You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Guy Fawkes Day, which happens each November 5th, is not an American holiday, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year on November 5, skies across England, Scotland and Wales are illuminated by fireworks as Brits head out into the night ...

While Tuesday's elections will understandably consume Wednesday's attention, it's also worth looking at two November holidays that are eerily relevant to current American politics and the war in ...

All around the world, protesters wear Guy Fawkes masks to conceal their identity in service of a cause. By Sara Barrett As Britain celebrated Guy Fawkes Night on Monday, a video showed a group burning ...

On this day 410 years ago, Guy Fawkes and several accomplices attempted to blow up the House of Lords and assassinate King James I of England and VI of Scotland. The plot is memorialized in a famous ...

About 200 protestors marched through downtown streets Tuesday evening to protest a variety of injustices they claimed have been inflicted on everyday citizens. Most of the protestors donned Guy Fawkes ...

The potent symbiosis-and ultimate disentangling-of religion and politics in the modern era is explored in this study of a very British holiday. Historian Sharpe gives a sprightly recap of the 1605 ...

In the mighty calendar of bad ideas, the date of Nov. 5 stands as a testament to the powers of human folly. It is a date which represents the highest levels of religious and political idiocy, and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. SFist has some suggestions for stateside Fawkes fun. But as Andrew ...

As the hacking group Anonymous vows to “destroy” Facebook because of its privacy policy on Nov. 5, observed as Guy Fawkes Day in Britain, TIME looks back at the historical man and the legacy he left ...