Word: papist
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Every November 5, Brits and their former subjects around the world commemorate Guy Fawkes Day. Disgruntled papist Guy Fawkes thought he was going to end 70 years of Protestant oppression by blowing up the Houses of Parliament and the King in 1605. Little did he know that his foiled Gunpowder Plot would take its place alongside Waterloo, the Studebaker and New Coke as one of the most spectacular failures in world history...
...highly inexpressive artist. He didn't even paint a self-portrait, as far as anyone knows. You come out of the exhibit knowing almost as little about Vermeer the man as when you went in. Biography, faint: Lived in Delft, a backwater. Son of a silkworker. A Papist in a Calvinist town. Quite successful nonetheless. Married Catharina Bolnes, about whom equally little is recorded. One of the few sure facts is that he had 11 children, all of whom faced destitution after he died in 1675, at the depth of a financial depression that all but destroyed the Dutch...