Anthony Summers is the author of eight non-fiction books; the most recent is The Eleventh Day, on 9/11.
The actual eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month is about two weeks away, but poppy-related drives in Britain started yesterday.
Or, a person may do an eleventh vrata, a vow for the eleventh day of the lunar calendar, which would come twice a month in the waxing and waning halves of the moon.
Australians will pause on Sunday – at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month – to commemorate the guns falling silent to end world war one, 100 years ago.
With their latest book, The Eleventh Day (Doubleday), they produce a panoramic account of the terrible events of 11 September 2001 that can easily sit alongside the other classics of this new genre (including Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower).
The inferno known as the Rim fire continued to rage on Wednesday for an eleventh day, and continued to grow, covering more than 288 sq miles and making it of the biggest fires in California's history.
At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, fighting between the Allied Forces and Germany stopped, putting an end to the bloodshed of World War I per the terms of an armistice agreement signed in France that same day.
To afford an opportunity for the universal expression of this feeling it is my desire and hope that at the hour when the Armistice came into force - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - there may be for the brief space of two minutes a complete suspension of all our normal activities.
My wife's sister had just taken her children to school and was standing on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Eleventh Street at 8.58 am, on the eleventh day of the ninth month of 2001 (the duo-millennial anniversary of Christianity).
By the time the armistice was signed in November 1918, on "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month," Sylvester had survived two years of trench warfare and another awful year in the no-man's land of the Labour Corps.
The UK's 11am silence – to coincide with the French noon – was an inadvertent but apt reflection of the marking on Armistice Day of the official end of the first world war "at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month".
