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Remember, remember
Nov. 5th, 2013 10:43 am...the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
What might the world be like had Guy Fawkes succeeded in blowing up Parliament and King James I/VI?
A regency would have been set up for his son Charles I, who was only five years old. There would be no King James Bible. There might not have been an English civil war, a Commonwealth, or a Protectorate.
The Puritans might never have come to Massachusetts, and their descendants, including me, wouldn't be here. Nor would my alma mater, nor the town where I live, nor anywhere I've ever lived except New Orleans.
The modern world would be unrecognizable.
We might all be speaking French. Quelle horreur!
I know of no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
What might the world be like had Guy Fawkes succeeded in blowing up Parliament and King James I/VI?
A regency would have been set up for his son Charles I, who was only five years old. There would be no King James Bible. There might not have been an English civil war, a Commonwealth, or a Protectorate.
The Puritans might never have come to Massachusetts, and their descendants, including me, wouldn't be here. Nor would my alma mater, nor the town where I live, nor anywhere I've ever lived except New Orleans.
The modern world would be unrecognizable.
We might all be speaking French. Quelle horreur!
