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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Village of Labro, Italy
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Irohazaka road
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Salzburg, Austria
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The Lena Delta Wildlife Reserve in Siberia, Russia
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Negratín Reservoir, Granada, Spain
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Social climbing
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Salmon migration in full swing
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Let us introduce you…
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Vale of Edale, Peak District, England
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Presidents hear the echo of history
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Join the parade for World Elephant Day
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Terraced rice fields, Yuanyang County, China
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Badlands National Park turns 44
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Welcome to Scotland s garden
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Hay, what s up?
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Fashion models of the avian world
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World Giraffe Day
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Happy Easter!
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Fibonacci Day
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The Monastery of Roussanou, Greece
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