Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Guy Fawkes Comes To America

Two days after America’s presidential election is Guy Fawkes Day, commemorating the failed attempt in 1605 to blow up the English House of Lords and assassinate King James I memorialized by the phrase “gunpowder, treason and plot.” Rebellious Catholics, headed by Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes, were apprehended hauling 36 barrels of gunpowder into Parliament […]

from Daily Times https://ift.tt/2Txky52

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