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  • Guy Fawkes Day (more usually known as Guy Fawkes Night or Bonfire Night) is celebrated in Britain every year on November 5th. It celebrates the arrest and execution of one Guy Fawkes, a "terrorist", in modern terms, who was the ringleader in a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill King James I (known historically as "The Gunpowder Plot"). The plot failed, Fawkes was captured and executed, and bonfires were lit to celebrate the safety of the king. Since that night, November 5th 1605, Britons mark the occasion by lighting bonfires and setting off fireworks. Usually an effigy of Guy Fawkes, known as "a Guy", is set alight on the bonfire. People take part on the night either by holding their own private fireworks party or by going to a public fireworks display. Some public displays are not actually held on November 5th but tend to fall on a more convenient Friday or Saturday night. People often wrongly suggest that it is Britain's equivalent of July 4th. This is not so. The day is not a public holiday and, while most people do participate in some way, there is not the same sense of occasion and national pride. http://www.bonefire.org/guy/index.php
  • To me, it sounds like 4th of July and Halloween rolled into one.

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