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Gunpowder Plot

Gunpowder Plot
1605 failed attempt to kill King James I 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 by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby who sought to restore the Catholic monarchy to England after decades of persecution against Catholics. The plot was revealed to the authorities in an anonymous letter sent to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, on 26 October 1605. Background[edit] Religion in England[edit] Between 1533 and 1540, King Henry VIII took control of the English Church from Rome, the start of several decades of religious tension in England. Succession[edit] Queen Elizabeth, unmarried and childless, steadfastly refused to name an heir. Some exiled Catholics favoured Philip II of Spain's daughter, Isabella, as Elizabeth's successor. Early reign of James I[edit] Early plots[edit] The Catholic community responded to news of these plots with shock.

History - The Gunpowder Plot Anonymous Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated international network of activist and hacktivist entities. A website nominally associated with the group describes it as "an internet gathering" with "a very loose and decentralized command structure that operates on ideas rather than directives". The group became known for a series of well-publicized publicity stunts and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government, religious, and corporate websites. Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.[3][4] Anonymous members (known as "Anons") can be distinguished in public by the wearing of stylised Guy Fawkes masks.[5] In its early form, the concept was adopted by a decentralized online community acting anonymously in a coordinated manner, usually toward a loosely self-agreed goal, and primarily focused on entertainment, or "lulz".

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 In November 1605, the infamous Gunpowder Plot took place in which some Catholics, most famously Guy Fawkes, plotted to blow up James I, the first of the Stuart kings of England. The story is remembered each November 5th when ‘Guys’ are burned in a celebration known as "Bonfire Night". The story appears to be very simple. Catholics in England had expected James to be more tolerant of them. In fact, he had proved to be the opposite and had ordered all Catholic priests to leave England. Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators, having rented out a house right by the Houses of Parliament, managed to get 36 barrels of gunpowder into a cellar of the House of Lords. The other conspirators were: Robert and Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Christopher and John Wright, Francis Tresham, Everard Digby, Ambrose Rookwood, Thomas Bates, Robert Keyes, Hugh Owen, John Grant and the man who is said to have organised the whole plot Robert Catesby. The most famous picture of some the conspirators

Occult Underground - Portal to Esoteric Knowledge Oh, Smedley: Was there really a fascist plot to overthrow the United States government? November 18, 2005 Dear Cecil: I was reading a Wikipedia article about two-time Medal of Honor winners the other day, one of whom was General Smedley Butler. He claimed to have unmasked the "business plot," also known as the "White House putsch," a scheme to install a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. — Brent, Urbana, Illinois A fascist plot to take over the White House? Smedley Butler's story was nutty--hey, even the guy's name was nutty--which is one reason you don't hear much about it today. Butler was a much-decorated general in the U.S. In 1933 Butler was visited by two officials in the American Legion, the veterans' organization, who tried to recruit him to give a speech at an upcoming Legion convention urging the U.S. to return to the gold standard. Appalled at the idea of becoming the first U.S. dictator, Butler confided in journalist Paul French, who met with MacGuire and confirmed the outlines of the plan. Butler was lying, deluded, etc. — Cecil Adams

Anonymous Says They'll Attack Facebook Next A Summary of "Terra Papers - The Hidden History of Planet Earth" The Suppressed History of Planet Earth I am called ’Morning Sky.’ I grew up hearing the stories my grandfather told of a Space Being he helped rescue. My grandfather was one of six young Native Americans who witnessed the crash of a spaceship in 1947, shortly after the now-famous Roswell incident. When they reached the site, they found one being still alive. They took him back to their camp where they hid and nursed him back to health. He was called Bek’Ti. In the late 1960’s, when I started college, I found myself entertaining the possibility that these stories might not be true. I submitted to my Religious Studies professor a thesis that summed up my three years of research. Having had no success in the academic field, I decided to contact then existing UFO organizations and researchers. "the stuff of myth and legend of Native Americans, not suitable to the serious study of a scientific phenomena." The total rejection made me angry. Circumstances have changed. The Story of Man’s Creation

The Revenge of the Fighting Quaker Smedley Darlington Butler In the early 1930s, a secret collection of prosperous men are said to have assembled in New York City to discuss the dissolution of America's democracy. As a consequence of the Great Depression, the countryside was littered with unemployed, and the world's wealthy were watching as their fortunes deflated and their investments evaporated. To assist them in their diabolical scheme, the resourceful plotters recruited the assistance of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, a venerated, highly decorated, and considerably jaded former Marine. In July 1930, when the Commandant of the Marine Corps Wendell C. A Bonus Army encampment aflame About six months later, he stood before a sea of exasperated World War 1 veterans which surrounded Washington DC's Capitol Hill. The incident, combined with the economic breakdown it represented, led many citizens to suspect that the liberal democracy of America was hopelessly broken. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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