Conspiracy: Gunpowder Plot, Flat Earth Society, Fnord, Cover-Up, Coast to Coast Am, List of Conspiracy-Thriller Films and Television Series, Great...

ISBN-10: 1230622586
ISBN-13: 9781230622583
Series: Conspiracy
Pages: 62
Language: English
Published: 2013-09
Publisher: University-Press.org
Author: Source Wikipedia

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: Gunpowder Plot, Flat Earth Society, Fnord, Cover-up, Coast to Coast AM, List of conspiracy-thriller films and television series, Great American streetcar scandal, List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots, History's Mysteries, CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US, Pazzi, Alternative 3, The Realist, Conspiracy fiction, 2007 Laotian coup d'etat conspiracy allegation, Anjala conspiracy, List of conspiracies, Reconstruction, Institutional analysis, Conspiracy Con, Lincoln-Kennedy coincidences urban legend, Cellamare Conspiracy, Conspiracy of silence, The Wilby Conspiracy, The Swiss Conspiracy, Shadow Conspiracy, Throckmorton Plot, Decoding the Past, Oster Conspiracy, Steamshovel Press, Main Plot, Paranoia, The Lincoln Conspiracy, Surprise of Meaux, The Osterman Weekend, Bye Plot, Buenos Aires municipal spy scandal, Conspiracy against rights, Seditious conspiracy. Excerpt: The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. His fellow plotters were John Wright, Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, Robert Wintour, Christopher Wright, John Grant, Sir Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham. Fawkes, who...