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Do you Americans celebrate guy Fawkes night ??

Fifth of November gunpowder treason and plot?

Posted - November 11, 2017
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  • 5354
    I doubt it, that is a British event, not a part of American history
      November 11, 2017 1:22 PM MST
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  • No it was celebrated by your forefathers we celebrate Halloween here in England and fireworks go off here on 4th July so it think its a bit of a mix of cultures really
      November 13, 2017 2:35 PM MST
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  • 13071
    Image result for gifs of lady falkens night with men in drag
      November 11, 2017 2:15 PM MST
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  • 22891
    no, never heard of it
      November 11, 2017 2:32 PM MST
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  • 6124
    No we don't.  We celebrate Hugh Weaving's birthday instead.
      November 11, 2017 3:56 PM MST
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  • 5808
    Penny for the guy?
      November 11, 2017 4:05 PM MST
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  • Yay did that loll
      November 13, 2017 2:37 PM MST
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  • 5835
    I have heard of Guy Fawkes. He's English, right?
      November 13, 2017 4:08 AM MST
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  • 5835
    As far as Americans are concerned, Guy Fawkes is right up there with Boxing Day.
      November 13, 2017 4:09 AM MST
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  • He's dead lol long time ago for trying to blow up the houses of Parliament
      November 13, 2017 2:39 PM MST
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  • 13277
    I vaguely remember hearing that name. Who was he?
      November 13, 2017 5:20 AM MST
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  • 6098
    I think he was a Roman Catholic who tried to blow up the primarily Protestant British legislative offices in the early 18th Century. 
      November 13, 2017 6:11 AM MST
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  • Tried and failed to blow up Parliament many of your American forfathers probably celebrated it
      November 13, 2017 2:42 PM MST
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  • 13277
    *forefathers. Anyway, I just googled him and according to Wikipedia, the Gunpowder Plot took place in 1605, more than a decade before Plymouth Rock Colony (Massachusetts) was founded in 1620 and more than a century before we had any American forefathers to speak of.

    If you want some chuckles about our forefathers, watch these clips from "1776"...












     This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at November 14, 2017 1:57 AM MST
      November 13, 2017 3:01 PM MST
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  • many thanks lol
    https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night&ved=0ahUKEwiIm_XM0L3XAhXiBsAKHc_PDu0QFggyMAI&usg=AOvVaw3C8bwmtDK9j4wagXYuEiwm
      November 14, 2017 1:22 AM MST
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  • 6098
    We do not.
      November 13, 2017 6:09 AM MST
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  • OK some do
      November 13, 2017 2:43 PM MST
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