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Fawkes, Guy
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Fawkes, Guy (Guido) (1570–1606). Fawkes was born in York in a family of protestant ecclesiastical lawyers, but became a catholic. In 1604 Robert Catesby and his fellow‐conspirators, despairing of obtaining relief for the catholics from James I, brought Fawkes into their plot to blow up the king and Parliament and proclaim the Princess
Elizabeth. Fawkes was put in charge of a cellar which they hired directly under the House of Lords. His task was to light the slow fuse to ignite the gunpowder. After a warning letter to Lord Mounteagle, the cellar was searched and Fawkes taken. He faced torture in the Tower with great coolness but confessed after hearing that his fellow‐plotters were captured, and was executed at Westminster on 31 January 1606.
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Guy Fawkes: How does he play in 2005?
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 10/14/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...and effigies burned in memory of Guy Fawkes, the Roman Catholic rebel who tried...tourist attraction. The details of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot are known...and liberty, a celebration even of Guy Fawkes's anti-establishment views...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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Changing faces of Guy Fawkes.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 11/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...be forgot." And 399 years on, Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators' failed...still re-lived every November 5. Guy Fawkes' night has been a highlight of the...to the celebrations. Effigies of Guy Fawkes, and sometimes those of the Pope...
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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Blown away ... when I contacted Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes; Janet Tansley speaks to TV psychic Derek Acorah about why his new show went with a real bang.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 11/3/2005; 700+ words
; ...TV show Derek Acorah's Quest For Guy Fawkes sees the ECHO columnist on the mystery...Strand and the Old Palace Yard where Guy Fawkes was hung, drawn and quartered...of getting a sipirtual link with Guy Fawkes. "But our trek ended up where he...
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The real Guy Fawkes: the media have branded Guy Fawkes a terrorist, but the real story of the "Gunpowder Treason" plot to destroy the British Parliament is not so clear-cut as some would have it.(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)(Viewpoint essay)
Magazine article from: The New American; 12/24/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...in a grassroots push tied to the Guy Fawkes plot to blow up the British Parliament...supporters to tie their fundraising day to Guy Fawkes was the Hollywood movie V for Vendetta, whose protagonist wore a Guy Fawkes mask and fought the totalitarian...
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Lest the flames go astray, Guy Fawkes spared Safety fears douse a British tradition
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 11/6/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...2007 Lest the flames go astray, Guy Fawkes spared Safety fears douse a British...torture and bloodcurdling screams of Guy Fawkes, the city's most famous deceased...was not sponsoring a traditional Guy Fawkes Day fireworks celebration this year...
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 "The Mercury (South Africa)")
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No fireworks on Guy Fawkes Day.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mercury (South Africa); 11/8/2007; 700+ words
; ...GERRETSEN The use of fireworks on Guy Fawkes Day should be banned because it has...would support a ban on fireworks on Guy Fawkes Day. He said the SPCA had been inundated...with traumatised animals after the Guy Fawkes celebrations this week. He said...
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Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day, by James Sharpe. Cambridge...Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day is the title of the North American...Remember the Fifth of November: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. The latter...
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Guy Fawkes artist shows burning desire for accuracy
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 4/22/2008; 401 words
; ...as the most authentic image yet of Guy Fawkes, whose name is synonymous with the...misleading. He said: "They told me Guy would have had somewhat common clothes...reproduction forms the pub sign above the Guy Fawkes Inn, said to be his birthplace on...
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Real face of Guy Fawkes revealed
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 4/22/2008; ; 545 words
; ...and put to death - and every year Guy Fawkes is still remembered through the annual...in the National Gallery, showing Guy Fawkes being caught by the guards, more...painting features in the sign above the Guy Fawkes Inn, which opens in the building...
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 "Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)")
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Violence in the name of religion; Guy Fawkes may have been thwarted but 400 years later the atrocities continue.(Comment)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England); 11/3/2002; 700+ words
; ...interests of his own country. His name? Guy Fawkes. Everyone knows the rhyme 'Please...Britain. Catesby's gang, including Guy Fawkes, rented a cellar under the House...that scarred the nation forever. Guy Fawkes may have been thwarted but, 400...
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Fawkes, Guy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes (1570 – 1606), a devout and militant Catholic in an age when the Protestant Church of England had solidified its hold on British religious life, is remembered as the individual who tried to perpetrate what is...
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Guy Fawkes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Guy Fawkes see Gunpowder Plot .
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guy
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
guy a figure representing Guy Fawkes , burnt on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes' Night, and often displayed by children begging...streets on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot . Guy Fawkes Night another name for Bonfire Night.
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New Zealanders
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Zealander 4 • FOLKLORE Guy Fawkes Day, an institution with English...celebrated by burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes. In 1605 Fawkes was discovered lurking...of New Zealand, children recite Guy Fawkes rhymes in a type of competition...
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Explosives (Historical Cases)
Book article from: World of Forensic Science
...remembered in the annual celebration of Guy Fawkes, or Bonfire, Night on the fifth of November. Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators were extremists...people in Britain burn effigies of Guy Fawkes on bonfires and set off fireworks...
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