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
More Desktop Wallpapers:
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World Theater Day
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Going with the floe
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International Literacy Day
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Does this shark have an Irish accent?
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National Library Week
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Does it swim in slow motion too?
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Celebrate Mandela Day
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Quiver trees, Keetmanshoop, Namibia
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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Children at play for International Day of Friendship
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Kendwa village, Zanzibar, Tanzania
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Glacial rivers in Iceland
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Kelimutu, Flores, Indonesia
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Venice s grand regatta
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Zion National Park, Utah
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A keel-billed toucan in Costa Rica
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Penguin Awareness Day
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The party’s just starting
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Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
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Venice Skatepark, Los Angeles, California
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Cross this bridge if you dare
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Green is the new black
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Happy Canada Day!
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World-class art comes to Arkansas
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Antarctica Day
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Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting
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Arctic fox in Norway
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Village of Santa Maddalena, Dolomites, Italy
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Celebrating National Dentist Day
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