Oh-Wheezers: 11 Fascinating stuff about the number 11 -- November 11, 2011

Today is a special post for November 11, 2011 or to simply put it as the 11/11/11. I've decided to make a sequel from last year's entry called "10 Fascinating stuff about the number 10 -- 10/10/10" because researching stuff, knowing trivias, and learning things are fun.

Anyway, let's start with some trivia then proceed to the actual list.

November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
11/11/11 is a palindromic date which means the numbers are the same backwards and forwards.
11/11/11 is the last binary day of the century.
The 11th zodiac sign is the Aquarius; 11th Chinese zodiac is the Dog.
The 11th Wedding Anniversary theme is 'Steel'.
Like last year, many Chinese weddings are taken place this day.
Eleven is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English.
Eleven derives from the Old English endleofan, which means “one left,” as in “one left over ten.”
Soccer, cricket, American football and field hockey are all played with teams of 11 players on the field.
There are 11 systems of the body (Circulatory, Digestive, Endocrine, Lymphamic, Integumentary, Muscular, Nervous, Reproductive, Urinary, Respiratory, Skeletal Systems).
The "Eleventh Hour" means to do something at the last possible moment.
From the anime One Piece, The Eleven Supernovas (Eustass Kid, Monkey D. Luffy, Basil Hawkins, X Drake, Trafalgar Law, Scratchmen Apoo, Killer, Jewelry Bonney, Capone Bege, Roronoa Zoro, and Urouge) is a term that refers to the top rookie Pirates from nine different crews who all chose one of the seven routes along the Grand Line. They possess bounties over 100,000,000.
According to Love Letter Box, giving a bouquet of 11 roses means "You are my treasured one; the one I love most in my life".
Eleveneleven is a record label founded by Ellen DeGeneres. The label would concentrate on less known artists, most at videos of performances on YouTube.
Harry Potter's wand is 11 inches long, made of holly, with a phoenix feather as its core.

11 Fascinating stuff about the number 11

1.) Hendecagon or Undecagon is a polygon having 11 angles and 11 sides.

The latin undecim means eleven (ūn(us) one + -decim, combining form of decem ten). Words with this as root are Undecumani - soldiers from the eleventh Legion; Undeciremis - a ship of eleven banks of oars; and Undecillion - a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 36 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 66 zeros.

2.) In the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth realms, Elevenses is a snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but eaten in the morning. It is generally less savoury than brunch, and might consist of some cake or biscuits with a cup of coffee or tea.

The name refers to the time of day that it is taken: around 11 am. The term is first attested, in East Anglia, as elevens (1849), elevenses appearing first in the record in 1889. Along with fourses, it seems originally to have been a lower-class usage, but by the middle of the twentieth century was associated with middle class language and culture.

3.) 11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the John F. Kennedy assassination which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the date of the novel's title).

Although the novel has science fiction and alternate history, the majority of it is historical fiction dealing with real-life events and people between 1958 and 1963. The novel is a departure for King since it required deep research to accurately portray the late 1950s and early 1960s.

King commented on the amount of research it required, saying "I've never tried to write anything like this before. It was really strange at first, like breaking in a new pair of shoes."

4.) The Eleventh Doctor is the current incarnation of the protagonist of the BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. Matt Smith plays this incarnation, replacing David Tennant's Tenth Doctor in the 2010 episode "The End of Time, Part Two"

The Doctor is a centuries-old alien, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, who travels in time and space in his TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), frequently with companions. When the Doctor is critically injured, he can regenerate his body but in doing so gains a new physical appearance and with it, a distinct new personality.

5.) The 11th Hour is a 2007 documentary film, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment. Its world premiere was at the 2007 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival (May 16–27, 2007) and it was released on August 17, 2007, in the year in which the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations global warming panel IPCC was published and about a year after Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, another film documentary about global warming.

Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy. The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation.

6.) Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the photosphere of the Sun that appear visibly as dark spots compared to surrounding regions. Sunspot populations quickly rise and more slowly fall on an irregular cycle of 11 years, although significant variations in the number of sunspots attending the 11-year period are known over longer spans of time.

Sunspots are caused by intense magnetic activity. Like magnets, they also have two poles. Although they are at temperatures of roughly 3000–4500 K (2727–4227 °C), the contrast with the surrounding material at about 5,780 K leaves them clearly visible as dark spots, as the intensity of a heated black body (closely approximated by the photosphere) is a function of temperature to the fourth power.

If the sunspot were isolated from the surrounding photosphere it would be brighter than an electric arc.

7.) Symphony No. 11

7.1) Dmitri Shostakovich

The Symphony No. 11 in G minor (Opus 103; subtitled "The Year 1905") by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin on 30 October 1957. The subtitle of the symphony refers to the events of the Russian Revolution of 1905.

The symphony has four movements played without break and lasts approximately one hour.

Adagio (The Palace Square) - Listen Part 1, Part 2

Allegro (The 9th of January) - Listen Part 1, Part 2

Adagio (Eternal Memory) - Listen

Allegro non troppo (Tocsin) - Listen

Symphony No. 11 in G Minor - Part 1

Shostakovich originally intended the Eleventh Symphony to mark the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and would have written it in 1955. Several personal factors kept him from composing the work until 1957. These factors included his mother's death, his tumultuous second marriage and the arrival of many newly-freed friends from the Gulag. Events in Hungary in 1956 may have stirred Shostakovich out of his compositional inertia and acted as a catalyst for his writing the symphony.

7.2) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Symphony No. 11 in D major, K. 84/73q, was at one time considered unquestionably to be the work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Its status has, however, been challenged, and (as of 2008) remains uncertain. It is believed to date from 1770, and may have been written in Milan or Bologna, if it is a genuine Mozart work. An early manuscript from Vienna attributes the work to Wolfgang, but nineteenth century copies of the score attribute it respectively to Leopold Mozart and to Carl Dittersdorf.

Symphony No. 11 in D Major

The symphony is in three movements (Allegro, 4/4; Andante, 3/8; Allegro, 2/4), lacking a minuet and trio.

8.) The Justice and Strength are both a Major Arcana Tarot cards, numbered either VIII or XI, depending on the deck.

Justice is ruled by Libra and the card number is 11. The figure of Justice sits in her chair, cloaked in red and holding a sword in her right hand and scales in her left. She wears a crown with a small square on it representing well-ordered thoughts. Notice the clasp holding the cloak together. The square is the law protecting the circle and the eternal state of oneness within us all.

The sword is double-edged, cutting both ways, signifying impartiality. It is point-up, signifying victory. The sword in her right hand demonstrates the logical, well-ordered mindset necessary to dispense fair justice. The scales are in her left, intuitive hand, showing that logic must be balanced by the intuition. A little white shoe pops out from beneath her cloak, reminding us of the spiritual consequences of our actions. The purple cloth draped behind her signifies compassion and the grey pillars represent the constraints of the physical world.

The Strength Tarot was called Fortitude, and in the Thoth Tarot deck it is called Lust.

Under a golden sky, a woman gently pats a lion on its forehead and lower jaw. The woman gazes down at the lion with a peaceful smile on her face and appears to be successfully taming this wild beast. The fact that Strength is represented by a woman indicates that this card is not focused on pure physical strength. She has the infinity symbol above her head, the same symbol seen in the Magician. Her white robe is that of the innocent Fool, indicating a purity of spirit. The blue mountain in the background is the same phallic symbol seen in the Lovers.

The lion is a symbol of our animal passions and desires. The lion itself is sticking out his tongue. Animals that are preparing to bite do not stick their tongues out. This lion is happy to submit and surrender to the woman. The woman overcomes the lion with a quiet strength that can only come from within.

Her left arm represents mental effort, while the right arm represents physical effort. Her right arm is merely holding, while the left arm is exerting all the pressure. She wears a belt and crown of flowers and stands unprotected in an open green field. The crown on her head represents the fullest, most beautiful expression of nature and transient life. The sign associated with the Strength card is Leo.

9.) The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/11) were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C., area on September 11, 2001.

On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours.

Hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth jet, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers attempted to take control before it could reach the hijacker's intended target in Washington, D.C. Nearly 3,000 died in the attacks.

10.) Millions of folks all around the world are now seeing these amazing 11:11 prompts. It's spreading, and becoming far more common; it's become a major phenomenon. Someone or something is causing all these folks to look at clocks, number plates, phone numbers or any source of numbers even when they make no effort themselves to look for these things.

These 11:11 Wake-Up Calls on your digital clocks, mobile phones, VCR’s and microwaves are the "trademark" prompts of a group of just 1,111 fun-loving Spirit Guardians, or Angels, and the 11:11 prompt is their way of using our innate ability for pattern recognition to let us know that they are here. Once they have your attention, they will use other digits, like 12:34, or 2:22 to remind you of their presence. Invisible to our eyes, they are very real.

Our earthly 1,111 Spirit Guardians, often called "Midwayers," have been assisting folks of all walks of life for many centuries. A new age of "Spiritual Uplift" has begun on our planet. There are now literally billions of Celestial beings here, all of whom have been especially trained to assist with changing the course of this planet. Many more of these delightful Spirit Guardians are now ready to assist whoever will ask for their help. As a tribute to the centuries-long tenure of the original 1,111 Celestial Helpers, they have retained the customary 11:11 prompts.

11.) 11 dimensions of reality (0 to 10)

Most of us have gotten used to the idea of there being 4 dimensions: but how can we possibly imagine the 10th? This project starts from the unique argument that time really is just one of the directions in the 4th spatial dimension, and our spacetime universe is being created one planck length at a time as we twist and turn in the available branches of the 5th dimension.