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How Guy Fawkes, Figurehead of the Gunpowder Plot, Avoided the Full Horrors of Execution by Hanging, Drawing and Quartering
The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...
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Gunpowder Plot Game
One of the conspirators, Guy Fawkes, was tasked with igniting this huge bomb. It is Fawkes' effigy that is still burned on 5 November bonfires to this day.