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  2. Guy Fawkes Night - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Gunpowder Plot in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The work reflects "partisan public sentiment on an English-Protestant national holiday", 5 November. [1] In the published editions of 1645 and 1673, the poem is preceded by five epigrams on the subject of the Gunpowder Plot, apparently written by Milton in preparation for the larger work. [2]

  4. Black November - Wikipedia

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    Black November: Struggle for the Niger Delta is a 2012 Nigerian-American action drama film starring an ensemble cast that includes Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Fred Amata, Sarah Wayne Callies, Nse Ikpe Etim, OC Ukeje, Vivica Fox, Anne Heche, Persia White, Akon, Wyclef Jean and Mbong Amata.

  5. Remember (John Lennon song) - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  6. Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in ... - AOL

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    Prior to 1939, the record number of Black votes cast in a Miami city primary was 150. The day after the Klan parade, more than 1,400 Black voters cast their ballots. | Opinion

  7. Those Winter Sundays - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, Hayden's poem was included in the Poetry Foundation's DC Poetry Tour, a multimedia tour of Washington DC under leads poets point of view, through a collaboration lived in a fully way. [ 20 ] "Those Winter Sundays" was one of the poems which were celebrated at the Black History Month 2018 in February.

  8. Evie Shockley - Wikipedia

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    the new black, published in 2011 was lauded by poet Le Hinton and he also said Shockley was the "present and future of poetry." [5] In this book her poetry draws connections within our culture, for instance a poem that cites statistics and black lives through poetry. [6] In 2017 Shockley released her book of poetry, semiautomatic.

  9. The Raven - Wikipedia

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    He explains that every component of the poem is based on logic: the raven enters the chamber to avoid a storm (the "midnight dreary" in the "bleak December"), and its perch on a pallid white bust was to create visual contrast against the dark black bird. No aspect of the poem was an accident, he claims, but is based on total control by the ...