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Remember, remember the 5th of November. Gunpowder treason and plot !
So goes the well known rhyme, and today being the 5th of November we English people light bonfires and set off fireworks to mark the day the plot devised by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators, some 400 years ago, to blow up the House of Lords and thus kill King James I and as many of the Lords as they could was discovered before it could be carried out.
It has now become a tradition for the Yeomen of the Guard to search the cellars under the Houses of Parliament before the State Opening of Parliament, although these days there are more serious anti-terrorist precautions in place.