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  1. #FireworksDisplay in #WeymouthBay in 2012. There used to be weekly displays through August plus #BonfireNight and special events. "Chemistry in the sky" as various metallic salts create a range of firework colours due to excitation states on ignition, with the consequent cascade of energy levels releasing wavelength-energy-specific light

  2. The Tradition of “Penny for the Guy” in Mid-20th Century Britain and Its Decline

    📰 Original title: Who Did “Penny for the Guy Back” in the Day?

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: en.killbait.com/the-tradition-

    #history #bonfirenight #britishtraditions #childhood

  3. The Tradition of “Penny for the Guy” in Mid-20th Century Britain and Its Decline

    📰 Original title: Who Did “Penny for the Guy Back” in the Day?

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: en.killbait.com/the-tradition-

    #history #bonfirenight #britishtraditions #childhood

  4. Fireworks

    Happy New Year! To celebrate here are some fireworks.

    Found In: Bonfire Night

  5. Fireworks

    Happy New Year! To celebrate here are some fireworks.

    Found In: Bonfire Night

  6. The fireworks are really bad tonight, but I'm still maintaining my dignity.

    #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #BonfireNight

  7. The fireworks are really bad tonight, but I'm still maintaining my dignity.

    #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #BonfireNight

  8. If in the UK and dealing with pets stressed by the fireworks, can highly recommend Pet Classics playing on Classic FM till 9pm.

    This post is Bob endorsed. 😺👍

    #BobCat #Fireworks #Bonfirenight #UK #Cats #Dogs #Pets

  9. Firing the bells for treason and plot, a tradition in our tower on the practice night nearest 5th November. In the 19th century the ringers were paid 7 shillings to ring on this occasion. This year the bells were half-muffled for Remembrance.
    #Remembrance #bellringing #bonfirenight

  10. I didn't hear so many fireworks going off this year for #BonfireNight

    I wonder why that is.

  11. I didn't hear so many fireworks going off this year for #BonfireNight

    I wonder why that is.

  12. #FotoVorschlag 'Mitternacht'

    Am 24.6. werden kurz nach Mitternacht in Alicante die Hogueras angezündet und abgebrannt. Das sind die Fiestas de San Juan.

    #nochesanjuan #hogueras #bonfirenight #alicante

  13. #FotoVorschlag 'Mitternacht'

    Am 24.6. werden kurz nach Mitternacht in Alicante die Hogueras angezündet und abgebrannt. Das sind die Fiestas de San Juan.

    #nochesanjuan #hogueras #bonfirenight #alicante

  14. Remember, remember, the fifth of November... Tonight was Bonfire Night in Great Britain, which celebrates the foiling of a plot in 1605 to destroy Westminster and blow the king and government to smithereens. History Extra Magazine takes a look at what might have happened if the group of English Catholics, led by Guy Fawkes, had been successful.

    flip.it/99AwlB

    #BonfireNight #History #UnitedKingdom #GuyFawkes #UKHistory

  15. Remember, remember, the fifth of November... Tonight was Bonfire Night in Great Britain, which celebrates the foiling of a plot in 1605 to destroy Westminster and blow the king and government to smithereens. History Extra Magazine takes a look at what might have happened if the group of English Catholics, led by Guy Fawkes, had been successful.

    flip.it/99AwlB

    #BonfireNight #History #UnitedKingdom #GuyFawkes #UKHistory

  16. It's November 5th so I watched V For Vendetta again, I do most years.

    Cried at the story of Valerie again, it gets me every time.

    Such a great book, such a great movie adaptation.

    #VForVendetta #November5th #BonfireNight

  17. It's November 5th so I watched V For Vendetta again, I do most years.

    Cried at the story of Valerie again, it gets me every time.

    Such a great book, such a great movie adaptation.

    #VForVendetta #November5th #BonfireNight

  18. I asked a British friend of mine currently living in Toronto if he was going to celebrate Guy Fawkes day today at home.

    He told me “I really wish Canada did bonfire night. It’s like a more murderous British Diwali.”

    #bonfirenight

  19. I asked a British friend of mine currently living in Toronto if he was going to celebrate Guy Fawkes day today at home.

    He told me “I really wish Canada did bonfire night. It’s like a more murderous British Diwali.”

    #bonfirenight

  20. From childhood I’ve always loved fireworks, both the visual spectacle and the cacophony of noise that accompanies them. I even buy some from time to time.

    That said, I get that they are not universally popular. For organised events I think that drone swarm displays are the future, and if it has to be fireworks, we should ideally be good neighbours and buy the quieter ones.

    #5thOfNovember #BonfireNight #GuyFawkes

  21. From childhood I’ve always loved fireworks, both the visual spectacle and the cacophony of noise that accompanies them. I even buy some from time to time.

    That said, I get that they are not universally popular. For organised events I think that drone swarm displays are the future, and if it has to be fireworks, we should ideally be good neighbours and buy the quieter ones.

    #5thOfNovember #BonfireNight #GuyFawkes

  22. Since it is November 5th, Bonfire Night here in the UK, I was talking to a chum about the comics & film of V For Vendetta.

    My French chum introduced me to the French dubbed version of the film, in which, remarkably, the translator managed to keep the famous introduction speech where he uses only words beginning with "V", even in French youtube.com/watch?v=s1S-iNcXGTk

    C'est formidable!

    #VForVendetta #Film #Comics #BandeDessinee #French #Francais #GuyFawkesNight #BonfireNight #November5th

  23. Since it is November 5th, Bonfire Night here in the UK, I was talking to a chum about the comics & film of V For Vendetta.

    My French chum introduced me to the French dubbed version of the film, in which, remarkably, the translator managed to keep the famous introduction speech where he uses only words beginning with "V", even in French youtube.com/watch?v=s1S-iNcXGTk

    C'est formidable!

    #VForVendetta #Film #Comics #BandeDessinee #French #Francais #GuyFawkesNight #BonfireNight #November5th

  24. Staying in this #BonfireNight? Perhaps some #Positive #Environmental #News will enlighten you. October’s roundup includes, #Beavers will soon be officially recognised as a native species in #Wales #UnitedKingdom, the final #coal-fired power plant in #NewEngland has shut down and #Spain created six new #marine zones. All this and more in the positive news summary.

    primonatura.co.uk/positive-env

  25. Staying in this #BonfireNight? Perhaps some #Positive #Environmental #News will enlighten you. October’s roundup includes, #Beavers will soon be officially recognised as a native species in #Wales #UnitedKingdom, the final #coal-fired power plant in #NewEngland has shut down and #Spain created six new #marine zones. All this and more in the positive news summary.

    primonatura.co.uk/positive-env

  26. Wow. They've really overdone it with the fireworks this year where I am. There's just constant rumbling and bangs.
    #BonfireNight #fireworks #scotland

  27. Time for bonfire night. Remind me, are we celebrating the deed of sedition, or the fact it was defeated? #guidofawkes #BonfireNight #GuyFawkesNight #remember
    #remember

  28. Time for bonfire night. Remind me, are we celebrating the deed of sedition, or the fact it was defeated? #guidofawkes #BonfireNight #GuyFawkesNight #remember
    #remember

  29. (Repost from last year, originally posted on another instance)

    Guy Fawkes night originally celebrated the failure of the Gunpowder plot. These days, Guy Fawkes has also become a symbol of malcontent with the government & fighting for freedom, ala V for Vendetta.

    Never lose hope.

    #furry #furryart #anthro #guyfawkes #bonfirenight

  30. The mighty Mavors, jealous to behold
    A Mars more mighty nor himself below,
    Did once resolve his rivall to ore’throw…

    —Sir Robert Ayton (1569–1638), “Upon the 5th of November”
    published in JACOBEAN PARNASSUS: Scottish Poetry from the Reign of James I (ASL, 2022)

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #17thcentury #EarlyModern #BonfireNight #GuyFawkes #Jacobean #5thNovember

  31. The mighty Mavors, jealous to behold
    A Mars more mighty nor himself below,
    Did once resolve his rivall to ore’throw…

    —Sir Robert Ayton (1569–1638), “Upon the 5th of November”
    published in JACOBEAN PARNASSUS: Scottish Poetry from the Reign of James I (ASL, 2022)

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #17thcentury #EarlyModern #BonfireNight #GuyFawkes #Jacobean #5thNovember

  32. Fog shroud
    and clouds
    (when the clock
    chimed late
    in the heavy
    November night-
    time) lifting
    the mystery
    for a greater…

    —Edwin Morgan, “Guy Fawkes Moon”
    published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1997)

    carcanet.co.uk/9781847779656/c

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #GuyFawkes #BonfireNight #November5th

  33. Fog shroud
    and clouds
    (when the clock
    chimed late
    in the heavy
    November night-
    time) lifting
    the mystery
    for a greater…

    —Edwin Morgan, “Guy Fawkes Moon”
    published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1997)

    carcanet.co.uk/9781847779656/c

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #GuyFawkes #BonfireNight #November5th

  34. "Picturing Pyrotechnics" — @simon_werrett on how artists through the ages have responded to the challenge of representing firework displays: publicdomainreview.org/essay/p #bonfirenight #FireworksNight #fireworks

  35. "Picturing Pyrotechnics" — @simon_werrett on how artists through the ages have responded to the challenge of representing firework displays: publicdomainreview.org/essay/p #bonfirenight #FireworksNight #fireworks

  36. Google really don’t have a clue about the UK, do they?

    Today (according to those muppets) is “Guy Fawkes Day” in the UK.

    Ask anyone here what we call it, and that is NOT it.

    “Bonfire night.”
    (Even ‘Guy Fawkes Night’ for some)
    Never ‘day’. 😂😂😂
    #google #bonfirenight #guyfawkesnight #fifthofnovember #guyfawkes

  37. Happy Guy Fawkes Night to all those who celebrate.

    For those not familiar with the tradition, it's when we commemorate the (failed) attempt by Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament with barrels of gunpowder.

    I will leave it to you to form your own value judgements about whether blowing up the Houses of Parliament is a good thing or a bad thing.

    Oh, and stay safe folks. Bonfires can be dangerous

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawk

    #GuyFawkes #GuyFawkesNight #BonfireNight