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Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire Night, Fireworks Night and Plot Night, is an annual celebration (but not a public holiday) on the evening of the 5th of November primarily in the United Kingdom, but also in New Zealand, South Africa, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada), and formerly in Australia, and to some extent by their nationals abroad. It celebrates the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, in which a group of Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London on the evening of 5 November 1605, when the Protestant King James I (James VI of Scotland) was within its walls.
The celebrations, which in the United Kingdom take place in towns and villages across the country, involve fireworks displays and the building of bonfires, traditionally on which "guys", or dummies, representing Guy Fawkes, the most famous of the conspirators are burnt. Before the fifth, children use the dummies to beg for money with the chant "Penny for the guy".
Traditional rhymes
The night is closely associated with the popular rhyme which begins: More on [ Guy Fawkes Night ]
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Or Guy Fawkes Day. Or Pi Day. Or Canadian Thanksgiving. You can get back to sabotaging my social life tomorrow.
PadawanMolly (Molly Carpenter) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:48:55 -0000
Or Guy Fawkes Day. Or Pi Day. Or Canadian Thanksgiving. You can get back to sabotaging my social life tomorrow.
@twisted_angel5 No fireworks! They're only allowed on guy Fawkes day here =( We had streamer thingies shot over the crowd though.
Spacegirlnz (Spacegirlnz) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:49:10 -0000
@twisted_angel5 No fireworks! They're only allowed on guy Fawkes day here =( We had streamer thingies shot over the crowd though.
@RobertHruzek Don't tend to have fireworks on Hogmanay. NewYears time for organised firework displays. Guy Fawkes day is different story
amypalko (amypalko) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:55:26 -0000
@RobertHruzek Don't tend to have fireworks on Hogmanay. NewYears time for organised firework displays. Guy Fawkes day is different story
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