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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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month
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Independence Day
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The largest living organism on Earth
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Dolomites
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A crested partridge
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Autumn comes to the Porcupines
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Red Planet Day
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National Park Week begins
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Christmas Eve
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Gem State views
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Greetings from Asbury Park
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Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
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Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island, Australia
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Oktoberfest
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Cosplay strongly encouraged
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Put your flippers in the air…
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International Cheetah Day
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Hohenzollern Castle near Stuttgart, Germany
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Bioluminescence at Trwyn Du Lighthouse in Wales
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Winter solstice
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Summer winds down in the Hamptons
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Playa del Amor, Marietas Islands, Mexico
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Amelia Earhart
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Corjuem Fort in Goa, India
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Uredd Rest Area, Norway
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Halo around the sun