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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Working for that cliffside view
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Eurasian lynx
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It s only Wednesday
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Storm rolls over the grasslands
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World Sea Turtle Day
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Oktoberfest
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Gamboa Crater, Mars
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Dark skies over New Mexico
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Przewalskis horses
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Santorini through the clouds
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Ancient til trees in Fanal Forest, Madeira, Portugal
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National Trails Day
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National Hug Day
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Horsetail Fall, Yosemite National Park, California
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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A wheatear in Peak District National Park, England
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Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona
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It’s surströmming time
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Celebrating the Acadians
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International Cheetah Day
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Exploring the Pearl of the Atlantic
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We did not invent this, honest
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To Sua Ocean Trench
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Churún Merú waterfall in Venezuela
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Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
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The story of a rediscovered redwood
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