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The failed Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes almost setting off barrels of gunpowder under the House of Lords in 1605) involved 18 barrels of gunpowder, which would have not only reduced The House of Lords to rubble, it would have killed everyone within 100 meters, and broken all the stained glass windows in Westminster Abbey.

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    August 4, 2007 at 4:25 am

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