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gunpowder plot
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Gunpowder \Gun"pow`der\, n. (Chem.) A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of saltpeter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting. Note: Gunpowder consists of from 70 to 80 per cent of niter, ...
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The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason , was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert ...
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Year after year I got especially chosen and, I supposed, honoured to deal with the rain-or-no-rain million-dollar gamble on fine weather for the night the skies blazed with the multi-coloured firework starbursts sent up in memory of Guy Fawkes and his blow-up-Parliament gunpowder plot.
It is nearly two centuries since the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament, but British loyalists may have been planning something similar here.
Year after year I got especially chosen and, I supposed, honored to deal with the rain-or-no-rain million-dollar gamble on fine weather for the night the skies blazed with the multicolored firework star bursts sent up in memory of Guy Fawkes and his blow-up Parliament gunpowder plot.
Add in those wily Frogs Andy's always on at you about, plus a nice touch of your Colombian drug money for sinister and Harry boy, the Gunpowder Plot isn't in it, except who's going to catch you with the matches in your hand this time?
The Catiline conspiracy was as important in its day as the Gunpowder Plot in England.