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* The Battle of the Bulge in [[World War Two]].
* Captain Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition.
** Similarly, the various brave <s>idiots</s> explorers looking for the Northwest Passage, most famously Sir John Franklin.
** Also Ernest Shackleton.
* The day following the Halifax Explosion brought a huge blizzard that only helped to add to the the death toll.
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** Or Russia invades Finland
*** [http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2008/7/8/633511023806381728-Finland---be-afraid-very-afraid.jpg Especially for the Russians.]
** The Battle of Stalingrad started in August, but in movies and on pictures, you will almost always see the last weeks in January and
* In Finland, mentioning a drunken person and snow in the same sentence is almost always interpreted as "froze to death", and it is regularly used as an example when explaining to teens why drinking outside during an arctic winter is a [[Too Dumb to Live|really bad idea]].
* There is a proverb in Finland ''Tulis talvi ja tappais köyhät'' (Wish winter would come and kill the poor) which is effectively [[Kick the Dog|hoping misfortune for someone disadvantaged]].
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