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
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The borrowed days are here
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Birds of a feather
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Paper lanterns on the longest night
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It’s Endangered Species Day
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The National Museum of the American Indian
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Let us introduce you…
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Social climbing
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Come out of your shell for World Turtle Day
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Happy trees = Clean air
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Mysterious prairie mounds abound
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It’s Giving Tuesday
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Splashes of color for Watercolor Month
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It’s National Walk to Work Day
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Next stop, Tofino
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Montreux, Switzerland, and all that jazz
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Satellite image of sand and seaweed in the Bahamas
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Happy Easter from the ‘peeps’ at Bing
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Tennis in the park
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Lionfish off the coast of Indonesia
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Swinging into International Jazz Day