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It's definitley the best day in the universe 
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That's cool - The whole of the UK have fireworks on your birthday every single year. Now on bonfire night, I'll be thinking of you having a happy birthday when I watch the sky lighting up!!!
Shells 
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Only a Brit!
#38151 - 01/16/04 04:09 PM
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Bevvy
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AHA! Finally someone who can explain to me my birthday. Please tell me, Shells: WHO WAS GUY FAWKES?
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That's cool - The whole of the UK have fireworks on your birthday every single year. Now on bonfire night, I'll be thinking of you having a happy birthday when I watch the sky lighting up!!!
Shells
Really?? awesome! Why is that? I feel like such a stupid American now LOL
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Wasn't Guy Fawkes the guy who attempted to blow up Parliment? That's why there are fireworks, correct?
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Guy Fawkes Day
#38159 - 01/16/04 04:16 PM
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Peaches, if there's ANY "stupid American," it's ME. After all, I should know this by now but I don't.
Shells was referring to my birthday. It's November 5. In England, that's Guy Fawkes Day. Now it's up to Shells to help me out here 'cause I don't know who Guy Fawkes was. He was an historical type person in England, that's all I know. 
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Shells -- HELP!!
#38162 - 01/16/04 04:18 PM
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I don't know! Why did I start this? What was I thinking? I need to go out in that garden . . .
. . . "worms."
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And here I thought they were doing the fireworks just for you!
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. . . "worms."
ha ha ha
Ok, Google wins again. I was right, more or less... here you go (it's long):
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In 1605, Guy Fawkes (also known as Guido - yes, really) and a group of conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had had a rough time under her reign had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion. Alas, he was not, and this angered a number of young men who decided that violent action was the answer.
One young man in particular, Robert Catesby suggested to some close friends that the thing to do was to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In doing so, they would kill the King, maybe even the Prince of Wales, and the Members of Parliament who were making life difficult for the Catholics. Today these conspirators would be known as extremists, or terrorists.
To carry out their plan, the conspirators got hold of 36 barrels of gunpowder - and stored it in a cellar, just under the House of Lords.
But as the group worked on the plot, it became clear that some innocent people would be hurt or killed in the attack. Some of the plotters started having second thoughts. One of the group members even sent an anonymous letter warning his friend, Lord Monteagle, to stay away from the Parliament on November 5th. Was the letter real?
The warning letter reached the King, and the King's forces made plans to stop the conspirators.
Guy Fawkes, who was in the cellar of the parliament with the 36 barrels of gunpowder when the authorities stormed it in the early hours of November 5th, was caught, tortured and executed.
It's unclear if the conspirators would ever have been able to pull off their plan to blow up the Parliament even if they had not been betrayed - some people think the gunpowder they were planning to use was so old as to be useless. Since Guy Fawkes and his colleagues got caught before trying to ignite the powder, we'll never know for certain.
These days, Guy Fawkes Day is also known as Bonfire Night. The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire.
Some of the English have been known to wonder whether they are celebrating Fawkes' execution or honoring his attempt to do away with the government.
from here: http://www.bonefire.org/guy/gunpowder.php
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Peaches, if there's ANY "stupid American," it's ME. After all, I should know this by now but I don't.
MMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm no it would have to be ME because I thought it was my birthday that was special  Guess not...
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