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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The persistence of Perito Moreno
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A night on the (ghost) town
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A unique elephant encounter in Nantes
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Bobbio, Italy
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Martinique
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Elephant Rock, Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
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Making it work—in Norway
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International Lighthouse Weekend
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St. Patrick s Day
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Riding the bore tide at Turnagain Arm, Cook Inlet, Alaska
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Red skies at Ruby Beach
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Jasper Dark Sky Festival
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The long and wiggling path
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Fresh water on the Silk Road
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Here s looking at you
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Celebrating Flag Day: ‘O long may it wave’
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In the Navajo Nation for Code Talkers Day
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Illuminating Annecy
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Pretty in pink, and purple, and red…
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America s Playground by Derrick Adams
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Lake Magadi, Kenya
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World Maritime Day
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What kind of bird laid these eggs?
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Looking back at Yellowstone, 30 years after the fires
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International Day for Biological Diversity
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Cetacean Saturday
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Ahh-tumn
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International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples
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Crested caracaras
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Great hornbill, Thailand