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Is English a"New Year"in November?
Not,is a"Guy Fawkes Night","Night Bonfires".
And here is a short repetition of the history of England.
Guy Fawkes was born in 1570 in York as the second of four children of Edward Fawkes.
After the death of his father,his mother remarried a Catholic man.
Influence of the Catholic family and Catholic education led to Guy had converted to Catholicism and he went to the continent to take part in the Eighty Years War on the side of Catholic Spain,
then joined Sir William Stanley,the English Catholic who recruited soldiers needed for the expedition in the Netherlands.
Then seek support in Spain for the Catholic rebellion in England.
Finally,in 1604 he joined the group of English Catholics is planning an attack on the Protestant king and on the rear of his daughter Elizabeth Stuart.
To get rid of the king and the government decided to blow up parliament in the air.
For this purpose leased crypt just under the House of Lords and hidden there about 36 barrels of gunpowder and waiting only for the opening session of Parliament.
Unfortunately,that bother conspirators that Catholics sit in Parliament and one of them send a letter to this day do not appear in the House.
The letter was shown to the king,who ordered the 5 of November search of the underworld.
Guy was arrested and sentenced to hang and quartered and before that he was tortured to reveal the names of other conspirators.
But he could not hang because broke his neck jumping from the scaffold just before execution.
5 November 1605 Londoners lit bonfires in great as a song of joy that the king avoided death.
Parliament passed a law establishing the day on Thanksgiving for a happy deliverance King from death.
From the 50 XVII accompanied by huge bonfire fireworks and in 1673 at the stake burning effigies.
And now we know where those fireworks.
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