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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Common raven
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Paradise, found
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Gamboa Crater, Mars
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International Polar Bear Day
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Greece celebrates its independence
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Palace of Westminster, London, England
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The view will stop you in your tracks
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A great white egret in Hungary
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Penguin Awareness Day
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A plot was afoot
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It s Mountain Day in Japan
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In search of a ‘great’ pumpkin
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Hawai i Volcanoes National Park at 106
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Venice s grand regatta
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National Find a Rainbow Day
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World Bee Day
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Take the Stairs Day
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Cordouan Lighthouse, France
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Red squirrel
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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Presidents Day
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Don t go chasing waterfalls
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Let s get lost
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A day to celebrate the sun
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Winter solstice
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The Unfinished Obelisk near Aswan, Egypt
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Happy Halloween!
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