Edward George Honey
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Edward George Honey
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Edward George Honey was an Australian journalist who suggested the idea of five minutes of silence in a letter to a London newspaper in May 1919, about 6 months before the first observance of the Two-minute silence in London. The Australian government officially credits him with being the originator of this tradition, observed on Armistice Day, but no original sources from that time have been found to confirm this, and most non-Australian sources attribute its origin to Sir Percy FitzPatrick. It
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Australian journalist
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2024-01-16T11:40:31Z
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