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  1. Wishing my British friends and their families a memorable, entertaining Guy Fawkes Day & Bonfire/Fireworks Night❣️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔥🎇🎆

    #guyfawkesday #guyfawkesnight #bonefirenight #fireworksnight #gunpowdertreasonday #gunpowderplot #5thofnovember #fifthofnovember

  2. #GuyFawkesNight commemorates the #GunpowderPlot to blow up Parliament on November 5th 1605. After it was discovered, the knives were out for Fawkes.

  3. Remember, remember...that your humble narrator is 70 today. 😁 #guyfawkes #gunpowderplot

  4. As I do every year, I want to point out that Robert Catesby was the real villain of the Gunpowder Plot. Guy Fawkes was just the hired hand.
    #GunpowderPlot #FireworkNight
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C

  5. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ Gunpowder Plot ✧

    The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November, as the prelude to a revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-ol...

    #GunpowderPlot #England #Scotland #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowde

  6. I know many of you are feeling very stressed today.
    Understandable. I'm feeling that way too.
    Remembering the attempted overthrow of the government IS stressful.

    But take some time for yourself.
    Perhaps do what I do.
    Sit in a comfortable chair.
    Drink some tea, or maybe wine.
    Close your eyes, meditate.

    And recall that it's been 419 years.

    #GunpowderPlot #GuyFawkes

  7. 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 #GuyFawkes #GunpowderPlot

  8. Wishing my British friends and their families a memorable, entertaining Guy Fawkes Day & Bonfire/Fireworks Night❣️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔥🎇🎆

    #guyfawkesday #guyfawkesnight #bonefirenight #fireworksnight #gunpowdertreasonday #gunpowderplot #5thofnovember #fifthofnovember

  9. 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 JACOBAN PARNASSUS: Scottish Poetry from the Reign of James I

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #Jacobean #EarlyModern #17thCentury #GunpowderPlot

    asls.org.uk/publications/books