(The 14 gunpowder drawings that document this event were bought by an Asian collector, who later sold them at auction for a record-setting price).
Rorschach, last week, breathed new life into the Fawkes-themed puzzle, incorporating modern-day political blogging, various cryptic interpretations of "fifth" and "November" and a beautifully terse cryptic definition … 8d Gunpowder plot?
If you have 4 sand and 5 gunpowder (from other creepers) you can make TNT to blow them up.
Obtain four sand blocks (from deserts and beaches) and 5 gunpowder (from slaying and killing creepers, or from ghasts, dungeon or mineshaft chests) to make some TNT.
· Monday, 3.30pm, C4 The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend; Timewatch: The Gunpowder Plot Two shows to help you remember, remember what Guy Fawkes night is all about.
The VOC authorities salvaged as much as possible from the Meermin, recovering 286 muskets, 12 pistols, 5 bayonets, gunpowder, musket balls and compasses; cables, ropes and other items from the ship were auctioned on the shore.
(On Oct. 12, Sotheby's sold Yue Minjun's "Execution" for $5.9 million, a record price for Chinese contemporary art at auction; six weeks later, the record was superceded by a Christie's sale of a set of 14 gunpowder-on-paper drawings by Cia Guo-Qiang for $9.5 million).
They fire 400 pound projectiles using a 130 pound gunpowder cartridge.
Free, parade begins at Grafton Street, Sandown, 01983 402 334, sandowncarnival.com Gunpowder, Treason and Shocks at the Amherst tunnels, Kent 7 November, 9pm-4am Scour the underground tunnels of Fort Amherst with psychics and investigators for all things paranormal: a Napoleonic drummer boy, a footless Victorian man and a sobbing woman have apparently been spotted in the past.
