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How Guy Fawkes, Figurehead of the Gunpowder Plot, Avoided the Full Horrors of Execution by Hanging, Drawing and Quartering
The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could cut him down from the noose and disembowel him ...
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On Guy Fawkes Night, Remember That Bitcoin Is A Modern Vendetta Against The Establishment
The Guy Fawkes mask — popularized by the movie “V For Vendetta ... Ask anyone in the U.K. about Guy Fawkes, and they'll most likely quote you this poem. The fifth of November is a day when we remember ...
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Guy Fawkes: Why do bonfires still burn 400 years on?
The masks are merchandise from the film V for ... the idea and symbolism of Guy Fawkes Day has evolved over 400 years, enduring because of its extraordinary ability to adapt.
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Guy Fawkes
On 5 November every year, the effigy of Guy Fawkes ... parliament the next day. The foiling of the plot had been expertly engineered by James I's spymaster, Robert Cecil. Fawkes was subjected ...
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This Signature Shows What Torture Did To Guy Fawkes
Today is Guy Fawkes Day, a day where the U.K. celebrates the foiling of a plot to kill King James I in 1605. The country celebrates this by lighting fireworks and, in a morbid twist, burning an ...