Gun powder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gun powder, treason
Should ever be forgot.
On November 5th, 1605, Guy Fawkes was apprehended in the cellars of English Houses of Parliament where he was guarding barrels filled with gun powder. He was one of many conspirators engaged in a coup to take down the Protestant government and replace it with a Catholic one. Subsequently, he was tried and then executed.
Today, New Zealand is one of many countries that celebrates the fact that the coup was undermined before Parliament was destroyed. And that means big fireworks - not quite on the scale of the 4th of July in the US but a celebration nonetheless. We ventured out on a rainy night to take in the fireworks as they were fired off a boat in the Wellington harbor. :)
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