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How Guy Fawkes, Figurehead of the Gunpowder Plot, Avoided the Full Horrors of Execution by Hanging, Drawing and Quartering
The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...
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Guy Fawkes
On 5 November every year, the effigy of Guy Fawkes is still burned on bonfires across England in recognition of his part in the failed 'Gunpowder Plot' of 1605. Fawkes didn't devise or lead the ...
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Who was the gunpowder plotter Guy Fawkes?
The name's Guy Fawkes, friends call me Guido. I've been put here, in the Tower of London, because I may have been a little bit… naughty. You see, for a while now, Catholics like me have been ...