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
More Desktop Wallpapers:
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It’s not a pinecone, it’s a pangolin
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Rockin with the rockhoppers
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National Lighthouse Day
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Art in the chapel
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Juniper Springs, Florida
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Make way for robots
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Here, fishy!
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Aw shucks, It s Oyster Day
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Gray days ahead in Monterey
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Corfu at night, Greece
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47 years of Badlands National Park
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Mount Rainier National Park
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Flamenco dancers
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World Environment Day
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Mitsumata blossoms
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A place called ‘Peace’ in India
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When Death Valley blew its top
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Medieval towers in Mestia, Upper Svaneti, Georgia
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Lion cubs, South Africa
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The long and wiggling path
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International Polar Bear Day
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Glendurgan Garden hedge maze is 186 years old
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Negratín Reservoir, Granada, Spain
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World Reef Awareness Day
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In praise of the old…the very old
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Take the Stairs Day
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Bird’s-eye view of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
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European fallow deer in England
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Venture into a prehistoric gallery of art
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Presidents Day
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

