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Photos: Ice racing heats up a cold Sunday

Photos: Ice racing heats up a cold Sunday

Racers soup up junkyard cars with studded tires and steel pipe bumpers -- and a stuffed animal or two.

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Photos: For Shrove Tuesday, it's all about the pancake

Photos: For Shrove Tuesday, it's all about the pancake

There's Fat Tuesday. And Mardi Gras. Then there's Shrove Tuesday. In the United States, it's one of the lesser-known pre-Lent festivities. It revolves around pancakes. Lots of them.
by Nikki Tundel

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Photos: Up close with an ore boat in dry dock

Photos: Up close with an ore boat in dry dock

The Kaye E. Barker sits in dry dock this winter, undergoing maintenance at Fraser Shipyards in Superior, Wis.
by Derek Montgomery

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Photos: The evolution of Cupid

Photos: The evolution of Cupid

For generations, Cupid has been a symbol of Valentine's Day. But that chubby, winged toddler brandishing a bow and arrow started out as someone much different.
by Nikki Tundel

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Photos: Art heads downhill, on sleds

Photos: Art heads downhill, on sleds

Despite the lack of snow covering the hills of Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, neighborhood residents and others gathered Saturday afternoon for the annual Art Sled Rally.
by Jennifer Simonson

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Photos: Remembering the horror of Auschwitz 70 years after liberation

Photos: Remembering the horror of Auschwitz 70 years after liberation

An estimated 1.1 million people perished at the most notorious of the German death camps. Roughly 300 Holocaust survivors from around the world are expected to attend today's ceremony.

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Photos and video: Shortened John Beargrease race finds snow

Photos and video: Shortened John Beargrease race finds snow

Mid-distance racers finished Monday. Ryan Anderson won the 319-mile race by crossing the finish at 2:53 a.m. north of Duluth on Wednesday.
by Derek Montgomery

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Photos: Massive blizzard hammers Northeast

Photos: Massive blizzard hammers Northeast

A day after a monstrous winter storm spun its way across the Northeast, life is slowly getting back to normal.

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It's back: Crashed Ice returns to St. Paul

It's back: Crashed Ice returns to St. Paul

Skaters from around the world have come back to St. Paul for the Red Bull Crashed Ice competition.
by Caroline Yang

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