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|title=Remember, Remember the Fifth of November

|author=James Sharpe

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|pages=240

|publisher=Profile Books Ltd

|isbn=1861977875

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On the night of 5 November 1605, an English Catholic, Guy Fawkes, was discovered in a store room underneath the Palace of Westminster. The store room contained no less than thirty six barrels of gunpowder and Mr Fawkes was carrying the fuse. Had he succeeded in his mission, it is estimated that an area of London at least five hundred yards across would have been obliterated. The King and his family and just about the entire nobility would have died. It would have been the biggest act of terrorism the world had ever seen, has ever seen. And for the following four hundred years, in one way or another, Britons have celebrated the foiling of his plan. Yet Guy Fawkes himself wasn't a part of those celebrations for some two centuries.

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|name=Magda

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I think 5th November has a very good chance of losing the memory of what it actually celebrates and becoming a semi-pagan celebration of the begging of winter.

Also I can just imagine the Guy's effigy becoming a universal vehicle for hate figures, not necessarily plotters but powerful rulers for example. Which might be bit barbaric, but somehow the higher the person placed the less barbaric and more symbolic and cathartic it becomes, I have no idea why but burning an effigy of the Pope or, let's say GW Bush is somehow more acceptable then of a common (or even uncommon) plotter or criminal. Or is it?

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|name=Jill

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I think burning effigies of anyone at all is repulsive, to be honest.

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