On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.

In the 355 years since the first Guy Fawkes Night, much of the story has been forgotten, so here is a reminder ''.

* In 1994, Guy Delage was the first man to allegedly swim across the Atlantic Ocean ( with the help of a kick board, from Cape Verde to Barbados ).

Notable examples of this are David Ahenakew, who was tried a second time after being acquitted and Guy Paul Morin who was wrongfully convicted in his second trial after the acquittal in his first trial was vacated by the Supreme Court of Canada.

At Gaumont, pioneer Alice Guy Blaché ( M. Gaumont's former secretary ) was made head of production and oversaw about 400 films, from her first, La Fée aux Choux, in 1896, through 1906.

In 1939, Nagib Mahfuz wrote the novel Khufu's Wisdom, which leans on the stories of Papyrus Westcar ; In 1997, French author Guy Brachet composed the novel series Le roman des pyramides, including five volumes, of which the first two ( Le temple soleil and Rêve de pierre ) are picking out Khufu and his tomb as a theme.

Additionally, if the elder Emma was also an illegitimate child of Henry I, this would make Guy and his wife Emma first cousins, something that casts more doubt on the claim.

* 1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight ( from Australia to New Zealand ) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.

On his first meeting in her office, Philby was surprised to see his old friend from Cambridge, Guy Burgess, who was already working there.

KCL is compiled to ANSI C. It conforms to Common Lisp as described in the 1984 first edition of Guy Steele's book Common Lisp the Language and is available under a licence agreement.

Elections in 1947 for the newly created Legislative Assembly marked Mauritius's first steps toward self-rule, and were won by the Labour Party, headed by Guy Rozemont.

* 1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.

In 1913, he was appointed head of the chemical department in Guy ’ s Hospital Medical and became the first teacher of chemistry in a Medical School to be made a University Professor, at the University of London.

In 2004 producer Guy Perrotta presented the film Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War ( 2004 ), a television documentary on the first major war between colonists and Native peoples in the Americas.

A bootleg MP3 of its first single, " Pretty Fly ( For a White Guy )", made it on to the Internet and was downloaded a record 22 million times — illegally.

Adams is credited as " Guy in line behind Dave and Joe in first scene ".

It stood as the record for a long time, until the first computer analysis, which was done at Carnegie Mellon University, in 1990, by David Applegate, Guy Jacobson, and Daniel Sleator.

The Vikings special teams unit was known for blocking kicks, but this was the first time it had happened to Ray Guy.

After returning the opening kickoff 17 yards, San Francisco's Amos Lawrence was hit by Bengals linebacker Guy Frazier and fumbled at his own 26-yard line ( the first time in a Super Bowl that a turnover took place on the opening kick ), where John Simmons recovered for Cincinnati.

The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May ( 4 May ), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards ; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November ( the day before Guy Fawkes Night ), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess.

* Sir Guy Powles, ( LLB ) New Zealand diplomat, first Ombudsman

* March 27 – The first English child is born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.

* March – John Guy, first Governor of Newfoundland

Allen's group soon disappeared, but the first IWW group in Britain was founded by members of the Industrial Syndicalist Education League around Guy Bowman in 1913.

In the October 2002, at the theatrical opening of the film Derrida, he said that, in many ways, he felt more and more close to Guy Debord's work, and that this closeness appears in Derrida's texts.

Milton Kibbee, Guy Kibbee's brother, appears in a bit part as a reporter, as does Matt McHugh, of the McHugh acting family.

Photographer Guy Webster actually photographed the band in Quaker-style outfits, and the picture appears in The Mirror Man Sessions CD insert.

Comic Book Guy appears in Hit and Run as a drivable character, the host for bonus mission level four and host for a level seven mission.

* The Wild Hunt appears frequently in modern fantasy fiction, as in Alan Garner ( in The Moon of Gomrath ), Peter Beagle ( in Tamsin ), Penelope Lively in The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy, Uladzimir Karatkievich ( in The Wild Hunt of King Stakh ), Susan Cooper in The Dark is Rising, Guy Gavriel Kay's trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry, Raymond E. Feist's ' Faerie Tale ', Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings ( as the Dead Men of Dunharrow ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( Novel Child of the Hunt ), Andrzej Sapkowski's Geralt of Rivia cicle and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, among many others.

Guy appears as main character in a tale of Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, where the censure of a Gascon lady converts the King of Cyprus from a churlish to an honourable temper.

Outside the door to Level 5, after the other gamers start to think that Carmen and Juni are the deceivers and Rez threatening to give Juni a game over, the real " Guy " ( Elijah Wood ) appears and opens the door only to get a game over by an electrical shock ( losing all of his apparent, 100 lives ).

As Iris Jamahl Dunkle voiced in her article, “ often, when the novel appears in American films and television series, it stands as a symbol for teenage angst ,” such as in the series Family Guy, when “ the teenage daughter, Meg, is seen reading The Bell Jar instead of attending a spring-break party .”

A similar usage appears in another satirical US cartoon series, Family Guy ( season 4 episode 6, 2005 ).

* Strong Guy appears in the X-Men episode " Cold Comfort ".

Carrot Top has also been frequently parodied ; examples include Mr. Show ( in which David Cross appears as " Blueberry Head "), King of the Hill (" Celery Head "), Family Guy (" Carrot Scalp ;" he also made a guest appearance on the show as himself in " Petergeist "), South Park (" Carrot Ass "), MADtv, Phineas and Ferb (" Broccoli Top "), " The Suite Life on Deck " (" Parsnip Top "), and " Scrubs ".

Henceforth, Guy often appears as a bitter rival to Robin for Maid Marian's affections.

* Guy Towers ( voiced by Andy Poland ) – He appears in Sports, Sports: The NetShow, and part of The Ride.

* In the Family Guy 2009 episode " Road to the Multiverse ", Stewie and Brian Griffin go to a Disney Universe where the characters are as Disney characters, and Herbert appears as the disguised Queen, saying " You want a nice shiny red apple to go with that pie?

Tumnus appears in an episode of Family Guy.

A Camarasaurus ( described in the series as Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus ) whom the Porters sometimes call Big Guy also appears frequently, mostly browsing on the vegetation, either at big lakes or at the Porters ' treehouse.

Karnov also appears in the credits of the independently developed freeware game I Wanna Be the Guy.

* A spoof of Space Ghost appears in an episode of Cow and Chicken, where The Red Guy impersonates and parodies Space Ghost as a character named " Dead Ghost " and hosts a talk show.

* Schroeder appears on Family Guy episode " Mother Tucker ," alongside Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty and others, in a cutaway gag.

He worked to establish an insurance company in New York City, Poder Insurance Agency, with longtime political allies Luis Miranda, Jr. and Roberto Ramirez, Sr. ( New York Magazine, October 16, 2006 ), and he appears regularly on NY1 News ' " Wise Guy " segment along with former NYC Mayor Ed Koch and former US Senator Alfonse D ' Amato.

Nighthawk appears in Guy Gardner # 24 during the " Zero Hour " incident.

In the Valencian book " Tirant lo Blanch " appears a character based on Guy Whose name is " Guillem de Varoic "

Guy Blaché appears in the film, dressed as a man.

This idea also appears in a Family Guy episode, in which Peter goes back in time with the help of " Death " so that he can relive his teen life.