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3 Minutes World Silence This event takes place each January 1 at 11.00 o'clock in the morning, local time, with a message "for every one of us to remember the future and to wish for peace."
Logo of 3 Minutes World Silence. Cards and bookmarks of this logo are distributed worldwide every year. See www..worldsilence.com This event was initiated late in 1983 by Mary Cassini, during an escalating Cold War between the USA and the USSR. The first World Silence took place in Oakbank, South Australia at the eleventh hour on January 1, 1984.[1] On December 30, 1989, the Russian newspaper "Pravda" published details of the 3 Minutes World Silence on its front page.[2] A public exhibition with a large globe of the world to illustrate the event was held in Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, from December 30, 1989, to 2 January 1990. This was with the support of both Houses of Parliament.[3] The globe shows the 36 time-zones of the earth highlighted in turn. Lights were installed by students of Birdwood High School, South Australia, in 1987. The globe has been exhibited in many public areas each January 1, including in and around Jerusalem December 1990 to January 1991[4] A soundscape, Footsteps, composed by Ros Bandt in 1991, dedicated to 3 Minutes World Silence, was premiered on Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC)FM Stereo radio nationwide on January 1, 1992. [1]
ABCFM Stereo radio program "24 Hours" 1 January 1992 10.45 to 11.03 a.m. Broadcast "Footsteps" by Ros Bandt [Premiere]</ref>
[2] The 3 Minutes World Silence submission to the Garnaut Review on Climate Change is accepted as a submission to the Garnaut Review on Climate Change.[3]
3 Minutes World Silence unites people of all races, ideologies and beliefs. It gives us all a chance to pause and reflect on our global relationship to each other and to our earth.[4]
[1][5] [2] [6] [3][7] [4] [8] [5] #REDIRECT [6[7== External links == •[9] •[10] •[11]
References
- ^ www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au/cassini
- ^ "Australia Post Journal" February 1992 The Network article "The World Hears Our Chimes" ... 'The clocktower bells of Adelaide GPO helped radio listeners in many countries to commune in thought on New Year's Day ...'
- ^ http://www.garnautreview.org.au/CA25734E0016A131/pages/submissions.html -459k - [html] - #REDIRECT Cached - 20 Dec 2010
- ^ [www.worldsilence.com]
- ^ http://worldsilence.com
- ^ Pravda, USSR, 30 December 1989. Front page article headed 3 Minutes Silence On the New Years Eve, our newspaper has received a letter from Australia ... [signed] A. Boldinyuk. Newspaper distribution 10.5 million
- ^ "Hansard", Federal Parliament of Australia. Statement by House of Representatives Member, John Scott MP, (Hindmarsh) p789 17 May 1990 "I would like to convey to the House, to you, Mr. Speaker, and to the President of the Senate the sincere thanks of Mary Cassini for the assistance given in allowing her to present the three minutes world silence exhibition in the New Parliament House ..."
- ^ http://www.worldsilence.com/adventures of the globe
- ^ http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/mss/oliphants13.html University Library, Adelaide S.Australia Cassini, Mary, Re 3 Minutes World Silence proposal 1985 letter to Sir Mark Oliphant
- ^ National Library of Australia Bib ID 1823697 Format Book Biographical cuttings files ... Subject Cassini, Mary
- ^ "Warrier for Peace" Willa McDonald, ISBN 978 1 74097 147 8 Australian Scholarly Publishing P/L biog. of Dorothy Green ps 155,159,160,161,165,192
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