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Every year on November 5, skies across England, Scotland and Wales are illuminated by fireworks as Brits head out into the night to enjoy Guy Fawkes Night celebrations. Also called Fireworks Night ...
The former school of gunpowder plotter Guy Fawkes is all set for its annual fireworks display - but there will not be a bonfire or a guy, the head teacher has said. Fawkes - the most infamous ...
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THE FIFTH of November is known across the world as Guy Fawkes Night. The primarily English holiday commemorates the historical moment a member of the Gunpowder Plot was arrested for guarding ...
On November 5, 1605, revolutionary Guy Fawkes was caught guarding a stash of gunpowder that was to be used to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, England. Fawkes and his co-conspirators ...
What pushed Guy Fawkes over the edge? What pushed Guy Fawkes over the edge? What turned him from a radical who wanted change to an extremist willing to kill? Foreign correspondent Jason Burke has ...
George Washington called Guy Fawkes Day a grave insult to America's Catholics. After the Revolution, America stopped celebrating it. Today, millions of British will celebrate it with "Bonfire Night." ...
After their infamous plot to destroy parliament was foiled, Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators received one of the most severe judicial sentences in English history: hanging, drawing and quartering.
It is believed Guy Fawkes planned to use the lantern's candle to light the fuse as part of his gunpowder plot A lantern believed to have been carried by Guy Fawkes on the night he was arrested is ...
An effigy of Guy Fawkes has traditionally been burned on British bonfires every November for more than 400 years. Nowadays, he is just as much associated with modern day protests and rebellion as ...