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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Let us introduce you…
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Diamond Beach, Iceland
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Happy World Whale Day!
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A courtyard scene from Spain
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Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act marks 42 years
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Joan charges Riverside Park
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Labor Day parade in 1915 Chicago
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Southern right whales sail home to South Africa
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Panda Day
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Hues of Hokkaido
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Cool water in the Quinault
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It s only Wednesday
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Winter solstice
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A ‘circus of chaos’ for Stravinsky
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Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
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Exploring the Pearl of the Atlantic
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Welcome to the Hoh
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Palouse farmland, Washington state
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Yellow-eyed penguins, Moeraki, New Zealand
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Celebrating migrations
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Borovets ski resort in Bulgaria
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Tegallalang terrace farms in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
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Vila Franca Islet, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal
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Tracking ships on the Day of the Seafarer
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Hallstatt, Austria
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The smoke before the bonfire
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Hemakuta Hill, Hampi, India
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Cypress trees in George L. Smith State Park, Georgia
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Manhattan
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And they’re off!
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