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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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Swimming with the sea cows
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Everglades National Park turns 75
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Boating on the Bojo
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In Sicily, history is everywhere
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World Water Day
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A castle fit for a count
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What kind of bird laid these eggs?
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Greece celebrates its independence
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A dying breed of tree thrives in an American park
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Celebrating freedom
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Bringing together history and technology
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Humpbacks return to the Inside Passage
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Medieval towers in Mestia, Upper Svaneti, Georgia
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Cloughoughter Castle, County Cavan, Ireland
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South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida
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The moon rises for Mid-Autumn Festival
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It’s showtime for a precious crop
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Life in the slow lane
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Wadden Sea coast, Friesland, Netherlands
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In orbit for Yuri s Night
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Travel Sunday: Liverpool
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A predator at risk
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Blue linckia sea stars in Papua New Guinea
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Make your way up a picturesque passageway of Chefchaouen
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Reflections on Memorial Day
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Midsummer in Sweden
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World Teachers Day
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Let’s talk fossils
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Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire, England