Fawkes

[ fawks ]

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Guy, 1570–1606, English conspirator and leader in the Gunpowder plot of 1605: Guy Fawkes Day is observed on November 5 by the building of effigies and bonfires.

Fawkes

/ fɔːks /

FawkesGuy15701606MEnglishPOLITICS: conspirator Guy . 1570–1606, English conspirator, executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament (1605). Effigies of him (guys) are burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes Day (Nov 5)

Thus the report on the Guy Fawkes effigies, which also was picked up by RT, the English-language Russian satellite channel.

If the majority's going to take back its share of the nation's riches, those Guy Fawkes masks may need to go on again.

In one of these photos a middle-aged woman with headscarf marches wearing a Guy Fawkes mask.

As Fawkes noted, the Nazi reference has been removed, and no explanation appears forthcoming.

He carried a sign reading “Angry Pacifist” and wore a USS Staten Island naval cap with a Guy Fawkes mask strapped on backward.

Short of catching me like a sort of Guy Fawkes blowing up the palace, the case is about as strong as it could be.

Fawkes is made to speak in the third person in all the four preceding examinations, three of which bear his autograph signature.

Each page has the signature (in copy) of ‘Jhon Jhonson,’ the name by which Fawkes chose to be known.

Fawkes here clearly takes the whole terrible design, with the exception of the incident of the mine, on his own shoulders.

According to the story told by Fawkes this place was let to Mrs. Skinner by Whynniard to store her coals in.

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