
This fifth of November marks the 406th anniversary of the “Gunpowder Plot.” On that historic day, November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes was apprehended in the cellars of the House of Parliament with more than 30 barrels of gunpowder. Fawkes, along…
This fifth of November marks the 406th anniversary of the “Gunpowder Plot.” On that historic day, November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes was apprehended in the cellars of the House of Parliament with more than 30 barrels of gunpowder. Fawkes, along…
At Westminster in London, Guy Fawkes, a chief conspirator in the plot to blow up the British Parliament building, jumps to his death moments before his execution for treason. On the eve of a general parliamentary session scheduled for November…