今天是Guy Fawkes' Night 福克斯日，纪念发现福克斯炸毁议会大厦的阴谋。
每年今日，人们燃放烟花，宣告冬天来临。
我站在窗台边上看，可惜前面的树林太密且太过高大，看得不是很清楚。但是
从声音上估计，也就是中国的传统品种——二踢脚、魔术烟花以及一些各种各
样的鞭炮什么的。
平时也没看到什么地方卖鞭炮，可是这些英国人晚上放得还真热烈。从星星点
点，渐渐到燎原之势，突然有一种感觉，好像是中国除夕夜，新年就要来到……
无奈今晚还有众多案例，不然也想去过一下瘾。空了去打听一下什么地方卖鞭
炮烟花，等到圣诞节和春节*^_^*呼呼
以下是福克斯日，即烟花节的来历：
Guy Fawkes' real name was Guido Fawkes. The son of Edward Fawkes, the
proctor and advocate in the c##被过滤##tituary court of York, Fawkes was born in the Stonegate district of York and Baptized at St. Michael-le-Belfry in 1570. Fawkes
had two younger sisters called Elizabeth and Anne.
Fawkes attended St. Peter's School in 1578 where he may have been
influenced by the headmaster, John Pullen, a man later named as a suspected Jesuit. John
and Christopher Wright also attended St. Peter's.
After his father died in 1579, his mother Edith remarried into the Catholic
Bainbridge family of Scotton. It is believed it was his stepfather that influenced
him to become a Catholic. By the time Fawkes had reached the age of 21,
Fawkes had sold his inheritance and had joined the Catholic forces fighting in
the Low Countries.
For twelve years Fawkes served in the Militia in the Netherlands. As a trained
miner, he was highly skilled with gunpowder and in the practices of tunneling.
During his service, Fawkes was actually at the siege of Calais and in 1603,
Fawkes sought counsel with King Philip II in Spain on the plight of English
Catholics. It was there, that he met with Christopher Wright, with whom he attempted to obtain Spanish support for an invasion of England.
On April 25th 1604, Fawkes arrived in England with Thomas Wintour and in
May 1604 he joined the Gunpowder Plot with Robert Catesby at The Duck
and Drake Inn, with the express intention of destroying the Palace of
Westminster, the Houses of Parliament and King James I.
Fawkes was subsequently captured at around midnight Nov.4 and was
brought before the Privy Council on November 5th. On November 7th,
after several sessi##被过滤## of severe torture and under great duress, Fawkes
finally admitted that the c##被过滤##pirators had planned to free Sir Walter Raleigh
and other Tower of London Prisoners by blowing up Parliament with a large
cache of Gunpowder.
Fawkes is recorded as saying
"yt was past, and he is nowe sorry fo yt, for that he nowe perceyveth that
God did not concur with yet."
This was Fawkes' acknowledgment that he had only been foiled in his
objectives by the will of God. Fawkes only revealed the identity of his
co-c##被过滤##pirators under extreme torture on November the 9th, but only
after he was told that some had already been arrested by the authorities.
He was finally executed on January 31, 1606.
In 1605 on the anniversary of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot being
foiled, bonfires were lit to burn effigies of Guy Fawkes and fireworks let
off in defiant celebration all over London and within a couple of years this
was a national celebration. To this day Guy Fawkes is remembered each
year on November 5 for his audacious attempt to blow up the Houses of
Parliament and nearly successful act of ultimate traitorship.
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