Monday 11 November 2013

Guy Fawkes
On the 5th  of November every year, for the past 408 years, we celebrate Guy Fawkes, and let off fireworks. We are remembering the time when the Gun Powder Plot failed. In England Guy Fawkes and his friends tried to blow up the king and House of Lords with gun powder. They tried to blow up the parliament because King James had made a law that the people in England were not allowed to be Catholics. Guy Fawkes was caught guarding the barrels of gunpowder in the basement under the Parliament House in the early hours of the morning on the 5th of November, 1605. Some of the gang escaped, but Guy Fawkes and those that were caught were tortured and executed.

Munashe 11/11/13

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