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Fawkes, Guy:

Fawkes, Guy: see Gunpowder Plot.

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

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For a country that they say are taking many of our jobs, it would seem that people in India have nothing to do. From what I can gather, a large proportion of the public spends its time wandering the streets burning effigies of whoever it may be who has offended them that day. Jade Goody; Richard Gere; you name it; they've all been strung-up and given the Guy Fawkes treatment by a bunch of yahoos with nothing better to do with their time. (Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland))

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