Today is Guy Fawkes Day, a day where the U.K. celebrates the foiling of a plot to kill King James I in 1605. The country celebrates this by lightning fireworks and, in a morbid twist, burning an ...

Guy Fawkes, another of the conspirators ... But all it took was a note from the King to make it legal. So on 6 November, King James agreed that, "the gentler tortours are to be first used unto ...