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Guy Fawkes 2013: From timid testicles to gunpowder plot truthers, ten things about bonfire night you probably didn't know ...
"Remember remember the fifth of November. The rhyme tells us it's important to make the 'gunpowder, treason and plot' stick in our memory, but how much of this grisly tale of rebellion and religion do we really know?
It was actually law to 'remember' this day for around 250 years with an act of Parliament passed to make it a day of thanksgiving for the "joyful deliverance of James I" from these evil Catholic plotters.
But modern celebrations of Bonfire night, with their dazzling displays of fireworks, crunchy toffee apples and sparklers sanitize the gruesome reality of this tale.
The man we remember, Guy Fawkes, was actually just the hired muscle. Robert Catesby was leader of this revolutionary band and thought to be far better looking and charismatic than poor tortured Guido (who, to be fair, had his own favourable qualities-loyalty being one).
Catesby was born wealthy, of "ancient, historic and distinguished lineage", according to author Henry Hawkes Spinks Jr. He was six-feet-tall and an accomplished swordsman. Fawkes by comparison, who was recruited later, was a soldier who had already sold the estate inherited from his father to fund his travels. He was brought on board because of his expertise with gunpowder and his devout Catholicism..."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/guy-fawkes-2013-from-timid-testicles-to-gunpowder-plot-truthers-ten-things-about-bonfire-night-you-probably-didnt-know-8922156.html
Why should any of us continue to care the least bit for JamesVI-(I) and his power-mad cohorts?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.