Thursday, April 5, 2012

Well, it ain't the Christmas Truce...

...but, still, it's a curious example of opposing armies taking time off from a war to collaborate on a mutually beneficial project. During WWI, wolves gathered in such great numbers on the Russian front, that German and Russian forces declared a temporary truce in order to jointly hunt them down.
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  1. bruceApril 6, 2012 at 3:22 AM

    Great find, Paco.

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  2. bruceApril 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM

    I read 'Call of the Wild' again after 45 years. It was more profound than I remember, and is more relevant than ever.

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  3. PacoApril 6, 2012 at 7:12 AM

    The old news item put me in mind of Saki's short story, "The Interlopers".

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