Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, the name in which he was indicted, was a member of a group of Roman Catholic restorationists from England that planned the Gunpowder Plot. The plot's aim was to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while king James I and the entire Protestant aristocracy were inside. The conspirators saw this as a reaction to systematic discrimination against English Roman Catholics.
Source: International Business Times
Assange could be extradited to Sweden in a month to face sexual assault allegations (screengrab) Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange has donned a Guy Fawkes' Anonymous mask in what he claims to be his "last public appearance" a ...
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Anonymous-affiliated hackers dropped a 1.7GB torrent of data allegedly onto file-sharing networks on Monday after hacking into the US Bureau of Justice Statistics. The leaked files purportedly include "i ...
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