On 11/11/2011 07:33 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > > From HuffPost UK, for your amusement on this numerically auspicious > day... > > Today is the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year, a > rare alignment of the calendar that will only happen 12 times this > century. > > For Hindus, the number 11 carries a special spiritual significance, so > much so that pregnant Hindu women are clamoring to have caesarean > deliveries to ensure their children are blessed with good luck. > > A horror film, out on Friday, has taken advantage of the date for its > title<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1712159/> ... as well as being a > handy tool for marketing the flick. > > There are exactly 50 days until Christmas, while the eleventh day of > the eleventh month marks the day Germany signed an armistice with the > Allies in the forest of Compiègne, France, ending the First World > War. > Speaking to the Washington Post, numerologist Vikki MacKinnon said she > expected a "cosmic wake-up call > <http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/11-11-11-drives-many-to-tie-knot\ > -place-bets-will-convergence-of-digits-bring-good-luck/2011/11/10/gIQA1f\ > Nj9M_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop> ". > "Eleven is a number of illumination and enlightenment, a number of > insight, blinding flashes of the obvious, and a number of > transformation > <http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/11-11-11-drives-many-to-tie-knot\ > -place-bets-will-convergence-of-digits-bring-good-luck/2011/11/10/gIQA1f\ > Nj9M_story.html> ," she said. > > "I think really good things will come out of tomorrow." > > Around the world, the superstitious are taking advantage of the day's > apparent magical qualities. Marjaneh Peyrovan plans to buy 11 lottery > tickets while fans of the film This Is Spinal Tap are planning to pay > homage to guitarist Nigel Tufnel, whose amp went up to 11 > <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/spinal-tap-nigel-tufnel-day_n_\ > 1082911.html> . > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0wm3JwXbLs > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0wm3JwXbLs>
And in Merika it is Veterans Day which didn't used to get much flourish but they've been making a big deal of it the last couple years. Guess it's because Merika's primary industry is now war.
