The year 2023 got underway with a dire warning from climate change. The Alps, the highest mountain range in Europe, turned green instead of white, and most of Europe experienced the warmest new year ever.
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Christmas Truce in WWI, Shooting a Football instead of Bullets
In the winter of 1914, after six months of World War I, songs and a football were exchanged instead of bullets in the two trenches between German and English soldiers. It was Christmas, and Germans started to celebrate with English soldiers in the middle of the battle, something that later was called Christmas Truce.