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’s have a ball
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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Summer winds down in the Hamptons
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Too awesome to be a planet
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Wayag Islands in the Raja Ampat Islands of Indonesia
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Reindeer, Lapland, Finland
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Hooray, hooray, it s Unicorn Day!
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Infrared Jupiter, erupting Io
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Castle on a hill
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A species no longer at risk
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The Great Blue Hole, Belize
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National Park Service Founders Day
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Veterans Day
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International Jazz Day
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Nakupenda Beach Nature Reserve, Zanzibar, Tanzania
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Reflecting on Black History Month
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Celebrating the UN’s International Day of Families
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El Valle de la Luna, Chile
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International Day for Monuments and Sites
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Whangārei Falls in New Zealand
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World Oceans Day
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World Meteorological Day
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Have a ‘beary’ good Earth Day
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In the Garden of Europe
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Penn Station
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Celebrating World Olive Tree Day
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Traffic jam on the caribou highway
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Winter in Old Nuuk
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Tall, taller, tallest
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Happy 50th for the National Trails System!
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