London – "Remember, remember, the fifth of November." The 400-year-old story of Guy Fawkes and other plotters' failure to blow up London's Parliament is traditionally marked in Britain with this ...
Antiwar Republican presidential candidate and sometime Libertarian Ron Paul raised over four million dollars in one day yesterday, breaking the Republican one-day fundraising record and the online one ...
Want to know what November 5 was made famous for? We’re here for you. 1. Guy Fawkes joined a group of English Catholics and attempted to plant gunpowder in the cellar of the Palace of Westminister in ...
Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. We see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. — Nursery rhyme Indeed, the infamous Gunpowder Plot of November 5, ...
This British nursery song, known in American pop culture from Alan Moore’s “V for Vendetta” graphic novel and film adaptation, references a real part of history – and an attempt to kill a king. It has ...
LONDON - About 200 protesters, many from London's anti-capitalist Occupy movement, marched to Parliament on Guy Fawkes Day, the annual commemoration of the English revolutionary who tried to blow up ...
It doesn’t get much press on this side of the Atlantic, but it should. Today, November 5, is Guy Fawkes Day, the day that the English remember one of their most notorious villains or one of their most ...
Every year on November 5, skies across England, Scotland and Wales are illuminated by fireworks as Brits head out into the night to enjoy Guy Fawkes Night celebrations. Also called Fireworks Night or ...
While The Fifth of November (and by extension Guy Fawkes Day) is a staple of British culture, many Americans may only be familiar with the poem through the 2006 Wachowski sibling produced film, V For ...
On November 5, 1605, revolutionary Guy Fawkes was caught guarding a stash of gunpowder that was to be used to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, England. Fawkes and his co-conspirators were ...
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