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DemoTex

(25,393 posts) Thu Nov 5, 2020, 10:01 PM Nov 2020

Remember, remember .. the fifth of November

Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

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Remember, remember .. the fifth of November (Original Post) DemoTex Nov 2020 OP

The gunpowder treason and plot? meadowlander Nov 2020 #1

1605 DemoTex Nov 2020 #2

I think this morning's sky was trying to remind me it is Guy Fawkes Day Siwsan Nov 2020 #3

Goodness! He tried to demolish a political institution and met a nasty fate! bucolic_frolic Nov 2020 #4

meadowlander

(4,394 posts)

1. The gunpowder treason and plot?

Reply to DemoTex (Original post)

Thu Nov 5, 2020, 10:03 PM

Nov 2020

DemoTex

(25,393 posts)

2. 1605

Reply to meadowlander (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 5, 2020, 10:07 PM

Nov 2020

Siwsan

(26,259 posts)

3. I think this morning's sky was trying to remind me it is Guy Fawkes Day

Reply to DemoTex (Original post)

Thu Nov 5, 2020, 10:09 PM

Nov 2020

It was blazing, indeed.

bucolic_frolic

(43,129 posts)

4. Goodness! He tried to demolish a political institution and met a nasty fate!

Reply to DemoTex (Original post)

Thu Nov 5, 2020, 10:15 PM

Nov 2020

I heard of him once, from UK folks, but it wasn't explained in depth. Convicted of treason, tortured, disemboweled, dragged by a horse, and beheaded. Those Brits don't fool around!

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