Guy Fawkes (/fɔːks/; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial...
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Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Fireworks Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great...
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The Guy Fawkes mask (also known as the V for Vendetta mask or Anonymous mask) is a stylised depiction of Guy Fawkes (the best-known member of the Gunpowder...
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Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham. Fawkes, who had 10 years...
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Gunpowder Plot in popular culture (redirect from Guy Fawkes in popular culture)
Days of Guy Fawkes, published in about 1905, which portrayed Fawkes as "essentially an action hero". With the phrase "A penny for the Old Guy", Anglo-American...
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Guy Fawkes (1570–1606) was a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot. Guy Fawkes may also refer to: Guy Fawkes (novel), a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth...
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hero Guy of Warwick. Guy Fawkes and the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot later made the name synonymous with treachery in England. Effigies of Guy Fawkes are...
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Guy Fawkes River National Park, a national park comprising 100,590 hectares (248,600 acres), is located on the eastern edge of the New England Tablelands...
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The novel Guy Fawkes first appeared as a serial in Bentley's Miscellany, between January and November 1840. It was subsequently published as a three-volume...
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Blue Peter (section Guy Fawkes Night)
including Chinese New Year, St David's Day, Shrove Tuesday, Mothering Sunday, Guy Fawkes Night and Christmas. The latter, in particular, is a special occasion...
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character and protagonist, V, an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, as he begins an elaborate and theatrical revolutionist campaign...
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Guy Fawkes is a 1923 British silent historical film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Matheson Lang, Nina Vanna and Hugh Buckler. The film depicts...
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release by Warner Bros. Pictures on 4 November 2005 (a day before the 400th Guy Fawkes Night), but was delayed; it instead opened in the United States on 17...
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Fawkes (1903–1967), British admiral Guy Fawkes (1570–1606), English revolutionary Isaac Fawkes (1675?–1732), English conjurer and showman John Fawkes...
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various yearly events marked by bonfires and fireworks. These include Guy Fawkes Night (5 November) in Great Britain; All Hallows' Eve (31 October); May...
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siblings. He told The Guardian in 2015 that he was named Guy after another Catholic, Guy Fawkes. He also told them he was bullied at school, due to his...
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Derek Acorah (redirect from Derek Acorah's Search for Guy Fawkes)
Acorah filmed a one-off special for LivingTV, Derek Acorah's Quest for Guy Fawkes followed by Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns with Ruggie Media. This programme...
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Ordsall Hall (section Guy Fawkes)
The hall was the setting for William Harrison Ainsworth's 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, written around the plausible although unsubstantiated local story that...
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than with the treacle used elsewhere. Parkin is traditionally eaten on Guy Fawkes Night, 5 November, and when celebrating "Yorkshire Day" on 1 August, and...
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as anons) can sometimes be distinguished in public by the wearing of Guy Fawkes masks in the style portrayed in the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta...
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Paul Staines (redirect from Guido Fawkes (blogger))
Fawkes, Guido (30 September 2004). "Blair Heart Flutters". Guido Fawkes. Archived from the original on 6 November 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2012. "Guy...
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November 5 in the colonial United States. It evolved from the British Guy Fawkes Night, which commemorates the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Pope...
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Scotton, Harrogate (section Guy Fawkes)
there is no evidence of Fawkes visiting the village after 1603, which makes this tale extremely unlikely. Apart from the Guy Fawkes Arms public house, the...
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crescent-shaped islets—North Guy Fawkes I. (I. Guy Fawkes Norte) and South Guy Fawkes I. (I. Guy Fawkes Sud)—and two rocks located northwest of Santa Cruz...
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Labrador has many communities that celebrate bonfire nights, particularly Guy Fawkes Night; this is one of the times when small rural communities come together...
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which case it is held on Saturday the 4th), the event not only marks Guy Fawkes Night – the date of the uncovering of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 – but...
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commemorated) November 5 Bank Transfer Day (United States) Colón Day (Panama) Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom, New Zealand and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)...
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Moore, and the designer of its anarchist protagonist V and the modern Guy Fawkes/V mask, the latter going on to become a symbol of protest. Other books...
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including Thomas Wintour, John Wright, Thomas Percy, and Guy Fawkes. Over the following months, Fawkes helped to recruit a further eight conspirators into...
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including a German motorcycle courier in the drama Hearts and Bones (2001), Guy Fawkes in the miniseries Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004), Lt. Harry Colebourn...
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