[Bigg Red]

I would say that learning of Guy Fawkes will be the easiest of the tasks you have set for yourself here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

[Kingwood Kid III]

Don’t forget that the official date of “Red October” is November 7th. The reason that it is called Red October, the beginning of the Communist revolution against the Russian government.

The reason why it is October, instead of November, is that Russians were still using the old Gregorian calendar which didn’t take leap years into account.

[peteypupperdoo]

“I would say that learning of Guy Fawkes will be the easiest of the tasks you have set for yourself here”

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Hahaha, I think you are correct there. I am bound and determined to get through all of MEQ’s new vids. His decoding is amazing! Like I said, so above my paygrade lol. Oh, numbers, Gematria (?), mirrors? Oh yeah, I so get it, NOT.

[ponygirl]

Reading through that quick breakdown of Guy Fawkes history, it follows almost step-by-step what happened to my ancestor. Cecil and Wade were both involved. It was a bit chilling to read Cecil’s journals about his conversation with the Queen, where, after first suggesting to simply scare the prisoner, she then urged Cecil to “press him further, using any means necessary” (meaning, torture him). He was imprisoned for about 3 years, at one point in the Tower (where the torture most likely took place, though they never refer to it as such). I have not been able to locate a specific date of release, but he did survive and was able to leave the country and fled to Liege, Belgium, where many of the recusant Catholics wound up. He was dead by 1604, as I found the sale of his property (by the same men who turned him in, btw), most likely due to the results of imprisonment, since his letters from prison repeatedly remarked on the effects the “poor ayres” were having on his lungs.

It was a remarkable genealogical rabbit hole to pursue and I was able to talk with several recusant scholars and historians in England who were all amazed at how far I was able to dig that hole without ever stepping foot in the UK. One of them even asked me to write a paper on the family and send it to her…something I still intend to do.