Editing Gunpowder Plot (section)

===Bonfire Night===
{{Main|Guy Fawkes Night}}
[[File:6 november bonfire from flickr user sjnikon.jpg|thumb|alt=A night-time photograph of a blazing fire is silhouetted by dark figures.|[[Bonfire]]s are lit in Britain every 5 November to commemorate the failure of the plot.]]
In January 1606, during the first sitting of Parliament since the plot, the [[Observance of 5th November Act 1605]] was passed, making services commemorating the event an annual feature of English life;<ref name="parliament">{{Citation|url=http://www.show.me.uk/gunpowderplot/adults_plot_ac.htm |title=Aftermath: Commemoration |date=2005–2006 |publisher=gunpowderplot.parliament.uk |accessdate=31 October 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719141329/http://www.show.me.uk/gunpowderplot/adults_plot_ac.htm |archivedate=19 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the act remained in force [[Anniversary Days Observance Act 1859|until 1859]].<ref name="factsheet">{{citation|author=House of Commons Information Office |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/g08.pdf |title=The Gunpowder Plot |publisher=parliament.uk |date=September 2006 |accessdate=6 March 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050215195506/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/g08.pdf |archivedate=15 February 2005 }}</ref> The tradition of marking the day with the ringing of church bells and bonfires started soon after the Plot's discovery, and [[fireworks]] were included in some of the earliest celebrations.<ref name="parliament" /> In Britain, 5 November is variously called Bonfire Night, Fireworks Night, or [[Guy Fawkes Night]].<ref name="factsheet"/>

5 November firework displays and bonfire parties are common throughout Britain.<ref name="factsheet"/> Traditionally, in the weeks running up to the 5th, children made "guys"—[[effigies]] supposedly of Fawkes—usually made from old clothes stuffed with newspaper, and fitted with a grotesque mask, to be burnt on bonfires. These "guys" were exhibited to collect money for fireworks, although this custom has become less common.<ref name="icons">{{citation |url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/bonfire-night/features/a-penny-for-the-guy-in-progress |title=Bonfire Night: A penny for the Guy |publisher=icons.org.uk |accessdate=6 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113083659/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/bonfire-night/features/a-penny-for-the-guy-in-progress |archivedate=13 November 2009 }}</ref> The word ''guy'', in the 19th century, thus came to mean an oddly dressed person and, in the 20th and 21st centuries, any male person.<ref name="factsheet"/>
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| quote = <poem>Remember, remember,
The Fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot;
For I see no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.</poem>
| source = [[Nursery rhyme]]<ref>''Notes and queries'' (Oxford University Press, 1857), [https://books.google.com/books?id=YfnfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA450#v=onepage p. 450]</ref>
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According to the biographer [[Esther Forbes]], Guy Fawkes Day in the pre-revolutionary American colonies was a very popular holiday. In [[Boston]], the revelry on "[[Pope Night]]" took on anti-authoritarian overtones, and often became so dangerous that many would not venture out of their homes.<ref>{{Harvnb|Forbes|1999|p=94}}</ref>