Guy Fawkes’ punishment was one of the most severe in English history – here’s what happens when a body is hung, drawn and quartered
By anatomically dissecting each stage of this medieval punishment, we can understand the profound agony the gunpowder plot co-conspirators endured.
The lantern Guy Fawkes planned to use to blow up the king
A lantern believed to have been carried by Guy Fawkes on the night he was arrested is on display at a museum. It can be seen ...
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Guy Fawkes: Here is how to protect your pets
The Cape of Good Hope Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is calling on Capetonians to rethink celebrating Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated annually on November 5 ...
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Why is Bonfire Night celebrated? Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder Plot explained
The plot is commemorated every autumn with the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes, its mastermind, an oddly pagan act of gloating sanitised by the addition of fireworks, sparklers and toffee apples.
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Cape Town prepares for Guy Fawkes day
Enforcement and emergency services will be on high alert for the incidents of assault, stoning of vehicles and mob attacks that remain synonymous with Guy Fawkes day in parts of Cape Town.
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The lantern Guy Fawkes planned to use to blow up the king
A lantern believed to have been carried by Guy Fawkes on the night he was arrested is on display at a museum. It can be seen at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford more than 400 years after the ...
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Guy Fawkes Day: Who, what, and when?
Law enforcement officials and emergency services are ready to act on unlawful incidents associated with Guy Fawkes Day on 5 ...
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V for Vendetta: 9 dynamite facts you didn’t know about the Guy Fawkes Bonfire Night movie
The 2005 political thriller focuses on an anarchist freedom fighter called V, who wears a Guy Fawkes mask and plots to blow up the UK Parliament on Bonfire Night in protest of a neo-fascist regime.
Voices: Remember, remember? Maybe it’s time we forgot about Guy Fawkes
COMMENT: Thanks to the increasing cost of putting on a public display, November 5 is fast becoming ‘No-Fireworks Night’ – but ...
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Oxfordshire bonfire night sees huge Guy Fawkes set on fire
A stunning 22ft Guy Fawkes face replica was the standout feature of an Oxfordshire bonfire night this weekend. The Wallingford 1155 Fireworks and Bonfire was held on Saturday, November 2 and saw a ...
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City of Cape Town readies 'enforcement and emergency services' for Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes Day commemorates the failed gunpowder plot of 1605 when someone called, Guy Fawkes and a group of others attempted to blow up parliament and King James I in England but were caught ...
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The real power behind the gunpowder plot... and it wasn't Guy Fawkes
A SHOCKING docu-drama shows Guy Fawkes was merely a minor player in a wider plot to assassinate King James I. Conspirators planned to blow up Parliament at its opening on Novem-ber 5, 1605 ...