It was early in the 1600s, in England, when Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators hatched a clandestine plot to blow up England's House of Lords (using gunpowder), assassinate the King, kill the Protestant aristocracy, and
The member alerted the king, and authorities searched the areas near Parliament, eventually discovering a dissident named Guy Fawkes guarding the gunpowder late in the evening on November 4. Fawkes and several other co-conspirators were brought to
The British have long celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on November 5, but now the October 31 holiday is a lot more appealing.
To learn more about Guy Fawkes Day, go here. Anyway – with elections now over for the year, we congratulate all who ran for office in our covered towns; it's not everyone who feels the unique snap of becoming well-known
ON NOVEMBER 5TH Britons up and down the country will light bonfires and set off fireworks to mark the execution of Guy Fawkes, a 17th-century Roman Catholic terrorist. More recently activists have appropriated the day as one of mass protest. Anonymous