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From: sct@lanl.ARPA
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Subject: Re: more Nov 5 specialness
Message-ID: <31308@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 14:38:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 14:38:55 1985
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Reply-To: sct@a.UUCP (Stephen Tenbrink)
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Summary: 

>
>Let us not forget that November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day.
>
>	Fawkes, Guy (1570-1606) Roman Catholic Englishman, hired
>	by the Gunpowder Plot conspirators as an explosives
>	expert while he was serving in the Spanish army.
>	Arrested while setting explosives beneath the House of
>	Lords, he was tortured and hanged.  In England he is
>	burnt in effigy on Guy Fawkes Day, Nov. 5.

Some English friends of mine say that they are not sure whether   they
celebrate Guy Fawkes because he failed to destroy the House of Lords
or because he tried.


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