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Tag Archives: fireworks
Video Blog: Civil War in Palermo
I spent New Year’s Eve and the first couple of days of January 2014 in Palermo, the capital city of Sicily. I only made one New Year’s resolution (although I had previously dismissed those kind of resolutions as bunk) and … Continue reading
Fireworks for Bonfire Night 2010 at Blackheath in London
Every first week in November, all over Great Britain fireworks are lit up for “Bonfire Night” to commemorate the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. A group of English Catholics around Guy Fawkes had conspired to kill King James I and to … Continue reading
Posted in History, London, Travel, UK
Tagged Blackheath, Bonfire Night, English history, fireworks, Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fakwes, Guy Fawkes Night
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