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To: At_The_Ask who wrote (197014)	10/11/2002 11:50:44 AM
From: XBrit	Read Replies (2) of 436258

Guido ("Guy") Fawkes was basically a terrorist who, in Nov. 1605, tried to blow up the British king and parliament with gunpowder. 11/5 is a day for bonfires and fireworks, supposedly to celebrate the failure of his plot. Effigies of "Guy" are burned on the fires. That's the sanitized version. The reality is that Fawkes was Catholic, and the day was originally an excuse for an anti-Catholic hate day. The original meaning survives nowadays only in a town called Lewes in Sussex, which burns effigies of the pope every year. Hey, it's an ancient tradition. escapeartist.com

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