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| Guy Fawkes day is celebrated on november 5th |
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| In 5 November 1605, Guy Fawkes was arrested while guarding explosives that had placed beneath the House of Lords. |
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| Settlers exported Guy Fawkes Night to overseas colonies, including some in North America, where it was known as Pope Day. |
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| Guy Fawkes, was also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries |
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| His effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, with a firework display. |
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| Guy Fawkes was born in 1570 in Stonegate, York. He was the second of four children born to Edward Fawkes |
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| In 1604 Fawkes became involved with a small group of English Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate the Protestant King James and replace him with his daughter, third in the line of succession, Princess Elizabeth. |
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| In an attempt to gain foreign support, in May 1605 Fawkes travelled overseas and informed Hugh Owen of the plotters' plan. |
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| The Guy Fawkes mask is a stylised depiction of Guy Fawkes. The use of a mask on an effigy has long roots as part of Guy Fawkes Night celebrations. |
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| 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. |
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| Guy Fawkes is educated in york |
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| Guy Fawkes was the one detailed as the most closely associated with the Gunpowder Plot as he was the one who was to light the match. |
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| The first meeting of the main 5 Conspirators took place in the Duck and Drake in The Strand, London. |
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| Guy was found in the undercroft beneath the Houses of Lords shortly after midnight on 5th November 2012. |
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| Guy Fawkes trial, AKA the Gunpowder Plot or the Jesuit Treason was listed as a failed assassination attempt in court transcripts. |
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| The interrogations of the Plotters Party took place over around 10-weeks. |
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| There were only 2 confessions that were printed , one was of course Guy Fawkes and the other was Thomas Wintour. These are still in existence and can be seen at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire. |
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| The trial of the plotters began on 27th January 1606 and the outcome was of course a foregone conclusion. Guilty of High Treason they were all to be put to death. |
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| From 5th November 1605 the people of London were encouraged to celebrate the Kings escape by lighting Bonfires and marked this day as a joyful deliverance and a day of thanksgiving was allocated which continued to be observed until 1869. |
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| Guy Fawkes was taken to the Tower of London to be tortured to give up the names of his friends and co-conspirators with the instruction that he should be tortured lightly at first with the use of manacles and then onto the rack. |
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| When he was interviewed by the authorities he gave the name John Johnson. |
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| 36 barrels of gunpowder is equivalent to 2500kg of explosives. Working on the assumption that gunpowder has the same power as TNT, the blast would have covered a 490m radius and the resultant explosion is likely to have taken out the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Hall and windows would have broken up to half a mile away. |
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| He became known as Guido from fighting in the Netherlands for the then Spanish Empire in support of Catholicism. |
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| He converted to Catholicism at 16 years of age at a time when priests and practising Catholics were being punished for their beliefs. |
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| It is said that the word ‘guy’ actually comes from the name Guy Fawkes. It originally meant “an ugly, repulsive person” but, throughout the years, simply became a synonym for “man”. |
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| Physicists from the Institute of Physics have calculated that the 2,500kg of gunpowder Fawkes hid would have wreaked damage almost 500 metres from the centre of the explosion. |
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| The only place in the UK that does not celebrate Guy Fawkes Night is St. Peter’s School in York. Guy Fawkes went there as a boy and they refuse to burn his image in respect for their former pupil. |
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| Political protesters sometimes wear Guy Fawkes masks to protect their identity. |
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| Anonomous is known to use masks at protests |
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| Guy also grew up during the time of the very famous English writer of plays and poetry, William Shakespeare. |
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| Fawkes picked up the nickname "Guido" after his stint in the Spanish army... Fawkes was an inspiration for Alan Moore's 1982 book, V for Vendetta. |
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| Guy Fawkes was depicted as the hero of V for Vendetta |
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| Despite being a ring leader in the terrorist plot, Guy Fawkes was named the 30th Greatest Briton in a poll conducted by the BBC in 2002. |
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| Guy Fawkes was to denotate the explosives, killing himself and the targets |
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| The group quickly fell apart after the failure of the gunpowder plot. |
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| He travelled to the continent to fight in the Eighty Years War for Catholic Spain |
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| Guy Fawkes is sometimes toasted as "the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions |
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| During the 19th century, "guy" came to mean an oddly dressed person |
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| he managed to avoid the agony of the latter part of his execution by breaking his neck |
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| his body parts were then distributed to "the four corners of the kingdom", to be displayed as a warning to other would-be traitors |
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