LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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the 4th of October
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the 5th of December
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the 3rd of November
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the 5th of November
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot…” This was the date on which Guy Fawkes, a Catholic renegade, dramatically failed to blow up London’s House of Lords. This cultural memory has been faithfully preserved for over 400 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot! If you can’t give us one, we’ll take two; The better for us and the worse for you!
Detailed explanation-3: -The traditional Gunpowder Plot poem, Remember, remember the 5th of November, was originally written by John Milton in 1626 at Cambridge University. It celebrates the anniversary of the failed Gunpowder Plot. It was written in Latin and called ‘In Quintum Novembris’ which means ‘On the Fifth of November’.
Detailed explanation-4: -Every 5 November in Britain on Guy Fawkes Day, we remember the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes and fellow Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up Parliament and assassinate James I of England.
Detailed explanation-5: -Quotes. A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. Remark (6 November 1605) as quoted in The Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 6 (1917); He is here invoking a version of a famous statement of Hippocrates, also translated as “Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."