60 Seconds on Earth: Tiny UK town goes all pyro for a night (VIDEO)

Editor's note: 60 Seconds on Earth is a regular GlobalPost series where our correspondents in the field produce video snapshots of the places and people that we find important, impressive, crazy or just unmistakably cool. Here's a recent installment on Syria's most charming rebel.

LEWES, UK — Every Nov. 5, Britons celebrate the arrest and execution of Catholic dissident Guy Fawkes, who plotted to blow up Parliament in 1605. The tiny village of Lewes takes the party to a fiery, anarchic extreme.

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