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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World Otter Day
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A Welsh wonder turns 70
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State funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
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A day to celebrate teachers
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May the Fourth be with you…
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Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona
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At ease, it’s Armed Forces Day
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When science looks like magic
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Corfu at night, Greece
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Winter solstice
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An old celebration for a new season
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Wildlife Conservation Day
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Nazca boobies, Wolf Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
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Lupine flowers in bloom, Northern California
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Smoking nights in Austria
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The perfect canvas for an ancient text
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World Population Day
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Happy Mother s Day
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Prasat Phanom Rung temple ruins, Thailand
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Pretty, pretty…butterfly?
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On the wings of the Wright brothers
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Ministry of Fun Santa School
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Striated heron on a Victoria water lily, Pantanal, Brazil
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Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
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Extraterrestrial Culture Day
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Memorial Day
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Talk like a pirate—or walk the plank
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The Aomori Nebuta Festival parade, Japan
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International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples
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Sunburst at Angkor
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