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In subsequent years, it became a British tradition to burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes in a bonfire every November 5th, which is called (reasonably enough) [[wikipedia:Guy Fawkes Night|Guy Fawkes Night]]. (The earliest such celebrations were within two years of Fawkes' arrest; Canterbury's celebration in 1607 is particularly well documented.) The tradition has continued to this very day, some four centuries later, and includes masks inspired by Fawkes. The practice was exported to the American colonies but died out there after the Revolutionary War. While there was a decline in celebrating Guy Fawkes Day by the beginning of the 19th century, Victorian England revived and revivified the practice, even expanding on it by adding fireworks to the traditional bonfires.
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