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  2. Guy Fawkes - Wikipedia

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    [42] The room in which Fawkes was interrogated subsequently became known as the Guy Fawkes Room. [43] Fawkes's signature of "Guido", made soon after his torture, is a barely evident scrawl compared to a later instance 8 days after the torture. Sir William Waad, Lieutenant of the Tower, supervised the torture and obtained Fawkes's confession. [37]

  3. Gunpowder Plot - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Gunpowder Plot in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    In his composer's notes, Newman references Guy Fawkes' attempt to blow up the House of Lords. Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps utilised the piece in their 2018 production, "Beast". "Guy Fawkes Vs Che Guevara" was released on YouTube by Epic Rap Battles of History on 4 May 2019. The video poses the revolutionaries against each other in a rap ...

  5. Guy Fawkes Night - Wikipedia

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    An effigy of Fawkes, burnt on 5 November 2010 at Billericay. Guy Fawkes Night originates from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed conspiracy by a group of provincial English Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and VI of Scotland and replace him with a Catholic head of state.

  6. Lewes Bonfire - Wikipedia

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    Colonial soldiers carry a banner, exploding with bangers, commemorating Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators.. The history of bonfire celebrations on 5 November throughout the United Kingdom have their origins with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, where a group of English Catholics, including the now infamous Guy Fawkes, were foiled in their plot to blow up the House of Lords.

  7. Guy Fawkes, sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, was one of several men arrested for attempting to blow up London’s Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605. Fawkes and company were Catholics and ...

  8. Stephen Colbert reveals why Trump has so many Bibles: ‘Every ...

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    Mr Trump’s claim in the infomercial shilling the product that the Bible is his “favourite book” and that he has “many” copies of it came in for a particularly savage dissection.

  9. Pope Night - Wikipedia

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    Pope Night (also called Pope's Night, Pope Day, or Pope's Day) was an anti-Catholic holiday celebrated annually on November 5 in the colonial United States.It evolved from the British Guy Fawkes Night, which commemorates the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.