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Guy Fawkes

A demonstrator wearing a Guy Fawkes mask is pictured during clashes in downtown Rio de Janeiro on June 17, 2013. Youths clashed with police in central Rio Monday as more than 200,000 people marched in major Brazilian cities to protest the billions of dollars spent on the Confederations Cup and higher public transport costs.

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About Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, the name in which he was indicted, was a member of a group of Roman Catholic restorationists from England that planned the Gunpowder Plot. The plot's aim was to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while king James I and the entire Protestant aristocracy were inside. The conspirators saw this as a reaction to systematic discrimination against English Roman Catholics.

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