"the line to suggest that ""leaving it all behind"" is impossible, and one should always be aware of one's past. Lennon goes on to sing that one shouldn't feel sorry about or worry about the past. The original version of ""Remember"" was over eight minutes long. This version contained an organ overdub, more double-tracked vocals, and a Jew's harp. Lennon cut the recording down and added an explosion, in reference to Guy Fawkes Night. A 2:44 rehearsal take of ""Remember""—where the tempo of the song is being worked out—appears on the 1998 box set ""John Lennon Anthology"". The song was"
"barber of Fleet Street, and serial killer Jack the Ripper. On 5 November, people in England make bonfires, set off fireworks and eat toffee apples in commemoration of the foiling of Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot, which became an annual event after ""The Thanksgiving Act"" of 1606 was passed. Guy Fawkes mask is an emblem for anti-establishment protest groups. English people traditionally speak the English language, a member of the West Germanic language family. The modern English language evolved from Middle English (the form of language in use by the English people from the 12th to the 15th century); Middle English"
"to have been later reanalyzed as a plural, creating the singular ""effigy"".) ""In effigie"" was probably understood as a Latin phrase until the 18th century. The word occurs in Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"" of 1600 (II, vii, 193), where scansion suggests that the second syllable is to be emphasized, as in the Latin pronunciation (but unlike the modern English pronunciation). The best known British example of a caricature effigy is the figure of the 1605 Gunpowder Plotter Guy Fawkes, found in charge of gunpowder to blow up the King in the House of Lords. On November 5, Guy Fawkes"
"for a mischievous creature that sabotages aircraft, meddling in the plane's equipment. Legendary figures from 19th-century London whose tales have been romanticised include Sweeney Todd, the murderous barber of Fleet Street (accompanied with Mrs. Lovett who sells pies made from Todd's victims), and serial killer Jack the Ripper. On 5 November, people in England make bonfires, set off fireworks and eat toffee apples in commemoration of the foiling of Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot, which became an annual event after the Thanksgiving Act of 1606 was passed. Guy Fawkes masks are an emblem for anti-establishment protest groups. Halloween is a traditional"
"the ten songs. It relates to the legend that Sir Francis Drake, naval hero under Elizabeth I of England, on his deathbed in the Spanish Main, asked that his drum be taken to England. He promised that should it be beaten in the hour of England's gravest need, he and his fleet would reappear in the English Channel to repel the invaders; as they did the Spanish Armada in 1588. It has been recorded by, among others, Peter Dawson, John Shirley-Quirk and Sir Thomas Allen; either in the original version, or in an arrangement for voice and piano. ""Songs of"
"as a day of thanksgiving for ""the joyful day of deliverance"", and remained in force until 1859. Fawkes was one of 13 conspirators, but he is the individual most associated with the plot. In Britain, 5 November has variously been called Guy Fawkes Night, Guy Fawkes Day, Plot Night, and Bonfire Night (which can be traced directly back to the original celebration of 5 November 1605). Bonfires were accompanied by fireworks from the 1650s onwards, and it became the custom after 1673 to burn an effigy (usually of the pope) when heir presumptive James, Duke of York converted to Catholicism."
"not deter the reader"", and regarded as his best-known work his compression of Arnold J. Toynbee's ten-volume ""A Study of History"". His adbridgement of the Toynbee work was reissued in two volumes by the Oxford University Press in 1988. D. C. Somervell David Churchill Somervell (16 July 1885– 17 January 1965) was an English historian and teacher. He taught at three well-known English public schools – Repton, Tonbridge and Benenden – and was the author of several volumes of history and the editor of well-regarded abridgements of other historians' works. Somervell was the son of Robert Somervell, a history master"
"confessed. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes fell from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of being hanged, drawn and quartered. He became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in Britain as Guy Fawkes Night since 5 November 1605, when his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by fireworks. Guy Fawkes was born in 1570 in Stonegate, York. He was the second of four children born to Edward Fawkes, a proctor and an advocate of the consistory court at"
"of the Duke of York, by Sir Richard Westmacott, was raised on 10 April 1834. Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany was the commander-in-chief of the British Army during the French Revolutionary Wars and led the reform of the army into a capable modernised force. The Duke is remembered in the children's nursery rhyme, ""The Grand Old Duke of York"". When he died in 1827, the entire British Army by general consensus following a proposal of the senior officers, forewent one day's wages to pay for a monument to the Duke. When the sum of subscriptions for a monument"
"Guy Fawkes mask The Guy Fawkes mask is a stylised depiction of Guy Fawkes, the best-known member of the Gunpowder Plot. The plot was an attempt to blow up the House of Lords in London on 5 November 1605, in order to restore a Catholic head of state. The use of a mask on an effigy has long roots as part of Guy Fawkes Night celebrations. A stylised portrayal of a face with a smile and red cheeks, a wide moustache upturned at both ends, and a thin vertical pointed beard, designed by illustrator David Lloyd, came to represent broader"
"companies in the world, owns the rights to the image and is paid a fee with the sale of each official mask. Guy Fawkes mask The Guy Fawkes mask is a stylised depiction of Guy Fawkes, the best-known member of the Gunpowder Plot. The plot was an attempt to blow up the House of Lords in London on 5 November 1605, in order to restore a Catholic head of state. The use of a mask on an effigy has long roots as part of Guy Fawkes Night celebrations. A stylised portrayal of a face with a smile and red cheeks,"
"Ainsworth's 1841 historical romance ""Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason"", portrays Fawkes in a generally sympathetic light, although it also embellishes the known facts for dramatic effect. Ainsworth's novel transformed Fawkes into an ""acceptable fictional character"", and Fawkes subsequently appeared in children's books and penny dreadfuls. One example of the latter is ""The Boyhood Days of Guy Fawkes"", published in about 1905, which portrayed Fawkes as ""essentially an action hero"". With the phrase “A penny for the Old Guy”, Anglo-American poet T. S. Eliot acknowledges Fawkes (and the straw-man effigy burned every year on November 5) in an epigraph to"
"such as: Fluellen Fluellen is a fictional character in the play ""Henry V"" by William Shakespeare. Fluellen is a Welsh Captain, a leader of a contingent of troops in the small army of King Henry V of England while on campaign in France during the Hundred Years' War. He is a comic figure, whose characterisation draws on stereotypes of the Welsh at that time, but he is also portrayed as a loyal, brave and dedicated soldier. The name 'Fluellen' is an anglicised version of the Welsh language Llywelyn. The Welsh sound does not exist in English, but is perceived by"
"Amundsen, Henry James, Jack Johnson, Wilhelm II, Paul von Hindenburg, Ferdinand Foch, George V of the United Kingdom, Lloyd George, Lord Kitchener, The Red Baron, T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Mata Hari, Lenin, Henry Ford, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Sigmund Freud, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer Suzanne Lenglen, Anna Pavlova, Nellie Melba, Amy Johnson, Malcolm Campbell, Henry Seagrave, Jack Hobbs, Donald Bradman, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rudolph Valentino, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Coco Chanel, Noël Coward,"
"and pseudo-histories make up part of the wider Matter of Britain, a collection of shared British folklore. Some folk figures are based on semi or actual historical people whose story has been passed down centuries; Lady Godiva for instance was said to have ridden naked on horseback through Coventry, Hereward the Wake was a heroic English figure resisting the Norman invasion, Herne the Hunter is an equestrian ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park and Mother Shipton is the archetypal witch. On 5 November people make bonfires, set off fireworks and eat toffee apples in commemoration of the foiling"
"lyricism of his poetry led to it being set to music by his friends Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells and Sir Herbert Brewer, among others. It continues to be used by contemporary composers including Johnny Coppin. His work is noted particularly for its appreciation of the natural world and the landscape and traditions of West Gloucestershire. Harvey was commemorated by a slate memorial tablet in the south transept of Gloucester Cathedral in 1980. ""Ducks"", Harvey's best known work, was voted one of the nation's 100 favourite poems in 1996 in a nationwide poll conducted by the BBC. F. W. Harvey Frederick"
"include George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Ian Fleming, Walter Scott, Agatha Christie, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Roald Dahl, Arthur C. Clarke, Daphne du Maurier, Alan Moore, Ian McEwan, Anthony Burgess, Evelyn Waugh, William Golding, Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams, P. G. Wodehouse, Martin Amis, J. G. Ballard, Beatrix Potter, A. A. Milne, Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, H. Rider Haggard, Enid Blyton, Neil Gaiman, Kazuo Ishiguro, and J. K. Rowling. Important British"
"distinct genre from tragedy in Renaissance England. The best known examples of the genre are the history plays written by William Shakespeare, whose plays still serve to define the genre. Shakespeare wrote numerous history plays, some included in the First Folio as histories, and other listed as tragedies, or Roman plays. Among the most famous histories are ""Richard III"", and ""Henry IV, Part 1"", ""Henry IV, Part 2"", and ""Henry V"". Other plays that feature historical characters, are the tragedy ""Macbeth"", set in the mid-11th century during the reigns of Duncan I of Scotland and Edward the Confessor, and the"
"Imagery in the November 5 fundraiser drew on the history of the revolutionary Guy Fawkes, the film ""V for Vendetta"", and the traditional rhyme celebrating Fawkes's plot being foiled. Unofficial drives in support of Fred Thompson, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, and Dennis Kucinich were referred to by the media as moneybombs and seen as attempts to replicate the November 5 event. Thompson's campaign disavowed his supporters' effort, which was speculated to have failed because it had been scheduled for the day before Thanksgiving and due to lack of realtime donation tracking feedback. Neither the campaign nor the site"
"bonfires started soon after the Plot's discovery, and fireworks were included in some of the earliest celebrations. In Britain, the 5th of November is variously called Bonfire Night, Fireworks Night, or Guy Fawkes Night. It remains the custom in Britain, on or around 5 November, to let off fireworks. Traditionally, in the weeks running up to the 5th, children made ""guys""—effigies supposedly of Fawkes—usually made from old clothes stuffed with newspaper, and fitted with a grotesque mask, to be burnt on the 5 November bonfire. These guys were exhibited in the street to collect money for fireworks, although this custom"
"children's book) won seven 2012 Olivier Awards. In 2017, ""Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"" won nine Olivier Awards. The Royal Shakespeare Company, at Stratford-upon-Avon, produces mainly but not exclusively Shakespeare plays. Important modern playwrights include Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Alan Ayckbourn, John Osborne, Michael Frayn and Arnold Wesker. While the British national anthem ""God Save the Queen"" and other patriotic songs such as ""Rule, Britannia!"" represent the United Kingdom, each of the four individual countries of the UK also has its own patriotic hymns. Edward Elgar's ""Land of Hope and Glory"", and William Blake's poem ""And did"
"by the ringing of church bells and civic dinners, was consequently eclipsed by his birthday commemorations. From the 19th century, 5 November celebrations there became sectarian in nature. Its celebration in Northern Ireland remains controversial, unlike in Scotland where bonfires continue to be lit in various cities. In England though, as one of 49 official holidays, for the ruling class 5 November became overshadowed by events such as the birthdays of Admiral Edward Vernon, or John Wilkes, and under George II and George III, with the exception of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, it was largely ""a polite entertainment rather"
"throughout the United Kingdom have their origins with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, where a group of English Catholics, including the now infamous Guy Fawkes, were foiled in their plot to blow up the House of Lords. The following January, an act entitled ‘An Acte for a publique Thanksgiving to Almighty God ever year of the Fifth day of November’ was passed, which held that 5 November should be held in perpetual remembrance of the plot, with a special service held in every Church of England parish church. Celebrations in Lewes were not planned or carried out annually, but were"
"able to reach Deerhurst because the Severn was in flood. 2. That it refers to an incident in the play ""Doctor Faustus"" by Christopher Marlowe wherein he is referred to as ""Doctor Fauster"" by a person whom he caused to get wet crossing a river by conjuring a straw into a horse which changed back to the straw in the middle of the river. Doctor Foster ""Doctor Foster"" is an English language nursery rhyme that has appeared in many anthologies since the nineteenth century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19288. The rhyme was first published in"
"Dickens, the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells and Lewis Carroll. Since then England has continued to produce novelists such as George Orwell, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Enid Blyton, Aldous Huxley, Agatha Christie, Terry Pratchett, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling. The traditional folk music of England is centuries old and has contributed to several genres prominently; mostly sea shanties, jigs, hornpipes and dance music. It has its own distinct variations and regional peculiarities. Wynkyn de Worde printed ballads of Robin Hood from the 16th century are"
"Fluellen Fluellen is a fictional character in the play ""Henry V"" by William Shakespeare. Fluellen is a Welsh Captain, a leader of a contingent of troops in the small army of King Henry V of England while on campaign in France during the Hundred Years' War. He is a comic figure, whose characterisation draws on stereotypes of the Welsh at that time, but he is also portrayed as a loyal, brave and dedicated soldier. The name 'Fluellen' is an anglicised version of the Welsh language Llywelyn. The Welsh sound does not exist in English, but is perceived by English speakers"
"both the other volumes, circumstances have forced the children to spend protracted periods away from their home and their father. A continuing theme throughout ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" is the ancient element of fire. The story begins shortly before 5 November, celebrated in Britain as Guy Fawkes Night. The four children have accumulated a small hoard of fireworks for the night, but they are too impatient to wait until 5 November to light them, so they set off a few samples in the nursery. This results in the fire that destroys the carpet. Their parents purchase a second-hand carpet"
"Confessor. Edward dedicated the chapel at Windsor Castle to the soldier saint who represented the knightly values of chivalry which he so much admired, and the Garter ceremony takes place there every year. In the 16th century, Edmund Spenser included St. George (Redcross Knight) as a central figure in his epic poem ""The Faerie Queene"". William Shakespeare firmly placed St George within the national conscience in his play ""Henry V"", in which the English troops are rallied with the cry ""God for Harry, England and St George,"" and in ""Richard III"", and ""King Lear"". A late 17th-century ballad also claims"
"was to support plays ""which would educate the English people ... in their country's history, in appreciation of its greatness, and of their own stake in its welfare"". Whether coincidence or not, a spate of history plays followed the authorization of the annuity. B. M. Ward pointed out (1928) that the elaborated, unhistorical and flattering role assigned to an earlier Earl of Oxford, the 11th, in ""The Famous Victories of Henry V"" (c.1587), was designed as an oblique compliment to a contemporary financial backer of chronicle plays. The early chronicle plays such as ""The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth"""
"author and wit George Etherege (Tom Hollander) in the 2004 film ""The Libertine"", an adaptation of Stephen Jeffreys' play of the same name, which depicts the Earl of Rochester and the orbit of the ""Merry Gang"". Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex, KG (24 January 1643 – 29 January 1706) was an English poet and courtier. Sackville was born 24 January 1643, son of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset (1622–1677). His mother was the former Lady Frances Cranfield, sister and heiress of the 3rd Earl of Middlesex, to"
"Chuzzlewit"" it is said that a member of the Chuzzlewit family was ""unquestionably"" involved in the Gunpowder Plot, and that Fawkes himself may indeed have been a scion of the family's ""remarkable stock."" By the 19th century, Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot had begun to be used as the basis for pantomimes. One early example is ""Harlequin and Guy Fawkes: or, the 5th of November"", which was performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 16 November 1835. After the Plot is discovered, Fawkes changes into Harlequin and Robert Catesby, the leader of the Plot, into Pantaloon, following which ""pure"
"Orchard Halliwell was a notable collector of English nursery rhymes. Some of the best known nursery rhymes from Britain are ""Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"", ""Roses Are Red"", ""Jack and Jill"", ""Cock a doodle doo"", ""Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"", ""The Grand Old Duke of York"", ""London Bridge Is Falling Down"", ""Hey Diddle Diddle"", ""Three Blind Mice"", ""Little Miss Muffet"", ""Pat-a-cake"", ""Pop Goes the Weasel"", ""The Queen of Hearts"", ""Polly Put the Kettle On"", ""Peter Piper"", ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"", ""Hickory Dickory Dock"", ""One for Sorrow"", ""This Old Man"", ""Simple Simon"", ""Old Mother Hubbard"", ""Little Bo Peep"", ""Sing a Song of"
"wars. An earlier play, the ""Famous Victories of Henry V"" is also generally believed to have been a model for the work. On the basis of an apparent allusion to Essex's mission to quell Tyrone's Rebellion, the play is thought to date from early 1599. ""The Chronicle History of Henry the fifth"" was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 14 August 1600 by the bookseller Thomas Pavier; the first quarto was published before the end of the year—though by Thomas Millington and John Busby rather than Pavier. (Thomas Creede did the printing.) Q1 of ""Henry V"" is"