We celebrate November 5th, 'Guy Fawkes' night, with fireworks and bonfires, remembering powder, treason and plot. In 1605, Fawkes and others hatched a plot to blow up Parliament with gunpowder in a cellar. He was hung drawn and quartered (you don't want to know!!) and his head was put on a spike to rot.
The 'celebrations' consist of blowing your hands/head/fingers off with fireworks, terrifying children and pets and setting the neighbourhood alight with monsterous bonfires lit with diesel oil upon which an effigy of Fawkes, the 'Guy' is burned.
Actually, 'Mad' George III lost the United States playing peaknuckle with Ben Franklin, I heard!
Alan
