On 5 November every year, the effigy of Guy Fawkes is still burned on bonfires across England in recognition of his part in the failed 'Gunpowder Plot' of 1605. Fawkes didn't devise or lead the ...

On November 5, 1605, revolutionary Guy Fawkes was caught guarding a stash ... Two centuries after the “gunpowder plot” failed, a nursery rhyme immortalized the act. And it has not been forgotten.

Guy Fawkes was part of a Catholic plot to kill a Protestant King and his English Lords - and, unfortunately for him, it failed. He was almost certainly tortured severely, before being executed in ...