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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El Valle de la Luna, Chile
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Happy Boxing Day!
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Star Wars Day
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Castle Frankenstein in Darmstadt, Germany
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In praise of bogs, swamps, and marshes
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Llama Day
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A stunning national park in winter white
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Memorial Day
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Celebrating the UN’s International Day of Families
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Quilts as high art
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Happy St. Patricks Day!
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Illuminations on the Gulf of Poets
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Sparkling ice diamonds on a black sandy beach
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A festival of lights in India
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Wildflower bloom, Central Valley, California
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The crossroads of empires
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Snow buntings take flight
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
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It s a good day to be green
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Shark Awareness Day
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World Rainforest Day
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The Guggenheim Bilbao turns 25
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National Lighthouse Day
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Everglades National Park marks 90 years
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World Teachers Day
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Roques de Benet, Els Ports Natural Park, Catalonia, Spain
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Vietnam’s new bridge deserves a big hand
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Does this chameleon look a little insecure?
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Giants of the avian world
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National Llama Day
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