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6 unusual facts about Guy Fawkes


Blacksmoke

A Blacksmoke press release drew connections with Bonfire Night and called Guy Fawkes Britain's "most notorious terrorist".

Christian Verdun

In 2013, he finished his third 11x8 inch piece anonymous, created from words cut from the comic book V for Vendetta which were remixed back together to form a picture of V wearing a Guy Fawkes mask.

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Christie compares himself to "Guy Fawkes, with the difference that he was caught" and strictly follows a code of twelve principles.

Old Palace Yard

It is known as the site of executions, including those of Sir Walter Raleigh, Guy Fawkes and other conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, and James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, following the Battle of Preston.

Rigby Fawkes

The epigraph of this poem alludes to 17th century revolutionary named Guy Fawkes.

The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon

MacCrimmon initially accepts, but is persuaded to renegotiate, the result of which is the title contest: his team, composed of himself and three close friends, against the Devil's rink, including MacBeth, Judas Iscariot and Guy Fawkes.


Effigy

The best known British example of a caricature effigy is the figure of the 1605 Gunpowder Plotter Guy Fawkes, found in charge of gunpowder to blow up the King in the House of Lords.

Rob Childs

Rob has also written non-sports books based on historical characters: for example, Guy Fawkes and Sir Francis Drake.

Yeomen of the Guard

However, their most famous duty is to 'ceremonially' search the cellars of the Palace of Westminster prior to the State Opening of Parliament, a tradition that dates back to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up Parliament.


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Guy Fawkes Night

Author Martin Kettle, writing in The Guardian in 2003, bemoaned an "occasionally nannyish" attitude to fireworks that discourages people from holding firework displays in their back gardens, and an "unduly sensitive attitude" toward the anti-Catholic sentiment once so prominent on Guy Fawkes Night.