Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot!We see no reason, Why gunpowder treason, Should ever be forgot!Every 5 November we remember the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 a thwarted act of terror in which a cabal of Catholic conspirators planned to blow up the House of Lords to rid England of King James I. The plot is commemorated every autumn with the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes, its mastermind, an oddly pagan act of gloating sanitised by the addition of fireworks, sparklers and toffee apples.
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