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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Fiesta at Siesta
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Windmills in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands
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These patterns tell a story
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When an ideal microclimate gives you lemons…
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Defying gravity on a swing ride
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A bohemian feline
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Black History Month
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Pups of the prairie
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Keep shining
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Saguaro cacti, Ironwood Forest National Monument, Arizona
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‘You should see the one that got away!’
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Welcome to Scotland s garden
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Salzburg, Austria
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Sharp-dressed bug
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Ruins of Inca temples and terraces on Huayna Picchu, Peru
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Honoring some real heroes of World War II
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Cappadocia, Türkiye
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The parenting of a piping plover
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Sunburst at Angkor
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Invisible no longer
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A notorious gunfight that was incorrectly named
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American Eagle Day
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World Rhinoceros Day
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Venice s grand regatta
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World Book Day
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A dreamy start to the Year of the Pig