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  • 2020-11-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This a Recording of the Guns Falling Silent During Armistice in World War I? (en)
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  • On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2020, social media users shared an audio clip purported recorded during the World War I armistice, at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918 — at which time the guns fell silent. The armistice between Germany and the Allies on Nov. 11 brought to an end four years of fighting — a peace that represented the first step to ending the First World War. To be clear, the poignant sound captured above, of heavy gunfire followed by silence at 11 a.m., isn't a literal sound recording, which wouldn't have been technologically practical on a battlefield in 1918. It's instead a recreation of the moment based on a technology invented by British soldiers called sound ranging. As the German news outlet DW reports: Despite its historical significance, the recording wasn't made for posterity. Sound ranging was used by soldiers on the front to triangulate the locations of enemy artillery. Here's a run-down from the Imperial War Museum on how sound ranging worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pjY9W-S3cI (en)
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