Vic's Weekend News 2016 Nov 5

Geezer

… On this day in 1605 Guy Fawkes was arrested in what has become known as the Gunpowder Plot. He and a group of English Catholics has conspired to blow up the House of Lords and the King with 36 barrels of gunpowder located under the House of Lords.… Today is also Sadie Hawkins day…

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Note from the blog-heaper: Between technical difficulties and other demanding projects, blog-heaping got short shrift for a couple of days. I probably won't try to get caught up on all the regular links, much less the hundreds of news stories, but I will try to get to some of the backlog as well as current stuff. Technical difficulties permitting.