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Huge London fireworks display is expanding over 2 days with 40,000 tickets being sold now
From next year, a capacity of up to 80,000 people are expected to attend across the two days…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Lewisham #Blackheath #BonfireNight #Greenwich #LewishamCouncil
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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.
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#guyfawkes
#Lewes
#BonfireNight
Fantastic spectacle, as usual, in Lewes, East Sussex.
( Not to be confused with Lewes, Delaware)https://www.youtube.com/live/_OcI3ZyCdZ0?si=dCr9bGXiIsk1cEVj
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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.
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(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.
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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)https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/jacobean-parnassus/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #17thcentury #EarlyModern #BonfireNight #GuyFawkes #Jacobean #5thNovember
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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)https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781847779656/collected-poems/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #GuyFawkes #BonfireNight #November5th