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Remembering World War I

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YouTube download / AP video / "Great Britain and Germany went to war tonight," wrote the AP's Robert Collins on August 1, 1914 from London, noting that "all Europe is now in arms." The Associated Press had covered war before, but not since the Napoleonic wars a century earlier had so many armies battled over so great an extent. This was the Great War, called "the European War" or "the World War" by contemporaries. Ten million combatants would die before it ended with Germany's defeat on Nov. 11, 1918.

FORECAST: Christmas shaping up to be perfect in Central Florida, but more immediately cold & patchy frost

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The weather on Christmas is shaping up to be picture perfect for Central Florida, but more immediately it's going to be cold tonight with patchy frost after 3 am, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne.