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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Male kori bustard, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
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It’s Canada’s national day
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Lands End, Cornwall, England
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Mountain hare hopping into Lunar New Year
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World Maritime Day
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Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, Germany
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International Whale Shark Day
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Squirrel Appreciation Day
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Aýna, Albacete, Spain
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Let the holiday shopping commence
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Illuminations on the Gulf of Poets
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Humpbacks return to the Inside Passage
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Happy Fathers Day!
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Okefenokee Swamp
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Autumn in the Prosecco Hills
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Welcome to the pack
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My my, it s Syttende Mai
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Duck, duck. duck, duck, duck...
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National Llama Day
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Feeling chic on Fashion Week
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Happy New Year!
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St. Barbaras Cathedral, Kutná Hora, Czechia
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First day of National Park Week
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Guilin and Lijiang River National Park, China
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Indigo bunting
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A visit to Limerick on Limerick Day
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It s aboat time for the Barcolana
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Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, New Mexico
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National Bison Day
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Coral Reef Awareness Week
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