Just days after the Paris terrorist attacks on November 13, the iconic mask of Guy Fawkes appeared – again – in two videos released in French by the hacktivist techno-social collective ...

Guy Fawkes, for the uninitiated, was an English Catholic who attempted to assassinate King James I by blowing up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. This “Gunpowder Plot” is commemorated in the ...

Guy Fawkes masks, immortalized in the movie "V for Vendetta," have become a global symbol of protest and anonymity through the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring.

Guy Fawkes masks. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig ... In the 1980s graphic novel series “V for Vendetta” — and the 2005 movie version — the Guy mask is used to symbolize the anti-government sentiment ...

Guy Fawkes Night and the mask's history go all the way back to 1605 and the Gunpowder Plot, ... In the series and movie, a vigilante wearing a Fawkes mask battles a right-wing, ...

Following the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, Parliament decreed November 5 a day of thanksgiving, which came to be known as Guy Fawkes Night. In the 1600s, Fawkes became a stand-in for the Catholic ...

A protester with the "Occupy Seattle" movement wears a Guy Fawkes mask and takes a photo with a mobile phone as he demonstrates, in downtown Seattle, Oct. 15, 2011.

Today we celebrate November 5 as Guy Fawkes Night or Bonfire Night by lighting bonfires, setting off fireworks and carrying “Guys” through the streets wearing the ever-so-famous Guy Fawkes mask. The ...

The 2005 political thriller focuses on an anarchist freedom fighter called V, who wears a Guy Fawkes mask and plots to blow up the UK Parliament on Bonfire Night in protest of a neo-fascist regime ...

Guy Fawkes masks, immortalized in the movie "V for Vendetta", have become a global symbol of protest and anonymity through the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring. "The Guy Fawkes mask ...