. According to "Historic Contact: Indian People and Colonists in Today's Northeastern United States," authorities in Plymouth began asserting control over "most aspects of Wampanoag life," as settlers increasingly ate up more land. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History estimated disease had already reduced the Native American population in New England by as much as 90% from 1616 to 1619, and indigenous people continued to die from what the colonists called "Indian fever."

By the time Massasoit's son Metacomet — known to the English as "King Philip" — inherited leadership, relations had frayed. King Phillip's War was sparked when several of Metacomet's men were executed for the murder of Punkapoag interpreter and Christian convert John Sassamon.

Wampanoag warriors responded by embarking on a series of raids, and the New England Confederation of Colonies declared war in 1675. The initially neutral Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was ultimately dragged into the fighting, as were other nearby tribes like the Narragansetts.

The war was bloody and devastating.

Springfield, Massachusetts was burned to the ground. The Wampanoag abducted colonists for ransom. English forces attacked the Narragansetts on a bitter, frozen swamp for harboring fleeing Wampanoag. Six hundred Narragansetts were killed, and the tribe's winter stores were ruined, according to Atlas Obscura. Colonists in far flung settlements relocated to more fortified areas while the Wampanoag and allied tribes were forced to flee their villages.

The colonists ultimately allied with several tribes like the Mohigans and Pequots, despite initial reluctance from the Plymouth leadership.

Meanwhile, Metacomet was dealt a staggering blow when he crossed over into New York to recruit allies. Instead, he was rebuffed and attacked by Mohawks. Upon his return to his ancestral home at Mount Hope, he was shot and killed in a final battle. The son of the man who had sustained and celebrated with the Plymouth Colony was then beheaded and dismembered, according to "It Happened in Rhode Island." His remaining allies were killed or sold into slavery in the West Indies. The colonists impaled "King Phillip's" head on a spike and displayed it in Plymouth for 25 years.

In an article published in The Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Montclair State University professor Robert E. Cray Jr. said the war's ultimate death toll could have been as high as 30% of the English population and half of the Native Americans in New England.

The war was just one of a series of brutal but dimly remembered early colonial wars between Native Americans and colonists that occurred in New England, New York, and Virginia.

Popular memory has largely clung to the innocuous image of a harvest celebration, while ignoring the deadly forces that would ultimately drive apart the descendants of the guests of that very feast.

Modern day Thanksgiving may be a celebration of people coming together, but that's not the whole story when it comes to the history of the day.

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Thanksgiving is just around the corner.

That means it's gobbler season at Wawa.

For everyone who doesn't live in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Florida, Wawa is a beloved East Coast convenience store chain. And the gobbler is pretty much the sandwich version of a hearty Thanksgiving meal.

I attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, which is conveniently located right next to a cheery, 24/7 Wawa. I've spent many a night making delicious but poor nutritional decisions in said Wawa, but I'd never sampled this particular sandwich.

I decided to change that during a recent trip down to Williamsburg.

Here's what I thought of the turkey gobbler:

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The cost of the sandwich came to $5.19. On the store's touch screen menu, I selected a smaller "Shorti" roll. I also requested that the sandwich be toasted.

Next, I wandered around trying to find a spot where I could eat the hefty sandwich without looking too much like a dazed, hungover casualty of William and Mary's homecoming celebrations. I ended up hunkering down at a deserted picnic table with two jolly jack-o-lanterns.

On first glance, the gobbler looks like a lot to handle. I was worried it'd be too rich for my taste. Plus, I had already eaten pancakes for breakfast, so I was reluctant to chow down on anything too heavy.

Wine Spectator's editors have been reviewing the best wines in the world since 1988.

Each year, they release their list of the top 100 wines in the world.

"The wines featured on our Top 100 list capture the character of the past year and exemplify the quality and diversity the wine world has to offer," Marvin R. Shanken, editor and publisher of Wine Spectator said in a press release.

This year, the winners were chosen from a pool of 16,000 wines, which the reviewers graded, following blind tastings, according to four factors: quality, value, availability, and the so-called "X-factor," or the excitement that the wine causes.

Here are the 20 best wines in the world, according to Wine Spectator: 

1. Duckhorn Merlot Napa Valley Three Palms Vineyard 2014 ($98, Napa Valley, California)

2. K Syrah Walla Walla Valley Powerline Estate 2014 ($45, Walla Walla Valley, Washington) 

3. Château Coutet Barsac 2014 ($37, Bordeaux, France)

4. Casanova di Neri Brunello di Montalcino 2012 ($65, Tuscany, Italy)

5. Château de St.-Cosme Gigondas 2015 ($43, Rhône Valley, France)

6. Domaine Huët Vouvray Demi-Sec Le Mont 2016 ($44, Loire Valley, France)

7. Château Canon-La Gaffelière St.-Emilion 2014 ($61, Bordeaux, France)

8. Meyer Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 201 ($70, Napa Valley, California)

9. Pahlmeyer Chardonnay Napa Valley 2015 ($75, Napa Valley, California)

10. Booker Oublié Paso Robles 2014 ($80, Paso Robles, California)

11. Altesino Brunello di Montalcino Our 40th Harvest ($65, Tuscany, Italy)

12. Bedrock Zinfandel California Old Vine ($25, Sonoma Valley, California)

13. Sixto Chardonnay Washington Uncovered ($35, Walla Walla Valley, Washington)

14. Clos des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape ($109, Rhône Valley, France)

15. Domaine des Baumard Savennières ($30, Loire Valley, France)

16. Turley Zinfandel Paso Robles Ueberroth Vineyard ($48, Paso Robles, California)

17. Volver Alicante Tarima Hill Old Vines ($17, Alicante, Spain)

18. Bodega Colomé Malbec Salta ($25, Salta, Argentina)

19. Marqués de Cáceres Rioja Reserva ($31, La Rioja, Spain)

20. San Felice Brunello di Montalcino Campogiovanni ($60, Tuscany, Italy)

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Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein fell from his lofty pedestal atop the entertainment industry in October after more than 80 women accused him of varying degrees of sexual misconduct.

Since the accusations against Weinstein came to light, the floodgates have opened and scores of women have come out with allegations against some of the most powerful figures in media and politics.

Here are some of the biggest names in the industry who have been accused of sexual misconduct. This list includes men who were accused after the Weinstein allegations came to light, but also some prominent men in media and politics whose accusations resurfaced after Weinstein's accusers came forward.

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Longtime television host and CBS News anchor Charlie Rose.

Eight women accused Rose, a veteran TV journalist, of sexual misconduct including groping, lewd phone calls, and exposing himself. 

The alleged encounters took place from the late 1990s to 2011, according to The Washington Post. All the women either worked for or hope to work for Rose at the "Charlie Rose" show which has aired on PBS since 1993. 

Reah Bravo told The Post that Rose made sexual advances towards her while she was an intern and associate producer on the "Charlie Rose" show. "He was a sexual predator, and I was his victim," she said.

Kyle Godfrey-Ryan used to be Rose's assistant when she was 21 and said Rose walked naked in front of her at least a dozen times when she was at his home. He also allegedly made multiple late-night or early-morning phone calls to her and told her he fantasized about her swimming naked in a pool while he watched.

Megan Creydt told The Post that Rose put his hand on her thigh when she worked on his show between 2005 and 2006. She said she believed he was "testing" her boundaries. 

Five other women spoke on the condition of anonymity and described similar behavior to that described in Creydt's, Godfrey-Ryan's, and Bravo's accounts. 

Rose said he was "deeply" sorry for his behavior in a statement to The Post. "I am greatly embarrassed. I have behaved insensitively at times, and I accept responsibility for that, though I do not believe that all of these allegations are accurate. I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though I now realize I was mistaken."

He added that he had come to a "newer and deeper recognition" of the pain his conduct had caused and that he had "profound" respect for "women and their lives." 

CBS suspended Rose and PBS halted the production and distribution of his show after the allegations came out, according to The Associated Press. 

Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota

Los Angeles TV broadcaster Leeann Tweeden alleged in a column for 790 KABC that Sen. Al Franken kissed and groped her without her consent in 2006, while she was part of a United Service Organizations tour to entertain military service members abroad.

In a statement sent to Business Insider, Franken apologized to Tweeden.

"I certainly don't remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but I send my sincerest apologies to Leeann. As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn't. I shouldn't have done it," he said.

A second woman accused Franken on Nov. 20 of groping her buttocks when they took a photograph together in 2010.

Lindsay Menz, 33, told CNN that Franken "pulled me in really close, like awkward close, and as my husband took the picture, he put his hand full-fledged on my rear." She said his hand was "wrapped tightly around my butt cheek."

Franken released a statement after Menz went public with her allegations, saying that he takes "thousands" of photos with people and did not remember taking the picture with Menz.

"I feel badly that Ms. Menz came away from our interaction feeling disrespected," he said.

Franken has asked that the Senate undertake an ethics investigation into his actions since Tweeden accused him of inappropriate conduct.

"Coming from the world of comedy, I've told and written a lot of jokes that I once thought were funny but later came to realize were just plain offensive," he said. "But the intentions behind my actions aren't the point at all. It's the impact these jokes had on others that matters. And I'm sorry it's taken me so long to come to terms with that."

Roy Moore, former judge and current Alabama Senate candidate

Nine women have accused Moore of sexual misconduct or pursuing relationships with them when they were teenagers.

• Leigh Corfman told The Washington Post that she was 14 years old when the then-32-year-old Moore made unwanted sexual advances toward her.

• Two other women told The Post that they dated Moore when they were 17 and 18 years old. Another woman said Moore asked her out when she was 16 but that they did not go out.

• Gena Richardson told the paper that Moore asked her out while she was a high school senior, and allegedly gave her an unwanted "forceful" kiss that scared her.

• Beverly Young Nelson said during a press conference Nov. 13 that Moore attempted to sexually assault her when she was a 16-year-old waitress.

•Tina Johnson told AL.com that Moore allegedly "grabbed" her buttocks in 1991 while she was in his law office.

Moore has vehemently denied all the accusations against him and painted them as a liberal smear on his campaign.

Several prominent Republicans have since disavowed Moore, and called on him to step down. Some have also floated the option of removing him from the chamber if he wins Alabama's special election in December.

On Nov. 19, many of Alabama's most influential newspapers ran a scathing editorial condemning Moore and endorsing his opponent, Democrat Doug Jones. 

• Everyone has bad workplace habits
• Whether you realize it or not, they could be driving your coworkers nuts.
• You're best avoiding certain habits at work, like eating smelly food at your desk or talking politics.

Americans with full-time jobs spend about a third of their weekdays at work.

So it's understandable that in all that time you spend around your coworkers and bosses, you're bound to let a bad habit or two slip.

Many of these office faux pas, however, may be avoided — you just need to know what it is that drives everyone around you nuts.

For the sake of your office compatriots, take a moment to remind yourself what behavior at work may be negatively affecting others.

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Showing up late to work

"Punctuality is critical," says Rosalinda Oropeza Randall, an etiquette and civility expert and author of "Don't Burp in the Boardroom."

"The professional thing to do is to arrive on time, ready to do what is expected. It's not like they just sprung this job on you," she says.

Rolling in 10 minutes late to every meeting

Similarly, arriving late to meetings shows that you neither respect your coworkers — who showed up on time, by the way — nor the meeting organizer, Vicky Oliver, author of "301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions," tells Business Insider.

"Keeping people waiting can be construed as inconsiderate, rude, or arrogant," Randall says.

Calling in sick when you aren't

"Remember the adage that half of life is showing up," Oliver says.

You won't prove you deserve the promotion if you call in sick every few weeks.

Ever wonder why airplane passengers are asked to lift up their window shades before takeoff and landing? A flight attendant explains why they do this. Following is a transcript of the video.

Why airlines ask you to lift up the window shades for takeoffs and landings.

The FAA requires that every airplane can be fully evacuated in 90 seconds or less. Meaning a flight crew only has 90 seconds to direct passengers to emergency exits.  To prepare for a potential evacuation, flight attendants ask passengers in emergency exit rows to lift up their window shades before takeoff and landing. 

One flight attendant tells us...

"If there's an emergency, we have to be able to look out the window to assess outside conditions. If there is debris, fire, or water blocking the window, we won't use that exit and will direct people elsewhere. It may seem like a small thing but in an emergency every second counts. You don't want to have to fiddle with a window shade when you're trying to safely evacuate a plane in 90 seconds."

EDITOR'S NOTE: This video was originally published on April 6, 2016.

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• &pizza is a popular fast-casual pizza chain with 23 stores in four states.
• It just raised another round of funding to grow even more. 
• In a taste test, we found the pizzas lived up to the hype.

Chains like Blaze Pizza, MOD Pizza, and Pizza Studio are gaining a foothold in the US by offering almost entirely customizable personal pizzas at fast-casual speeds and prices. 

Now, Washington, DC-based &pizza is entering the arena with a recent round of undisclosed funding from RSE Ventures — RSE's co-founder, Stephen Ross, also has investments in SoulCycle and Equinox. The investment is aimed at cracking into the Northeast market with expansion plans targeting Boston and New York, as well as openings expected in Miami. 

We decided to visit this rapidly growing chain's New York City location. 

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We visited the &pizza location at 28th Street and Broadway, one of two in NYC. The chain has locations in four states and Washington, DC — a total of 23 stores, with three more opening soon. This recent funding round is meant to fuel its expansion into the Northeast.

The chain offers online ordering both on its website and through its app. Choose what pizza you want, and show up to pay and pick it up.

The store is incredibly stylized — crisp, graphic, black-and-white decor is front and center. It's clean and stark, almost to the point of sterility.

The more you travel, the more you realise there's so much of the world still to discover.

In order to help you put together your 2018 travel bucket list, Business Insider asked the world's most esteemed travel experts — from the likes of Airbnb and Lonely Planet to independent bloggers and backpacking Instagrammers — for the one destination everyone should visit in the new year.

Including three experts who simply couldn't pick just one location, their answers have been compiled into a list of must-see places to visit in 2018.

Whether it's a spot set to be the next big travel trend or a completely under-the-radar natural phenomenon that you need to see in your lifetime, scroll on to discover the 25 best places to visit in 2018, according to the world's leading travel experts.

Trek to the Royal Highland Festival in Laya — the highest settlement in Bhutan.

Sebastiaan Rijntjes, Co-Founder of travel blog Lost With Purpose, believes that the trek to Bhutan's highest settlement, Laya, should be on every seasoned traveller's bucket list for 2018.

"In October, Bhutan will celebrate its third annual Royal Highlander Festival in Laya — one of the highest settlements in the world at almost 4,000 metres," Rijntjes said.

"The festival celebrates Himalayan nomad culture, so expect highlander sports such as archery and horse riding, yak beauty contests, and endlessly colourful nomad attire. If you're lucky, you might even get to meet the king of Bhutan!"

Watch classic cars cruise past in Viñales, Cuba.

Tom McDermott, Editor at online shop and journal Huckberry, believes the colourful streets and lush countryside of Viñales, Cuba, is a destination everyone should take the time to experience in 2018.

"The surrounding countryside is incredibly beautiful, and the town square is full of live music and dancing until late into the night," he said.

"Stay at Casa Dovales for some of the best home-cooked meals around, walk towards the Mural de la Prehistoria to find brightly painted homes nestled in the foothills, or spend some time playing cards at a local cafe and watching the classic cars cruise down the street."

Catch a wave along the Alentejo Coast, Portugal.

Maya Goldfine, Product Editor at Huckberry, endorses the clear waves and breathtaking cliffs of Sines and Porto Covo along the Alentejo coastline in Portugal.

"São Torpes is my favourite surf spot. The beaches are empty and the waves easy to ride — and the water doesn't chill you to the bone, which is unusual for the Atlantic coast," Goldfine said.

"The area is just as amazing as the ever-popular Algarve coast, but far less visited, especially by American tourists. It's definitely a locals-only vacation spot."

The world’s most ultimate overwater villa is based in the Maldives — and it will cost you at least $14,000 (£10,568) per night.

Gili Lankanfushi, the world-renowned resort with a "no news, no shoes" approach to laidback luxury, is the creator of The Private Reserve, a 18,000+ square foot thatched villa built entirely above a postcard-perfect lagoon.   

Famous guests who have stayed at this piece of paradise include billionaire Richard Branson and tennis star Novak Djokovic.

Based in total seclusion from the rest of the luxury resort — 1,000 feet away from the nearest villa — The Private Reserve is only accessible by boat, which is given to guests for their own use around Gili Lankanfushi or driven by personal butlers (called Mr. or Ms. Friday).

With a spa, pool, gym, cinema room, and a chef’s kitchen all within the villa, there’s no need for guests to venture anywhere else (and they usually don't). 

Scroll down for a look inside one’s of the world’s most exclusive tropical escapes.

Among the many amenities in the five-unit Private Reserve, the most impressive (and Instagrammed) is the two-storey waterslide which curves down into the private lagoon waters.

The mega-villa’s central living area features an open-air, open-plan design. With ample space and seating options including two massive, circular sectional sofas suspended over the dazzling lagoon, the Private Reserve can easily accommodate gatherings for 20 or more people.

The villa comes with a "Mr. Friday" or "Ms. Friday" (a "Robinson Crusoe"-themed ode to the personal butler) available 24-hours a day to handle all of one’s cares and requests. Since there are live-in quarters for the "Fridays" within the Private Reserve, lightning-speed service and assistance is never too far away.