Nov 1: 400 Years Ago.
Not quite great as if you are in the UK, you have the famous (if we are to put it into todays terms) The celebration of what you could say was the first terrorist cell in the UK,. The members of this infamous gang of no do gooders were lead by a man who called himself Guido Fawkes or better known as Guy Fawke
That's him over there on the right. But if you notice there is something awfully similar with the yesterdays terrorist ( they all have a beard and dodgy hats on, but then that's not really being fair is it, twas a fashion of the time. Guy Fawkes or as he liked to call himself John Johnson to his mates was a catholic who really didn't like King Charles very much so decided that on the opening of Parliement in 1605 to bomb the houses of parliament with a few barrels of gun powder.
Guy or as he identified himeself, John Johnson, was caught in the act as we all know and because he was a catholic, he was cut up into many pieces and well, you know, all over the place.
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That's him over there on the right. But if you notice there is something awfully similar with the yesterdays terrorist ( they all have a beard and dodgy hats on, but then that's not really being fair is it, twas a fashion of the time. Guy Fawkes or as he liked to call himself John Johnson to his mates was a catholic who really didn't like King Charles very much so decided that on the opening of Parliement in 1605 to bomb the houses of parliament with a few barrels of gun powder.Guy or as he identified himeself, John Johnson, was caught in the act as we all know and because he was a catholic, he was cut up into many pieces and well, you know, all over the place.
Interesting thing is, that If he had lit the fuse and it had lit the gunpwder, it wouldn't have blowen the Houses of Parliament it wouldn't have blown up at all, but gone of with a wee sputter. The reason ? Simple, if you leave gunpowder in a barrel for too log, it will return back to it's componet parts and hence becomes inactive. So, if poor Guy wouldn't have managed to blow the house to bits at all. How boring!
Now every year, we have to put up with kids letting of fireworks.
Here's the whole Gang in their Glory.
I was watching "The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding the Legend" After I wrote this entry. This TV program aim was to show what would have happened if Guy Fawkes gunpowder did actually blowup the Houses of Parliament.
Feel free to download and watch the filem here (You may have to download DivX player from here
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