What is BLACK FRIDAY? I never heard of that before?? Help anayone?!?!

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. It is traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year but has lost some meaning because stores no longer wait until after Thanksgiving to start their Christmas sales.

It's just what they call the biggest shopping day of the year. The day after thanksgiving has always been called black friday.

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It is the first shopping day after thanksgiving you can go spend your mylot money

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the holiday season. Most retailers will open very early and usually provide massive discounts on their products.
Although Black Friday is typically the busiest shopping day of the year in terms of customer traffic, it is not typically the day with the highest sales volume. That is usually either Christmas Eve, the last Saturday before Christmas, or December 26th

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. It's supposed to be the biggest shopping day of the year, however last year it didn't even make the top four. Most of the shops have really big sales, and it's supposed to be the first major day of Christmas shopping.

Industry lingo that has come to connote a sharp drop in the financial markets. The first Black Friday occurred on September 24, 1869. A group of financiers attempted to corner the gold market, which caused a panic and then an economic depression. The panic of 1873 also began on Friday.
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Friday, September 24, 1869, a day on which two financial speculators, James Fisk and Jay Gould, attempted to corner the US gold market. On September 20 they began purchasing gold in New York City; by September 24 they controlled enough of the available supply in the city to bid up the price from about 140 to 1634. This rapid increase in the price of gold threw the stock exchange into confusion, and the prices of commodities fluctuated wildly. ...
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Black Friday occurred September 8, 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 AP) in Iran. The country had long been convulsed with protests against the rule of the Muhammad Reza Shah. The Shah thus declared martial law. This was ignored, however. On September 8, Tehran erupted with mass protests. Despite the largely peaceful nature of the protests the military used all available force to break up the demonstrations. This included the use of tanks and helicopter gunships. ...
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Black Friday is the name of a film on the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai.
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The Black Friday fires of 1939 were the worst in Australian history. Almost 20,000 km² were burnt, 71 people died, several towns were entirely destroyed, and the Royal Commission that resulted from it led to major changes in forest management. Over 1000 homes and 71 sawmills were also burnt.
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Black Friday, September 24, 1869, was a financial panic in the United States caused by two speculators' efforts to corner the gold market. It was one of several scandals that rocked the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.
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Cypress Hill is a prominent rap music group (formed in 1988), which has sold 15 million records around the world. It is composed of members B-Real (Louis Freese or Freeze, Mexican/Cuban), Sen Dog (Senen Reyes, Cuban), DJ Muggs (Lawrence Muggerud, Italian-American) and, since 1994, percussionist Eric Bobo. Muggs, when asked about the new member, said: "As Latinos we thought it would be a good idea to build in some of this Latin Jazz Flavor."
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Black Friday (??????????), August 13, 2004, is the crackdown by NSS on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé. This demonstration, unplanned and unorganized, was the largest such protest in the country's history ever. Started in the evening of August 12, 2004, the demonstration grew and continued till it was forcefully ended in the afternoon of August 13, 2004. ...
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Black Friday (also called Blitz Day), the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the Christmas shopping season. The "black" in the name comes from the standard accounting practice of using red ink to denote negative values (i.e., losses) and black ink to denote positive values (profits). ...
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