What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?

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Silence

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Silence

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Silence

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Silence

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Silence

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

Silence has been a part of the rituals surrounding Armistice Day since its inception, after the idea was first proposed by an Australian journalist, Edward George Honey, and later implemented by King George V of the United Kingdom. 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.

Such silences, usually of between one and three minutes, are now quite often observed wherever large numbers of people are gathered, to commemorate the deaths of people who have died tragically or after a distinguished life, such as the murdered toddler James Bulger, the football manager Sir Matt Busby, or the Queen Mother in April 2002.

The normal British convention is two minutes of silence (though Buckingham Palace suggested one minute for Diana, Princess of Wales on 6 September 1997). This dates from the first Armistice commemorations in 1919, where the original proposal of one minute was increased to two by the King. The victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks were commemorated by two minutes' silence in the UK, three elsewhere. The 2002 Bali bombing was commemorated with a one-minute silence on 5 July 2003. There were international silences of three minutes each on 15 March 2004 for the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings and on 5 January 2005 for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. On the evening of 8 April 2005, the lights were switched off in houses throughout Poland and five minutes of silence observed to commemorate Pope John Paul II.

The victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings were remembered by two minutes of silence throughout Europe at noon on 14 July. There were also two minutes of silence throughout the United Kingdom on 7th July 2006 to mark one year since the bombings.

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Silence. Nothing more, nothing less.

It's fun to break the silence... shhhhh

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Silent

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silence

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silence