Quote of the Day: Pope’s Day

Guy Fawkes Night celebrations at Windsor Castle, 1776

Tonightin England is Guy Fawkes Night. It’s one of the island’s more unusual holidays, in that it commemorates that time in 1605 when a group of Catholic terroristsplotted to blow up the House of Lords on November 5, thus killing King James I and (hopefully) returningthe country to Catholic rule. It didn’t work out so well. Fawkes and his other conspirators were discovered, convicted, and drawn and quartered. The king institutedlaws restri...