Silence

Silence is a relative or total lack of sound. An environment with sound below 20 dB is considered quiet or silent.

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Silence has been a part of the rituals surrounding Armistice Day since its inception. A two-minute silence is held at 11am, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" (the time at which the armistice became effective), both on Armistice Day itself and on Remembrance Sunday. In the early years of the century the two minutes were very fully observed, even to the extent of traffic stopping in the streets. The practice declined somewhat (except as part of the Remembrance Sunday ritual itself) but regained popularity in the 1990s, partly through the agency of the then prime minister John Major. The two-minute silence was first observed in Cape Town, South Africa in 1916 following the publication of South Africa's first casualty list of World War I. Sir Harry Hands, the Mayor of Cape Town, ordered a two-minute silent pause, to follow the firing of the Noon gun, in commemoration of those lost.

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Armistice Day: Armistice Day is the anniversary of the official end of World War I, November 11,1918. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compi?gne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning — the "ele...

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