We’re in St. Paul, Minnesota, for day seven of the Winter Carnival—an 11-day celebration of all the fun you can have during the cold winter months. In 1885, a journalist from New York who had visited St. Paul called it ‘another Siberia, unfit for human habitation.’ This news prompted the people of St. Paul to create the Winter Carnival, which debuted in 1886. When the temperature is cold enough, carnival organizers build a massive ice palace, whose ice-block walls frame the Landmark Center clock tower in our photo today.
Embracing the cold
Today in History
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Fashion models of the avian world
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To Roswell, and beyond!
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In the footsteps of Leopold Bloom
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World Space Week begins
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Meandering through Patagonia
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National Park Week: Guadalupe Mountains National Park
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Sweetheart Abbey, Scotland
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When science looks like magic
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J.R.R. Tolkien Day
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World Olive Tree Day
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Antarctica Day
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Lake Tai s cherry trees in bloom
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A wild, craggy corner of the United States
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Keep your hands inside the ride at all times…
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National Roller Coaster Day
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Río Arazas in Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, Spain
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Just a couple of yellow-billed hornbills
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Happy Hobbit Day
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Here s looking Atchafalaya
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Take the Stairs Day
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Independence Day of the Bahamas
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A long winter’s nap, perhaps?
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Penguin Awareness Day
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The Easter Bunny’s story
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European fallow deer in England
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Modica, Sicily, Italy
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Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming
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Moose, Denali National Park, Alaska
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The birthplace of Cinco de Mayo
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Sami lavvu structures, Finnmark, Norway
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