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Festivities in Windsor Castle by Paul Sandby, c. 1776. Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Fireworks Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great Britain, involving bonfires and fireworks displays.
With the phrase "A penny for the Old Guy", Anglo-American poet T. S. Eliot acknowledges Fawkes (and the straw-man effigy burned every year on 5 November) in an epigraph to his 1925 poem "The Hollow Men". The main character in the comic book series V for Vendetta, which started in 1982, and its 2006 film adaptation, wore a Guy Fawkes mask.
At the end of the song, Lennon sings the lines "Remember, remember / The Fifth of November", followed by the sound of an explosion. [7] The words are from the English nursery rhyme "Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November", [8] and refer to Guy Fawkes Night, a British public holiday that is celebrated with fireworks and bonfires. [9]
They first met on 5 November and discussed literature and poetry. On the 13th, he read some of his poems to his fellows. [2] After a week, he returned to London and began despair to the point that he contemplate suicide. During this time, he stayed in a place that Coleridge was to deem of ill-repute. [3]
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Roman Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.
Today's Wordle Answer for #1235 on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, is OCTET. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.
"To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785" [1] [2] is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785. It was included in the Kilmarnock Edition [ 3 ] and all of the poet's later editions, such as the Edinburgh Edition .
Get ready for all of today's NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #513 on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Tuesday, November 5, 2024. The New York Times.