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Offices, classrooms and public spaces will fall silent today as Britain pauses to mark the 95th anniversary of the end of World War I.
Sixteen million people had lost their lives and 20 million more were wounded when the guns finally fell silent across a devastated Europe on November 11 1918.
Britain will unite at 11am to remember the war between vying empires.
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