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Behold the irony of snow-related ironies: Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey opted to close on Saturday and cancelled its planned attempt at a world record snowball fight. The reason? Snow, of course. The Central Jersey amusement park had assured everyone earlier in the morning that the "massive family friendly snowball fight" would go on as scheduled despite the season's first snowstorm, which was expected to bring as much as six inches of snow in parts of the Garden State on Saturday. (The Philadelphia area is still set for 2-4 inches.)

2/9/17: In the middle of a massive Nor’easter expected to dump up to 18 inches of snow across the area, a Facebook event called “anyone and everyone” to come to Boston Common to take part in a huge snowball fight....plus a few slingshot attempts near the end.

One winter day in December 1775, months after the battles at Concord and Lexington marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the nascent American military formally met its commander-in-chief. A group of Virginia rifleman found themselves in the middle of a massive snowball fight with a regiment of quick-talking New Englanders who ridiculed the strangely dressed Virginians in their “white linen frocks, ruffled and fringed.” The colonies were still strangers to each other at this point: The Declaration of Independence was months away, and the ragtag army representing the rebels was far from formally “American.” The meeting of nearly 1,000...

A video posted online reportedly shows a Westchester cop pointing his gun at two males who were having a snowball fight last week.

Smack Will Ferrell as "Buddy the Elf" with a snowball.

COLD WAR IN GRAND RAPIDS Snowball Fight Erupts During President’s Healthcare President Bush was in Grand Rapids, Mich., last week to unveil the administration’s health-care reform plan. “I wish people who think he’s inarticulate could have seen him talking without notes,” said Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich), who accompanied the president on the trip from Washington on board Air Force One. Meanwhile, outside an estimated 500 pro- and anti-Bush demonstrators clashed in a savage snowball fight. “There was about 10 inches on the ground,” reported Ehlers, so opposing forces had plenty of ammo. By the time order was restored, several demonstrators...